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Mikael on the spread of infection and strategic issues

Published Mar 03, 2021

Head of School, Mikael Lindström, writes about the increased spread of infection in society and the school's most important strategic issues in the coming year.

In recent weeks, there has been an increase in the spread of infection in the Stockholm area. It is important that we all continue and follow the general recommendations from the Public Health Agency (FHM) and the rules KTH has set. FHM has provided special information to the universities, due to the fact that the general rules are aimed at the general public and are not always completely transferable to the universitites’ activities. FHM's information are well corresponding with the measures KTH has already taken.

We get questions about the next semester. The KTH President intends to make a decision on the autumn semester at the end of May when we know more about how the pandemic has developed. We now hope that the spring, vaccines and our willingness to follow the general recommendations will alleviate the pandemic.

Together with the Strategic Council and CBH's management group, we have developed a priority list for the most important strategic issues for the coming year for CBH:

  • AI / Robotics in our areas of strength
  • DDLS - Data Driven Life Science
  • Health data
  • Baltic Sea / water purification - expanded faculty through fundraising
  • Multidisciplinary environments
  • Campus development
  • "Workplace of the future" - all categories - modern attractive employer
  • Focus GRU 2021 (first and second cycle education)

In CBH News, we will provide an overview of what is happening in each area. We can already mention that CBH has taken the initiative to form a working group at KTH for DDLS together with the SCI and EECS schools. Our Deputy Head of School, Sebastiaan Meijer, will lead this group. A first task is to work out employment profiles for two assistant professorships in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Precision Medicine and Diagnostics.

Within the focus of the first and second cycle education, we have conducted a workshop with those responsible for the education and the office of student affairs. We have a great deal of consensus on the need for clearer inputs and processes for students and teachers. The work is now continuing in groups in the spring and as soon as we have suggestions for measures we will communicate this.

Mikael

Internal News