The annual National Spring meeting on Perinatology (‘Vårmötet’) took place in Umeå, Sweden on 20-21 March 2025. The meeting covered a wide variety of topics within obstetrics, maternity- and neonatal care, including the latest clinical guidelines, research study results and abstract presentations. At the conference, several members of the N4 research group were actively involved. […]
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The 12th International Conference on Nutrition and Growth took place in Athens, Greece on 20-22 February 2025. At the conference, three members of the N4 research group had been selected to give presentations. Ania Chmielewska was an invited speaker on the topic ‘To supplement or not: The iron dilemma in breastfed infants’ in the session […]
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In one of the latest studies from NorthPop, Stina Bodén and colleagues investigated whether the introduction of a varied diet early in life can help reduce the risk of food allergies. Stina explained more about what they investigated, how the study was conducted, and the results: Our study shows that regular intake and a wide […]
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Children born during the COVID-19 pandemic had fewer respiratory infections and were treated with antibiotics less frequently compared to children born before the pandemic. This is shown in the latest publication from NorthPop, which included over 3,300 families. The study is published in the scientific journal Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. You can read […]
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We are very happy to announce that the NorthPop research infrastructure has received a grant of 2 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE). It was one of 12 projects that was awarded in the call ‘Project grants for new, improved and accessible research data 2024’. The grant […]
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The GRANDIOSA study (‘Growth, ALlergy and NeuroDevelopment in Infants On hydrolySed formulA’) started in late 2022 and is conducted in Umeå and Malmö. The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of two novel protein hydrolysates on infants’ growth, neurological development, allergies, gastrointestinal symptoms and other health outcomes. GRANDIOSA is a blinded, placebo-controlled, […]
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The annual conference in perinatology organized by the Swedish Society for Perinatal Medicine took place in Stockholm on 24-25 October 2024. After lunch on Thursday 24 October there was another event in which members of the N4 research group featured; awarding of research grants from Lilla Barnets Fond. Pontus Challis was awarded a grant for […]
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The annual conference in perinatology organized by the Swedish Society for Perinatal Medicine took place in Stockholm on 24-25 October 2024. In addition to three members of the N4 research group presenting abstracts (and Pontus winning an award for the best presentation), Prof Magnus Domellöf, together with Karin Pettersson from Stockholm hosted a symposium on […]
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The annual conference in perinatology organized by the Swedish Society for Perinatal Medicine took place in Stockholm on 24-25 October 2024. Three members of the N4 research group had abstracts accepted and gave an oral presentation during the conference; To then top this off, Pontus won the award for the best presentation of the conference […]
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On Wednesday 23 October 2024 there were news that two research grants had been awarded! First, Prof Magnus Domellöf was one of 15 researchers to receive a ‘spjutspets’ grant from Region Västerbotten for his project ‘Effects of fetal and infant nutrition on brain development and later cognitive/behavioral problems in children’.This project incorporates several studies including […]
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