Significant grants for kidney disease research
Five researchers from Medfarm was awarded grants. Photo Mikael Wallerstedt.
The Swedish Kidney Foundation recently awarded a total of SEK 7,5 million in research grants, nearly one million of which has been allocated to researchers at Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital.
Six researchers from the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy have received grants in this year’s allocation, four of whom are based at the Department of Medical Sciences and two at the Department of Surgical Sciences.
One of them is Henrik Benoni, Specialist Physician at the Department of Surgical Sciences and has been awarded his grant for a project investigating cancer in the context of organ transplantation. The project examines how the lifelong immunosuppressive treatment required to prevent rejection of a transplanted kidney, may influence cancer risk.
– Our research aims to identify genetic risk markers that could help predict the likelihood of different types of cancer following transplantation, thereby enabling us to tailor both immunosuppressive treatment and cancer screening. We are also investigating the best approaches for monitoring transplanted patients with cancer to improve their prognosis, says Henrik Benoni in a statement to the Swedish Kidney Foundation.
Text: Robin Widing
All grant recipients from Medfarm and Uppsala University Hospital
Inga Soveri, Department of Medical Sciences
Precision diagnostics in membranous nephropathy
SEK 200,000
Maria Eriksson Svensson, Department of Medical Sciences
Kidney function, metabolite accumulation, and cardiovascular disease risk
SEK 250,000
Maria Tydén, Department of Medical Sciences
Cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease – biomarkers and risk stratification
SEK 150,000
Henrik Benoni, Department of Surgical Sciences
Cancer before and after organ transplantation – treatment and genetic risk markers
SEK 200,000
Anders Bergqvist, Department of Medical Sciences
Improved diagnostics for BK polyomavirus nephropathy in kidney transplant patients
SEK 150,000
Tomas Lorant, Department of Surgical Sciences
Protect kidneys with vesicles derived from mesenchymal stem cells
SEK 150,000