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Panel 10 – medicine | Laboratory
2.2.4 Collaboration
Collaborate between groups is variable, but many groups are extensively
networked both on a national and international level. They also pursue
successful collaboration with clinicians in the faculty. The expertise
within the University and in other Divisions is apparently utilized.
2.2.5 Research activity and teaching
The average research activity is high. The trend has been fairly constant
during the last five years. The training of PhD students appears to be well
organized.
2.2.6 Evaluation of future plans
Information on future plans is available for a few top groups only. The
plans presented are challenging but realistic.
2.2.7 Future potentials and possibilities
Several group leaders are of international top class and some relatively
new PIs are very promising. The PIs of several groups are approaching
their retirement meaning that new PIs have to be recruited of during
the next years. Some groups have successfully translation their research
findings into clinical diagnostics while other ones and could probably utilize
their findings more efficiently. A closer coordination of the activities
in Lund and Malmö and between the different groups on each site should
be encouraged.
2.3 Division of Medical Microbiology, Lund
2.3.1 Overall assessment
The Departments of Laboratory Medicine in Lund and Malmö both
contain teams having projects dealing with Immunology and Microbiology.
However, in the documents provided it is not clear how the
different teams interact with each other. Their interaction with hospital
Departments of infectious diseases on each site also remains unclear.
Therefore, separate evaluation will be done for each team. On both sites,
outstanding and excellent teams are present.
The FENYÖ group
Research on pathogenesis of human and simian immunodeficiency
viruses: biological and antigenic variation. Research interest focused on
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