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unusual facts about Sahlgrenska University Hospital


Fred Gage

In 1998, Fred H. Gage (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California) and Peter Eriksson (Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden) discovered and announced that the human brain produces new nerve cells in adulthood.


Jörgen Lehmann

Lehmann was appointed professor of physiology in Aarhus in 1937, and became head of the central laboratory at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg 1938.

Poul Thorsen

According to the CDC inspector general's office he submitted invoices to Aarhus University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital to make it appear as though the CDC was requesting money from them when in fact the money they gave to these institutions went into a bank account under his own control.


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