About us
Our goal
Professor Bo Jacobsson and his research group, consisting of 27 international and local members, studies different aspects of pregnancy and delivery. The research team is mainly divided between Gothenburg, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway and consists of medical doctors, medical students, midwifes, nurses, assistant nurses, administrators, biologists, dieticians, civil engineers, analysts, statisticians, geneticists, PhD students, post docs, associate professors, professors and senior researchers. The competence in the group is broad, covering all clinical aspects of pregnancy and delivery, epidemiology, nutrition, environment, genetics and molecular biology. Bo Jacobsson has further developed a very strong European preterm delivery network with the research group of Teresa Cobo in Barcelona, Spain, and Marian Kacerovsky, in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Expert statistical competence is provided by associate professor Staffan Nilsson, PhD Chris Flately and PhD Pol Solé Navais at Sahlgrenska Academy together with other qualified members in the group. Apart from our scientific work, we arrange international and national conferences, lectures and workshops. We also see great importance in communicating our findings to the general public. |  |
Team Leader
 | BO JACOBSSONProfessor Bo is studying basic and applied aspects of the mechanisms of preterm delivery and genetics in complex disease. Another area that has attracted his interest is genetic components of the timing of delivery and also the interplay between genes and the environment. One of his main interests for the moment is the possibility to prevent preterm delivery to happen by intervention with dietary products, e.g. probiotics. The main research aim is to identify and apply different strategies to prevent preterm delivery to increase the outcome of healthy children. He has also studied infections during pregnancy and pregnancy and child outcome. |
