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3D printing of organs to help surgery have helped making surgery more safe to perform. Read the article and watch information about this on SVT (only in Swedish).
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/3d-printed-organs-can-save-time-and-make-surgery-safer - 2025-11-07
Three new researchers joined Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM LU) during the spring. More information about them.
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/three-new-researchers-wcmm - 2025-11-07
Nature Biotechnology publication from WCMM Fellow Agnete Kirkeby! Read more about a novel model for studies on human brain development – resulting from a true interdisciplinary collaboration! Read more at https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-provides-unique-ins… And the same text in Swedish: https://www.lu.se/article/ny-metod-kan-ge-unik-insikt-i-den-manskliga-h…
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-publication-nature-biotechnology-wcmm-fellow-agnete-kirkeby - 2025-11-07
In recent years, RNA molecules, with the ability to affect or turn off pathogenic genes, have become promising drug candidates in several areas. However, it has been a challenge to develop techniques to deliver the RNA molecules into the cells where they have an effect. Longer article about the study.
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/rna-drugs-one-step-closer-be-being-used-cancer-treatment - 2025-11-07
The Bourgine lab recently published an article describing the engineering of human bone organ in mice. These “humanized ossicle” can be used as a technological platform to model the human hematopoietic system. The approach allow gathering hematopoietic knowledge of advanced human relevance in both health and malignant settings. Article can be found at "Trendes in Molecular Medicine" (opens up in n
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-article-development-humanized-ossicles-bridging-hematopoietic-gap - 2025-11-07
Vill driva barnonkologin framåt (Eng: Want to develop pediatric oncology forward) https://www.lu.se/article/vill-driva-barnonkologin-framat (article in Swedish only)
From January 2020 we warmly welcome professor Jonas Larsson as new Co-director! Jonas Larsson is Professor in Hematology and also bring long-term experience to WCMM LU as Director for StemTherapy – a National Initiative on Stem Cells for Regenerative Therapy. Please, read more about Professor Larsson research at Lund university reasearch portal, Lucris
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-lu-welcomes-new-co-director-professor-jonas-larsson-january-2020 - 2025-11-07
At WCMM LU we believe in educating and supporting our PIs in professional development and academic leadership. All recruited PIs are welcomed to a mentor program, where they are matched with a mentor (a senior Professor at ot faculty) and invited to professional lead seminars in collaboration with INDEA AB and their senior consultant and psychologist Katarina Billing. February 11 we celebrated the
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/celebration-second-round-wcmm-lu-mentor-program-february-11-2020 - 2025-11-07
Excellent example on successful Translational Research at WCMM Lund between Anja Meissner and Martin Magnusson: - Phospholipid S1P suggested as a potential biomarker in cardiovascular disease In 2017 both Anja Meissner and Martin Magnusson were recruited to WCMM Lund, as WCMM Fellow and WCMM Clinical Researcher, respectively. Using a translation approach including a patient cohort, animal models a
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/successful-translational-research-between-two-researchers-wcmm-lund - 2025-11-07
The Swedish Medical Society's Translational Prize 2021 is awarded to Andreas Edsfeldt, researcher and associate professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, and a doctor at the Heart Care Section, Skåne University Hospital Malmö. Andreas Edsfeldt is rewarded for his application "Apoptosis and efferocytosis as mechanism of impaired fibrotic tissue repair in diabetes associated
WCMM Research School is one of the most important pieces of regenerative medicine training we provide here as a centre. This year we will have have 18 students, ranging from 1st year PhD students to senior post-docs from different faculties, including LTH, Biology, Clinicians and the Faculty of Medicine. This inter-disciplinary cross-faculty student cohort really underscores the bright future for
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/kick-wcmm-research-school-2021-2022 - 2025-11-07
We are delighted to host Dr. Alejo Rodriguez Fraticelli from IRB Barcelona. Since 2021, he heads the Lab of Quantitative Stem Cell Dynamics at IRB Barcelona where his group focuses on understanding the mechanisms that regulate blood stem cell heterogeneity and how they play a role in homeostasis, immunity and disease. The title of his talk is: ”Finding the pattern: from epithelia to hematopoesis
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-school-external-speaker-seminar - 2025-11-07
Asgard Therapeutics AB, a private biotech company which originate from Lund University’s Cell Reprogramming and Immunity lab, led by the WCMM Fellow Professor Filipe Pereira, has announced the completion of a EUR 6 million seed financing round. The financing was co-led by Novo Holdings, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Industrifonden. Filipe Pereira is Asgard’s Co-Founder and Head of Innovati
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/asgard-therapeutics-raises-eur-6m-seed-financing-exploit-direct-vivo-reprogramming - 2025-11-07
As part of a larger study, a first successful operation using 3D printed cranioplasty implant has been done at Skåne university hospital. The Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Clinical Researcher Einar Heiberg is one of the clinicians behind the new method where imaging and image processing are used to develop patient specific 3D-printed skull implants. In an ongoing translational project, the first 3
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/patient-specific-3d-printed-skull-implants - 2025-11-07
The WCMM researcher Joao Duarte and his team strive to understand how a diet rich on fat and sugar impacts memory functions in relation to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Their new study on mice shows that although an unhealthy diet leads to memory impairment, the damage does not have to be permanent. The WCMM researcher Joao Duarte was recently in focus when Lund University Diabetes Centre, LUDC, pu
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/does-food-we-eat-have-impact-our-brain - 2025-11-07
The focus of cardiothoracic surgeon Sandra Lindstedt and her research team is lung transplantation. “Today, we can only use 20 percent of the donor lungs. What if we could recondition and regain lung function of just a portion of those lungs that we cannot use today? That would have a huge impact for patients on the waiting list for lung transplantation.” Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant in
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/my-vision-no-patients-should-die-waiting-organ-transplant - 2025-11-07
Paediatric cardiologist Karin Tran Lundmark treats patients with pulmonary hypertension, a condition that means high blood pressure in the lung. Karin Tran Lundmark’s research is focused on finding ways to treat what is causing the high blood pressure. “Currently, we can reduce symptoms and prolong survival, but there is no cure. What if we could dissolve the blockages and restore the normal blood
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-hope-i-will-be-able-tell-my-patients-we-have-curative-therapy - 2025-11-07
Cardiologist Andreas Edsfeldt’s focus in research is to understand the underlying biology in type 2 diabetes associated with certain complications, such as myocardial infarction and stroke. “Cardiovascular complications are much more common among individuals with type 2 diabetes. What if we could identify new therapies to reduce the frequency of these complications?” Andreas Edsfeldt is a resident
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/understanding-more-we-can-identify-new-therapies-complications-due-type-2-diabetes - 2025-11-07
Rheumatologist Robin Kahn’s focus in research is children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Together with his research team, he is trying to find the answers to two questions: why certain children get this condition – and how can it be cured. “These two questions actually triggered me, and an entire team, to start doing research.” Robin Kahn is a senior consultant in paediatric rheumatology at S
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/children-always-ask-why-did-i-get - 2025-11-07
Lisa Påhlman, a specialist in infectious diseases, has a main research focus on airway infections in cystic fibrosis – a genetic disease that affects many organs of the body, perhaps most importantly the lungs. “If we knew more about the bacteria and fungi that these patients are colonised with, we could hopefully have a more tailored or antibiotic treatment for them.” Lisa Påhlman is a specialist
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-hope-my-research-will-lead-more-knowledge-about-bacteria-cystic-fibrosis - 2025-11-07
