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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his “discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. We had the great pleasure to listen to Svante Pääbo in a fantastic presentation entitled “Archaic Genomics” at the NMMP event in Ystad in May this year. His research team develops method

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine-2022 - 2026-01-01

Pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure in the lung, is a devastating condition where no curative treatment is available. Christian Westöö, PhD student in Karin Tran Lundmark's research team, has used synchrotron-based micro-CT as a tool for increased understanding of disease distribution in 3D space, in human tissue from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Christian Westöö is curre

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/3d-visualization-vascular-lesions-and-role-versican-pulmonary-arterial-hypertension - 2026-01-01

Within 5 years after his recruitment for the Wallenberg Centre of Molecular Medicine at Lund University, which brought Principal Investigator Filipe Pereira in 2017 to Sweden, he has been appointed full Professorship in Molecular Medicine, Regeneration, Transplantation and Repair in the Hematopoietic System. The academic path of Filipe Pereira has taken him from Portugal to London, New York and fi

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-appointed-full-professor-lund-university - 2026-01-01

Shortly after the great news that Paul Bourgine, associate senior lecturer in Molecular Skeletal Biology at the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, was awarded the ERC Proof of Concept grant, two new press-releases have been published in Dagens Medicin and News Cision acknowledging the great work and novel funding of a new confocal microscope for his research.  Paul Bourgine

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/press-releases-about-bourgine-lab - 2026-01-01

Are you a fan of popular science communication? Are you interested in presenting your work in an open and casual setting outside the scientific community? Well, now you can!  The communications team proudly presents the WCMM ScienceBrew: a new series of popular science talks featuring selected popular science talks by PhD students and postdocs at at Lund university.  The WCMM ScienceBrew is a mont

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-sciencebrew - 2026-01-01

This year Prince Daniel's grant for particularly promising young researchers was awarded WCMM researcher Andreas Edsfeldt for his research on atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes. The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation wishes to foster the next generation of young researchers. One way in which it does this is by awarding grants to particularly promising young researchers. Andreas Edsfeldt, associate prof

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/prince-daniels-research-grant-andreas-edsfeldt - 2026-01-01

For those of you that maybe did not know, WCMM Lund has a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of four internationally recognized experts. Two of them know the WCMM Centre quite well by now and the other two are just newly recruited. The role of the WCMM SAB is to provide strategic guidance and direction the WCMM Centre regarding scientific aspects, strategic directions and provides recommenda

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/get-know-scientific-advisory-board - 2026-01-01

Chimezie Harrison Umeano is a new graduate student in regenerative immunology at Nicholas Leigh’s lab. He has a background in biochemistry and biomedicine and has previously been engaged as a laboratory technician at the Karolinska Institute. Chimezie is interested in how highly regenerative species like salamanders modulate their immune system to promote regeneration. As a graduate student, his p

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-chimezie-harrison-umeano - 2026-01-01

An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval of the trial has already been obtained from the Swedish Ethics Review Authority, and the STEM-PD team, led from Lund University in Sweden, is thereby ready to proceed with the trial. WCMM members Agnete Kirkeby and Gesin

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/swedish-medical-products-agency-grants-approval-clinical-study-new-stem-cell-based-parkinsons - 2026-01-01

The Pereira group is seeking for 1 post-doctoral candidate for a collaborative project with the company Asgard therapeutics. The Pereira group has pioneered cell fate reprogramming approaches in immunology with induced dendritic cells (Rosa et al, Science Immunology 2018; Rosa et al, Science Immunology 2022) and has shown recently that the same combination of factors can reprogram tumor cells into

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/open-position - 2026-01-01

The Bourgine lab has published a new article in Science Translational Medicine reporting the fast and standardized generation of human mini-bones/humanized ossicles, and assess to what extent they can reflect the human bone marrow microenvironment. Human ossicles consist of fully mature bone and bone marrow structures establishing a complex human mesenchymal niche with retained stem cell propertie

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-publication-science-translational-medicine - 2026-01-01

New webpage has been created and a change of technology Due to updates in technology a brand new webpage for WCMM has now been created. We hope you find this to your liking.

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-webpage - 2026-01-01

WCMM researcher Andreas Edsfeldt has been awarded the SSMF consolatory grant, a five-year grant that gives prominent researchers the opportunity to strengthen their position as independent researchers, for his research on the role of cell death in diabetes-associated cardiovascular disease. Diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) is rapidly increasing worldwide, and people with T2D have a clearly increased

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/role-cell-death-diabetes-associated-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-01-01

Sandra Lindstedt has received 19.5 MSEK, the grant for clinical studies within therapy research from the Swedish Research Counsil, for her project entitled “Cytokine filtration at lung transplantation”. This grant aims to enable a constellation of researchers within regions and academia to work towards a common research goal. The purpose is to provide support for clinical therapy studies that are

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/195-msek-clinical-wcmm-researcher - 2026-01-01

Approximately 10–15 per cent of breast cancer cases do not respond to treatment with hormone therapy, which means that they are more aggressive and often recur. An international research team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has uncovered a way to treat these aggressive tumours through manipulation of the connective tissue cells of the tumour. The researchers are now developing a ne

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/new-treatment-aggressive-breast-cancer - 2026-01-01

Six LU researchers receive ERC Starting Grants Colourful common wall lizards, an innovative X-ray microscope and advanced research on Alzheimer’s, leukaemia, photographic evidence and the origin of life. Six researchers from Lund University in Sweden have been granted five-year starting grants totalling EUR 9.5 million from the ERC.  Follow this link for full article.Follow this link for Emma Hamm

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/pi-emma-hammarlund-receives-erc-grant - 2026-01-01

A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Every year, about 800 children in the US are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the nervous system that most frequently arises in the adrenal glands

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2026-01-01

Emma Hammarlund and Sofie Mohlin at TCR, together with two colleagues from Oxford University, have reviewed how oxygen-sensing mechanisms across eukaryotic kingdoms are alike. From a functional perspective, these systems are active at low oxygen and degraded at high, although their scope varies.    2020-11-16_hammarlund_et_al_2020.pdf .

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/oxygen-sensing-mechanisms-across-eukaryotic-kingdoms-and-their-roles-complex-multicellularity - 2026-01-01

 Big congratulations to PI:s Daniel Bexell Novel treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma, Christer Larsson Mechanisms determining breast cancer cell fate upon death receptor stimulation - apoptosis or a change in phenotype, Ramin Massoumi Targeted therapy against metastatic melanoma and Sofie Mohlin An Embryonic Model in the Search for Childhood Cancer Initiation on receiving grants from Cancerfonde

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/pis-tcr-receive-cancerfonden-grants - 2026-01-01

SAVE THE DATE for this upcoming event. Dear all, We hope you are all keeping yourselves safe and healthy through this challenging time.We would like to cordially invite you to a digital imaging meeting including short presentations and discussions about existing imaging facilities and the need for development of the imaging infrastructure at Lund University.When and where: 14th of April 2021, betw

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/coming-lucc-imaging-nuclear-medicineradiology-seminar - 2026-01-01