Department of Women's and Children's Health
We conduct leading education and research with an impact on women’s and children’s health globally.

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Pediatric Oncology Weekly Seminar
PIM - Pediatric Immunology, Infection and Inflammation – PIM seminar series
Defenses and halftimes at KBH
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Halftimes at KBH
News

New method of assessing the health risk of chemical mixtures
Every day, people are exposed to large number of pollutants, but the problem of how to assess the dangers of the chemical “cocktail effect” has long frustrated both scientists and public authorities. A collaborative study involving researchers from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Science now presents a new strategy that combines population studies with experiments using cell and animal models.

2021 Michelson prizes push new frontiers in human immunology
Dr. Camila Consiglio, Postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet, won the 2021 Michelson Prize for: “Investigating the effects of testosterone on the human immune system”

Genetic analysis can guide social skills training
What is precision psychiatry? KI researcher Kristiina Tammimies gives an example. She is a research leader at the KIND competence centre, the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, and studies the role of genetics in neuropsychiatric disorders.

Contact with sperm donors aroused many emotions
Sweden was the first country in the world to introduce open-identity sperm donation, whereby adult children are entitled to obtain information about their donors. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now explored how such contacts and relations affect the parents of these young men and women. The study, which is published in Human Reproduction, shows that mothers often find it easier to accept the new situation.
Awards

Erdinc Sezgin and Nikolas Herold receive the KIRI Fellow grant
Revealing the mechanisms of lipid storage diseases by combining multi-omics and biophysics (Erdinc Sezgin, KBH, and Claudia Kutter, MTC)
The crosstalk of innate and adaptive immunity in cancer - Dissecting the role of SAMHD1 in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (Hanna Brauner, MedS, and Nikolas Herold, KBH)

Pernilla Pergert, senior researcher at KBH has received the Nursing Leadership Award from the International Society of Paediatric Oncology
The Nursing Leadership Award is bestowed upon any present or past member of the society for his/her substantial contributions to paediatric oncology nursing.

Petter Brodin- one of five KI researchers receive grants from the Swedish Society for Medical Research
The grants give both prominent researchers the opportunity to strengthen their position and provide establishment support for younger researchers.

Workshop: Thesis writing
The Department of Women’s and Children’s health invites doctoral students to a one-day kappa workshop:
Meet our new Professors

Interview with Marie Klingberg Allvin, Professor at KBH 2021
Interview with Marie Klingberg Allvin, Professor at KBH 2021

Baldvin Jonsson, Adjunct Professor
Interview with Baldvid Jonsson, Adjunct Professor at KBH 2020

Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor
Interview with Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor at KBH 2019

Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Associate Professor
Interview with Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Associate Professor at KBH 2021
Meet our new PhDs

Anna Akselsson - Awareness of fetal movements and pregnancy outcomes

Elena Di Martino - Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy : inflammation and therapies

Dan Jacobson - Cerebral palsy : studies on health and social outcomes in young adulthood, and on treatments for spasticity and pain

Sofia Hjelmstedt - A Balancing Act: Work Life and Childcare Among Parents of Children with Cancer

Gunilla Lönnberg - Mindfulness based childbirth and parenting program : supporting a good beginning

Ulrike Ryll - Measurement instruments for the early detection of unilateral cerebral palsy and evaluation of bimanual performance

Annelie Törnblom - Exploring paths to youth suicide and sudden violent death: A multimethod case-control investigation

Teodora Andonova - Understanding and Targeting the Architecture in Cancer: Novel Therapies in Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma

Mara Cerqueiro Bybrant - Coeliac Disease in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Screeing, Diagnosis ann Prevalence
Announcements
CSC funded scholars 2020-2021
The recruitment process at KI has opened for recruiting of doctoral students, post-docs, visiting researchers and/or visiting doctoral students supported by the China Scholarship Council scholarships.