By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 June 2023 Day one: Presentations of the major large Swedish cohorts. Status and a look forward. Day 2: Presentation of the 4 granted EpiHealth post-doc projects and more. See full program here

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/lunch-lunch-conference-6th-swedish-meeting-cohort-studies-uppsala-november-2023 - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 June 2023 The number of patients with osteoarthritis has increased dramatically since the 1950s. Along with diabetes, the illness is now one of the fastest-growing endemic diseases in the world. Andrea Dell’Isola, an associate professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University in Sweden, investigati

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/we-are-getting-older-and-heavier-osteoarthritis-increasing-interview-andrea-dellisola - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 January 2024 The applicants will be notified by mid-May 2024 at the latest. Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan tar

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-application-closed - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 January 2024 The strategic research area Epihealth at Lund University hereby announces research space for two years (SEK 750,000/year including OH) corresponding to a postdoctoral position. Around 200 employees (researchers and other staff) are attached to the Epihealth network who work with epidemiological research

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/research-space-postdoc-application-closed - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 January 2024 Associate researcher Dominik Dietler has, thanks to Epihealth seed money, been granted postdoc funding for himself from MSB (The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) over 1.9M SEK and 1.2M SEK from eSSENCE@LU to hire an additional postdoc.  What difference did the seed money make for you? And what will y

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/congratulations-dominik-dietler - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 April 2024 Three researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Hannah Brooke is one of them. Read about her project "Identification of novel circulating biomarkers for incident cancer and targets for prevention using large-scale metabolomics data" here! Every year, more than 60,000 individuals in Sweden are d

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/grants-epihealth-uppsala-node - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 May 2024 Three Uppsala University researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Olga Titova is one of them. Her project aims to clarify whether and how sleep and psychosocial factors are linked to the risk of specific incident CVDs and to explore the potential mechanisms using proteomics and metabolomics data.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/big-congrats-olga-titova - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 15 May 2024 Dag Leonard’s research group at Uppsala University has years of experience of autoimmune diseases genetic and epigenetic studies. In this project the connection between autoimmune disease polygenic risk and cardiovascular diseases will be analyzed in the general population using the EpiHealth cohort. Cardio

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/dag-leonard-has-received-one-uppsala-epihealth-grants-2024 - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2024 EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. One of the five recipients is Karl Gisslander. His project is about the rare b

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-money-karl-gisslanders-project-about-anca-associated-vasculitis - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2024 Adam Mitchell is one of five recipients of this year´s EpiHealth seed money. Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic caused disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality in older adults, particularly in nursing homes for older adults. In Swedish nursing homes, COVID-19 was associated with a large excess in mor

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-project-about-pandemic-response-and-preparedness - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 October 2024 Postdoc Max Thorsson works within the IRMA study. Psychiatric conditions, above all depression and anxiety, are the leading cause of reduced ability to function in everyday life for children and young people. Children of parents with psychiatric problems have a high risk of developing their own problems,

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/identifying-risk-and-resilience-mental-illness-during-childhood-and-adolescence-irma-study - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 6 February 2025 Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. A total amount of 1 000 000 SEK

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-seed-funding-preparing-application-and-research-plan-writing-research-area-0 - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 6 February 2025 The strategic research area Epihealth at Lund University hereby announces research space for two years (SEK 750,000/year including OH) corresponding to a postdoctoral position. Around 200 employees (researchers and other staff) are attached to the Epihealth network who work with epidemiological research

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-research-space-postdoc-2025-application-closed - 2025-04-23

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 15 December 2020 New study aims to describe physical, mental and functional health in relation to family care in old age (60+) over a six-year period. Sölve Elmståhl, professor and coordinator for EpiHealth is behind the study and he is co-author of the article "The Health of Older Family Caregivers -

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/health-older-family-caregivers-6-year-follow - 2025-04-23

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 15 December 2020 Marju Orho-Melander, professor and deputy coordinator for EpiHealth is co-author of the article "Height, body mass index and prostate cancer risk and mortality by way of detection and cancer risk category" which has been published in the International Journal of Cancer. The study show

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/newly-published-article-international-journal-cancer - 2025-04-23

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 11 January 2021 We welcome Åsa Westrin as a new board member of EpiHealth. Åsa is a professor of psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University. Åsa's research area is within suicide research and includes psychobiological vulnerability and treatment of suicide attempters as well

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/welcome-professor-asa-westrin-new-board-member-epihealth - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 September 2021 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Håkan Jönson and Kiran Maini Gerhardsson are two of twenty-two authors from Lund University who will present their books at this year's book fair, Bokmässan, in Gothenburg - in Lund's digital stand - on Thursday 23 September.   Håkans Jönsson's book is entitled "Perspekt

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-researchers-participate-bokmassan-2021 - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 December 2021 Stig Ålund is a social worker and has extensive experience as a professional in the municipal sector, including as director of the Kommunförbundet Skåne. As a pensioner, he is very active in the civil society and has positions of trust for the National Association of Pensioners (PRO) at both local and

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/stig-alund-honorary-doctor-faculty-medicine - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 February 2022 Christina Heller, PhD student, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University Mid-way review 2022/02/01. With Björn Slaug, main supervisor, and one of the reviewers Marianne Abramsson. CASE PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-04-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 February 2022 Congratulations to CASE researcher Giedre Gefenaite who has received so-called "research space" for three years from the Medical Faculty Board. Giedre is active in the research group Active and Healthy Aging at the Department of Health Sciences and has recently also been appointed associate professor. I

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-studies-importance-environment-aging-receive-funding - 2025-04-23