Physiology
The Department of Physiology is a preclinical unit that has the main responsibility for undergraduate, advanced and postgraduate education in physiology.
Our Research
Our research covers a broad range of research areas within the subject of physiology. We are a highly collaborative unit with many international co-workers. Many of the research groups successfully combine preclinical and clinical research. The units have an excellent infrastructure, which is shared among the research groups. Our close location to both the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and to the Laboratory for Experimental Biomedicine gives us excellent possibilities to conduct integrative research of the highest quality in the area of physiology.
Research Groups
Circulation
- Maryam Ardalan – Biomarker for autism
- Joakim Ek – Preeclampsia Translational Research group
- Jenny Gustafsson – Goblet cells and the intestinal barrier
- Agneta Holmäng – Metabolic research during pregnancy
- Maria E. Johansson – Cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway and its role in cardiovascular disease
- Carina Mallard – Treating the newborn brain
- Holger Nilsson – Vascular function
- Jenny Nyström – Renal function and glomerular kidney disease
- Xiaoyang Wang – Perinatal Brain Injury
Endocrinology
- Håkan Billig – Physiology of the Fallopian Tube and Ectopic Pregnancy
- Suzanne L Dickson – Neurobiology of eating behaviours
- John-Olov Jansson – The gravitostat - regulating body fat homeostasis
- Anders Rosengren – Rosengren group / WCMTM
- Linda Engström Ruud – Anti-obesity treatment and the brain: Long-acting GLP-1 analogues in body weight control
- Johan Ruud
Metabolic physiology
- Patrik Rorsman – Diabetes and pancreatic islets
- Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm – Adipose Tissue Functionality in Metabolic Disease and Breast Cancer Progression
- Jean-Philippe Krieger
The VagaLAB – Neuroscience and epidemiology of gut-brain communication
Neurophysiology
- Andreas Björefeldt – Genetic engineering and tool development for cells of the central nervous system
- Bengt Gustafsson – The Glutamate Synapse in the Developing Hippocampus
- Ingela Hammar – Spinal Cord and Motor Control
- Eric Hanse – Cellular neurophysiology
- Sebastian Illes – Functional iPSC-based Human Brain and Disease Models
- Elzbieta Jankowska – Spinal Cord and Motor Control
- Line Löken – Circuits for affective touch sensation
- Lars-Gunnar Pettersson – Spinal Cord and Motor Control
- Johan Wessberg – Tactile Sensory Mechanisms of the Human Hand and Hairy Skin
Education
Knowledge of physiology is essential for professions within the fields of medicine and other life sciences for which students at the Sahlgrenska Academy are trained. We are responsible for teaching physiology at educational programmes in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, speech therapy and dental hygiene. The faculty members of the department represent a broad knowledge of different areas of physiology, allowing us to match our teaching to the educational profiles of the individual study programmes.
Doctoral Studies
The department works to ensure future subject-matter expertise in physiology and the continued high-quality research activity by maintaining access to PhD-trained physiologists.
Contact
Postal address: Department of Physiology, Box 432, 405 30 Göteborg
Visiting address: Medicinaregatan 11, Göteborg
Delivery address: Medicinaregatan 19, 413 90 Göteborg
