Projects at PROMISE
These are the current projects, and their researchers, at the Centre for Perinatal Medicine and Health
BOMOYI- a capacity building project to build midwifery competence in Democratic Republic of Congo
Malin Bogren
Britou Ndela
Carla Toko
Marie Berg
Brain injury and regeneration - experimental studies - mechanisms
Changlian Zhu
Henrik Hagberg
Carina Mallard
Syam Nair
Xiaoyang Wang
Marcela Pekna
Milos Pekny
Karin Sävman
Mats Sandberg
One of the sub-projects here is PREMSTEM, a Horizon 2020 research and innovation action funded by the European Union. University of Gothenburg is a partner in the consortium.
Link to PREMSTEMs webb and to a shorter description on our webb site
CDC4G - Changing Diagnostic Criteria for Gestational Diabetes in Sweden
Helena Fadl
Verena Sengpiel
Karolina Lindén
(There are many more participants from all over the country)
Cerebral palsy: prevalence, risk factors, aetiology, methods for prevention, diagnostics and treatment
Kate Himmelmann
Karin Sävman
Ann Hellström
Bo Jacobsson
Clinical studies on biomarkers (of brain injury and ROP) immune responses and neuroprotection trials
Link to Swedish research web site
Karin Sävman
Changlian Zhu
Ann Hellström
Henrik Hagberg
Xiaoyang Wang
Carina Mallard
Kristina Eriksson
Marcela Pekna
COPE-COVID-19 pregnancy and earley childbirth
Link to Swedisch research web site
Verena Sengpiel
Ylva Carlsson
Lina Bergman
Karolina Lindén
(There is a longer list of responsible researchers and contact information at the website)
COPE staff - How does staff working in delivery units and neonatal care experience the COVID-19 pandemic?
(Webpage is coming up)
Karolina Lindén
Verena Sengpiel
Ylva Carlsson
( There will be a longer contact list on the upcoming webpage)
COST Actions ISO 1409 - Inactive research
Link to European collaboration COST Actions and ISO 907 and ISO 1405
GO PROVE - Gothenburg Preeclampsia Obstetric Adverse Events
Link to Swedish research webb
Lina Bergman
Verena Sengpiel
Helen Elden
Karolina Lindén
Ove Karlsson
Mfl - listan kommer uppdateras
GOTS - Gothenburg Obstetrical triage system
Linnéa Lindroos
Verena Sengpiel
Helen Elden
Ove Karlsson
(And some more participants, update is coming))
IMAgiNE EURO
Link to Swedish research web site
The principal investigator for the entire project is Dr. Emanuelle Pessa Valente, PhD, Obstetrician, WHO CC, Italy. Project leader in Sweden is Dr Helen Elden.
Participating countries are Italy, Sweden, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia. Luxembourg and Croatia
The Swedish project group also includes:
From GU: Karolina Lindén and Verena Sengpiel
From outside GU in Sweden: Mehreen Zaighem, Lund University / Skåne University Hospital.
Improving Maternal, Pregnancy and Child outcomes “IMPACT”
Link to Swedish research web site
From GU: Lina Bergman, Ylva Carlsson, Bo Jacobsson.
From outside GU: Anna Karin Wikström (Uppsala University), Anders Larsson (Uppsala University), Peter Conner (Karolinska Institute), Peter Lindgren (Karolinska Institute), Anna Sandström (Karolinska Institute), Stefan Hansson (Lund University)
Inflammation/neuroinflammation/immune responses/oxidative stress
Carina Mallard
Xiaoyang Wang
Susanna Cardell
Karin Sävman
Mats Sandberg
Henrik Hagberg
Bo Jacobsson
Kristina Bry
Milos Pekny
Ann Hellström
Anders Elfvin
Kristina Eriksson
Marcela Pekna
Instrument development/validation for evaluation of childbirth and pregnancy experience
Anna Dencker
Ingela Lundgren
Helen Elden
Marie Berg
Ulla-Britt Wennerholm
Labour induction of post-term pregnancies
Ulla-Britt Wennerholm
Helen Elden
Verena Sengspiel
Henrik Hagberg
Maternal obesity, diabetes and nutrition during pregnancy
Agneta Holmäng
Marie Berg
Anna Dencker
Verena Sengspiel
Bo Jacobsson
Microbial flora related to development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and sepsis
Anders Elfvin
Karin Sävman
Kristina Bry
Carina Mallard
MiMo - a study of a midwifery-model of woman-centred care during childbirth
Link to English research web site
Marie Berg
O A Olafsdottir
Ingela Lundgren
MoDiab-Web-Webbaserat stöd till kvinnor med typ 1 diabetes under graviditet och tidigt moderskap
Link to webpage
Offspring outcome after assisted reproduction
Ulla-Britt Wennerholm
OPTION – OutPatienT InductiON. Labour induction in an outpatient setting - a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Link to Swedish research web site
Verena Sengpiel
Ylva Carlsson
Ulla-Britt Wennerholm
Helen Elden
(There are many more participants from all over the country)
Oxytocin and labor - Delayed labour progress - a study of risk factors, management and outcome
Link to English research web site
Marie Berg
L Selin
E Almström
G Wallin
Preeclampsia
Understanding organ complications to preeclampsia – PROVE, GO PROVE and ICE. An international collaboration between Sweden, South Africa, Australia, US, Netherlands and Chile
Link to English research web site (Preeclampsia International Research Unit)
New publications in the project:
- All new publications
- Selected publication
- Cerebral perfusion pressure and autoregulation ineclampsia—a case control study /Published in AJOG - Evidence of Neuroinflammation and Blood–Brain Barrier Disruption in Women with Preeclampsia and Eclampsia (Cells 5 november 2021)
From GU:
Lina Bergman, Verena Sengpiel, Teresia Svanvik, Helen Elden, Karolina Lindén, Sven Egron Thörn, Ove Karlsson, Jonatan Oras, Isabella Björkman Burtscher
And: Lilja Thorgeirsdottir, Malin Andersson, Karl Bergman (PhD students from GU:)
From outside GU:
Catherine Cluver (Stellenbosch University), David Hall (Stellenbosch University), Eduard Langenegger (Stellenbosch University), Philip Herbst (Stellenbosch University) Roxanne Hastie (Melbourne University), Stephen Tong (Melbourne University), Teelkien van Veen (Groningen University), Annet Aukes (Groningen University), Carlos Escudero (Universidad Bio Bio), Michael Belfort (Baylor College of Medicine)
PhD students from outside GU: Therese Friis (Uppsala University), Lloyd Joubert (Stellenbosch University)
Pregnancy as a political process
Elin Naurin (huvudansvarig, statsvetare)
Helen Elden
Verena Sengpiel
Karolina Lindén
Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain
Helen Elden
Preterm birth and the consequences of prematurity
Bo Jacobsson
Ann Hellström
Kristina Bry
Ulla-Britt Wennerholm
Verena Sengpiel
Anders Elfvin
Ann Hellström
Henrik Hagberg
ROP - Retinopathy of prematurity: mechanisms, diagnostics and treatment
Ann Hellström
Linke to more information about this research
Room4birth
Linke to Swedish research web site
Marie Berg
Sexuality in Women Living with HIV
Link to English research website
SWEPIS - SWEdish Post Induction Study
Link to Swedish research web site
Helen Elden
Henrik Hagberg
Anna Wessberg
Verena Sengspiel
Andreas Herbst
Maria Bullarbo
Ulla-Britt Wennerholm
Thromboembolic disease and hemorrhage in pregnancy and postpartum period
Margareta Hellgren
Ove Karlsson
Women's Experience of childbirth, complications during childbirth and pregnancy and support by health care providers
Ingela Lundgren
Anna Dencker
Helen Elden
Marie Berg