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The Strategic Research Area in Forensic Sciences is a joint venture between the National Board of Forensic Medicine in Sweden and ¸£Àû¼§.

We are pleased to invite you to the annual meeting within the Strategic Research Area in Forensic Science.

We work with the prediction of pharmacokinetics of new targeted treatments and side effects of classical chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer.

The aim of our research is to identify, validate and implement genetic markers or other biomarkers to predict drug metabolism or drug effects.

A new drug on the European market – every week. Professor Henrik Green is using research to help government agencies stop the most dangerous online drugs more quickly.

At the Strategic Research Area Forensic Sciences Area of Strength, there are a number of active research groups that move within several different fields. Click here to get more information about what research is being conducted in the area.

Researchers are involved in the campaign to make designer drugs illegal as quickly as possible. Henrik Gréen investigates how new psychoactive substances act, and why some designer drugs are more lethal than others.

Today, cadaver dogs are used to find human remains, for instance after a murder or a natural disaster. But as this practice faces both legal and ethical problems, researchers at LiU are developing an electronic nose as a complement the search dogs.

NPS, new psychoactive substances, are substances developed to affect the brain in a similar way to illegal drugs. Researchers have set up a rapid method for measuring the effect of new NPS and provide scientific basis for narcotics classification.

As soon as a new online drug appears on the market, a race against the clock starts. Researchers collaborate to as soon as possible determine how the substance affects the body and how dangerous it is.