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Panel 8 – medicine | clinical
The description of the research topics is rather broad and hard to evaluate.
Developmental language disorders are certainly very interesting, but it is
not clear what they are going to study. What the cogluar implants group
is doing other than elsewhere in the world, also is not clear. Description
of the voice disorders group is somewhat more focussed.
The collaboration of the department is mainly within the own university.
The infra structure seems well equipped.
The research staff is certainly not small for this department. When looking
at the external funding, this is limited for a group of this size. Also
limited is the number of PhD graduates over the last 3 years: only 1.
When looking at the number of publications, considering the size of
the research group it is limited. At least for some of the investigators the
number really is limited.
Overall rating: Good.
2.16 Neurosurgery
The Department of Neurosurgery consists of 1 professor and 1 researcher.
From 2004 to 2007 it has produced 4 theses. 5 publications were
listed by the group of Anna Darabi, and 28 by the group of Leif Salford,
three of his citations are published in high quality journals, e.g. in
Cancer, letters 2007, International Journal of Immunology 2007, Blood
2006. The Department acquired external money of SEK 6.627.721 in
2007.
With regard to future plans there appears to be significant research planned
linked with the Rausing Laboratory for translational neuro-oncology
and the spinal cord injury group. We note that Professor Salford as Head
of Unit is 66 years of age so clearly succession planning will be an issue
here. The collaborations would appear to be excellent.
Overall rating: Excellent
2.17 Neurology
According to the table presented there are 2 professors and 3 lecturers,
there has been one thesis since 2005 and the external funding amounts to
232