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An Ethnographic Study of Delivery Work
This ethnographic project on delivery workers in Stockholm focused on how spatial navigation and temporal coordination provide insights into the precarious labor condition of the p...
Integrated pest and pollinator management for sustainable plant protein production
Increased pressures on beneficial arthropods such as pollinators and natural enemies and a lack of sustainable pest control strategies threaten viable crop production.Integrated pe...
Exploring the Importance of Internal and External Environmental Exposures for Developing Fibromyalgia – An Exposome Study
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread pain and tenderness. It affects 2-4% of the population and predominantly women.There are indications that...
Intensive parenting norms in Sweden: Prevalence and implications for childbearing, well-being and work trajectories
Research problem.Intensive parenting norms have become pervasive in many wealthy countries and across different social strata, increasing the personal responsibility parents take f...
The disulfide bond as a chemical tool in cyclic peptide antibiotics: engineering disulfide polymyxins and murepavadin
RISE´s main contribution to the project concerns assessments and tests of the toxicity and tolerability of the test substances in accordance with praxis for drug development.RISE t...
Targeted Nitroxoline Delivery for Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Pathogens
Multidrug-resistant pathogens cause approximately 660,000 infections in Europe each year. In the battle against these pathogens, approved anti-infective agents are increasingly ine...
(Mal) Adaptation to extreme urban heat: At what cost, to whom?
Cities are hotspots for the impacts of “unbearable” heat, projected to worsen dramatically and risk exceeding the adaptive capacity of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, already...
Occupational exposures during pregnancy and Neurodevelopmental disorders
Research problem and specific questions: The number of children with neurodevelopmental disorders have increased during the last coupleof years.Physical, psychosocial, and chemical...
Host Cell Subversion and Immune Evasion by Apicomplexan Parasites
Toxoplasma gondii (Tg) is an important opportunistic pathogen causing neuropathology and a model for studying diseases by intracellular parasites.Active invasion of immune cells is...
RELOC-AGE: How Do Housing Choices and Relocation Matter for Active and Healthy Ageing?
Addressing the lack of research on housing applying a health promotion approach, nurtured by the hypothesis that housing choices and relocation influence active and healthy ageing,...
Nya roller av komplementsystemet i infektioner och immunreglering
Bacterial infections are a significant global health problem aggravated by increasing antibiotic resistance.To develop new vaccines and treatments we must understand in detail how...
TThe disulfide bond as a chemical tool in cyclic peptide antibiotics: engineering disulfide polymyxins and murepavadin.
The project presents an innovative chemical tool to be applied to known cyclic peptide antibiotics.The objective consists of proving that the insertion of disulfide bonds within an...
Instrinsic muscle weakness – an overlooked comorbidity in need of molecular insight
Intrinsic muscle weakness (i.e., weakness without loss of muscle mass) is a comorbidity afflicting many patients including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and cardiovascular dise...
HEART DEFORMITIES IN INTENSIVELY FARMED FISH: Implications for aquaculture sustainability in a changing world
Farmed fish often display severe heart deviations including abnormal ventricle shape and coronary lesions.This problem has increased in Nordic Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout and...
Sensorimotor control after anterior cruciate ligament injury: towards a precision medicine approach
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury leads to knee instability with high risk of re-injury and to develop knee osteoarthritis. Sensorimotor control (SMC) deteriorates and also b...
Novel biomarkers for improving diagnostics, prognostics, and treatments of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and a major global health challenge. The accuracy of clinical AD diagnostics is mediocre, especially in primary care.T...
Towards a pREcision medicine Approach to Target Alzheimer´s Disease and Related Dementias (TREAT-ADRD)
Due to global aging, Alzheimer´s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are increasing in the population.No disease-modifying treatment currently exists, but recent advances in the f...
Leadership and Employee Well-Being in Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
During the Covid-19 pandemic, about a third of the Swedish workforce (about two thirds in the service sector) is/has been working partly or entirely from home and many meetings hav...
Clinical and experimental studies of tolerance mechanisms in the thymus aiming at therapeutic targeting of the thymus in the treatment of autoimmune diseases
Immune dysregulation is a key feature of many diseases, e.g. autoimmunity and cancer, and even though the thymus is of vital importance for immune regulation, therapeutic tools to...
Subgrouping SLE - a new approach to understand the pathogenesis and improve treatment
SLE is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease, characterized by the production of autoantibodies. Vascular disease (VD) is a major cause of early morbidity and mortality.Based on clini...