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By sofia_b [dot] liljedahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sofia B Liljedahl) - published 13 November 2020 Professor Kristina Åkesson will be Dean and Professor Martin L Olsson, Pro-Dean from 1 January 2021. It's official! Vice-Chancellor has approved proposed Dean and Pro-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine. Professor Kristina Åkesson will be Dean and Professor Martin L Olsson will be Pro-Dean, starting
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-dean-and-pro-dean - 2025-04-03
By johanna [dot] sandahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Sandahl) - published 18 November 2020 Darcy Wagner develops therapies for patients with lung diseases. “This could help to overcome the shortages in donor tissue available for patients and could further improve long-term survival.” Darcy Wagner is one of the researchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-darcy-wagner - 2025-04-03
By johanna [dot] sandahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Sandahl) - published 25 November 2020 Vinay Swaminathan studies cell movement in health and disease. “To understand how cells get hijacked in diseases, we need to understand how cells work.” Vinay Swaminathan is one of the researchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM LU). This autumn, every week, we pr
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-vinay-swaminathan - 2025-04-03
By tove [dot] gilvad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Gilvad) - published 25 November 2020 Martin Magnusson and Amra Jujic (Photo: Tove Gilvad) Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arterio
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2025-04-03
By johanna [dot] sandahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Sandahl) - published 2 December 2020 João Duarte. Photo: Kennet Ruona João Duarte is linking cognitive impairment and diabetes. “Our findings might one day contribute to the development of metabolic or brain disease therapeutics.” João Duarte is one of the researchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM L
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-joao-duarte - 2025-04-03
By johanna [dot] sandahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Sandahl) - published 9 December 2020 Anja Meissner. Photo: Kennet Ruona Anja Meissner is looking for new treatments for cardiovascular diseases. “We are interested in understanding processes involved in disease onset and progression.” Anja Meissner is one of the researchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-anja-meissner - 2025-04-03
By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 11 December 2020 Mikael Dolsten (Photo: Pfizer) Mikael Dolsten, head of research at Pfizer, who led the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, will take up the appointment of visiting professor of Pharmacology at Lund University in Sweden on 1 January 2021. “During my years as a student and researcher in Lund
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/mikael-dolsten-appointed-visiting-professor-lund-university - 2025-04-03
By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 15 December 2020 It has long been known that the choice of shoe, surface and type of sport can all be contributing factors when someone suffers an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now observed that genes also play a decisive role. Karin Magnusson. By analysing data from the Swed
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/genes-play-role-common-knee-injury - 2025-04-03
By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 17 December 2020 Sebastian Albinsson and Fatima Daoud. Photo: Agata Garpenlind Researchers at Lund University have shown that a group of proteins are crucial for smooth muscle function in the gastrointestinal tract. A lack of these proteins leads to a lethal condition called intestinal pseudo obstruction in mice. T
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/impaired-bowel-movement-due-lack-protein - 2025-04-03
By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] gmail [dot] com (Agata Garpenlind) - published 19 January 2021 Sinem Tas. Photo: Agata Garpenlind The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a com
By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] gmail [dot] com (Agata Garpenlind) - published 19 January 2021 Pontus Gourdon in the lab. Photo: Magnus Bergström Lund University represents one of the most attractive locations within structural biology in entire Northern Europe, says Pontus Gourdon, who has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant 2020 from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/adopting-long-term-research-approach-thanks-prolongation-grant - 2025-04-03
By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] gmail [dot] com (Agata Garpenlind) - published 19 January 2021 Harmful variants in cellular networks divided by different forms of cancer. 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
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/improved-and-tailored-prediction-methods-cancer - 2025-04-03
By tove [dot] gilvad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Gilvad) - published 20 January 2021 Pamela Buchwald and Najia Azhar have led the study that is now being published in JAMA Surgery. Photo: Private “Relapse of the condition is more common following the new treatment method using keyhole surgery, which for one-third of patients will lead to planned bowel operations. However, far fewer patients r
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/keyhole-surgery-ruptured-bowels-safe-long-term-method - 2025-04-03
By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 28 March 2023 Genetics are one of the keys to understanding neurodegenerative disease. That is why MultiPark researchers with expertise in genetics gather across research groups. Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases is a new special interest group (SIG) addressing scientific and technological needs to unravel the
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genetics-neurodegenerative-diseases-special-interest-group - 2025-04-03
By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lund University) - published 13 April 2023 Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson. Three researchers at Lund University, all with a long list of significant research credentials, have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.5 million each to further develop and advance their research projects. Two of them are MultiPark research leaders. They do resea
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/double-success-multipark-research-groups-prestigious-eu-grant-round - 2025-04-03
By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 17 May 2023 Several Nobel laureates, renowned scientists, and successful biotech entrepreneurs are coming to Lund in May to participate in the Lund Spring Symposium, an international pharmaceutical symposium sponsored by MultiPark. Sarah Tabrizi, a high profile Huntington researcher, and some of MultiPark's own researc
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/superstars-coming-lund-pharmaceutical-symposium-sponsored-multipark - 2025-04-03
By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 29 May 2023 A 7 Tesla MRI of a human brain. Picture: Tekla Kylkilahti, Lundgaard group. Recent studies indicate that acquired brain injuries, such as traumatic brain injury, trigger potentially harmful responses that may lead to neurodegenerative pathology. “Acquired brain injuries and their links to neurodegenerat
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/acquired-brain-injuries-special-interest-group - 2025-04-03
By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 7 June 2023 Thanks to the recent development of diagnostic tools based on blood biomarkers linked to Alzheimer’s, it is possible to predict whether an individual will develop the disease. Therefore, MultiPark researchers gather across groups to investigate hidden opportunities and develop implementable tools also f
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/fluid-biomarkers-special-interest-group - 2025-04-03
By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 2 June 2023 Microglial immune cells around the area of a human embryonic stem cell transplant to treat Parkinson’s Disease in a rat brain. In April, the young MultiPark working group organized a photo competition entitled "Brain in Picture". The external jury has had a hard time choosing, but now, they have appoint
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brain-picture-winning-photo - 2025-04-03
By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 27 June 2023 Postdoctoral researcher Vivien Horvath investigates X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP), a rare neurodegenerative disorder. New research is underway at Lund University, led by Dr. Vivien Horvath, a postdoctoral researcher at Lund Stem Cell Center. Supported by a new grant from the Collaborative Center for
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/exploring-role-jumping-genes-x-linked-dystonia-parkinsonism - 2025-04-03
