BB2170 - Drug Development

one of my chosen courses at the KTH is drug development. it describes the discovery and development of new drugs, shows different methods of getting the desired characteristics. another part of the lecture is ADME (absoption, distribution, metabolism and elimination) of drugs and different drug classes.
Every lession there is another lecturer who is expert in one of these topics. so far we had some lecturers from companys (affibody, astrazeneca, biovitrum), as well as professors from the other universities in stockholm (karolinska institutet, kth).
furthermore there are 3 study visits (affibody, sgc and medivir) and we are supposed to write an own report about one chosen drug. This project contains following areas:disease, target and molecular mechanism, structure, synthesis, metabolism/toxicology, IPR, formulation and marketing.
the drug i choose is avastin, which is a drug used against late lung and late colorectal cancer. so if you are interessted in more detailed informations on this drug, i am half a expert so far*gg*

with all these different techniques which are used in this lecture it is much more than just a normal lecture with a professor and his/her .ppt files. here the people at the university are much more motivated and interessted to get us to know and to learn about a specific topic in the field of biotechnology. (compared to some lectures and professors at my homeuniversity)
this picture shows the five different stages of colonrectal cancer. from stage 0, a small polyph to stage IV, a big cancer tissue with own bloodvessels and metastases spread out to other parts and organs in the body.

stockholm

in the last swedish lession i learned: jag tänka dricka en flask rödvin på tisdag!
but thats not all we are doing here. almost everyday we have got lectures at the university and -should- start with learning swedish and write our papers we need for the other lectures.
beside of that we have time for doing some old fashioned city sightseeing.
visiting all those touristic sights feels usually for me like beeing a tourist, but not this time. it feels more like this is my hometown where i live. so stockholm is quite familiar to me, yet.


looks like an atomic bomb but its just the lovley sunset behind the old town - gamla stan - in the city center.

inside of gamla stan - stortorget; this is also the square, where the nobel museum is located
the 1628, during the mermaid cruise, sunken warship - VASA of the king gustav II adolf.
in 1961 the ship was lifted to the surface, cleaned and restaurated and is now a museum.
next to the vasa museum there is the aquaria vattenmuseet, the aquarium of stockholm. they have some riff and leopard sharks as well as some poisonous coloured frogs and some other fishes.
here´s a black-yellow "nemo" clownfish

first weekend - first trip to the sea

with the intention to got to the sea we started to go east by bus and ended luckily on a ferry to a small island named SANDHAMN.
on this island a lot of swedens are spending theyr weekend with bathing in the sea. today we only saw 5 people. so, there are not so much activities but a walk around the island was the best thing to do.
tomorrow i ve got my first swedish lession - lycka till mig.

välkommna till sverige!

hejhej from stockholm for the first time.
finally i found a place where i have internet and this is what happend so far.
after a rough flight to sweden i got to my appartement in one of the northern suburbs from stockholm, kista, and found a very new but also very emty appartement room.
on the next day we had an organized city rally for all the exchange students and with some other erasmus people we explored the city for the first time.
the city is not too big and not too small and there are so many nice and interessting places. that s how i felt in love with this city!!
later that day i met my two mentors (buddys) from kth (that s my university´s name) madelen and attlin. we went for a "fika" for the first time and decided to make my appartement a little bit more comfortable-that s why we went to (the one and only real) IKEA on the next day.
now my room is more colourful with all the ikea equipment!
today we (that s kathi, liz from the boku, vienna and me)went for another walk to the city and to another coffeebar.
some pictures are coming later...
hejdå