STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 3, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Gambro AB (Stockholmsborsen: GAMBaST) (Stockholmsborsen: GAMBbST), a leading international medical technology and healthcare company, today announced that it is financing a professorship in nephrology at the Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University in Sweden for a period of five years. As a globally leading company in the care and treatment of renal patients, Gambro has, for many years, been cooperating with prominent university hospitals all over the world, among them the Sahlgrenska Academy. The goal is to always be in the forefront within research in the renal care area. The professorship means that Gambro deepens the cooperation in renal care with the Sahlgrenska Academy.
For many years Sweden has played a pioneering role in renal care and Professor Nils Alwall was one of the first professors in nephrology in the world. Nils Alwall invented the artificial kidney for single use, which was then industrially developed and commercialized by the Swedish industrialist Holger Crafoord in the Gambro company.
The professorship at the Sahlgrenska Academy is held by Professor Borje Haraldsson. It is being announced today in Gothenburg, Sweden in connection with a scientific symposium at the Sahlgrenska Academy - Renal Care in the Future - with speakers from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and from Gambro.
Gambro is a global medical technology and healthcare company with leading positions in renal care - services and products - and blood component technology. Gambro Healthcare is one of the leading providers of kidney dialysis services in the world with about 50,900 patients in more than 670 clinics worldwide. Gambro Renal Products comprises dialyzers, dialysis machines, bloodlines and dialysis concentrates. Gambro BCT is the market leader in separation and handling of blood components. The group, with revenues of approximately SEK 27 billion (USD 2.7 billion), has 20,400 employees in some 40 countries.
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