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Epigenetics has become an important tool for researchers endeavoring to understand the causes and development stages of type 2 diabetes. In the future, epigenetic biomarkers could be used to predict type 2 diabetes and individualise its treatment. Diabetes and epigenetics researchers at Lund University summarise some of the most important advancements in a review article published in Nature Review

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/epigenetics-can-pave-way-individualised-treatment-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-07

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/decoding-repetitive-genome-christopher-douse-awarded-consolidator-grant-ssmf - 2025-12-07

A scientific collaboration organised by the Department of Food Science, Copenhagen University in association with Danish Ministry of External Affairs, Danish Ministry of Food and Environment, Danish Embassy in India and Indian Embassy in Denmark. A scientific workshop was organised on 6th and 7th of September the Department of Food Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark.  The purpose of the workshop was to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-indo-danish-workshop - 2025-12-07

As one of four young researchers at Lund University, Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography, receives an ERC Starting Grant. Her project is titled “Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations”. She is the first researcher ever from Lund U

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-economic-historian-ingrid-van-dijk-project-health - 2025-12-08

How do you get a robot to behave in an ethical and moral way? Christian Balkenius is giving this a lot of thought, as it is the topic of his research project. However, he is also thinking about ethics among robot researchers.  “It’s often said that we have advanced further than we actually have done. The aim of the research is not fulfilled if we are not honest.”  Robots pique the imagination and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/robots-not-so-smart-we-would-think - 2025-12-07

Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question. Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of stud

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-12-07

September 19–20, 2024HAIDI participated in the Socio-gerontechnology Network Meeting in ViennaThe Finnish team member Hanna Varjakoski participated in the annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network, which was held in Vienna, Austria. The two-day meeting titled as "Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World" brought together various scholars from social sciences and humanities who are

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-activities-2024 - 2025-12-07

Edstrandska Stiftelsen has decided to award practising artists Lena Bergendahl, Nicklas Randau and Johan Österholm each a scholarships of SEK 400,000. Graduating students from Malmö Art Academy, Louise Hammer, Olle Helin, Fanny Hellgren and Dag Kewenter are each awarded scholarships of SEK 100,000. The scholarships will this year be handed out by the foundation's board on October 29 in connection

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/edstrandska-stiftelsen-scholarships-2021 - 2025-12-07

Global environmental changes caused by a warmer climate can be combatted on a local level. The quality of our drinking water can be improved before it reaches water purification facilities and consumers through local efforts that minimise the growth of toxic algae and cyanobacteria in lakes. BECC researchers Pablo Urrutia Cordero and Lars-Anders Hansson, Lund University, have recently published th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/local-measures-could-save-our-water-climate-heats - 2025-12-07

Summaries from two recent ClimBEco events, Annual Meeting and Greenhouse Gas Summer School. ClimBEco annual meetingA warm thank you to all partcipants in the ClimBEco Annual Meeting in Höllviken, August 24-25! After an inspiring and thought-provoking mini-workshop about assertive communcation and the ClimBEco mentorship program, we went on to learning how different research topics and questions ti

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/highlights-climbeco - 2025-12-07

At the moment, feverish activity is underway to compile the graduate school's eleven-year activities. Before the summer, Lund University's vice-chancellor decided that an external evaluation of SWEAH should be carried out in the spring of 2025. – It is very important to have an external review, because Lund University and the other 12 universities that finance SWEAH need information before decisio

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/graduate-school-will-be-reviewed - 2025-12-07

”An outstanding example of a national graduate school with excellent results and exceptional management, which should be continued in the future”, is the recommendation from the SWEAH evaluation. Following a proposal from the graduate school's partner representatives, during spring 2025 three external reviewers evaluated SWEAH's operations during the period 2022-2024.– We are very satisfied with t

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-evaluators-rated-sweah - 2025-12-07

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/genomics-informed-decisions-can-help-save-species-extinction - 2025-12-07

The graduate research schools ClimBEco and the Bolin Centre Climate Research School (CRS) have recently initiated a collaboration with multiple climate-focused intentions. The joint activities will strengthen the course curriculum and network possibilities for the respective PhD students and contribute to the advancement of the climate and biodiversity research front.  “This is a fantastic way to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-strengthens-climate-and-biodiversity-research - 2025-12-07

Climathon is an annual 24 hour hackathon for climate solutions. The format was launched by Climate-KIC 2015 and has spread rapidly across the globe. In 2017, 104 cities participated in 6 continents, all at the same time 27 October, 10:00 to 10:00 the following day. Lund University organized Climathon in Lund 2017 together with Lund Municipality and Kraftringen. This was the first time the event wa

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2017 - 2025-12-07

Lund University is strengthening its work in retail and logistics at Campus Helsingborg under the name REAL - Centre for Retail and Logistics. The centre will focus on sustainability, digitalisation and changes in working life - the major challenges facing retail and logistics. Lund University and the City of Helsingborg are each contributing SEK 4 million to the centre's start-up Retailing and lo

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/investing-future-retail-and-logistics - 2025-12-07

In the beginning of October we welcomed two of our three new doctoral students; Isabelle Karlsson from Germany and Monica Porzionato from Italy. Isabelle Karlsson did her Master’s in Strategic Communication at the Department between 2016-2018. After her Master’s she has worked within communication in various sectors, but decided to come back to academia. Find out more about Isabelle below;What is

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/isabelle-and-monica-our-new-doctoral-students - 2025-12-07

On December 1, 2025, at 10.15 a.m, at EC2:101, Lund, CMES PhD student Rami Zalfou will defend the PhD thesis titled: Borders and Pathways. Essays on Syrian Economic Development and Migrant Integration. The faculty opponent is Associate Professor Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics.AbstractOver the past century, Syria and the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have undergone p

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-viva-borders-and-pathways-essays-syrian-economic-development-and-migrant-integration - 2025-12-07

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gut-hormone-can-increase-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-12-07

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/paralympics-paris-our-man-site-great-commitment - 2025-12-07