February has been declared the gallbladder and bile duct cancer awareness month, but also features the international World Cancer Day. This year's theme was "United by Unique" and except for raising awareness of the disease it requested a worldwide cancer care that is focusing more on the individuals and not only on the disease...Read more

We are very happy to see that the HPA primary cilia research by Hansen et al., published in Cell in November, has been recognized as 'setting a new standard for understanding ciliary function and its role in health and disease'. The recent research highlight published in Nature Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy praises the HPA work as fundamentally transformative for ciliary biology...Read more

2025 was a year of intensified global conflicts, political instability and climate extremes, but also the year when renewable energy became a larger energy source than coal, the first gene therapy for Huntington's disease showed remarkable results, the first malaria treatment for infants was approved by WHO and the green sea turtle bounced back from near extinction. From the HPA perspective it was an interesting and fruitful year from which we will share some of the highlights...Read more

At the 24th HUPO World Congress in Toronto, the theme "One Health Powered by Proteomics" emphasized the deep interconnectedness of humans, animals, microbes, and environments. In an article in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, Gustav Ceder shares his impressions from this world congress together with thoughts and perspectives from some of the big players in the proteomics field...Read more

At the annual Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) meeting in Toronto, 25 HPA-affiliated members contributed more than 25 talks and posters across sessions. Among them was Loren Méar, researcher in the HPA and a postdoc working both in Pauliina Damdimopoulou's group at Karolinska Institutet and Cecilia Lindskog's lab at Uppsala University. Loren was selected as a poster competition finalist for her work "Spatial proteomics uncovers structural and molecular complexity of the human ovary in 2D and 3D."..Read more