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Congratulations, Aleksander Giwercman, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Lund University and Senior Physician at Skåne University Hospital Malmö. You have recently been asked to take over as the new co-editor of the journal Andrology. How does it feel? — I’m really looking forward to this exciting job. It’s fun to try something new and be able to influence development in the research field of

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/aleksander-giwercman-new-co-editor-andrology - 2025-11-19

Lina Ejlertsson, a doctoral student in Public Health at Lund University, believes that there is a classic approach to working with and measuring health in workplaces through sick leave rates, productivity and efficiency. – Most often, rehabilitative measures or preventative work are only undertaken after employees become ill. So what happens if you instead integrate various recovery activities int

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/integrated-recovery-during-work-day-does-it-make-difference - 2025-11-19

In type 1 diabetes, the patient’s own immune system destroys the body’s insulin-producing cells. Researchers at Region Skåne and Lund University are leading a new drug study aimed at halting the immune system’s attack and preserving residual cells in newly diagnosed adults. The new study, dubbed IMPACT, will last a year and be It is aimed at people between the ages of 18 and 45 who were recently d

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-skane-study-slow-down-type-1-diabetes - 2025-11-19

Can a reduced intake of gluten during childhood affect the development of coeliac disease (gluten intolerance)? Researchers at Lund University will investigate this question in the new study GRAIN (Gluten Reduction After INfancy and the risk of celiac disease). – We’ve seen in previous studies that the amount of gluten you eat plays a role in the risk of getting sick. In GRAIN, we want to see if w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-can-gluten-reduced-diet-first-years-life-prevent-celiac-disease - 2025-11-19

Hello there, Pål Stenmark, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at the Department of Experimental Medical Science. You’ve just been honoured with the 2021 Lindblomska Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for you discovery of a new botox poison that wards off malaria mosquitoes! Can you really use botox against mosquitoes? – The botox used by humans doesn’t work on insects, but we’ve no

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/botox-ward-mosquitoes - 2025-11-19

Charlotte Ling, Professor of Epigenetics at Lund University, is receiving DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for a research project relating to epigenetics and type 2 diabetes. She is one of a total of 38 research group leaders who are receiving funding through the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Research Leader Programme. The project is called “Pancreatic islet dysfunction and epigenetic m

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-million-dollar-grant-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-11-19

A new app will make it easier for people on sick leave due to anxiety and depression to get back to work. In the project mWorks, Professor Ulrika Bejerholm and her research colleagues focus on what strengths, abilities and new strategies can help people on sick leave successfully transition back to working life. The research team wishes to move away from the current focus on diagnosis and disabili

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-app-help-people-return-work-following-sick-leave-due-mental-illness - 2025-11-19

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an algorithm that combines data from a simple blood test and brief memory tests, to predict with great accuracy who will develop Alzheimer's disease in the future. The findings are published in Nature Medicine. Approximately 20-30% of patients with Alzheimer's disease are wrongly diagnosed within specialist healthcare, and diagnostic work-up

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/simple-diagnostic-tool-predicts-individual-risk-alzheimers - 2025-11-19

Many people feel mentally unwell during the pandemic, especially, it seems, those who are already exposed to socio-economic inequalities. But who really suffers the most when restrictions, loneliness, depression have become commonplace? Researchers from Lund University have tried to find out in a cross-sectional study where young adults are identified as a particularly vulnerable group. After more

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/how-vulnerable-are-we-pandemic-and-who-actually-hardest-hit - 2025-11-19

Children rarely get seriously ill in COVID-19. However, they can suffer from troublesome secondary diseases, the most serious being MIS-C, a hyper-inflammatory condition that often requires intensive care. In Skåne, around 30 children have been affected by MIS-C. Skåne University Hospital is leading the work to care for the affected children and research is also underway on the disease. MIS-C is a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-skane-university-hospital-shed-light-mis-c - 2025-11-19

An international group of clinicians and scientists, including MIT and Lund University , have analysed how individual genetic changes affect the heart muscle. The researchers have created a new computer tool to integrate genomic and clinical data to enhance medical and surgical decisions to support future therapies for patients with inherited heart disease. The new research was published in NPJ Ge

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/computer-method-help-predict-outcomes-and-tailor-treatments-heart-patients - 2025-11-19

The conference welcomes papers that take gender as a critical tool of analysis in studies of media, culture, communication and ICTs. The focus of the conference is studies on China and the Nordic countries, but studies on other regions as well as more general or theoretical papers are also welcome. Scholars from different disciplines and research fields, among others gender studies, communication

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-gender-and-communication-22-23-september-2014-beijing - 2025-11-19

Four new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies series are now available as PDF files.To the working papers

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-working-papers - 2025-11-19

Sustainable City Development: Theories, methods, challenges, and experiences in China and the Nordic countries in Shanghai 28-31 October. Call for papers to research workshop and ph.d course with deadline 1 April, 2014.These activities are organised by the Sino-Nordic Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network of which the Centre is a member.For further information see here (new window) 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-sustainable-city-development-theories-methods-challenges-and-experiences-china-and - 2025-11-19

Lund University hereby declares the following vacancy at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies open for application. The application deadline is May 15, 2014. Please spread this information in your networks.More information

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-fellow-modern-chinese-studies - 2025-11-19

Postdoctoral research fellow Jens Sejrup has published the article "Awakening the Sufferers: Reflections on Public Relations, Activism, and Subalternity in Postcolonial Controversies between Taiwan and Japan" in SAGE journal Public Relations Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 1 (2014).

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-dr-jens-sejrup - 2025-11-19

Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information see here (new window)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson-0 - 2025-11-19

The centre is currently looking for a full time administrator (limited tenure to 2015-07-31). QualificationsDocumented excellent ability in Swedish and English, a B.A. or comparable qualification in economics, experience of the administrative systems in use at Lund University (e.g. purchasing routines, DFS, Primula, e-recruitment, etc) as well as excellent competence in using Office software (e.g.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/availble-job-centre - 2025-11-19

Malte P. Benjamins who graduated in 2013 from the programme has an article titled  "International actors in NIMBY controversies: Obstacle or opportunity for environmental campaigns?" published online in the China Information journal. The article will also available be in China Information's November issue.To the article

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-alumnus-malte-p-benjamins - 2025-11-19

Deadline: 15 October 2014 Conference dates: 11-14 August 2015 The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 8th conference from 11 to 14 August 2015 at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines with

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-panel-proposals-8th-euroseas-conference-vienna - 2025-11-19