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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

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 - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 September 2021 SWEAH 2.0 is the working name of the new venture on the National Graduate School on Aging and Health. Management representatives for all higher education institutions met recently to consolidate their participation in the initiative. There will be twelve higher education institutions joining forces to

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/twelve-higher-education-institutions-are-investing-graduate-school-aging-and-health - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 October 2021 SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 October 2021 Emilia Wiklund´s poster presents older people's experiences of having been involved in a co-creative process and also an innovation project. Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research,

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 November 2021 The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. The article explore doctoral students’ perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-article-doctoral-students-experiences-being-affiliated-interdisciplinary-graduate-school-aging - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 16 November 2021 Xia Li (third from the left in the picture) defended her dissertation "Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes". SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2025-07-01

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 12 January 2022 SWEAH welcomed everyone who works with aging and health at the partner universities to participate in the conference. The conference gave the participants the opportunity to take part in research on aging and health in many different disciplines. Current and former SWEAH-affiliated doctoral students and

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-milestone-conference-watch-films - 2025-07-01