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44-661: Filmstaden was a film studio situated in Råsunda , Solna Municipality in Stockholm , Sweden . Filmstaden was once one of the most modern film studios in Europe. It was built in 1919–1920 based on designs by Swedish architect Ebbe Crone (1885-1960). It was owned and operated by SF Studios ( Svensk Filmindustri ), the main Swedish film producer at the time. Some 400 movies have been created at Filmstaden. The first movie to be filmed at Filmstaden

88-742: A fellowship to research heart disease therapeutics at the institute in Stockholm beginning that year, and raised questions about the "intricate relationship between the chief executive and powerful individuals". CY Leung had visited KI when in Sweden in 2014, and subsequently introduced KI president, Anders Hamsten, to Lau. The Democratic Party urged the ICAC to investigate the donation, suggesting that Leung may have abused his public position to further his son's career. The Chief Executive's Office strenuously denied suggestions of any quid pro quo, saying that "the admission of

132-466: A film studio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Solna Municipality The municipality is a part of Metropolitan Stockholm . None of the area is considered rural, which is unusual for Swedish municipalities, which normally are of mixed rural/urban character. Solna is the third smallest municipality in Sweden in terms of area, after nearby Sundbyberg , as well as Burlöv , Scania County . Solna borders Stockholm Municipality to

176-417: A full, impartial and appropriate review. This scientific misconduct scandal occurred in 2014, and involved one of the institute's star surgeons, Paolo Macchiarini. Macchiarini was accused by four former colleagues and co-authors of having falsified claims in his research. After its unsuccessful effort to avoid unfavorable publicity by silencing whistleblowers, media coverage and public opinion finally forced

220-530: A journalist while making numerous false statements about his personal life; the article also questioned the accuracy of statements he had made on his CV. On 13 January 2016 – the same day that the first part of a three-part documentary about Macchiarini would air on Swedish television – Gerdin criticized the vice-chancellor's dismissal of the allegations in an interview on Swedish television. Later that day, Sveriges Television investigative TV show Dokument inifrån started airing

264-623: A statement saying that the documentary made claims of which it was unaware, and that it would consider re-opening the investigations. These concerns were echoed by the chairman of the Karolinska Institute, Lars Leijonborg, and the chairman of the Swedish Medical Association, Heidi Stensmyren, calling for an independent investigation that would also review the actions of the university and hospital management in responding to allegations of scientific misconduct. In February 2016,

308-408: A three-part series, titled "Experimenten", in which Macchiarini's work was investigated. The documentary showed Macchiarini continuing operations with the new method even after it showed little or no promise, seeming to exaggerate the health of patients following the experimental surgery despite the ultimate deaths of those patients. While Macchiarini admitted that the synthetic trachea did not work in

352-520: Is Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University (founded in 1477) and Lund University (founded in 1666). It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30% of the medical training and more than 40% of all academic medical and life science research conducted in Sweden. It receives around a third of Sweden's public funding for medical research. The Karolinska University Hospital , located in Solna and Huddinge,

396-535: Is a demographic table based on Solna Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 83,972 residents, including 60,293 Swedish citizens of voting age. 53.9% voted for the left coalition and 44.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income. The population in Solna Municipality has

440-545: Is a state-run university, which in turn means that it is subject to various laws that apply to government agencies in Sweden and similar Swedish public sector organisations, such as freedom of information legislation. By moving the actual decision making to a private body at Karolinska Institute (but not part of it), it is possible to follow the regulations for the Nobel Prize set down by the Nobel Foundation, including keeping

484-630: Is appointed by its members. Solna is centrally located in the Stockholm area and is well served by the Stockholm public transport system with two commuter train stations and six metro stations as well as a dense bus network run by SL . It was served by trams until 1959. Light rail returned after 54 years of absence when Tvärbanan was extended from Alvik to Solna centrum . A further extension to Solna Station opened in 2014. Skanska , NextJet , and Vattenfall have their head offices in Solna. Mall of Scandinavia has opened in November 2015 and

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528-546: Is associated with the university as a research and teaching hospital. Together they form an academic health science centre . While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the PhD projects are conducted in English. The institute's name is a reference to the Caroleans . The rod of Asclepius is named after the god of medicine, Aesculapius or Asclepius. This ancient god

572-515: Is divided into eight traditional parts with no administrative functions: Bergshamra , Haga , Hagalund , Huvudsta , Järva , Råsunda , Skytteholm and Ulriksdal . The largest districts are Råsunda, Hagalund and Huvudsta, with the Solna Centrum in between them. With few exceptions, Solna's built-up areas have a suburban character, but there are also several large parks and Strawberry Arena , Sweden's new national football stadium adjacent to

616-666: Is located in Solna. The head office of Scandinavian Airlines and SAS Group is located in Solna. The airline head office was formerly located on the property of Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sigtuna Municipality , but now it is back in Solna. The following football clubs are located in Solna: The bandy department of AIK has been very successful on the women's side, with several national titles in recent years. The men's team has gotten promoted to Elitserien 2019–20. Newcastle and Premier League star Alexander Isak

660-509: Is not listed in the overall QS World University Rankings since it only ranks multi-faculty universities. However, QS does rank the Karolinska Institute in the category of Medicine, placing it as the best in Sweden, 3rd in Europe and 5th worldwide in 2020. In 2015, the QS ranked the Department of Dental Medicine 1st in the world. According to the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings ,

704-519: Is only empowered to recommend laureates, while the final decision rests with the Nobel Assembly. In the early history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was first awarded in 1901, the laureates were decided upon by the entire faculty of the Karolinska Institute. The reason for creating a special body for the decisions concerning the Nobel Prize was the fact that the Karolinska Institute

748-410: Is that Leung Chuen-yan with a doctorate from Cambridge doesn't deserve his job at the Karolinska Institute... Leung the son probably could get similar junior posts in many other prestigious-sounding – at least to brand-obsessed Hongkongers – research institutes; it's not that big a deal." The institute received unfavorable attention in the 2010s for its failure to prevent the deaths of seven patients at

792-536: The Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . The assembly consists of fifty professors from various medical disciplines at the university. The current vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institute is Annika Östman Wernerson , who took office in March 2023. The Karolinska Institute

836-484: The 16th highest median income per capita in Sweden , and the share of highly educated persons, according to Statistics Sweden 's definition: persons with post-secondary education that is three years or longer, is 46.0% (national average: 27.0%) and the 5th highest in the country. On 31 December 2017, the number of people with a foreign background (persons born outside of Sweden or with two parents born outside of Sweden)

880-579: The Karolinska Institute is ranked 10th worldwide and 5th in Europe in clinical, pre-clinical and other health subjects. The 2021 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking placed KI as 11th worldwide in Psychiatry and Psychology. In 2019, the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the Karolinska Institute in 4th place worldwide for pharmacy, 5th for public health, 6th for nursing, and 21st for clinical medicine. The university

924-458: The Karolinska Institute published a review of Macchiarini's CV that identified discrepancies. In March 2016. the institute terminated Macchiarini's contract. In October 2016, the BBC broadcast a three-part Storyville documentary, Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon , directed by Bosse Lindquist and based on the earlier Swedish programmes about Macchiarini. After the special aired,

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968-467: The Karolinska Institute requested Sweden's national scientific review board to review six of Macchiarini's publications about the procedures. The board published its findings in October 2017, and concluded that all six demonstrated scientific misconduct, in particular by failing to report the surgical complications and deaths that occurred after the interventions; and that one of the articles falsely claimed that

1012-481: The Karolinska Institute, appointed by the faculty of the institute, and is a private organisation which is formally not part of the Karolinska Institute. The main work involved in collecting nominations and screening nominees is performed by the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute, which has five members. The Nobel Committee, which consists of members appointed by the Nobel Assembly for a period of three years,

1056-471: The Solna station of Stockholm commuter rail . The final matches of both the 1958 FIFA (men's) World Cup and the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup were played at Råsunda Stadium , the national football stadium from 1937 to 2012 (demolished in 2013). Solna has attracted a wide range of businesses and authorities, making it a major place of work in Greater Stockholm . Among the most important employers are

1100-497: The [Chief Executive's] son to post-doctoral research at KI is an independent decision by KI having regard to his professional standards. He [the son] plays no role and does not hold any position at the [proposed] Ming Wai Lau Center for Regenerative Medicine." This accusation has also been questioned by the South China Morning Post ' s Canadian-based pro-Beijing and pro-government opinion columnist, Alex Lo: "The insinuation

1144-447: The bowl. The cockerel symbolises new life and was sacrificed to Asclepius by those who had recovered from illness. This is the meaning behind the Greek philosopher Socrates ' last words after he drank the poisoned cup: "Crito, we owe a cockerel to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget." The Karolinska Institute offers the widest range of medical education under one roof in Sweden. Several of

1188-569: The confidentiality of all documents and proceedings for a minimum of 50 years. Also, the legal possibility of contesting the decisions in e.g. administrative courts is removed. The other two Nobel Prize-awarding bodies in Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Academy, are legally private organisations (although enjoying royal patronage), and have therefore not had to make any special arrangements to be able to follow

1232-482: The current state, he did not agree that trying it on several additional patients without further testing had been inappropriate. Allegations were also made that patients' medical conditions both before and after the operations, as reported in academic papers, were inconsistent with patient records. Macchiarini also claimed that the synthetic trachea had been tested on animals before using it on humans, something that could not be verified. On 28 January, Karolinska issued

1276-403: The findings and a rebuttal provided by Macchiarini, vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institute Anders Hamsten found that Macchiarini had acted "without due care" but had not committed misconduct. The journal The Lancet , which published Macchiarini's work, also published an article defending Macchiarini. On 5 January 2016, the magazine Vanity Fair published a story about Macchiarini romancing

1320-409: The hands of one of their star surgeons, Paolo Macchiarini , who was ultimately found to have repeatedly falsified medical data in order to perform experimental surgeries that were unsuccessful and led to the deaths of the patients, where diseased tracheas were replaced with prosthetic implants. The institute was accused of engaging in targeted retribution against the whistleblowers rather than conducting

1364-458: The hospital. Gerdin's report was released by Karolinska in May 2015. Gerdin found that Macchiarini had committed research misconduct in seven out of seven papers: The findings showed he had not obtained ethical approval for the some of his operations (as claimed), and had misrepresented the result of some of those operations, as well as work he had done with animals. In August 2015, after considering

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1408-459: The institute to act. In April 2015, the ethics committee of the institute issued a response to one set of allegations with regard to research ethics and peer review at the Lancet , and found them to be groundless. The Karolinska Institute later appointed an external expert, Bengt Gerdin, to review the charges, comparing the results reported by Macchiarini and his collaborators to the medical record of

1452-593: The medical university Karolinska Institutet and the Karolinska University Hospital . The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are also located in Solna. Source: SCB - Folkmängd efter region och år and SCB - Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 30 september 2020 och befolkningsförändringar 1 juli - 30 september 2020. Totalt . This

1496-456: The procedure had been approved by an ethics committee , when this had not happened. The board called for all six of the papers to be retracted. It also reported that all of the papers' co-authors had committed scientific misconduct as well. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute is a body at the Karolinska Institute that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Assembly consists of fifty professors in medical subjects at

1540-665: The programmes include clinical training or other training within the healthcare system. The close proximity of the Karolinska University Hospital and other teaching hospitals in the Stockholm area thus plays an important role during the education. Approximately 6,000 full-time students are taking educational and single subject courses at Bachelor and Master levels at the Karolinska Institute. Annually, 20 upper high school students from all over Sweden get selected to attend Karolinska's 7-week long biomedical summer research school, informally named "SoFo". The Karolinska Institute

1584-561: The south, southeast and northwest; to Sundbyberg Municipality to the west; to Sollentuna Municipality to the north; and to Danderyd Municipality to the northeast. The boundary with Danderyd Municipality is delineated by the Stocksundet strait. There are two parishes in Solna Municipality: Råsunda (population 29,677) and Solna (population 28,317). Solna Parish once included parts of present-day City of Stockholm. Solna

1628-509: The table below – the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden . As with all 290 municipalities of Sweden , Solna has a municipal assembly ( kommunfullmäktige ), holding 61 members elected by proportional representation for a four-year term. An executive committee ( kommunstyrelse )

1672-477: Was The Emigrants ( Utvandrarna . 1971) directed by Jan Troell . Most of the buildings were quite well preserved until the beginning of the 21st century, when Filmstaden had to make way for a housing development. However, some buildings have been renovated and SF Studios has moved its headquarters back into a former studio building. 59°22′01″N 17°58′54″E  /  59.36694°N 17.98167°E  / 59.36694; 17.98167 This article about

1716-477: Was The Phantom Carriage ( Körkarlen . 1921) by director Victor Sjöström . Practically all Swedish actors and film directors of the 20th century had some connection with Filmstaden. In 1969, Svensk Filmindustri left Filmstaden and the studios were used by small film producers, production of television dramas and the Riksteatern Theatre. One of the last major films to partly have been filmed at Filmstaden

1760-421: Was 30 601, or 38.39% of the population (79 707 on 31 December 2017). On 31 December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was (per the same definition) 14 986, or 26.02% of the population (57 585 on 31 December 2002). On 31 December 2017, there were 79 707 residents in Solna, of which 23 597 people (29.60%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in

1804-521: Was a founding member of the League of European Research Universities . In February 2015, the KI announced it had received a record $ 50 million donation from Lau Ming-wai, who chairs Hong Kong property developer Chinese Estates Holdings , and would establish a research centre in the city. Within a few days, Next Magazine revealed that Chuen-yan – son of Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung – had recently been awarded

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1848-513: Was born here. Solna Gymnasium is the senior high school/sixth form college of Solna. Solna is twinned with: In addition to this, Solna has two cooperating cities, Karolinska Institutet The Karolinska Institute ( KI ; Swedish : Karolinska Institutet ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within

1892-514: Was founded in 1810 on the island of Kungsholmen on the west side of Stockholm ; the main campus was relocated decades later to Solna, just outside Stockholm. A second campus was established more recently in Flemingsberg , Huddinge , south of Stockholm. The institute also has a Centre for Reparative Medicine, consisting of two nodes, one in Stockholm and one in Hong Kong. The Karolinska Institute

1936-415: Was the son of Apollo and was generally accompanied by a snake. Over time, the snake became coiled around the staff borne by the god. The snake bowl was originally depicted together with Asclepius' daughter, the virgin goddess of health Hygieia or Hygiea. The snake ate from her bowl, which was considered to bring good fortune. There is nothing to support the notion that the snake would secrete its venom into

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