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https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genes-and-environment-pd-phd-interview-kajsa-brolin - 2025-12-29

Life is like a marathon. According to Dr. Anders Björklund, a pioneer and expert in cell replacement strategies for patients with Parkinson’s Disease, so is life in academia. Along his scientific run he has passed several milestones, the most recent being a jubilee honorary doctorate awarded by Lund University in celebration of his decades of contributions to neuroscience. We sat down with Anders

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/looking-long-magnificent-road-neuroscientists-life-interview-anders-bjorklund - 2025-12-29

How can the climate movement continue its struggle and be a force for change in the light of other current crises such as social and economic injustices, inequalities and pandemics? Mine Islar, researcher at LUCSUS, says that joining forces with other causes and movements are one way forward, another is to stay focused and keep a long-term perspective. On October 15, LUCSUS is organising the event

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-movements-continue-shape-future - 2025-12-29

Lund Stem Cell Center's Research School in Stem Cell Biology has a new Executive Coordinator, Mattias Magnusson. As a researcher with a passion for education and collaboration, he aims to take the research school to new heights by implementing innovative education programs and cultivating a supportive research environment. In this interview, we explore his background, his vision for the future of

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/meet-new-executive-coordinator-lund-stem-cell-centers-research-school-stem-cell-biology - 2025-12-29

For the last three years, middle-school classrooms in Lund and Staffanstorp have been getting a special visit during the autumn: scientists walk in with stories about their favorite research topic and what it is like to work in a lab. This is the Science to Schools program, an initiative that began as an idea from PhD student Abigail Altman and has now grown into a collaboration involving Lund Ste

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bringing-science-classroom-taking-science-middle-schools-lund - 2025-12-30

The Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomes the beginning of a new chapter with the appointment of its new leadership team. As of January 1, 2025, Professor Malin Parmar has assumed the role of Director, with Associate Professor Göran Karlsson stepping in as Deputy Director. Together, they bring decades of expertise, deep connections to the Lund research community, and a shared vision fo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-leadership-team - 2025-12-30

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/informatics-teacher-digital-education-learning-each-other-key - 2025-12-30

In 2021, Esthefany Moscoso decided to leave her seven-year long career in HR to pursue her studies in the master's degree programme in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at LUSEM. When leaving her current career, she feared the uncertain future. However, Esthefany had no reason to worry. Three weeks before graduation, she landed her dream job at the worldwide incubator Bridge For Billions. Editor's n

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/esthefany-moscoso-alumna-msc-entrepreneurship-and-innovation - 2025-12-30

What kind of an image of yourself do you present on social media? And why? Carys Egan-Wyer, researcher in Consumer Culture, believes that in some ways leisure time has become a type of work. Showing off the perfect meals, gardens and jogging sessions also says something about us and our time. You probably know what it's like. Despite the burnt pots and sauce all over the stove: a photo of a beauti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leisure-time-ordeal-enjoy - 2025-12-30

Raquel Garza Gómez is a Ph.D. student at Lund University, who will be defending her thesis on January 19, 2024. With a background in computational biology, Raquel's research focuses on studying the role of transposable elements in the human brain. Transposable elements refer to DNA sequences capable of moving from one part of the genome to another. Her research aims to provide a better understandi

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/transposable-elements-healthy-and-diseased-human-brain-phd-interview-raquel-garza-gomez - 2025-12-29

High blood pressure damages our blood vessels. It also damages our heart, our brain and our kidneys. A high blood pressure increases the risk of suffering a heart attack and stroke. However, it is not known exactly why a high blood pressure is so dangerous. – The reason is that we have effective antihypertensive medications. So why bother how pressure-induced damage occurs. We feel that this posit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/high-blood-pressure-bloody-serious - 2025-12-29

During the week 9-13 September 2013, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund visited universities in London, networking with researchers working on South Asia related projects. The universities included Westminster University, London School of Economics and Political Science, and SOAS at University of London.  University of WestminsterWeb page:www.westminster.ac.ukLars first went to Westminster Univers

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-lars-eklunds-visit-london-universities-september-2013 - 2025-12-29

Join our team! We are looking for a Research Coordinator with a focus on research grants with appropriate professional experience to support researchers in the application process and disseminate information about opportunities. Work dutiesBECC is looking for a Research Coordinator with a focus on research grants with appropriate professional experience to support researchers in the application pr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/job-alert-research-coordinator-focus-research-grants - 2025-12-29

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-12-29

Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES in earth observations of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! For assessment criteria, terms of employment, instructions on how to apply and other information, please see the job listing. Type of employment: Temporary position Employment expires: 2025-12-31 Contract type: Full time First day of employment: 202

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-cmes-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observations-middle-east - 2025-12-29

CMES Visiting Fulbright Professor Dalia Dassa Kaye has been interviewed about the war in Gaza and the need for new leadership as the only way forward. The war in Gaza will end when Israel realises that its two goals are mutually exclusive - it will not be able to both destroy Hamas and free the hostages. This is what the new visiting Fulbright professor at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern St

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-visiting-fulbright-professor-dalia-dassa-kaye-war-gaza - 2025-12-29

Gustavo is a mechanical engineer from Colombia. During his master's studies, Gustavo got the opportunity to conduct an internship in Lausanne, Switzerland. In Lausanne, he worked in orthopedics and studied the mechanical response of knee implants for total knee replacements using numerical modeling. When Gustavo came home from Lausanne, he was offered a PhD position at the University of Eastern Fi

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/will-it-be-possible-predict-future-health-status-your-knee-tissues - 2025-12-29

SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of digital technologies are unequally distributed among older people.  Groups of older people in lo

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-12-29

In a week or so it’s time for the National graduate school on ageing and health, SWEAH's biennial conference for affiliated researchers. For some, the first real event in a scientific context awaits. But what should you pack, wear and what else is good to think about? SWEAH's research administrator Stina Elfverson, with extensive experience as a tour guide, gives her best tips. She started as a to

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/stinas-tips-conference - 2025-12-29

Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes SWEAH PhD student Samantha Svärdh, Lund University. Her second article gives us information about four different challenges. – Older adults and staff were often given devices without being involved in the decision. We also saw that technologies that

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/welfare-technology-not-solution-without-user-engagement - 2025-12-29