Young researchers receive support from Core Facilities: The Bollan Scholarship enables access to research infrastructures
Five young researchers have been awarded the Bollan Scholarship 2025, granting them access to Core Facilities’ research infrastructure. The recipients were recognized at a ceremony where they also had the opportunity to present their projects.
The scholarship targets young researchers within the Sahlgrenska Academy and provides them access to Core Facilities’ platforms, where they can benefit from the knowledge, techniques, and analytical methods available there.
Relatives of Elisabeth “Bollan” Lindén attended the ceremony. Catharina Lindén, whose uncle Erik was Bollan's husband and her daughter Johanna Lindén presented diplomas and flowers to the five scholarship recipients together with Core Facilities managers Marie Hornfeldt and Elisabet Carlsohn. Among the 36 applications, all of which were of high quality, these five stood out.
This year’s scholarship recipients
Ferran Font, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, will have access to the Bioinformatics and Data Centre, Centre for Cellular Imaging, and Experimental Biomedicine for the project: “Ozempic Strikes a Nerve: Deciphering a Role in Brainstem-Mediated Inflammation Control.”
Rebecka Wilhelmsson, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, will have access to the Proteomics Core Facility for the project: “Unravelling sex-specific signalling pathways of the alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs).”
Júlia Teixidor Deulofeu, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, will have access to the Bioinformatics and Data Centre, Centre for Cellular Imaging, and Experimental Biomedicine for the project: “The role of a brainstem to hypothalamus pathway for semaglutide-induced weight loss.”
Ruwei Yao, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, will have access to the Proteomics Core Facility for the project: “Defining the cellular protein interactome of oligonucleotide therapeutics using photo-affinity probes.”
Fleur van de Koolwijk, Department of Biomedicine, will have access to Experimental Biomedicine, Mammalian Protein Expression, and the Proteomics Core Facility for the project: “The role of transmembrane mucin PTS domains in regulating host-bacteria interactions during enteric infection.”
Research infrastructures welcome the recipients
Core Facilities' units that will host the scholarship recipients are Bioinformatics and Data Centre, Centre for Cellular Imaging, Experimental Biomedicine, Mammalian Protein Production, and Proteomics Core Facility.
Funds have been awarded since 2018
Elisabeth Lindén donated SEK 2.4 million to the University of Gothenburg to be used for medical research, and since 2018 Core Facilities, with its broad range of research infrastructure, has awarded the scholarship on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor. The scholarship is aimed at young researchers, PhD students, or postdoctoral researchers who obtained their PhD no more than five years ago. The next call will take place in 2027.
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Top row: Marie Hornfeldt, Elisabet Carlsohn, Catharina Lindén, Johanna Lindén och Maria Smedh.
Bottom row: Ruwei Yao, Rebecca Wilhelmsson, Ferran Font, Júlia Teixidor Deulofeu och Fleur van de Koolwijk
