Focus on radiotherapy and immunology when the Cancer Foundation supports 29 researchers

“We have every reason to feel hopeful.” Research on cancer is advancing and today we have developed methods that only a few years ago felt like pure science fiction, he says. Class curryChair of the Cancer Foundation Research Committee in a press release.

More than half of the research jobs, 15, are at Karolinska Institutet. The others are distributed at Lund University (8 research positions), Uppsala University (5) and University of Gothenburg (1).

Five researchers are active in radiotherapy. According to the Cancer Foundation, there are currently very few people in Sweden doing research in this area, which means that Swedish radiation research risks regressing.

One of the radiologists are Pavitra Canaan at Karolinska Institutet, which works to improve prostate cancer survival. It is a form of cancer in which radiation is most often used as a treatment method, but sometimes it does not work because cancer cells in some patients acquire resistance to radiation.

We will now study what makes resistant cells vulnerable in the ecosystem so that radiotherapy can have a better effect. I am very pleased with the support provided by the Cancer Foundation, Pavitra Kanan says in the press release.

Other researchers highlighted by the Cancer Foundation are Eric Elias at the University of Gothenburg, which investigates the causes of the growth and spread of neuroendocrine tumors, Lotta Hanson In KI to look for leukemia and covid-19 patients, and Yuming Mao at Uppsala University, which is looking at how immunotherapies work more effectively and to treat more types of cancer than today.

here This is a list of all researchers who have received funding.