By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 March 2016 Petersén is invited to give a talk entitled "Huntington disease - in the crossroads of neurology and psychiatry" at the Swedish Psychiatry Congress in Stockholm, March 16-18 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-about-huntington-disease-swedish-psychiatry-congress - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 22 April 2016 On Friday April 15 2016 Åsa Petersén hosted a national HD meeting in Lund for health care personnel. 50 participants from different parts of Sweden attended the meeting. program_nationellt_hd-mote_lund_15_april_2016.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-hosts-national-hd-meeting - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 26 April 2016 Åsa Petersén was appointed Professor in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University on March 16 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-now-appointed-professor-lund-university - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 3 June 2016 Former TNU PhD student Sanaz Gabery was awarded Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2015 for her thesis New perspectives on pathology in Huntington's disease - characterization of hypothalamic changes.Congratulations, Sanaz!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-awarded-best-neurobiology-section-phd-thesis-2015 - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 7 June 2016 Dr Rachel Cheong is awarded Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forsknings (SSMF) stipend for post doctoral studies. The stipend of 600 000 SEK during two years allows Rachel to conduct research aiming to understand the neuropsychiatric aspects of HD. A greater understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/cheong-receives-ssmf-post-doc-stipend - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 July 2016 Petersen and Cheong were awarded a 500 000 SEK grant for a project on the oxytocin system as a therapeutic target for HD!Brain Foundation's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/swedish-brain-foundation-grant-petersen-and-cheong - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 July 2016 Drs Baldo, Cheong and Soylu-Kucharz present their recent research findings at the 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen, July 2-6 2016.More about FENS:FENS website

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-present-research-fens-copenhagen - 2025-04-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 15 August 2016 Dr Cheong presents her recent work at the HDF (Hereditary Disease Foundation) “The Milton Wexler Celebration of Life” symposium in Boston, August 3-6 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-cheong-presents-her-research-hdf-meeting-boston - 2025-04-05

Published 15 August 2022 Läs här om ett samarbete mellan lundaforskarna Johan Jakobsson och Malin Parmar som har lett till en ny metod för att studera åldersrelaterade hjärnsjukdomar. https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 21 June 2023 Would you like to learn more about our research on X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism? To read the full article please go to the following link: Exploring the Role of 'Jumping Genes' in X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-centers-interview-dr-vivien-horvath - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 7 September 2023 Patricia Gerdes, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in transposable elements and their impact on the human genome, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. To read the full article on Patricia Gerdes' MSCA Fellowship, please go to th

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/cracking-code-human-brain-evolution-patricia-gerdes-awarded-msca-fellowship - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 November 2023 I en studie ledd från Lunds universitet kan forskarna för första gången visa att traumatiska hjärnskador aktiverar vilande endogena retrovirus som under årmiljonernas gång infogats i människans DNA. Att dessa aktiveras kan vara drivande för att starta en inflammation som förvärrar hjärnskadan.

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/svart-hjarntrauma-aktiverar-vilande-kroppsegna-retrovirus-i-hjarnan - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 11 December 2023 "Tack vare ny teknik har Storbritannien precis godkänt en behandling som botar två genetiska sjukdomar. Nu ligger vägen öppen för att behandla andra sorters lidande." "– Vi kommer att kunna utveckla botande behandlingar för många ovanliga sjukdomar som inte går att bota i dag, säger Johan Jakob

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/dagens-nyheter-nya-behandlingar-sjukdomar-som-tidigare-var-omojliga-att-bota - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 19 January 2024 Today we congratulate Dr. Raquel Garza on defending her thesis! Dr. Raquel Garza's thesis "Transposable Elements in the Healthy and Diseased Human Brain" is available online.For an interview with Dr. Raquel Garza please visit Multipark's website.

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-raquel-garza - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 August 2024 Researchers from the Jakobsson Group at Lund University have discovered how a hidden piece of DNA, known as a transposable element, disrupts normal gene function in a disease called X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, their findings uncover

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/how-hidden-genetic-elements-trigger-rare-neurodegenerative-disorder - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 2 March 2018 Interested in how we work with cutting out bad genes and pasting in new, healthy ones? In this case, you might find the below article on new gene techniques and our research very intersting! På svenska: Är du nyfiken på hur vi arbetar med att klippa ut de dåliga generna och klistra in nya friska ge

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/om-att-klippa-och-klistra-i-dna-how-cut-and-paste-gene-sequence - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 20 August 2018 Läs här om vår senaste publikation som presenterar en direkt länk mellan Huntingtons sjukdom och en grundläggande process som kallas autofagi.       Publikation: Huntingtin Aggregation Impairs Autophagy, Leading to Argonaute-2 Accumulation and Global MicroRNA Dysregulation  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/nya-ron-om-huntingtons-sjukdom-publiceras - 2025-04-05

Published 26 June 2017 Interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? Are you interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? You can find out more in our latest paper REST suppression mediates neural conversion of adult human fibroblasts via microRNA-dependent and -independent pathways.  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/new-paper-large-scale-production-living-brain-cells - 2025-04-05

By Paulina [dot] Pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 28 February 2018 New publication! Please click here to read about our latest publication TRIM28 Controls a Gene Regulatory Network Based on Endogenous Retroviruses in Human Neural Progenitor Cells.Also, please click here to go to a short presentation of this research in Science: Science

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-are-important-our-brain - 2025-04-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 23 January 2019 We're very happy to announce that our former PhD student Rebecca Petri has received the Best Thesis Award 2017 from the Neurobiology Section of Lund University. Well done, Rebecca! 

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/best-thesis-award-2017-goes-rebecca-petri - 2025-04-05