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The ARC (Aging Research Center) at Karolinska Institutet, the department that hosts the NEAR initiative, is a cooperation between the institute and the Stockholm university. In a unique collaboration it has invited photo students to document elderly people from the programme SWEOLD . The resulting photos, together with lectures can now be watched online on this […]
NEAR’s second scientific workshop was conducted remotely over Zoom with 82 connected participants. It was chaired by Debora Rizzuto. After a short update and welcome address by Laura Fratiglioni, Johan Skoog from the University of Gothenburg presented the NEAR sleep disturbance and cognition project, an ongoing cooperation between researchers in the H70, KP&SNAC-K, GÅS/SNAC-S, CAIDE […]
The Swedish Research Council has decided on grants regarding the call för COVID-19 research. NEAR’s Director Laura Fratiglioni received 1.68 MSEK för her application into “Indirect damage of COVID-19 in the elderly: short-term and long-term health effects of the outbreak of the epidemic” Read more