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A team from HDYO (Huntington's disease youth organisation) visited TNU on May 24 2013. The filming project involved touring the HD research lab in Lund, meeting researchers and seeing what they are doing in the lab. It was a great day and we are looking forward to the film that will be posted on the HDYO website in the near future:HDYO website Update: See the film!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hdyo-visited-tnu-film-lab-tour-about-our-hd-research - 2025-11-21

Our article entitled Hypothalamic expression of mutant huntingtin contributes to the development of depressive-like behavior in the BAC transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease with the authors Sofia Hult Lundh, Nathalie Nilsson, Rana Soylu, Deniz Kirik D and Åsa Petersén was published in Human Molecular Genetics in May 2013 and got covered in media and on the web:Lund University websiteRead

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/inactivation-mutant-huntingtin-hypothalamus-prevents-depression-hd-mice - 2025-11-21

Barbara Baldo has received a grant of 150 000 SEK from the Blanceflor Boncompagni-Ludovisi foundation to do research about the role of orexin dysfunction in HD. Congratulations!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/baldo-receives-150-000-sek-grant-orexin-project - 2025-11-21

The Gordon Research Conference, GRC, on CAG Triplet Repeat Disorders took place in Waterville Valley June 23-28 2013. Petersén was invited to give a talk and Baldo, Gabery and Soylu presented posters. Also, Soylu was selected to give a talk about her work at the Gordon Research Seminars just before the GRC. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-presents-research-gordon-research-conference-waterville-valley-usa - 2025-11-21

The national patient organisation for HD with Carina Hvalstedt organised a camp for families with HD in Båstad in July 2013. Petersen and Gabery were invited to talk about the disease and to give an update on the ongoing research. This article was published in the newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad:Nytt familjeläger med senaste forskningen

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-and-gabery-give-talks-summer-camp-hd-families-bastad - 2025-11-21

Niclas Hagen at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Modern Genes; Body, rationality and ambivalence on October 4 2013. The focus of the thesis is Huntington's disease. Professor Susanne Lundin has been the main supervisor and Associate Professor Petersen and Professor Tom O'Dell have

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-niclas-hagen-your-phd - 2025-11-21

The Swedish Research Council has awarded a grant of 6.5 million SEK over 5 years to Petersen's research project entitled Critical hypothalamic circuitries controlling depression and anxiety in Huntington disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/65-million-sek-petersen-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-21

Rachel Cheong and Sanaz Gabery receive in total 120 000 SEK from Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund for their research. Congratulations!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/cheong-and-gabery-receives-grants-kungliga-fysiografiska-sallskapet - 2025-11-21

PhD student Sanaz Gabery is featured in this month's newsletter from the Department of Experimental Medical Sciences at the Medical Faculty. In the article, Sanaz describes her interesting findings of hypothalamic changes in clinical HD. emvnewsletterjanuary2014.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-featured-emvs-newsletter - 2025-11-21

Petersén, Gabery and Hagen give talks about psychiatric symptoms in HD, as well as about their ongoing research projects, at the National meeting on Huntington disease (HD) in Gothenburg on March 28 2014. The meeting is organised by the National patient organization for HD. They will also give talks and participate at the National youth week-end for individuals in families with HD in Gothenburg, M

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-national-hd-meeting-gothenburg - 2025-11-21

Sofia Hult Lundh is the first PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis. It is entitled Psychiatric and metabolic disturbances in experimental models of Huntington's disease and will be defended May 28 2014 at 13.00 in Segerfalksalen. It consists of three published papers in Cell Metabolism, Human Molecular Genetics and PLOS ONE with Sofia as first author.Main supervisor is Åsa Petersén. Fac

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/first-phd-thesis-tnu-has-been-traditionally-nailed-may-7 - 2025-11-21

Congratulations Dr Cheong to the prize for best poster at the Neuroscience Day at Lund University 2014! The poster was entitled Behavioral characterization of the psychiatric phenotype in the BACHD mouse model of Huntington disease. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-cheong-receives-prize-best-poster-neuroscience-day-lund-university - 2025-11-21

Sofia Hult Lundh successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 28 2014 and has now a PhD in biomedicine from Lund University.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-sofia-hult-lundh-your-phd - 2025-11-21

Disturbances in sleep and metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases are now gaining increased attention as their underlying mechanisms may provide targets for novel therapeutic interventions. This symposium will shed light on novel research focusing on different aspects of sleep and metabolism relevant for not only Huntington disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but also other neurodegenerati

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-organizes-segerfalk-symposium-metabolism-and-sleep-hd-and-als - 2025-11-21

Sanaz Gabery is the second PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis and she traditionally nailed her thesis on April 22. The thesis is entitled New perspectives on pathology in Huntington’s disease - characterisation of hypothalamic changes and will be defended on May 13 2015 at 09.00 in Belfragesalen, BMC D15. It consists of three published papers in Acta Neuropathologica, Neuropathology &

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/second-phd-thesis-tnu-traditionally-nailed - 2025-11-21

Sanaz Gabery has today successfully defended her PhD thesis at Lund University!Congratulations Dr Gabery! 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-sanaz-gabery - 2025-11-21

Petersén is invited to give a talk at the European Huntington Disease Association Conference, Warsaw, Poland, on September 18-20 2015. The talk is entitled: Change of personality - How to cope.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-lectures-european-huntington-disease-association-conference-warsaw - 2025-11-21

Petersén together with other speakers Joe Guilano, Michael Hayden, Bernhard Landwehrmer and the organisers Astri and Sven-Olof Arnesen at the EHA meeting. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-speaker-eha-meeting - 2025-11-21

Rana Soylu is the third PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis and on January 11 it was traditionally nailed. The thesis is entitled “Hypothalamic and Metabolic Dysfunction in Genetic Models of Huntington’s disease" and will be defended on January 28 2016 at 09.00 in Belfrage lecture hall, BMC D15. It consists of three papers; two published in Cell Metabolism and Scientific Report, and on

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/third-phd-thesis-tnu-nailed - 2025-11-21

On January 25 2016 Åsa Petersen gave an invited talk on “Hypothalamic pathology in HD” at the Department for Neurology at Ulm University in Germany. Here with one of the hosts; Dr Patrick Weydt.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/talk-ulm-university - 2025-11-21