Anna-Carin Olin, Senior Lecturer, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, is one of the researchers who will recieve money. Anna-Carin Olin also recieved verification grant in 2010 from GöteborgBIO in collaboration with  Sahlgrenska Science Park.

The other 14 researchers in Göteborg that will now share MSEK 13.7 together with Anna-Carin Olin are:
Michael Fu, PhD, Professor, Physician, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Göran Bergström, Professor, Senior Physician, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Sverker Jern, Professor, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Odd Bech-Hanssen, PhD, Senior Physician, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Göran Dellgren, PhD, Senior Physician, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Ludger Grote, Physician, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Jan Lötvall, PhD, Professor, Physician, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Bo Lundbäck, Professor, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Johan Herlitz, Professor, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Lars Grip, Professor, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Madeleine Rådinger, PhD, Assistant Researcher, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Per Lindahl, PhD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Maria Schaufelberger, Senior Lecturer, Östra Hospital
Mikael Dellborg, Professor, Östra Hospital

"It is thanks to all the donors in Sweden that we can ensure continued research into heart, lung or vascular diseases. Researchers are doing a fantastic job in the development of methods for the treatment of these complicated illnesses, and our task is to finance their efforts," says Staffan Josephson, Secretary General of the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation.
 
About the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation:
• The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation is the largest single financier of independent heart and lung research in Sweden.

• This year the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation is allocating MSEK 165 to research, an increase of MSEK 5 over the previous year.

• Every year the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation finances about 200 ongoing research projects at hospitals and universities around the country.

• During 2011 researchers have applied for more than MSEK 1000 in research support from the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, which has been able to contribute 16 % of the sum.

• One of the goals of the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation is to reduce the number of deaths from heart attack by 50 % over the next ten years.

 
For further information, contact:
Anna Sjödin, press contact, Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation,
tel. +46 (0)708-54 42 39
anna.sjodin@hjart-lungfonden.se

Source: http://www.hjart-lungfonden.se/HLF/Pressrum/Pressmeddelanden/Forskare-i-Goteborg-far-137-miljoner-av-Hjart-Lungfonden-/