{"id":336,"date":"2016-02-22T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T06:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ki.se\/rektor\/?p=336"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T10:35:30","slug":"time-to-act-and-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ki.se\/rektor\/2016\/02\/22\/time-to-act-and-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an even better Karolinska Institutet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Colleagues, co-workers and students,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have now been entrusted with the leadership of Karolinska Institutet until a permanent Vice-Chancellor has been recruited. During this time, I will use this blog as one means of communicating with you.<\/p>\n

The resignation of professor Anders Hamsten as Vice-Chancellor of our internationally renowned university, represents the most recent in a chain of negative developments caused by recent revelations and accusations about the activities of Paolo Macchiarini at Karolinska Institutet and elsewhere. Read more at ki.se<\/a> (in Swedish) and ki.se\/en <\/a>(in English).<\/p>\n

Now it is time for us to take actions that will allow us to understand our mistakes and learn the lessons they teach us. As part of this work, we need to openly, humbly and critically evaluate what we do and how we do it.<\/p>\n

At the same time, after darkness comes light and we must with cool heads focus our efforts on restoring light to the future path of our university. The negative events of the past weeks must not be allowed to obscure the high quality work in research and education performed by the vast majority of our personnel. Under my leadership we will unceasingly strive to re-establish Karolinska Institutet\u2019s good reputation both internally, among staff and students, as well as nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n

We need to take wise decisions and actions that will allow us to leave the present difficulties behind us. In this way Karolinska Institutet will emerge stronger from its present difficulties with improved prospects for tackling future challenges. I am certain that, by working together, we will achieve these goals.<\/p>\n

And both our board as well as the university managment have initiated several measures:<\/p>\n