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MERGE Autumn Meeting 2017 was held on 22-23 November in Helsingborg. The theme was MERGE research and future strategies. During the two days the latest exciting research within the different research areas of MERGE was presented. Also, the research school ClimBEco was presented and a number of new ideas for courses were put forward during the meeting.The MERGE board has had a strategic discussion
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting - 2025-12-21
PhD candidate Maria Tonini at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Ambiguities of Recognition – Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India” on Friday 13 May 2016. The faculty opponent was Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Venue: Auditoriet/Hörsalen, Kulturen, Tegnérplatsen in Lund. The thesis de
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/doctoral-thesis-homosexuality-contemporary-india - 2025-12-21
The focus of cardiothoracic surgeon Sandra Lindstedt and her research team is lung transplantation. “Today, we can only use 20 percent of the donor lungs. What if we could recondition and regain lung function of just a portion of those lungs that we cannot use today? That would have a huge impact for patients on the waiting list for lung transplantation.” Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant in
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/my-vision-no-patients-should-die-waiting-organ-transplant - 2025-12-21
Paediatric cardiologist Karin Tran Lundmark treats patients with pulmonary hypertension, a condition that means high blood pressure in the lung. Karin Tran Lundmark’s research is focused on finding ways to treat what is causing the high blood pressure. “Currently, we can reduce symptoms and prolong survival, but there is no cure. What if we could dissolve the blockages and restore the normal blood
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-hope-i-will-be-able-tell-my-patients-we-have-curative-therapy - 2025-12-21
The focus of senior consultant Elin Trägårdh’s research is diagnostic nuclear medicine – in particular a modality called PET/CT. It is used mainly for evaluation of patients with cancer. Today, PET/CT is reviewed manually by doctors. ”I think we don't use all the information there is in the images. What if we could use artificial intelligence to help us to quantify the images and obtain as much in
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-believe-validated-pet-imaging-biomarkers-could-transform-future-clinical-cancer-care - 2025-12-21
Are you curious about new development research? Or looking for inspiration and new skills for your PhD studies in development? Join the Development Research School this Spring. In the Spring of 2024, the Development Research School is excited to announce a series of new events. Development Lunch SeminarsJoin us biweekly on Thursdays for Development Lunch Seminars, where scholars present new projec
Last month's Bioekonomiriksdagen conference is now available to watch again. For the next two weeks, videos from Bioekonomiriksdagen are available to watch via the Region Skåne website. Recordings of each presentation and panel discussion can be watched individually, or you can choose to watch both mornings in full. Did you miss some of the talks first time round? Perhaps you want to listen again
https://www.lubirc.lu.se/article/watch-bioekonomiriksdagen-again - 2025-12-21
Plants in tropical dry areas have developed an unusual strategy for survival. Instead of using their water supply during the dry season, they hold on to the last drops until the very end in order to quickly get started on photosynthesis as soon as the rainy season has begun. Using satellite technology, researchers have now managed to investigate the storage of water in plants worldwide. The resear
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clever-strategy-sets-photosynthesis-flying-start - 2025-12-21
Karl Bacos, assistant researcher at LUDC is the recipient of 2020 years Medeon stipend of 50 000 sek for his innovative work within epigenetics in diabetes. The Medeon stipend is handed out in connection to the acknowledgement of World Diabetes Day in Skåne which takes place on November 14th. This year the arrangement will be broad casted to the public in real time from Medeon Science Park in Ma
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/karl-bacos-years-recipient-medeon-stipend - 2025-12-21
The libraries at Lund University are launching Finn, a new search system for the autumn semester of 2025, replacing the current LUBcat and LUBsearch. A beta version of the new system is already available for testing and feedback submission. The developers are also looking for people to test the system in exchange for a movie ticket. The idea of transitioning to a unified search system has been dis
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/finn-university-libraries-new-search-system - 2025-12-21
The Network for Asien studies (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo organises a seminar and book launch on 3 November 15.30-17.00. In this seminar, the authors and editors of five recently published books on India draw on their work from the perspective of caste, democracy, social movements, industrialisation and nationalism, to answer the questions: what have Modi and his government achieved so
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-and-book-launch-modi-and-politics-progress - 2025-12-21
Project title: Early-life environmental risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease: A Nordic birth cohort study Project: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, debilitating immune-mediated disease with a typical onset in childhood and young adulthood. After a rising incidence over the past decades, it now affects 0.5% of Western populations, and is an emerging disease globally. There is a
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/job-opportunity-doctoral-student-medical-science-environmental-risk-factors-ibd - 2025-12-21
Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director Seasonal greetings from the team at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies This has been a strange and challenging year. We have just closed down the Centre temporarily due to escalating Covid-19 pandemic. However, in 2021 we hope to be moving towards brighter times! CMES is set to launch some new initiatives to consolida
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2025-12-21
Fanny Christou and Spyros Sofos have just had a chapter published in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, published in association with the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Their contribution in the book focuses on the “Physical and Virtual Spaces Among the Palestinian Diaspora in Malmo” and is based on extensive fieldwork in Skåne and elsew
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/physical-and-virtual-spaces-among-palestinian-diaspora-malmo - 2025-12-21
Lund University’s Future Week 18-24 October offers exhibitions, lectures, debates and tours - on site and online. The theme for this year's Future Week is "Breakthroughs". What breakthroughs are needed in research and in society for us to be able to manage our future in the best way possible? What breakthroughs do we expect to happen soon? The university’s researchers addresses this year’s theme t
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/future-week-18-24-october-2021 - 2025-12-21
