Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
At the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (MMK) we conduct both pre-clinical and clinical research as well as undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Thomas Renné receives an Investigator Recognition Award
The award recognize individuals who, in the opinion of their peers, have made significant contributions to research and education in blood coagulation. The award will be presented at the Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis in Amsterdam on July 1.
Weight loss surgery also alters the epigenome
Gastric bypass surgery can drastically reduce the body weight of obese individuals. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the surgery also leads to early remission of type 2 diabetes in the vast majority of patients. Researchers from KI and University of Copenhagen now report the discovery of gene-expression alterations in individuals who underwent the surgery compared with obese individuals who did not.
Rolf Luft Award 2013
The 2013 Rolf Luft Award is given to Professor Se-Jin Lee at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. His prize lecture "Myostatin: A Molecular Rheostat for Muscle Mass" was held as Session 1 at the Rolf Luft Symposium on April 10, 2013.
New gene variant may explain psychotic features in bipolar disorder
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found an explanation for why the level of kynurenic acid (KYNA) is higher in the brains of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disease with psychosis.
Calendar
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2013-08-30 Dissertation: Senthil Vasan Kandaswamy
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2013-09-06 Dissertation: David Velázquez-Fernández
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2013-09-27 Dissertation: Andrii Dinets
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2013-11-08 Dissertation: Cristina Volpe
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Lilian Pagrot
2013-06-05
