Published 23 October 2019 William Agace, Professor at Mucosal Immunology at Dep. of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University. Photo: Agata Garpenlind He was selling carpets on Mårtenstorget in Lund, applying for all kinds of jobs and answered an advert from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Lund University, for a lab technician job. He didn´t get the job. Instead he was asked if he wan

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Published 23 October 2019 Darcy Wagner and Sandra Lindstedt Ingemansson, researchers at the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital. Photo: Agata Garpenlind 800 people in Sweden are currently on the waiting list to receive donated organs, but there are too few organs. Nearly one person dies each week in Sweden while on the waiting list. How can this

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Published 29 October 2019 Jan Nilsson, Professor in Cardiovascular Research and Chair of the new think tank Vård och Vetenskap. Swedish health care delivers good results, yet we hear every day about the health crisis and its consequences. Now, representatives of academia and health care have grown tired of the crises and started the think tank Health Care and Science with the goal of contributing

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Published 11 November 2019 Carl-Johan Fraenkel. Photo: Tove Smeds Contagion spreads in various ways, with airborne viruses being especially difficult to protect oneself against. Norovirus, or the winter vomiting bug as it is sometimes known, is just such a virus. Carl-Johan Fraenkel, infectious disease and healthcare hygiene specialist, is currently defending his thesis at Lund University, looking

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Published 11 November 2019 For a decade now, the Rehabilitation Medicine research group’s work on spinal cord injuries (SCI’s) has had a far-reaching impact. In many areas, this is research at the global cutting edge; not least, in terms of following the same group of individuals as they live – and age – with spinal cord injuries. Research group leader Jan Lexell is preparing to flex the group’s a

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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 12 November 2019 Rebecca Warfvinge. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a slowly progressing form of blood cancer that attacks the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. The condition requires lifelong treatment that can cause severe side effects. Rebecca Warfvinge maps stem cells in patients in the hope of identifying predictive markers for how the patient will re

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Published 9 December 2019 When then medical student Jonatan Wistrand met a patient who was seriously ill with cancer a few years ago he was extremely moved. On November 29 he defended his doctoral thesis at Lund University with his thesis “The doctor as the patient – documentary and literary statements during the 20th and 21st century”. “I did my training in medical school but worked temporarily d

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Published 9 December 2019 Mobile apps can help patients with neurological disorders manage their symptoms better and stimulate people into having a healthier lifestyle. This is indicated by interdisciplinary research conducted at the research centre CASE at Lund University, which has been published in the scientific journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. “The results are sign

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Published 13 June 2016 On Saturday 30 July 2016, the Bangalore Research Network – NAGARA invites scholars and ethnographers for its second annual workshop. The aim is to share recently-completed or advanced stage Ethnographic research on the city of Bangalore in a one-day workshop. The main goal is to take stock of the field of ‘Bangalore Studies’ over the last few decades and to consider future d

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Published 13 June 2016 The University of Jyväskylä in Finland invites participants to a conference entitled ”Poverty's Causes and Consequences in the Urban Developing World”, which will be held 4–6 August 2016. Anthropologists, ethnologists, sociologists, socio-economists, political scientists and development researchers among others are invited to submit session proposals for this conference. Ses

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Published 7 July 2016 SASNET and School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen) at Lund University invites you to a workshop day on September 23, 2016, from 9.30 to 3 pm in the LUX building in Lund. The event will discuss and highlight the future challenges for journalism and media in India and Sweden. The event is part of the Sweden–South Asia Media Project. During the day you will be able to meet

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Published 11 July 2016 The Second International Conference on Law and Economics will be held in at IIT Kanpur, India on 3 - 4 September 2016. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) jointly organize the conference. The conference seeks to provide a platform where intellectuals in international and na

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Published 11 July 2016 On 15–17 August 2016, the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at Oslo University organizes a PhD course entitled ”Global Food Governance: The Role of Non-State Actors”. The objective of the interdisciplinary course is to critically analyse the changing nature of global food governance: the norms, rules and institutions that govern international political and eco

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Published 11 July 2016 On 15-16 September 2016, the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University hosts a workshop to discuss issues concerning the typological profiles of the major language families of South Asia. The workshop convener is Professor Anju Saxena, and confirmed speakers include Gregory Andersson from the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages; Sonal Kulkar

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Published 11 July 2016 The Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Plant Biomass – Bioproducts, Biocatalysts, and Biorefinery (SUTB4) will be hosted by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in Coimbatore, India, 17 – 18 November 2016. The conference organised in association with Lund University; the SASNET Fermented Foods reserach network; the Indian Biomass A

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Published 11 July 2016 On Monday 20 June 2016, Assistant Professor Khalid Wasim from the School of Rural Development at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India, met with SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund. Wasim had come to Europe for a month long stay at University of Münster in Germany, but took a chance also to visit Lund University and SASNET with an aim to search for researc

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Published 11 July 2016 In early June 2016, Professor J B Prajapati, Head of the Dairy Microbiology Department, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India, again visited Lund University and its Food for Health Science Centre. Prajapati has had a long collaboration with Prof. emeritus Baboo Nair, and during this visit discussions were held with Prof. Richard Öste and

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Published 11 July 2016 One of the stated aims of the European Association for South Asian Studies is to encourage and support young scholars working in the field of South Asian Studies. In pursuit of this aim, the Association is offering awards linked to its biennial conference. Awards are to be made for the most outstanding papers by currently registered research students presenting at the confer

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Published 11 July 2016 The Norwegian Network for Asian Studies' coming NORASIA conference, the seventh, will focus on 'Maritime Asia' and takes place in Oslo 12-13 January 2017. Abstracts and panel suggestionsare now invited. In keeping with its tradition, the NORASIA conference aspires to be a meeting and networking point for scholars in the Nordic region working on Asia more broadly. Therefore t

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