The Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) has announced its research grants for 2025. Around 73 million has been awarded to researchers at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet.
Project grants to MEB researchers from the Swedish Cancer Society in 2025
- Therese Andersson - SEK 4,500,000 for the project "Extensions and applications of excess hazards models and life expectancy estimation"
- Kamila Czene - SEK 9,000,000 for the project "Unraveling genetic and mammographic pathways of breast cancer progression: from benign lesions to metastatic disease"
- Jana de Boniface - SEK 6,000,000 for the project "De-escalation of axillary surgery in patients with breast cancer and nodal metastases: SENOMAC goes SENOMAC-ULTRA"
- Paul Dickman - SEK 4,500,000 for the project "Extrapolating cancer patient survival with applications in health technology assessment"
- Anna Johansson - SEK 3,000,000 for the project "The influence of socioeconomic inequalities and reproductive factors on the risk and survival of breast cancer subtypes - enhancing the use of Nordic cancer registry data"
- Paul Lambert - SEK 4,500,000 for the project "Improving the utility of cancer registry data: Novel statistical methods to better quantify and understand survival differences between groups and regions"
- Tobias Nordström - SEK 4,500,000 for the project "From Trial to Tailored Screening - studies to inform future early detection of prostate cancer with a focus on long-term results and the elder population"
- Trung Nghia Vu - SEK 3,000,000 for the project "Data-driven approaches for repurposing drug combination for cancer treatment"
- Weimin Ye - SEK 3,000,000 for the project "Multi-omics study on Etiology and Early Detection of Cancers of the Foregut and Nasopharynx"
- Kimmo Kartasalo - SEK 3,000,000 for the project "Trustworthy and sustainable medical artificial intelligence"
- Johan Lindberg - SEK 3,000,000 for the project "Advancing precision medicine for metastatic prostate cancer"
Grants for early cancer detection research
- Martin Eklund - SEK 25,000,000 for the project "A Randomized Comparison of PSA and Stockholm3 for Early
Detection of Prostate Cancer".
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