Department of Women's and Children's Health
The research at the Department of Women's and Children's Health deals with both basic and clinical science in women's and children's health. The research takes place in seven divisions with separate scientific profiles. The divisions vary in size and have several research groups. We are also engaged in education on both undergraduate (MD programme), specialist (paediatric nurses, midwives, physicians), and postgraduate levels.
Meet our new Professors
Baldvin Jonsson, Adjunct Professor
Baldvin Jonsson, Adjunct Professor
Interview with Baldvid Jonsson, Adjunct Professor at KBH 2020
Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor
Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor
Interview with Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor at KBH 2019
News from KBH on the coronavirus
Overlooked protein could play important part in pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers say
Overlooked protein could play important part in pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers say
Immunological cause of severe COVID-19 identified
Immunological cause of severe COVID-19 identified
More than 10 percent of young and previously healthy people who develop severe COVID-19 have misguided antibodies that attack the immune system itself, and another 3.5 percent carry a specific genetic mutation. This is according to new research published in Science by an international consortium involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Seminars and Lectures
WERN SEMINAR
Astrid Lectures
KIND Open Seminar
Pediatric Oncology Weekly Seminar
News
Translational Seed Funding has been granted to Anna Nilsson and Klas Blomgren.
Translational Seed Funding has been granted to Anna Nilsson and Klas Blomgren.
After external reviewing and hard competition two of KBHs researchers, Lecturer Anna Nilsson and Professor Klas Blomgren, were granted funding.
Prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category was awarded to Thale Kristin Olsen.
Prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category was awarded to Thale Kristin Olsen.
Thale's abstract was ranked as the best translational abstract at the conference, and she received the prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category.
ADHD genetic risk score associated with intervention outcomes in autism.
ADHD genetic risk score associated with intervention outcomes in autism.
Problems in synapse connection sites found in rare genetically defined neurodevelopmental disorders
Problems in synapse connection sites found in rare genetically defined neurodevelopmental disorders
The development of antibody-producing cells
The development of antibody-producing cells
Principal applicant Qiang Pan-Hammarström, professor at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition and co-applicants Petter Brodin, Lennart Hammarström, Hong Qian, all three at Karolinska Institutet have been granted SEK 39,200,000 for five years.for their project Developmental trajectories for human B-cells
Defenses and halftimes at KBH
Defenses at KBH
Halftimes at KBH
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.
Worth noting at KBH
Lena Wettergren
Lena Wettergren
The research program investigates sexual and reproductive health in young adults who have undergone treatment for cancer and evaluates the effect of a self-help web-based intervention on sexual problems and fertility-related distress.
New biomarkers for childhood asthma may facilitate early diagnosis
New biomarkers for childhood asthma may facilitate early diagnosis
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have followed children who have sought emergency care for wheezing during their first years of life and found specific biomarkers that can predict the need for asthma medication several years later. The study is published in the prestigious European Respiratory Journal.
Anita Aperia, Bertil Hamberger, Mai-Lis Hellénius, and Sten Grillner awarded Karolinska Institutet’s Grand Silver Medal
Anita Aperia, Bertil Hamberger, Mai-Lis Hellénius, and Sten Grillner awarded Karolinska Institutet’s Grand Silver Medal
Four researchers are awarded Karolinska Institutet’s Grand Silver Medal 2019. They are given the medal for their great contributions to support KI’s activities.
Focus on birth injuries
Focus on birth injuries
Most women will sustain some injury to the genital area when giving birth; however, for some of them the problems become permanent. Helena Lindgren is researching the role of the midwife and whether better methods could reduce the risk of vaginal tearing.
Increased performance in female athletes after testosterone supplementation
Increased performance in female athletes after testosterone supplementation
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences have investigated the effects of testosterone supplementation in young athletically active women in a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. The results, which are published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, show that there is a causal relationship between elevated male sex hormone levels and increased aerobic capacity in young women. There was also an increase in muscle mass but not muscle strength.
Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumour treatment
Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumour treatment
Children who have received radiotherapy for a brain tumour can develop cognitive problems later in life. In their studies on mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that the drug lithium can help to reverse the damage caused long after it has occurred. The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry and the researchers are now planning to test the treatment in clinical trials.
The KI 3D-EM facility has opened
The KI 3D-EM facility has opened
Cellular electron microscopy has been a key technique for understanding the cell’s core elements and mechanisms since the 1950s. Electron microscopic methods have laid the foundation for a number of Nobel Prizes and have given us much of the basic understanding of human cells’ overall structure, physiology and mechanisms—basically the foundation of all modern medicine.
Petter Brodin, one of twenty-seven life scientists become EMBO Young Investigators
Petter Brodin, one of twenty-seven life scientists become EMBO Young Investigators
Pregnant women with eating disorders run higher risk of complications
Pregnant women with eating disorders run higher risk of complications
Pregnant women with eating disorders should undergo extended pregnancy screenings considering their increased risk of complications. That is the conclusion from a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The researchers were, for example, able to show that children to mothers with eating disorders had an increased risk of premature birth and being born with a small head circumference
Petter Brodin awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in medicine 2020
Petter Brodin awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in medicine 2020
Petter Brodin, researcher in immunology at Karolinska Institutet is awarded the prestigious Göran Gustafsson Prize in medicine for his “pioneering analysis of the early development of the human immune system”.
New insights into the immune system’s role in severe COVID-19
New insights into the immune system’s role in severe COVID-19
Bill Gates sends Swedish midwifes to Africa
Bill Gates sends Swedish midwifes to Africa
Cheap drug may alleviate treatment-resistance in leukemia
Cheap drug may alleviate treatment-resistance in leukemia
In a study published in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine Sean Rudd at OnkPat with colleagues show that a common and inexpensive drug may be used to counteract treatment resistance in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, one of the most common forms of blood cancer. The researchers will now launch a clinical study to test the new combination treatment in patients.
Ahmed Osman publish in Cell Reports and is granted the Erik Rönnbergs stipendium
Ahmed Osman publish in Cell Reports and is granted the Erik Rönnbergs stipendium
Ahmed Osman, active in the Klas Blomgren research group, publish in Cell Report and receives the Erik Rönnbergs stipendium.