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Published 19 April 2016 The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) organises a day of networking at Lund University. All those working on South Asia-related issues are welcome to attend. The purpose of this day is to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and research concerning South Asia among Nordic universities. We will address the question: How we can strengthen a South Asian
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-networking-day - 2025-02-23
Published 9 September 2020 SASNET is hosting an online conference on "Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia" on 9-10 December 2020. Context:The current debates around the politics of memory and memorialization reinforce that the act of remembrance and forgetting in the present does not exist in isolation from the past that informs them. This mnemohistorical continuity becomes even more a
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-2020-memory-politics-south-asia - 2025-02-23
Published 11 September 2020 Andreas Johansson spoke to Dr. Shantanu Sharma, Lund University about recent COVID-19 developments in India. Dr. Shantanu Sharma is a researcher in internal medicine - epidemiology at Lund University. After he had already spoken to us in April he recently gave an update about latest developments in India with regards to the pandemic, testing strategies and government me
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-podcast-episode-corona-updates-india - 2025-02-23
Published 30 September 2020 Andreas Mattsson, Affiliated Research at SASNET, arranged a webinar for students at the School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen), and Department of Strategic Communication (ISK) at Lund University on October 16. In this webinar, scholars, and practitioners addressed different issues related to the media landscape and media advocacy from an international comparative
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/webinar-media-landscapes-and-media-advocacy - 2025-02-23
Published 20 October 2020 On 27 October, SASNET will host an online conversation on student lives and activism opposing caste in India with speakers Deepa Dhanraj and Natha Wahlang. Prior to the event, participants are encouraged to watch Deepa Dhanraj's 2018 movie "We have not come here to die" about the suicide of Dalit, Phd research scholar, and activist Rohith Vemula and the subsequent student
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-movie-screening-and-conversation-student-activism-india - 2025-02-23
Published 2 November 2020 SASNET published a report by Muhammed Niyas Ashraf, Doctoral Fellow at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. Abstract:This paper offers a social history of the relationship between Islamic reform and malayāḷi Muslim in the context of colonial Kerala. Kerala Muslims are one of the largest Muslim communities in India, and a majori
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-publication-islamic-reformism - 2025-02-23
Published 23 November 2020 SASNET's and UI's South Asia Initiative publishes first episode of three-part podcast series on climate and environment issues in South Asia. The South Asia Initiative (SAI), which is co-hosted by SASNET and Utrikespolitiska Institutet, has published the first episode of its podcast series "Climate Lens South Asia" on climate and environment issues in the South Asia regi
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-podcast-climate-lense-south-asia - 2025-02-23
Published 22 April 2016 Dr V.Sivasubramanian, Director of Phycospectrum Environmental Research Centre (PERC) and Professor N Thajuddin, Head, Department of Microbiology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli holds a SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with Deptertment of Technology and Society, at Lund University, is ent
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-microalgal-biotechnology-research-india - 2025-02-23
Published 28 February 2020 Today Ulf Dahlstrand nailed his doctoral thesis. Ulf will defend his thesis on March 20th.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-doctoral-thesis - 2025-02-23
Published 25 March 2020 On Friday March 20th, Ulf Dahlstrand successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Diagnostic Tools for Skin and Periorbital Cancer: Exploring Photoacoustic Imaging and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy" The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the faculty opponent associate professor Marcelo Ayala, the examination committee members and the super
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/ulf-dahlstrand-have-successfully-defended-his-phd - 2025-02-23
Published 3 June 2020 On Friday May 22nd, Linda Thorisdottir successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Visual Screening of Amblyopia, new Techniques and Surgical Solutions for Strabismus." The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the local examination committee members and the supervisors present. The faculty opponent Professor Olav H Haugen, from Haukeland University
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/linda-thorisdottir-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-02-23
By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 4 September 2020 On June 11th and 12th medial students Benjamin Sjögren and Yousef Hamid successfully presented their master thesis.Benjamin's thesis investigated non-invasive hyperspectral imaging in skin cancer diagnostics. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In order to improve patient s
By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 4 September 2020 We welcome two new master thesis student this fall! Medical student Douglas Larsson Albèr will investigate spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for boarders demarkation of melanoma. Medical student Ivan Nikolic will investigate Spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for borders demarkation of non-melanoma
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/we-welcome-new-master-students - 2025-02-23
By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 4 September 2020 Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuit
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-02-23
Published 25 September 2020 On September 11th 2020 Professor Malin Malmsjö presented at the 2020 symposium on Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound in Translation Research in Paris, France.The talk Clinical Applicationsof Photoacoustic Imaging Combined with Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound was included in the Future Development Session.This 12 min talk give a general overview and the latest findings in s
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/talk-uhf-symposium - 2025-02-23
By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 25 September 2020 At the Photoacoustic Center we want to inspire the future generation of engineers and researchers! As a part of this, we have invited Mustafa Rajabi to do his High School Thesis within the Photoacoustic Center. Mustafa is studying his final year at the technical program and will work on developing a n
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/inspiring-future-generation-engineers-and-researchers - 2025-02-23
By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 29 September 2020
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/project-update-non-invasive-skin-tumor-diagnosis - 2025-02-23
Published 14 October 2022 We are very happy to congratulate Jessica Giacomoni who on October 14th, 2022 successfully defended her thesis "Exploring Direct Conversion of Human Glia into Therapeutic Neurons". PhD interview: Turning glia into neurons inside the brain – PhD interview with Jessica Giacomoni Please click here to read the thesis.
https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-giacomoni - 2025-02-23
By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 20 October 2022 Läkemedelsverket godkänner klinisk fas 1- och fas2a-studie för ny stamcellsbaserad behandling av Parkinsons sjukdom An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval
By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 28 February 2023 Lund University: Press release On 13th of February, 2023, a transplant of stem cell-derived nerve cells was administered to a person with Parkinson’s at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. Please go to the below links to find out more about STEM PD. English: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/arti
