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Summer is approaching and with it vacations at the department as well as the faculty and Statens servicecenter which affects our recruitment opportunities. Do ​​you need to advertise over the summer?Send a requirements profile to HR by 1 June to get the ad out.Employees starting this fall? Documents for employment decisions need to be sent to HR by 1 June to be able to process the employment befor

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/plan-recruitment-summer - 2025-12-27

The Head of the Department Jessica Abbott has decided to establish a new Research Council to strengthen the department's strategic research work. The council serves as an advisory body to the Head of Department and includes five faculty members with broad representation from across the department’s research areas. Deputy Head of Department Fredric Carlsson chairs the council, supported by Administ

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-research-council-department - 2025-12-27

During the summer holidays of 2025, getting administrative, technical, and IT help may take longer. The management, administrative, technical and IT personnel are on holiday during the following dates. You find which administrator is taking care of which unit on our administration page. Remember that administrative tasks may take longer time during the summer! ManagementNameDateJessica AbbottWill

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/2025-summer-holidays-management-joint-administrative-and-technical-personnel - 2025-12-27

Starting this Monday, 1 September, the department’s IT support will be integrated into the university’s central support service, Supportcenter. The email address remains the same: helpdesk [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se. From now on, the university’s central support team will handle simpler issues, while our IT technicians will take care of matters such as IT purchases, local network connections, and

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-it-support-system - 2025-12-27

We are thrilled to announce the Department's Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting lineup of speakers from across the globe. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 13:15 in the Blue Hall in the Ecology Building. After the talks, there will be time for fika and mingling.Here is the complete schedule for autumn 2025:All links lead to external websites.DateContentSpeakerAffiliatio

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/autumn-2025-seminar-series-announced - 2025-12-27

The autumn darkness is closing in around us, and the Christmas break is approaching, with subsequent interruptions in daily operations. As the recruitment process is divided into several instances with different cut-off dates, the following will apply to the department's recruitments.27 November – Recruitment cases to be announced before/during Christmas 2025Documents must be received by the depar

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/deadlines-recruitments-and-documents-employment-decisions-preparation-christmas - 2025-12-27

As the holiday season approaches and daily operations slow down for a while, the following guidelines apply to the department’s financial function to ensure we have sufficient time to complete all tasks.Invoicing to be included in 2025Supporting documents must be received by the department’s financial function no later than 8 December.Travel expense claims/Reimbursements to be paid in December 202

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/deadlines-invoices-travel-expense-claims-and-reimbursements-preparation-christmas-2025 - 2025-12-27

A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, cancer patients were identified as an at-risk group, so forms of treatment were modified. Now a group of physicians at Lund University want to evaluate how these new forms of treatment were experienced by the patients themselve

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2025-12-27

In October, Predrag Bakic received a research grant from the Swedish Breast Cancer Association for 600 000 SEK. His research focuses on the evaluation of a novel clinical imaging system for early breast cancer screening, which combines X-ray and mechanical imaging of the breast.   Predrag Bakic is a visiting researcher in diagnostic radiology at Lund University, supported by a Marie Curie Fellowsh

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/grants-swedish-breast-cancer-association-breast-cancer-imaging-research - 2025-12-27

Lund researcher Mauno Vihinen has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation to develop AI methods that in the long run enable improved cancer diagnosis. One of the researchers who has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation is Mauno Vihinen, professor of medical structural biology at the Department of Experimental Medical Science and leader of the research group Protein Structure and Bioinfo

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/improved-and-tailored-prediction-methods-cancer - 2025-12-27

The seventh meeting Focus on Cancer Collaboration was arranged as a digital event by Medicon Village in collaboration with Lund university Cancer centre (LUCC), Create Health at Lund University and Lund University Innovation. At the international world cancer day February 4th, 2021, representatives in the oncology area from industry, academia and healthcare sector gathered during the day in a digi

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/focus-cancer-collaboration - 2025-12-27

In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the genetic scissors CRISPR-Cas9, that facilitates antibody development. The discovery is published in Nature Communications. Antibody drugs are the fastest growing class of drug, and several therapeu

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/new-method-facilitates-development-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-12-27

Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period and she will replace Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2021. Nomination of coordinator candidates took place during December 2020 until the end of February 2021 and the Dean of Faculty of Medicine appointed the new coordinator in March. Sophia Zackrisson is part of the LUCC steering group an

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/new-lucc-coordinator - 2025-12-27

In May, screening for colorectal cancer will be offered in Skåne to all those born in 1961. Subsequently, Swedes aged 60 to 74 will be tested for blood in their faeces, to detect cancer at an early stage. Once all regions in Sweden have introduced the screening, at least 300 lives are expected to be saved per year. Sweden has been slow to introduce screening; this spring, Skåne will become the thi

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/screening-colorectal-cancer-starts-spring - 2025-12-27

3D-mammography reduces the number of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the period between routine screenings, when compared with traditional mammography, according to a large study from Lund University in Sweden. The results are published in the journal Radiology. “Our results indicate that 3D-mammography, or digital breast tomosynthesis, possibly detects cancers that would otherwise have been diag

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/fewer-breast-cancer-cases-between-screening-rounds-3d-mammography - 2025-12-27

A small proportion of women who receive anti-estrogen treatment after breast cancer surgery have worse outcomes. This is associated with mutations in the estrogen receptor gene, according to a study from Lund University now published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.   “If our results are confirmed in further studies, it would be relevant to screen for these resistance mutations already at diagnosis, and t

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/mutations-can-reduce-effect-hormonal-treatment-early-breast-cancer - 2025-12-27

Pia Sundgren has been elected as Senior Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and Titti Owman recieved Distinguished Service Award from the Society for MR Radiographers & Technologist (SMRT). Pia C. Maly Sundgren, M.D., Ph.D., Lund University, Lund, Sweden has been elected as Senior Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/elected-senior-fellow-and-distinguished-service-award-lund - 2025-12-27

Skåne University Hospital is in a process to establish a Comprehensive Cancer Centre. A digital site visit by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) took place 22-24 June, 2021 as part of the accreditation process to establish a Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Skåne University Hospital. OECI has an accreditation programme to implement quality in cancer care. Skåne University Hospital

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/accreditation-process-improve-cancer-care-skane-university-hospital - 2025-12-27

Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovative research in the field of medical chemistry. How does it feel to receive this prestigious award? – It’s a great honour for me to be awarded the Berzelius Medal and for our research to receive such notice. I began my p

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/anna-blom-receives-2021-berzelius-medal-advances-medical-chemistry - 2025-12-27

Information about the Advanced Cancer Biology course VMFN29 (30 ECTS) can be found here The application period is from October 18th 2021 to January 17rd 2023 and you apply in the international admission portal The course period is from August 29th 2022 to January 23rd 2023.  

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/international-admission-advanced-cancer-biology-course-open - 2025-12-27