Swedish Cancer Society Grants

From left to right: Fredrik Wermeling, Carmen Gerlach, Alexander Espinosa, Ning Xu Landén. Missing: Roland Nilsson.

Photos: Private (Fredrik Wermeling, Alexander Espinosa and Ning Xu Landén) and Markus Marcetic provided by the Wallennberg Foundations (Carmen Gerlach) 

Congratulations to the five researchers from CMM who have received grants from the Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden):

Fredrik Wermeling was granted SEK 800 000 during three years for the project titled “IL-4 based cancer immunotherapy”.

Roland Nilsson was granted SEK 800 000 during three years for the project titled  ”New treatments in  methionine-dependent cancer, based on the tumor-inhibiting enzyme AHCY”.

Ning Xu Landén was granted SEK 800 000 during three years for the project titled “Radiation memory of the skin cells: unravel the epigenetic basis of the impaired wound healing after radiation therapy”.

Carmen Gerlach was granted SEK 800 000 during two years for the project titled “Utilizing the most relevant CD8 T cell subset(s) to improve cancer immunotherapy” .

Alexander Espinosa was granted SEK 600 000 during two years for the project titled “The role of bromodomain proteins in malignant melanoma”.

Press release from the Swedish Cancer Society: click here

List of all grants: click here

Press release from Karolinska Institutet (in Swedish): click here