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The Swedish Research Council funds allergy research at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Prof. Mats Ohlin from the Dept. of Immunotechnology today received a grant of 2.4 MSEK from the Swedish Research Council to fund research on human antibodies in allergic disease.
Dept. of Immunotechnology research featured on the cover of the Journal of Immunology
A recent study of antibody recognition of a major mite allergen, an allergy-causing substance, was featured on the Nov 1, 2019 issue of the Journal of Immunology. In this study researchers from the Dept. of Immunotechnology, in collaboration with reasearchers from Indoor Biotechnologies, Inc., the University of South Carolina, the National [...]
Poster prize awarded to researcher at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Jakob Willforss of the Department of Immunotechnology was, following a public vote, awarded a poster prize at 'Proteomic Forum 2019' which recently took place in Potsdam, Germany. He presented a poster entitled 'Evaluation of peptide quantification susceptibility for technical bias from batch effects and batch compensation'. In this study he [...]
Tim Lindberg defends thesis in Immunotechnology
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Immunotechnology researcher exhibits art at art-exhibition at LTH
Milad Abolhalaj, doctoral researcher at the Dept. of Immunotechnology, exhibits pieces of art at LTH's Art Exhibition that opens May 20th, 2019.
Oscar II:s stipend awarded to Department of Immunotechnology doctoral thesis
Dr. Mattias Brofelth of the Dept. of Immunotechnology was awarded the Stiftelsen Oscar II:s stipend for his doctoral thesis entitled Technological advancements in affinity proteomics: From planar antibody microarrays towards a solution-based platform.
Researchers at the Department involved in the development of a new system to validate and name new antibody genes
Researchers from 12 countries in Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania incl. researchers from the Department of Immunotechnology have published a system for validation and naming of newly discovered genes that the immune system uses to create the antibodies that protect us, for example against infections. The work has been carried out within [...]
Nobel prize Chemistry laureates to Lund
Department of Immunotechnology researchers are hosting this years lecture on the 14th of Dec
Spinout från institutionen bygger vidare på årets Nobelpris
Alligator Biosciences, ett av Institutionens avknoppningsbolag är idag med i Sydsvenskan. Bolagets viktigaste produkt är antikroppar riktade mot cancerceller, en vidareutveckling av den upptäckt som i år tilldelades årets Nobelpris i medicine. Läs mer här.
Hack i häl på nobelpristagaren
Institutionen för Immunteknologi grundare Professor Carl Borrebaeck och en av årets nobelprisvinnare i kemi, sir Gregory Winter, arbetade tidigare sida vid sida med att publicera en ny teknologi inom ett då nytt och hett område kallat ”antibody engineering”. 1989 publicerade båda forskarna inom ett par veckor rön om den teknologi som nu ligger till [...]