Welcome to the Faculty of Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is the medical faculty of Linkoping University, one of Sweden’s six largest universities, founded in 1986. The faculty engages in a broad range of scientific activities ranging from basic biomedical and experimental clinical research to applied clinical studies and research within the fields of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, speech and language pathology, occupational therapy, medical pedagogy, and public health.  

 

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Research News: 

 

Few genes control neuronal function

How are 100 billion cells created, each with specific duties? The human brain is evidence that nature can achieve this. Researchers at Linköping University (LiU) have now taken a step closer to solving this mystery.

Intestinal bacteria - for better or for worse

Every year around 400 Swedes fall ill with Crohn’s disease; an incurable inflammation of the intestines that can lead to diarrhoea, severe pain, and stomach sores. Johan Dabrosin Söderholm, professor of Surgery, has been researching the illness since the 1990s.

Antibiotic crisis a global threat

One antibiotic preparation after another ceases to work. In Vietnam, half or more of the bacteria cannot be eradicated because they are resistant to antibiotics. Håkan Hanberger, professor of Infectious Diseases at LiU, is working regionally and globally to meet the crisis.

Professors conferment

19 new professors were installed and 45 doctorates conferred at a ceremony in the Konsert and Kongress Hall, Linkoping, on Friday 11 November. At the same time LiU’s new rector Helen Dannetun was inaugurated.

Social heritage can influence health

What does social heritage have to do with health? Can grandparents’ lives affect their grandchildren’s health? The research group Twin Cities is studying these and other questions dealing with social affiliation and health.

Alternative to lab animals

Sperm and liver cells as ‘lab animals” – that’s the idea behind two LiU projects that will receive special support from the Swedish Research Council (VR).

SEK 39 million for medical research

The brain takes centre stage when the the Swedish Research Council’s (VR) annual grant for medical research at LiU is totalled up. Altogether, VR will grant 13 applicants a total of SEK 39 million for research over three to five years.

Outbreak of vole fever affects platelets

Rodents in northern Sweden are having a good year, and the number of cases of the haemorrhagic illness vole fever is increasing. New research results show that the virus behind the illness causes patients’ blood platelets to function to a lesser degree than they normally do.

 

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