Published 10 December 2019 Filipe Pereira awarded the 2019 ERC Consolidator Grant. Today the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition and Filipe Pereira, group leader in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, was one of the researchers awarded this highly competitive grant. One of 89 researchers selected from a total of 707 applicants in th

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Published 11 December 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 16 December 2019 By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published on 23 August 2018“We must understand the ageing process itself in order to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to possibly enable us to prevent these diseases from arising”, says Henrik Ahlenius of the Stem Cell Centre at Lund University. His aim is to develop an experim

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Published 16 December 2019 Zaal Kokaia, Professor within the Department of Clinical Sciences and Director of Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded Georgia’s most prestigious scientific prize - the National Prize in Science.  The award comes as a result of his outstanding contribution to world class scientific research and was presented to Prof. Kokaia at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace, Tb

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 13 January 2020 Margarita Chumarina defends her thesis on Wednesday 15th January Margarita Chumarina, from the iPSC laboratory for CNS disease modeling, will be defending her PhD thesis on Wednesday 15th of January. Researching in the group led by Laurent Roybon, Margarita has been utilizing stem cell-based models to

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 27 January 2020 Sara Nolbrant defends her thesis on Friday 31st January Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neu

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Published 26 February 2020 Björn Nilsson and Nicholas Leigh We are very happy to announce that two new PIs have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Björn Nilsson is Professor of Clinical Immunology at the Medical Faculty of Lund University, and the Head of the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. He is also a visiting researcher at the Broad Institute

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By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Leidholm) - published 2 March 2020 Human iPS cells Photo: Johan Jakobsson Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease make up the world’s most common diseases. A new biobank at Lund University in Sweden - the largest of its kind - with stem cells from both those affected and healthy individuals, will contribute to an

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 5 March 2020 UniStem day 2020 High school students from all over the Skåne region will be visiting Lund University to spend a whole day discussing the current state of stem cell research, discovering what it is like to work in a research setting, and exploring the exciting future possibilities that stem cells have to

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Published 19 March 2020 PI Agnete Kirkeby. Photo: Kennet Ruona Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow Agnete Kirkeby has re-established her research group at Lund Stem Cell Center. With labs situated at both Lund and at the Department of Neuroscience at Copenhagen University, Agnete’s aim is to develop stem cell-based neural cell therapies to replace lost neurons as a treatment for brain diseases. A

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 30 March 2020 Lund Stem Cell Center employees and students are hereby invited to enter the Image Competition 2020! We want inspirational images that capture the spirit of Lund Stem Cell Center. Any research related images will be accepted. Not just pictures of cells or sections, it could be your work environment, equ

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 6 April 2020 VIdeo: Experiences from UniStem Day 2020 UniStem Day 2020 was another great success, with high school students visiting Lund University to enjoy a variety of activities introducing them to the fascinating world of stem cell research. The 6th UniStem day hosted by Lund University kicked off at the LUX Aul

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By olle [dot] dahlback [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Olle Dahlbäck) - published 8 April 2020 Transplanted nerve cells (upper right) made from human skin cells send their nerve fibers to the cerebral cortex on the opposite side of the brain. Image source: Zaal Kokaia. Researchers from Lund University have now succeeded in restoring mobility and sensation in rats that have suffered Stroke, by transpla

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 20 April 2020 Daniela Grassi defends her thesis on Thursday 23rd April. Photo: Kennet Ruona With a research focus on the development and application of in vitro models to study human brain evolution and disease, PhD student Daniela Grassi will be defending her thesis on Thursday 23rd of April 2020. Here, Daniela tell

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 27 April 2020 Carla Azevedo defends her thesis on Thursday 30th April Carla Azevedo is set to defend her PhD thesis titled “Oligodendroglial (dys)function in alpha-synucleinopathies” on Thursday 30th of April. Here, Carla answers a few questions about her PhD journey at Lund Stem Cell Center, researching in the iPSC

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 8 May 2020 Accumulating levels of protein aggregates characteristic of Huntington disease (left) can be reduced by boosting autophagy (right). Image source: Karolina Pircs. Huntington disease is fatal inherited brain disorder, usually emerging during mid-life. Although there is currently no known cure, the Molecular

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By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 25 May 2020 Image of a human embryo surrounded by placenta, around 7 weeks of age. Image credit Hill, M.A. (2020, May 18) Embryology  Stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new research model of the early embryonic brain. The aim of the model is to study the very earliest stages of brai

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By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 29 May 2020 Neuroblasts (green) in the aged brain traveling from the subventricular zone (SVZ) to the olfactory bulb (OB) via the rostral migratory stream (RMS). Proliferating cells are shown in red. Image from Jonas Fritze. Neurogenesis, the process by which new neurons are formed, dramatically declines in the aging

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 11 June 2020 Franziska Olm will defend her PhD thesis on Friday 12th June 2020 PhD student Franziska Olm has been developing a microfluidic-based acoustophoresis method to process stem cell preparations label-free, a technique with great research and clinical potential. In this interview, Franziska tells us about her

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 25 June 2020 Postdoctoral researcher Agatheeswaran Subramaniam and PhD Student Kristijonas Žemaitis from the Stem Cell Regulators research group. Photo: Alexander Doyle Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a novel target for the expansion of human blood stem cells ex vivo and shed light on the mecha

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