Published 20 September 2021 The international Alzheimer day takes place on 21 September. About 100 000 people in Sweden suffer from Alzheimer, a disease which also affect many family members and relatives. At the same time promising research brings new hope, with many of the international recognized findings originating from Lund University. Since the beginning of 2021 the strategic research area

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/bigger-picture-alzheimers-disease - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] gilvad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Gilvad) - published 22 September 2021 Photo: Tove Smeds Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovative research in the field of medical chemistry. How does it feel to receive this prestigious award? – It’s a g

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/anna-blom-receives-2021-berzelius-medal-advances-medical-chemistry - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 22 September 2021 Peter Bentzer, Professor of Anaesthesiology at Lund University and an anaesthesiologist at Helsingborg Hospital, is being honoured by the Swedish Society of Medicine for initiatives that reduce climate impact. You are being awarded the prize for the best possible care with the least possible environmental imp

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honoured-best-possible-care-least-possible-environmental-impact - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 5 October 2021 Johan Malmström. Foto: Tove Smeds. On behalf of the Swedish Government, SciLifeLab develops and provides advanced technologies, instruments and expertise to researchers in academia, industry and healthcare throughout Sweden. Johan Malmström has served as Scientific Director of Integrated Structural Biology (ISB)

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/johan-malmstrom-scientific-director-scilifelab-platform-isb - 2025-03-16

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 5 October 2021 Thoas Fioretos. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter. Since 1 June of this year, Thoas Fioretos, Professor of Clinical Genetics at Lund University and Senior Physician in Clinical Genetics and Pathology, Region Skåne, is leading the work of the national research infrastructure Clinical Genomics within SciLifeLab. SciLifeLab

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-lead-work-scilifelabs-clinical-genomics-platform - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 5 October 2021 Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. Photo: Göran Ekeberg. Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 202

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/prize-worth-millions-awarded-leading-blood-vessel-researcher - 2025-03-16

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 12 October 2021 Karl Bacos, a researcher in diabetes and epigenetics, receives a generous grant from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Photo: Petra Olsson Three researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) receive generous grants from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation in 2021. Ola Hansson, Karl Bacos and Malin Fex have b

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundation-grants-mechanistic-studies-type-2-diabetes - 2025-03-16

Published 19 October 2021 Anna Falk. Photo: Stefan Zimmerman. In healthcare, treatments developed for broad patient groups are often used. This is not always an effective approach. Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova has therefore distributed research grants to eleven Swedish innovation environments whose research aims to develop more individually adapted healthcare for patients. The stem cell rese

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sek-40-million-innovation-environment-customised-stem-cell-treatments - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] gilvad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Gilvad) - published 19 October 2021 Jesper Sundewall and Björn Ekman. Photo: Tove Gilvad and Li Fernstedt Hello there, Björn Ekman and Jesper Sundewall! You’re both researchers in social medicine and global health at Lund University, and now you’ve been granted SEK 600,000 from the Expert Group for Aid Studies to study the effects of global hea

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-projects-will-examine-effects-development-assistance-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and - 2025-03-16

By webbredaktionen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (The Web Unit, Faculty of Medicine) - published 20 October 2021 The Lund University research portal has been upgraded. The Lund University research portal has been upgraded. Welcome to explore old and new features. Lund University research portal gathers information and publications. In the portal you will find both thousands of individual researchers

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Published 25 October 2021 We are now looking for part-time (20%) research and teaching staff, with different profiles, from different disciplines and with various experience. Who are you? You currently have a job at Lund University or Region Skåne and have a genuine interest in the subject area of medical humanities. You are willing to work with the start-up of a knowledge centre, where transdisci

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/birgit-rausing-centre-medical-humanities-looking-staff - 2025-03-16

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 2 November 2021 The entrance to the research station in the city of Adama in Ethiopia, where Per Björkman and Patrik Medstrand have been based since 2010. The research station is built together with Ethiopian researchers and healthcare organizations. In 2017, the Faculty of Medicine received a private donation targeted at

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/another-sek-6-million-research-hiv-and-tuberculosis-ethiopia - 2025-03-16

By webbredaktionen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Webbredaktionen) - published 17 November 2021 Camilla Davids. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist For the next four years, Camilla Davids from Namibia will share her time between Lund and Cape Town thanks to the "Double PhD-programme”. With the guidance of supervisors Gabriela Godaly and Reto Guler, Davids will focus on a project on alternative treatment methods

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Published 17 November 2021 At MoRe-Lab researchers will be able to study, among other things, how medication or exercise programs affects the ability to function in standardized and real world environments. For example, a home, workplace, gym or outdoor environment. MoRe-Lab (Movement & Reality Lab) is an experimental health science test environment for studies of movement, activity and behavior i

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By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 24 November 2021 Image: Adam Niescioruk He was best friends with Mikael Dolsten in Medical School in Lund in the 80´s. Since then he has held prominent positions around the world, both within Academia and the Medical Industry. Now he hopes to contribute to medical research with his experience in both basic and appl

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/guest-professor-hoping-infuse-new-life-medical-cornerstone-field - 2025-03-16

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 November 2021 Filipe Pereira. Photo: Kennet Ruona. It was Dolly the sheep that decided the fate of Filipe Pereira's future career. The choice lay between becoming an architect or a researcher, when one of the world's most extreme examples of cell reprogramming aroused his curiosity about the inner works of the human

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/dolly-sheep-inspired-him-build-trojan-horse - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] gilvad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Gilvad) - published 10 December 2021 Photo: Mostphotos. A large population study from Lund University in Sweden has shown that more sustainable dietary habits are linked to health benefits, such as a reduced risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. The study is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Our

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/environmentally-sustainable-diet-linked-health-benefits - 2025-03-16

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 21 December 2021 Peter van Zijl and Stig Ålund. One of the world’s leading researchers in the field of magnetic resonance imaging, Professor Peter C.M. van Zijl, and Stig Ålund, whose efforts have been of great importance for research on the elderly, ageing and health, are to be honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine - 2025-03-16

Published 21 December 2021 Daniella Rylander Ottosson. Photo: Johan Persson. Using methods for reprogramming human glia cells top create specialised nerve cells, interneurons, researcher Daniella Rylander Ottosson aims to lay the foundations for future treatments of diseases such as schizophrenia and epilepsy. Of the 27 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows, two are at Lund University: Daniella Rylander

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/daniella-rylander-ottosson-named-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-03-16

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 21 December 2021 Kristina Hansson and Birgitta Sahlen. Photo: Tove Smeds. The logopedics study programme at the Faculty of Medicine celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. Professor Birgitta Sahlén and Programme Director and Associate Professor Kristina Hansson look back to when it all began, talk about the current study pr

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/logopedics-study-programme-celebrates-anniversary - 2025-03-16