Physiology
The Department of Physiology is a preclinical unit that has the main responsibility for undergraduate, advanced and postgraduate education in physiology.
Our research covers a broad range of research areas within the subject of physiology. We are a highly collaborative unit with many international co-workers. Many of the research groups successfully combine preclinical and clinical research. The units have an excellent infrastructure, which is shared among the research groups. Our close location to both the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and to the Laboratory for Experimental Biomedicine gives us excellent possibilities to conduct integrative research of the highest quality in the area of physiology.
Research groups
Circulation
- Maryam Ardalan – Biomarker for autism
- Carina Mallard – Treating the newborn brain
- Holger Nilsson – Vascular function
- Jenny Nyström – Renal function and glomerular kidney disease
- Maria E. Johansson – Cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway and its role in cardiovascular disease
- Xiaoyang Wang – Perinatal Brain Injury
Endocrinology
- Håkan Billig – Physiology of the Fallopian Tube and Ectopic Pregnancy
- Suzanne L Dickson – Neurobiology of eating behaviours
- Linda Engström Ruud – Anti-obesity treatment and the brain: Long-acting GLP-1 analogues in body weight control
- Agneta Holmäng – Metabolic research during pregnancy
- John-Olov Jansson – The gravitostat - a novel system regulating body fat homeostasis
Metabolic physiology
- Charlotta Olofsson – The regulation of adiponectin secretion in white adipocytes - in metabolic health and disease
- Patrik Rorsman – Diabetes and pancreatic islets
- Anders Rosengren – Rosengren group / Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine
- Karolina Skibicka – Neurobiology of Feeding and Energy Expenditure
- Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm – Adipose Tissue Functionality in Metabolic Disease and Breast Cancer Progression
- Jean-Philippe Krieger
The VagaLAB – Neuroscience and epidemiology of gut-brain communication
Neurophysiology
- Elzbieta Jankowska – Spinal Cord and Motor Control
- Lars-Gunnar Pettersson – Spinal Cord and Motor Control
- Bengt Gustafsson – The Glutamate Synapse in the Developing Hippocampus
- Eric Hanse – Cellular neurophysiology
- Sebastian Illes – Functional iPSC-based Human Brain and Disease Models
- Line Löken – Circuits for affective touch sensation
- Johan Wessberg – Tactile Sensory Mechanisms of the Human Hand and Hairy Skin
- Ingela Hammar – Spinal Cord and Motor Control
Knowledge of physiology is essential for professions within the fields of medicine and other life sciences for which students at the Sahlgrenska Academy are trained. We are responsible for teaching physiology at educational programmes in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, speech therapy and dental hygiene. The faculty members of the department represent a broad knowledge of different areas of physiology, allowing us to match our teaching to the educational profiles of the individual study programmes.
Postal address: Department of Physiology, Box 432, 405 30 Göteborg
Visiting address: Medicinaregatan 11, Göteborg
Delivery address: Medicinaregatan 1 G, 413 90 Göteborg
