Published 12 October 2020 A new study from Lund University and Region Skåne in Sweden indicates that potency-enhancing PDE5 inhibitor drugs have an anti-cancer potential with the ability to improve the prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. PDE5 inhibitors include a few approved drugs in which sildenafil (Viagra) is the most well-known. The article is published in Nature Communications. Wuq

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/potency-enhancing-drugs-linked-decreased-risks-men-colorectal-cancer - 2025-03-13

Published 12 October 2020 Emma Hammarlund was one of six researchers from Lund University in Sweden that was granted five-year starting grants from the European Research Council. Emma Hammarlund Emma Hammarlund, geobiologist and researcher at the Division of Translational Cancer Research, will investigate how life could develop on our planet. The availability of oxygen has long been the prime focu

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/lucc-researcher-receive-erc-starting-grant - 2025-03-13

Published 13 November 2020 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a computational model which is effective in detecting and identifying genetic mutations in breast tumours. The study, the largest of its kind in the world, includes results from over 3 200 patients with breast cancer. Lao Saal (Photo Olle Dahlbäck) The researchers used RNA sequencing, a sensitive, precise tool which

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/new-analytical-model-detects-mutations-breast-cancer - 2025-03-13

Published 13 November 2020 A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Karin Hansson and Daniel Bexell (Photo Åsa Hansdotter) Every year, about 800 children in the US are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggress

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2025-03-13

Published 20 December 2019 Camilla Modéer, chair of NanoLund's External Advisory Council and member of the NanoLund Board has been named honorary doctor by The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. Camilla has been an active participant for many years providing invaluable feedback on NanoLund engagement activities.Read more (in Swedish) on the homepage of Lund University.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/camilla-modeer-named-honorary-doctor - 2025-03-13

Published 13 December 2019 Thomas Laurell won a Distinguished Professor grant from the Swedish Research Council with the title “Ultrasonic standing wave fields and extracellular vesicles enable novel routes in medical diagnostics and biopharmaceutical production”, including support of 48 MSEK for ten years.Read more on the Swedish Research Council home page.Read a description of the research proje

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/thomas-laurell-wins-distinguished-professor-grant - 2025-03-13

Published 11 December 2019 Out of a total of 9 Research Environment Grants within natural and engineering sciences from the Swedish Research Council, two went to NanoLund Researchers and their teams:“Multiscale biomechanics from molecules to cells in cancer” with Jonas Tegenfeldt as the PI and with Chris Madsen (at BioCARE), Pontus Nordenfelt and Vinay S Swaminathan (both at Clinical Sciences) as

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-grants-hosted-nanolund - 2025-03-13

Published 10 December 2019 Åsa Haglund (at Chalmers University, NanoLund Affiliated Member) has won an ERC consolidator grant with the title: “UV-LASE: Out of the blue: membrane-based microcavity lasers from the blue to the ultraviolet wavelength regime”, including support on approximately 2 MEuro.Read the press release on the homepage of the European Research Council.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-asa-haglund - 2025-03-13

Published 7 December 2019 Alfred Larsson won best poster award at the winter school "Conventional and High-energy spectroscopies for inorganic, organic and bimolecular surfaces and interfaces" held 2-6 December 2019, Florence, Italy. The poster title was "Electrochemical Fabrication of Palladium Nanowires in Nanoporous Alumina Templates" and the prize was, in addition to the honour, 250£.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-alfred-larsson - 2025-03-13

Published 4 December 2019 Kimberly Dick Thelander has been named Wallenberg scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carry out world-class research. Kimberly got a grant of 17.5 MSEK total which can be freely used for

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-named-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-03-13

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 29 January 2020 The vesicles function as the body’s internet, and carry information on the patient’s disease state. To capture and decode them – that’s the challenge, says professor Thomas Laurell. Photo: Lars Owesson A hot topic among cancer researchers is vesicles, nanoparticles that flow in our veins in thei

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/early-detection-diseases-aided-bodys-own-nanoparticles - 2025-03-13

Published 6 February 2020 Take a leading role in Europe’s future center of Materials Science – apply for the position. At Lund University we are currently building Europe’s future center for materials research. It will combine, within a single campus area:• Excellent university-based materials research;• Lund Nano Lab, part of the national infrastructure for micro- and nanofabrication, Myfab;• MAX

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-professor-materials-science - 2025-03-13

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 February 2020 Maria Messing receives a grant from Future Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Nano Design meets Organic Chemistry for Greener Catalysts is the name of the research program led by Maria Messing, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is the summary of th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-gets-grant-greener-catalysts - 2025-03-13

Published 9 March 2020 Science Village is being built in north-east Lund in the new city district Brunnshög. Picture by Science Village. The process of establishing a new Nanolab in the immediate vicinity of MAX IV and ESS is moving further as decided by the Board of LTH. The lab – Nanolab Science Village – will be the first step to establishing Lund University’s research operations in Science Vil

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-towards-new-nanolab-science-village - 2025-03-13

Published 23 March 2020 Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 11 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics, chemistry and biomedicine – for application. Initial deadline for applications: May 4, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:Materials scienceSmart n

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/11-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-03-13

Published 26 March 2020 There are many questions concerning the coronavirus and infection prevention that need to be answered as soon as possible. Jakob Löndahl, associate professor in aerosol technology at Lund University and faculty member of NanoLund is currently working to analyse air samples from patient rooms at Lund University hospital trying to detect the virus. Read the full news article

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/air-samples-coronavirus-patient-rooms-being-analysed - 2025-03-13

Published 2 April 2020 Oxana Klementieva and her colleagues in Lund and at Synchrotron SOLEIL in France have used a new method, optical photothermal spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study protein structures in neurons from mice affected by early stage Alzheimer’s disease. “We saw that the structure of the protein changes in different ways depending on where in the nerve cell it is. So far, there have been

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2025-03-13

Published 2 April 2020 Anne L’Huillier has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately SEK 25 million for the project Quantum Physics with Attosecond Pulses. With the grant from ERC Anne and colleagues plan to use laser technology to create ultra-short light pulses to study the motion of electrons within atoms and molecules. Their work will provid

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-awarded-anne-lhuillier - 2025-03-13

Published 8 April 2020 In a paper, recently published in Nature Communications with researchers from NanoLund and Lund Laser Centre, the ultrafast optical dynamics of porous gold nanosponges filled with zinkoxide was studied. This type of hybrid plasmon-emitter system could be useful for future optical computers as they are able to strongly amplify laser light. The study provides fundamental new i

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/porous-gold-nanosponges-can-be-useful-future-computers - 2025-03-13

Published 20 April 2020 In a recent review article Donatas Zigmantas and colleagues from 16 universities and institutes in Europe, Canada, the US and Singapore critically assess previously proposed persistence and role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting. In the article they analyse the recent work on coherence in photosynthetic complexes, in particular, the results from femtos

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-quantum-effect-photosynthetic-light-harvesting - 2025-03-13