Research Environments: Medicine and Health

Our research focuses on common medical conditions and spans the entire field from a basic understanding of pathological mechanisms to patient-oriented research to enable the development of healthcare. Our researchers study the causes of both health and disease as well as the factors that play a part in the wellbeing of persons in these conditions.
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Cardiovascular Research Centre (CVRC)
The Cardiovascular Research Centre (CVRC) research environment is a network of approximately 40 members at Örebro University and Örebro University Hospital/Region Örebro County working with basic, translational and clinical research to identify new...
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Care about Caring (CaC)
Care about Caring is a research environment focusing on interventions for relation-centred care, and the conditions for such care i.e. professional development and learning. The environment collaborates both nationally and internationally, and includes...
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Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Centre
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FAMN - The Child, the family, the caring system, the society
FAMN is a multidisciplinary team that focuses on support to children and adolescents. The research is conducted in the following research teams:
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Inflammatory Response and Infection Susceptibility Centre (iRiSC)
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Nutrition-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre (NGBI)
Nutrition-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre (NGBI) is a multidisciplinary research- and innovation center. Our research aim is to gain unique competence on nutrition-microbe-gut-brain interactions.
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Older people's health and living conditions - from cell to society
The research in this environment ranges from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside with focus on fundamental research (cellular level) and clinical research in care for older persons within three areas:
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Research Enabling an Active Life (REAL)
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Research in Sport and Physical Activity (RISPA)
RISPA is an interdisciplinary research environment with a focus on sports, physical activity and movement cultures such as dance, outdoor life and the school subject sports and health.
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Disability Research
Disability Research is an interdisciplinary research environment, which aims to shed light on the different dimensions of impairment and disability, allowing different perspectives to intersect and enrich each other.
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Urologic Cancer