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Panel 8 – medicine | clinical
impact journals of bite with some papers in very good journals like Journal
of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation. On these
papers, however, collaboration with Infectious Medicine seems crucial
based on the subject (titles of papers) as well as author contribution.
Future possibilities: Collaboration in particular with Department of
Medicine seems crucial, and has generated the publications of good quality
as listed. It is not clear to the Committee to what degree laboratory activities
is covered also within Department of Dermatology or, or whether they
for this research provide clinical samples and are dependent on laboratories
elsewhere. For replacement of the professors close to retirement, it is crucial
to the University to be aware of the somewhat narrow spectrum considering
the research activity of the Department, bringing in new areas.
2.9 Infection Medicine
According to the description there are three topics within the department:
1) Study the mechanisms of the newly discovered anti-oxidant protein
and radical scavengers.
2) Study the therapeutic potential in auto-immune diseases of 2 bacterial
enzymes with unique specificity for IgG antibodies.
3) Define molecular bacteria host interactions which contribute to severe
inflammation and sepsis.
The department has a good collaboration with groups inside and outside
the Faculty and throughout the world. Details however are not given. The
infrastructure seems well equipped with a P2 laboratory. The research
staff is compared to other departments quite extensive with 17 PhD
students and 9 PhD graduates over the last 3 years. The topics of research
are all interesting, although topic 3 is studied in more institutions across
the world. The funding of the department is very good compared with
other departments in Lund. They seem to have the third-largest external
funding of the faculty. The number of publications for the group in total
is very good, with publications in various good journals. For some of the
investigations, however, the number of publications is rather limited.
The overall rating is excellent, with attention for the output of a few of the
researchers.
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