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  • Positive feedback on ethics review application support

    A woman in a lab analysing DNA.
    The ethics support is evaluated during spring, but it is already clear that it meets a real need of KTH researchers. Photo: Istock
    Published Feb 13, 2023

    Since October 2021, the ethics review application advisor Amena Archer has supported 35 cases where KTH researchers needed help. She has also arranged ethics support webinars and provided information ...

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  • Vice President Annika Stensson Trigell thanked by the platforms

    Vice President Annika Stensson Trigell (with flowers), plattform directors and the administrative support. Photo: David Nilsson
    Published Dec 13, 2022

    Annika Stensson Trigell, Vice President for Research and leader of KTH's research platforms during six years, is leaving her position by the end of the year 2022. She was sent off with flowers from th...

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  • KTH Life Science Day presented theoretical tools and causal models to address biological problems

    A speaker and audience.
    KTH Life Science Platform Director Peter Savolinen during the Life Science Day. Photo: Helena Mayer
    Published Dec 13, 2022

    Life Science Day 2022 in November highlighted the need for theoretical tools and causal models to address biological problems. It covered a vast range from spatial and temporal scales of life science ...

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  • 260 million SEK to research within materials in first WISE call

    Photo: Pexels
    Published Dec 06, 2022

    A total of 193 applications were submitted in the first PhD and postdoc call within Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE). Now, 90 projects have been awarded a total of 260...

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  • "Our success is based on scientific curiosity"

    En man med brunt hår och blå skjorta.
    Peter Savolainen. Foto: KTH
    Published Dec 01, 2022

    12 research groups with different focus work at the Department of Gene Technology. The common denominator is their way of working with method development, mainly in medical problems. ”One of the re...

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  • Application for clinical investigation/medical devices seminar recording available

    Published Nov 29, 2022

    In October 2022, KTH Life Science Platform and the Swedish Medical Products Agency organised an online information seminar focused on the regulatory aspects of applications and notifications regarding...

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  • KERIC information seminar recording available

    Published Jul 27, 2022

    In June 2022, KTH Life Science Platform held an information seminar together with KERIC, Karolinska Experimental Research and Imaging Centre, about the resources and support the core facility is offer...

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  • Two KTH Life Science research projects on the IVA 100 list of 2022

    Published May 13, 2022

    Two KTH Life Science related research projects are listed on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) 100 list of 2022. It lists research projects deemed to have great potential to bene...

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  • Info seminar for ethical application film available

    Published May 10, 2022

    In March 2022 KTH Life Science Platform, together with the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Etikprövningsmyndigheten), organised an information seminar about ethics review application for research in...

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  • Successful mingle between clinicians and data scientists during matchmaking event

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    Published May 04, 2022

    Almost 30 persons participated in the April matchmaking event in SciLifeLab between researchers within data science and medical/clinical research at KTH and Region Stockholm. The event was related to ...

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  • Ethics advisor assigned to support researchers with ethical permit applications

    The new additional ethical guidance service provided by the Life Science Platform responds to a real need of KTH researchers. Photo: Pexels/Edward Jenner
    Published Feb 09, 2022

    Since autumn 2021, Amena Archer has been assigned as an ethics advisor to support KTH researchers with information and guidance with ethics applications for research activities involving humans and an...

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  • Arvind Kumar new KTH Life Science deputy platform director

    Published Nov 15, 2021

    In October, 2021, Arvind Kumar was appointed as new KTH Life Science deputy platform director. Arvind Kumar is an Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Division of Computational Sci...

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  • Life Science Day presented the wide range of KTH Covid-19 research

    Professor Kenneth Chien during his Covid-19/Moderna Covid-19 mRNA vaccine lecture/Print screen.
    Published Oct 29, 2021

    Nearly 120 persons participated in Life Science Day 2021 on 28 October, when KTH researchers held lectures about what they did to fight Covid-19 and their research for future pandemics. The keynote sp...

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  • This year's Life Science Day focuses on covid-19 and future pandemics

    Blood test showing positive covid-19 test. Photo: Tatiana Mihaliova / Mostphotos
    Published Oct 29, 2021

    What did KTH researchers do to fight covid-19? What are they doing to prepare society for the coming pandemics? At Life Science Day on 28 October, 2021, a number of KTH researchers and a professor fro...

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  • The Life Science (Technology) platform has changed its name

    Published Sep 29, 2021

    For simplicity, and to embrace all aspects of life science at KTH, the Life Science Technology platform has dropped "Technology" from its name, and is now called the Life Science platform.

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  • The Swedish government launches website in Life Science

    Published Jun 09, 2021

    The Swedish government launches website in Life Science, find a link to the webpage here.

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  • KTH and Region Stockholm support research for better health and medical care

    Published Jun 09, 2021

    Through collaboration, Region Stockholm and KTH want to strengthen the region's health and medical care operations. This includes the joint research call "Health, medicine and technology", where at le...

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  • Order articles at Get it now

    Published Jun 03, 2021

    Do you know that you can get access to articles even if they are not included in the library's subscriptions? The article ordering service Get It Now contains millions of articles and is available for...

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  • What information resources do Life Science need?

    Published Jun 03, 2021

    KTH Library is now reviewing the information resources for the next financial year. In a recent survey, we asked the question of whether the information resources offered by KTH Library in the Life Sc...

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  • Survey on research for climate adaptation at KTH

    Published Jan 14, 2021

    This survey is intended for researchers that either have an interest in doing research for climate adaptation in the future, or are already doing it.

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