By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 24 October 2023 Photo: iStock. Are you curious about or want to share experiences about the evaluation of education and get more tools and inspiration? Register for the Faculty's annual quality conference, no later than 1 November. Jenni Erlandsson, Quality Coordinator, who is involved in arranging the Faculty's an

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By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Skånes universitetssjukhus och Medicinska fakulteten, Lunds universitet) - published 26 August 2022 Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre, Skåne University Hospital and Lund University. A large amount of lungs donated yearly cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University have conducted a

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Published 7 October 2021 Alexandra Franzén outside of the AF-building in Lund where Jan Guillou and Peter Bratt gave a speech about the IB-scandal the evening before they were imprisoned for their publication. Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended

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By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 29 January 2020 The vesicles function as the body’s internet, and carry information on the patient’s disease state. To capture and decode them – that’s the challenge, says professor Thomas Laurell. Photo: Lars Owesson A hot topic among cancer researchers is vesicles, nanoparticles that flow in our veins in thei

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By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 2 December 2022 Principal Investigator Christopher Douse and the Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics research group join Lund Stem Cell Center, where they will explore the control and influence of ‘genomic dark matter’ in human brain development. Motivated by fundamental questions about mechanisms underpinning human dis

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Published 12 November 2019 Joan Yuan, research team leader at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Directly after birth, the immune system completes production of a subtype of antibody-producing immune cells, B-1, that are to last for a lifetime. No more B1-cells are formed after that point. However, these cells are self-reactive – they produce not only antibodies against f

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Published 3 January 2023 Foto: iStock/andresr. A new study have identified which blood tests are best at detecting Alzheimer’s disease during the earliest stages, and also another blood test that is optimal for detecting relevant treatment effects. These findings will speed up the development of new therapies that can slow down the disease progression. The article was originally published as a pre

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/optimal-blood-tests-development-new-therapies-alzheimers-disease - 2025-04-17

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 13 March 2023 After a decade of protocol development and preparations, MultiPark researchers have finally launched the clinical trial. Recently, dopamine-producing cells generated from embryonic stem cells were transplanted into the first Parkinson's patient at Skåne University Hospital. During the autumn 2022, the

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Published 2 April 2015 On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund Unive

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Published 20 February 2024 Photo: Ulrika Oredsson 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 prof

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Published 14 December 2023 In order to achieve the 1.5-degree target set by the Paris Agreement, massive cuts in carbon emissions are needed. For the EU, this requires a reduction of household carbon footprints from 2015 of almost 70% by 2030 and over 90% by 2050. Too often, climate policies are not placed within a broader social context and policy makers neglect to see that welfare policies are v

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/eu-project-shows-welfare-policies-are-vital-climate-mitigation - 2025-04-17

Published 7 November 2023 Photographer: Tove Smeds Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. He receives the award for his work on reprogramming blood cells and the development of immunotherapies based on this technology. It was a sheep that determined Filipe Pereira's c

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By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 9 November 2023 SWEAH's research administrator Stina Elfverson. Photo: Lill Eriksson 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 wh

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Published 8 October 2015 Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living L

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Published 1 November 2018 “Solutions to limit the climate impact of plastics” was the topic of this years Climathon in Lund. The 24 hour hackathon gathered 54 participants and was thereby one of the larger among the 113 Climathons held simultaneous all around the world. Climathon in Lund was organised by a consortia of five very different organisations, Lunds Universitet, Lunds Kommun, Sysav, Ideo

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Published 9 September 2010 Marju Orho-Melander, professor of genetic epidemiology in Malmö, has been awarded Lund University’s Fernström prize. Her research is about genetic variants that are associated with blood lipids and lipoproteins and can therefore increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Many genes exist in different variants. Sometimes, some of the variants have a negative effect, in

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Published 22 May 2013 In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants to learn more about TCF7L2 by studying new ways of delaying

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/method-which-repairs-damaged-genes - 2025-04-17

By kontakt [at] artrosportalen [dot] se (The arthritisportal) - published 1 July 2022 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

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/will-it-be-possible-predict-future-health-status-your-knee-tissues - 2025-04-17