Department of Laboratory Medicine
The research conducted at the Department of Laboratory Medicine is of immediate significance to human health. An important part of the department's work is to contribute the specialised skills needed for the training of future healthcare personnel.
Researchers from LABMED could potentially predict drug response in patients with pancreatic cancer
Researchers from LABMED could potentially predict drug response in patients with pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Now researchers from the laboratory of Mikael Björnstedt from the Division of Pathology, have developed a patient-derived tumor tissue slice culture system for predicting drug response in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer.
Public videocast of KI International Workshop in Stockholm, January 2019
Public videocast of KI International Workshop in Stockholm, January 2019
In January Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet and SIDI arranged an international expert workshop on “User adapted knowledge bases and real word data in medicine and pharmacology”. Videocast of the meeting is now downloadable presentations are available.
Clinically important interactions associated with warfarin treatment
Clinically important interactions associated with warfarin treatment
By a newly established register-based cohort, unique opportunities to study interactions associated to the anticoagulant warfarin in large groups of individuals has been created. The research is based on a cooperation between associate professors Jonatan D Lindh, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Buster Mannheimer, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset.