Sentences with phrase «swedish health and medicine»

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The investigation was led by Kjell Asplund, professor emeritus in medicine at Umeå University in Sweden, chairman of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics in Stockholm, and former director general of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, also in Stockholm.

«Despite the differences emerging in the pathophysiology of PsA and rheumatoid arthritis, tofacitinib, which works on many different cytokines, shows efficacy in the treatment of both conditions,» said lead author Professor Philip J. Mease from the Swedish - Providence St. Joseph Health Systems and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, US.

«The ultimate goal is to strengthen the life science and molecular medicine sectors in Sweden by bringing together young talent, thereby creating unique and close collaborations across the universities, the Swedish national life science infrastructures, as well as the health care regions across the country.»

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

Funding: This work was supported by grants from the Center for Companion Animal Health and the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis and in part by a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)(R21 DK074954), the Swedish Research Council and a Cancer Center Support Grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)(3 P30 CA093373).