Interdisciplinary and innovative research
The aim of the Faculty of Medicine's strategic initiative is to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary research of a high-risk nature, where collaboration between two or more research groups with complementary competencies is expected to provide clear synergies and thereby create grounds for future research breakthroughs.
The research resource will be used to recruit a postdoctoral researcher for the project. In addition to funding for postdoctoral fellows, additional funds are received for the operation and implementation costs of the project.
The Faculty Board decided to award the grants to:
- Ellen Bushell, Researcher, Department of Molecular Biology, and Ronnie Berntsson, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biophysics, for the project: Predicting the unknown: A systematic structure-function analysis of essential conserved hypothetical proteins of malaria parasites.
- Olof Lagerlöf, Assistant Professor Department of Clinical Sciences, and Paolo Medini, Associate Professor Department of Integrative Medical Biology, for the project: The O-GlcNAc detector: imaging how metabolism prevents and causes disease.
Faculty-funded research time
The aim of this initiative is to give the researcher time and opportunity to form new projects, write applications and/or undertake research sabbaticals at other universities, for two years to collect data and material/learn new methods/make contacts, etc.
Extra research time is allocated for two years within this initiative.
The Faculty Board decided to award the resource to Professor Maréne Landström, Department of Medical Biosciences
Other strategic research initiatives
Besides these initiatives, the Faculty of Medicine is pursuing several other strategic research initiatives in call form – Strategic Research Resource, Funds for Research Infrastructures, Research Lift, Clinical Research Resource, and so-called Biotechnology Funds.
A special strategic investment is also the heads of department's research strategic disposition, which each department has been assigned in order to strengthen each department based on their unique needs.
Additionally, there are calls for central project grants for clinical research that the ALF system announces, and TUA's call for project funding for dental research.
Information about current calls is available via the Faculty's application portal.