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Unlocking Cryoprotection: The Role of Glycerol in Supercooled Water

Researchers uncover how glycerol, a common cryoprotectant, manipulates water's behavior at extremely low temperatures to prevent ice formation. The study, published in Nature Communications, provides a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between glycerol and water, with profound implications for cryopreservation – the science of preserving biological materials at ultra-low temperatures. This is an international research effort, led by Stockholm University (SU), in collaboration with Pohang University of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea), RIKEN SPring-8 Center (Japan) and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (USA).

Molecular dynamics simulation snapshot showing the interplay of glycerol with water
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European Research Council funding for outstanding joint project in quantum physics

Markus Hennrich, professor in quantum physics at Stockholm University, together with Igor Lesanovsky from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Tübingen and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler from Mainz University, has been awarded the European Research Council's most prestigious grant, the ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million, about SEK 116 million, over a period of six years.

Igor Lesanovsky, Markus Hennrich and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler.
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Six researchers share SEK 175 million from the Wallenberg Foundation

The importance of Arctic methane emissions for the climate, how matter is formed and broken down, evolutionary shifts in the plant kingdom, and new effective methods for producing bioactive substances that will meet future needs for medicines and advanced electronics. These are just a few examples of basic research at Stockholm University that has received funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Portraits of six researchers combined
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Six researchers share 175 million from the Wallenberg Foundation

Basic research at Stockholm University has been granted funding by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Henning Schmidt, Professor of Atomic Physics division at Fysikum, has received SEK 35,000,000 over five years for the project 'Making and breaking of molecular bonds'.

Bild på det interstellära molnet Carina-nebulosan tagen med hjälp av James Webb Space Telescope.NASA

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December

Thesis defence

Department of Physics

Dissertation by Wille Häger

PhD thesis: A novel approach for radiotherapy treatment planning accounting for high-grade glioma invasiveness into normal tissue

Department of Physics

Dissertation by Wille Häger

PhD thesis: A novel approach for radiotherapy treatment planning accounting for high-grade glioma invasiveness into normal tissue

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