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Professor Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society and the environment. Fioretos receives the award for his pioneering work in blood cancer research and his ability to translate scientific discoveries into life-

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/award-winning-cancer-researcher-revolutionises-diagnosis-and-treatment-worldwide - 2025-11-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. “This digital test, which patients perform on their own with minimal involvement from healthcare personnel, improves the primary care physician's ability to determine who should be further examined by blood tests for Alzheimer's pathology ear

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-digital-cognitive-test-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease - 2025-11-01

In a study led by Lund University and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyse aggregates of tau pathology in more than 12,000 people from all over the world. The study – the largest ever of its kind – examines the connection between genetic predisposition, gender and age in relation to tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The study is published in Nature Neuroscie

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/largest-ever-taupet-study-alzheimers-deepens-understanding-disease - 2025-11-01

This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse goes to Vinay S. Swaminathan at Lund University. He is awarded five million SEK for his research on how healthy breast tissue develops into tumors and spreads. Vinay S. Swaminathan’s research group has developed 3D models that mimics the tumor microenvironment in the laboratory. The technology opens new opportuniti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/healthy-sick-3d - 2025-11-01

A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilised information in mammograms and pinpoints with high accuracy the individual risk of metastasis in the armpit. A newly completed study shows that the model indicates that just over 40 per cent of today’s axillary surgery

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-model-lund-university-indicates-four-out-ten-breast-cancer-patients-could-avoid-axillary-surgery - 2025-11-01

Anorexia nervosa is a serious psychiatric disorder for which there are limited treatment options, and it has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric diagnosis. A pilot study is now underway at Lund University in Sweden, where researchers are investigating whether psychedelic drugs have an effect on young patients with the disorder. Ward Five at the adult psychiatric clinic in Lund is

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/psychedelics-treatment-anorexia-new-pilot-study - 2025-11-01

Gemma Atkinson has been awarded this year’s Eric K. Fernström Prize for particularly promising and successful early-career researchers at Lund University. Her research focuses on bacterial proteins in order to understand the protective mechanisms bacteria use against infecting viruses known as bacteriophages. She received the prize for: Groundbreaking discoveries about the bacterial immune system

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/detective-mysterious-world-proteins - 2025-11-01

Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Professor of Lung Biology at Lund University, has been awarded the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Lifetime Achievement Award in Basic and Translational Science 2025. The European Respiratory Society is a leading international organisation with more than 35,000 members from over 160 countries, working to improve lung health through research, education, and clinical

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lifetime-achievement-award-gunilla-westergren-thorsson - 2025-11-01

From a rejected article to world-leading Alzheimer’s research. Kaj Blennow has made it possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 20 years before symptoms appear – an achievement that has not only transformed research but also laid the foundation for new therapies. He has now been awarded the Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize for his groundbreaking research. Professor Kaj Blennow also enjoys gettin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-world-stage-meet-fernstrom-prize-winner-kaj-blennow - 2025-11-01

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body’s immune system. By developing an antibody that blocks the mechanism, the researchers could restore the immune system’s ability to kill the cancer cells in laboratory trials and in mice. The discovery is published in Nature Cancer. In brief:Facts about the study: peer-r

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-revealed-how-leukemia-cells-trick-immune-system - 2025-11-01

Congratulations to Hanna Thorsson, whose thesis has been awarded the title of Best Hematology Thesis of 2025 by the Swedish Society of Hematology. In May 2025, Hanna Thorsson defended her doctoral thesis, “Single-cell Sequencing of Acute Leukemia” at Lund University. In October, she was awarded “Best Hematology Thesis of the Year” (Årets bästa avhandling i hematologi) by Svensk förening för hemato

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/best-hematology-thesis-year - 2025-11-01

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an unexpected increase in the number of cases of type 1 diabetes in Sweden, particularly among children under five and young adult men. The infection accelerated the onset of diabetes among children between the ages of five and nine. The researchers looked at data from a 17-year period on the incidence of type 1 diabetes among all people under the age of 30

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/type-1-diabetes-increased-among-young-people-during-pandemic - 2025-11-01

Researchers at Lund University have identified a previously unknown precursor stage of leukemia. The discovery may help explain why an especially aggressive form of blood cancer initiates already during fetal life. When we think of cancer, we usually imagine a disease that develops over many years in adults. But for one particular group of leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – it is quit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-offers-clues-why-leukemia-develops-infants - 2025-11-01

Pregnancies do not weaken a woman’s skeleton. Breastfeeding, however, can reduce bone density considerably. These are findings from a research report produced at Lund University in Sweden. But breastfeeding women need not worry. “There is a dip, but the body is absolutely fantastic at making up the loss,” says Kristina Åkesson, professor of orthopedics. Breastfeeding and pregnancy both require lar

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-findings-how-breastfeeding-affects-skeleton-could-boost-development-drugs-against-osteoporosis - 2025-11-01

Martin L. Olsson, professor of Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, has received the 2025 President’s Award from the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB). The citation reads: “For important, pioneering research and leadership that has advanced the field of transfusion medicine, transplantation and biotherapies, and has improved donor and patient safety.”“The award h

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/martin-l-olsson-receives-presidents-award - 2025-11-01

The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 genes and proteins. The results show aberrant folding in the DNA

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-11-01

Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund. First published: 2019-05-26Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on genetically-modified babies and where Malin Parmar hopes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-11-01

First published: 2019-05-03Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women.Gestational diabetes is characterized by impaired insul

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-11-01

After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and thereby the mechanisms by which the brain works First publi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-11-01

The number of cases of disease caused by Leishmania, a parasite that is spread via bites by sand flies which are mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden. The most serious form of the disease usually leads to death if untreated. First published: 2019-05-06“This disease is still very rare in Sweden but the number of cases has

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-increase-parasite-disease-sweden - 2025-11-01