Doctoral Programme in Development and Regeneration (DevReg)

Excellence starts with methods! Characterize your gonads with high reliability and precision.

This was the first IRL meeting with the Gonad Club, providing an opportunity to listen to interesting speakers. It was held in collaboration with KI DEVREG program and EU ERIN consortium.

How can we define genes that reflect organotypic heterogeneity within one cell type? And can we further characterize specific genes that allow for interorgan gene differentiation? These were just a few of the questions addressed during the seminar on single cell sequencing technologies, a part of the DevReg Doctoral Programme Course (2537).

What if we could engineer complete embryos from stem cells and develop these in an artificial uterus? Lectures by world-leading scientists were followed by discussions about scientific possibilities, absence of clear regulations on emerging technologies and ethical dilemmas. The symposium was supported by DevReg. 

The Winter School was organised together with DevReg.

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP Part 2 | Facilitator: ANNA BIRGERSDOTTER, PhD

Health care is transforming. As we are facing new challenges, boosting your soft skills capabilities can help you to take an active leadership role in the coming transformation.  

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP Part 1 | Facilitator: ANNA BIRGERSDOTTER, PhD

A hands-on opportunity to creatively apply entrepreneurial tools and business methodologies on yourself.

Business & Entrepreneurship |  Diagnostic Commercialization | Pharmaceutical Commercialization 

Organisers: Vascular Surgery Group, CVR & DevReg Programs KI.

How does good cholesterol function in the body? We invited Uwe Tietge, Professor of Clinical Chemistry at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, KI to talk about the role of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease and possible sex differences.

This doctoral course, joining forces with ACT Matching Events Conference and GOING-FWD, was encouraging students to examine the gender dimension in the field of experimental and clinical cardiovascular research, related to their PhD/research projects.

Speaker Coach Andrew Hennigan from TEDx Stockholm returned to share essential influencing skills and some new ideas! Read the summary and learn fun and helpful ways to capture the attention of your audience.

Jonathan Cedernaes, MD, PhD, talked about how disrupted sleep & circadian rhythms may impair your metabolic health. We also discussed inspiring ways to engage in the scientific community. 

Christian G. Riedel, PhD, KI: “Discovering and targeting the mechanisms that regulate how fast we age.” | Professor Tamar Tchkonia, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic: “Senescent cell burden and senolytic drugs: focus on translational studies.” | Professor Staffan Strömblad,  KI: ”Control of the senescence barrier in breast cancer via PAK4 signalling.”

Brilliant speakers gathered to share their ideas that could propel us into a better tomorrow.

This event created and presented by Andrew Hennigan, offered the opportunity to learn 3 essential skills that everyone should master.

Frans Johansson - author of The Medici Effect & CEO of The Medici Group, invited the audience to step into the intersection, a place where different ideas from different disciplines, industries, and cultures collide to create innovation.

Leading physicians and veterinarians turn to the natural world as a source of insights to accelerate innovation in health. This event focused on two major challenges in women’s health: Cardiovascular Disease and Reproductive health, including fertility Preservation.

We invited Katharina Paoli, one of the most well-renowned nudging experts in Sweden to find new ways encourage people to make conscious choices and make it easier to do what’s right. 

This conference, supported by the DevReg programme, brought together different research groups within the field of regenerative medicine at KI. The program included scientific activities and time for mingling and interaction between research groups.

We travelled to Wonderland with our partner TEDx Stockholm – a place of limitless possibilities, to awaken our imagination, question our beliefs and step out of the norm.

A workshop that offered the opportunity to learn more about: Stem cells and development | Organoids from pluripotent stem cells | Recreating organs from pluripotent stem cells | Organoids in neurological disease modeling | Cells and materials in regenerative medicine.

Our INTRICARE EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie ITN course covered some of the latest advances in cardiovascular medicine: from basic to translational research with added value for transferable skills and on the implementation of the sex and gender perspectives in preclinical and clinical research.

We invited Ingrid Berglund - a UNDP (UN Development Programme) representative to guide us through the sustainable development goals and some practical applications relevant at KI.

This TEDx-inspired salon about The Education Revolution was held on November 17 - an event for course leaders, teachers, students, researchers and everyone else interested in innovative approaches for effective teaching and learning.

At our third salon event, we gained a better understanding of how studying and mimicking nature as part of medical research could lead to important breakthroughs and new innovations. 

On September 4, Helena Ledmyr from Forskom/INCF provided our students tips on how to communicate smarter to a wider audience.