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Panel 8 – medicine | clinical
investment would be needed. Based on the little information we had, we
would grade their plans as “good”.
Future potentials and possibilities: Unless there is strong investment, it
may be difficult to develop the stem cell area to international prominence.
We would suggest that targeted investment in faculty and collaborations
would make the utilization of the bio bank a successful venture.
Gender and equal opportunity: While the percentage of doctoral
students associated with the medical faculty of Lund is excellent (>50%),
women comprise only 17% of the Professors and 29% of the academic
staff suggesting there is work to be done. We do not know the numbers
specific to Cardiology.
2.3 Respiratory Medicine and Allergology
Unfortunately, no description of research lines has been provided.
The research staff consists of 4 active researchers. The head of the
department is 59 years old. External funding is mainly from private
money; somewhat remarkable for respiratory medicine and allergology.
Although there are 13 PhD students, the number of graduates of the
last 3 years was zero. When looking at the output of the department,
the list of publications of Egesten is limited, especially when looking
at the first and last authorship. For Hallgren only 1 paper has been
given. The group of Lofdahl is mainly doing clinical studies. Although
in the first description of the research we read about in-depth studies,
we cannot find results of the studies in the list of publications. The list
of publications of Bjerner indicates that this researcher is interested in
indicators of inflammation in the lung. Here is a reasonably good list of
publications.
Overall rating: Hard to describe. Probably very good.
2.4 Department of Medicine
Overall assessment: This is a large department containing several
different units. The papers list a total of four professors, two researchers
and one senior lecturer. The professors are all males; the 2 researchers
(and lecturer) are females. The number of PhD students are listed as 18,
number of PhD graduates over the last three years to 6.
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