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We are excited to share three new research papers from the Healthy Ageing in a Digital World project, exploring key challenges and opportunities in digital health for older individuals. Barriers to Digital Health Services for Individuals Aged 75+This study examines the challenges older adults face when using digital health services in Finland. Findings highlight issues such as poor website usabili

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-papers-healthy-ageing-digital-world - 2026-01-07

HAIDI Research Activities February 20–21, 2025. The Finnish team member, Hanna Varjakoski, participated in the Ageing in the Digital Era: An Interdisciplinary Debate on ICTs and Social Inclusion for Older Adults conference in Milan, Italy. The two-day conference was organized by an interdisciplinary research group from the ACTIVE-IT research project investigating population ageing, active ageing,

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-findings-presented-international-conference-milan - 2026-01-07

This year, Media and Communication Studies instituted an award for exceptional master's theses in the subject. The papers given the Peter Dahlgren Excellent Dissertation Award had been publicly defended and received the highest grade."We instituted this prize to celebrate the hard work our international master programme students put into their theses every year and the amazing results that yields,

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/first-recipients-peter-dahlgren-excellent-dissertation-award - 2026-01-07

On Friday, February 28, Monica Porzionato defended her thesis "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Strategic communication studies usually consider emotions as psychological effects of communication or as an influence on people's understanding of an issue. In the first case, emotions like joy or desire result from strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-monica-porzionato - 2026-01-07

This week, the Department of Communication hosted the doctoral course “The Emerging Field of Strategic Communication – in Times of Geopolitical Conflict and Crisis” (5 ECTS). PhD candidates from Lund University, Mid Sweden University, University of Jyväskylä, and Cardiff University came together to explore key geopolitical challenges in strategic communication.The course covered pressing themes, i

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/doctoral-course-emerging-field-strategic-communication-times-geopolitical-conflict-and-crisis - 2026-01-07

During Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, students from the Strategic Communication and Service Management master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, exploring the textile industry’s shift towards circular economy practices. Marie Ledendal, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Communication and Réka Tölg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ho

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/panel-discussion-during-sustainability-week - 2026-01-07

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. The programme is organised in collaboration between the Depart

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2026-01-07

Every year in June, the small harbour town of Allinge on the island of Bornholm turns into a large celebration of democracy. With more than 2,500 events created by 1,200 different organizations, Folkemødet (literally translated as 'The People’s Meeting') has become an important democratic event with the purpose of creating informal meetings and dialogue between decision-makers and citizens. Treatm

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-participated-peoples-meeting-bornholm-june-2025 - 2026-01-07

On Thursday 5 June, Hario Priambodho defended his thesis "Cult Film Atmospheres: Audiences, Exhibitors, and Live Cinema Spaces". Ever thought that academic texts are boring? Then think again.Hario's defence was anything but conventional — it was full of surprises and interactive moments, including spoon throwing and scenes from cult classics that brilliantly captured the energy and atmosphere of c

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-hario-priambodho - 2026-01-07

At the NORDMEDIA 2025 conference in Odense (August 13-15), researchers from the HAIDI project – Anette Grønning (University of Southern Denmark), Amalie Søgaard Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark), Freja Morris (Lund University), Fredrika Thelandersson (Lund University) and Helena Sandberg (Lund University) – presented new work on digitalisation and care. Two papers were shared:Warm experts,

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-researchers-nordmedia-2025 - 2026-01-07

Lead Biologics takes a major step towards a new cancer treatment. A new study shows that the company’s drug candidate effectively inhibits a previously unknown immune escape mechanism and eliminates acute myeloid leukemia cells in advanced experimental models. – This confirms the great interest in our novel approach to treating cancer, and is an important step towards first-in-human studies, says

https://www.createhealth.lth.se/article/promising-results-lead-biologics-first-class-checkpoint-inhibitor-published-nature-cancer - 2026-01-07

The Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation is donating SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University. This is the largest donation to the university since its foundation in 1666. The donation is dedicated to translational cancer research, meaning applied cancer research in antibody and cell therapies with the aim of improving prognosis and quality of life for today's cancer patients.Read the full ar

https://www.createhealth.lth.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university - 2026-01-07

The Swedish Cancer Society awards Kristian Pietras the Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025. Kristian Pietras, Professor of molecular medicine, is being recognised for his research on the tumour micro-environment, which has given us the key to understanding how cells in blood vessels and connective tissue interact with tumour cells.Read the full article:Kristian Pietras named Cancer Researcher of th

https://www.createhealth.lth.se/article/kristian-pietras-named-cancer-researcher-year-2025 - 2026-01-07

The Young Academy of Sweden, an interdisciplinary academy for a selection of the most prominent younger researchers in Sweden, has launched "A Beginner’s Guide to Swedish Academia", a guide for international researchers, to help navigate Swedish academia and remove time-consuming obstacles. The Young Academy of Sweden (YAS) is an independent platform that provides young researchers with a strong v

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/beginners-guide-swedish-academia - 2026-01-07

The WCMM centre has got yet another new doctor! Roberta Battistella, PhD student in the Lundgaard lab, successfully defended her thesis this month. Roberta Battistella, PhD student in the Lundgaard lab and part of MultiPark, defended her PhD thesis entitled “Methods to study glymphatic system in rodents´ brain during physiological and pathophysiological processes” on the 1st of December. Roberta w

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor-0 - 2026-01-07

Karin Tran Lundmark was awarded funding from the Heart-Lung Foundation for the project "Synchrotron-based imaging to decipher cardiovascular pathobiology". The funding includes 800.000 SEK per year for 3 years. The main purpose of this project is to find novel treatments for pulmonary hypertension. To achieve this, Karins group aims to:  Use synchrotron-based imaging combined with other methods to

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/karin-tran-lundmark-receives-heart-lung-foundation-grant-24-million-sek - 2026-01-07

The first pair of WCMM ScienceBrew popular science talks was a success. Stay tuned for the many exciting plans we have for our popular science talks series! Thanks to all the speakers for their fantastic performance at Café Ariman! At the inaugural WCMM ScienceBrew we heard from: Luís, on turning skin into immune cells to fight disease. Zackarias, on the "sweet" science of sugars that decorate our

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/two-wcmm-sciencebrews-down-many-more-come - 2026-01-07

The SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) is the is one of the latest research initiative funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation. Lund University has successfully recruited two DDLS Fellows starting now in the beginning of 2023. The practice of life science is continuously becoming more data-dependent. The amount and complexity of data is growing expo

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-wallenberg-national-program-data-driven-life-science - 2026-01-07

Filipe Pereira was awarded the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant covering €150.000 for a period of 18 months for the idea to identify cancer neoantigens with dendritic cell reprogramming (NeoIDC). The ERC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) grant aims at facilitating the exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC-funded research. The project, for which Filipe Pereira got the grant, aims to e

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-awarded-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2026-01-07

Gesine Paul-Visse and consultant neurologist and clinical fellow Robert Carlsson received 3 million SEK of funding by Cancerfonden covering 3 years for their project. The already ongoing project entitled “Modulating key targets in pericytes: impact on tumor infiltration and immune evasion in glioblastoma” will investigate if and how modulation of previously selected targets in pericytes antagonize

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/gesine-paul-visse-receives-3-million-sek-cancerfonden - 2026-01-07