By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 7 October 2024 PhD student Luís Oliveira drew resounding applause for his presentation on how he reprograms cancer cells. Photo: Bodil Malmström. By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/he-won-regional-heat-researcher-grand-prix-now-heading-national-contest-stockholm - 2025-07-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2022 Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture 2021. (Photo: private) Magdalena Götz, a professor of physiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, held the prestigious Segerfalk lecture last year. The discovery she made as a youn

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/control-experiment-transformed-entire-research-field - 2025-07-11

Published 18 April 2024 Congratulations to Djevdet Iséni and Yuqing Zhao on your table tennis triumph! Photo: Anna Löthman On 17 April, the annual FEK Table Tennis Tournament unfolded. A total of 20 players battled fiercely until the very end, and the final match of this year may well be remembered as the most thrilling and of the highest quality ever! A set of quick questions for the winnersCongr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/fek-table-tennis-tournament-2024-meet-winners - 2025-07-11

Published 1 April 2025 Photo: Istockphoto/Maren Winter Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy me

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-levels-environmental-pollutants-and-heavy-metals-hedgehogs - 2025-07-11

Published 1 April 2025 Photo: Istockphoto/Maren Winter Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/surprising-number-environmental-pollutants-hedgehogs - 2025-07-11

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 13 February 2025 Vanya Darakchieva is a professor of solid state physics at LTH. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LT

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-07-12

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallén-Widung) - published 13 December 2024 The tense global situation is a challenge for the university's internationalisation work, says International Coordinator Pär Svensson. Photo: Minna Wallén-Widung Internationalisation has become more important – and more complex – in recent years. In a world where democracy and acade

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internationalisation-important-comprehensive-and-complex - 2025-07-12

Published 2 May 2013 Animal ecologist and pike researcher Anders Nilsson was the first doctor of the Millennium at Lund University. Now, 13 years later, he has just been appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecology. We caught up with him to find out what had happened since our last meeting, and had a long discussion on careers, creativity and the value of colleagues who provide a helping hand when times

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/journey-doctor-professor - 2025-07-11

Av anna [dot] mansfeld [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Mansfeld) - publicerad 7 juni 2024 Sommaren är en tid för återhämtning och avkoppling - ge dig själv tillåtelse att koppla av, ladda om och njuta av solen. Ta hjälp av tipsen nedan för att kunna koppla ned och av ordentligt under ledigheten. I god tid före semesternSemester: Ansök om semester i god tid före semestern, enligt den rut

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/att-tanka-pa-infor-sommaren-2024 - 2025-07-12

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 19 September 2024 'We can't build cities that are fundamentally unsustainable and expect individual behaviour change to solve the problems. Urban development must contribute to norm change by actively redistributing resources,' says Alva Zalar in her thesis. Can a new neighbourhood be a spearhead for sustainability if

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-thesis-sheds-light-hyllies-sustainable-urban-development - 2025-07-11

Published 11 December 2015 Sara Snogerup Linse och Anne L'Huillier - two Nobel Committee members from Lund University. Photo: rika Weiland, Apelöga Anne L'Huillier and Sara Snogerup Linse chair their respective Nobel Committees at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Anne for Physics and Sara for Chemistry. Both have worked extensively at Lund University and are among the few women who are, or h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/they-choose-years-nobel-prize-winners - 2025-07-11

Published 30 November 2017 Capsules for transporting drugs, knee injuries that are really osteoarthritis, skin cells reprogrammed into nerve cells, variations in our DNA affecting the production of blood cells, and the urban sharing economy as a potential solution to our sustainability challenges. These are the research areas which have been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Resear

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grants-awarded-lund-researchers - 2025-07-11

Published 2 December 2022 Photo: Malmö City Council In political debate, the notion of climate transition is often presented as a road lined with sacrifices. Many researchers, however, paint a picture of a day-to-day life that could be better than today’s. What is experienced as good or bad varies from one person to the next, and may vary over time.  “Whether something is getting better or worse i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-city-life-will-be-if-we-reach-our-climate-goals - 2025-07-11

Publicerad 17 november 2023 Det finns tre genetiska färgformer hos honorna av den större kustflicksländan. På bilden syns den hanfärgade, blå varianten (underst). Foto: Erik Svensson. I över 20 år har ett forskarlag i Lund studerat den i Sverige vanligt förekommande större kustflicksländan. Honorna har tre ärftliga färgformer – varav en ger dem ett utseende som påminner om hannar, vilket skyddar d

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/forskare-har-lost-flickslandans-fargmysterium - 2025-07-11

Av johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - publicerad 17 november 2023 Det finns tre genetiska färgformer hos honorna av den större kustflicksländan. På bilden syns den hanfärgade, blå varianten (underst). Foto: Erik Svensson. I över 20 år har ett forskarlag i Lund studerat den i Sverige vanligt förekommande större kustflicksländan. Honorna har tre ärftliga färgforme

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/forskare-har-lost-flickslandans-fargmysterium - 2025-07-11

Publicerad 11 april 2021 I slutet av 1990-talet sänktes blodsockergränsen för när diagnosen typ 2 diabetes ska ställas. Anledningen var att vården och behandlingen kommer för sent i sjukdomsprocessen, många hade redan komplikationer innan de fick diagnosen. Nu visar ny forskning från Norge att risken för hjärt- kärlsjukdom ökar även vid enbart ett måttligt förhöjt blodsocker, ett värde under gräns

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/enbart-latt-forhojt-blodsocker-okar-risken-for-hjartsjukdom - 2025-07-11

Publicerad 20 april 2020 Höga blodfettsnivåer av typen lipoprotein(a) hos personer med typ 1-diabetes innebär en ytterligare ökad risk att drabbas av hjärtkärlsjukdom, visar en studie från Karolinska Institutet som publiceras i den ansedda tidskriften Diabetes Care. Lipoprotein(a)-nivåer bör därför mätas hos patienter med typ 1-diabetes och vara en del i den totala riskbedömningen, menar forskarna

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hoga-nivaer-lipoproteina-vid-typ-1-diabetes-ar-kopplat-till-okad-risk-hjartkarlsjukdom - 2025-07-11

Publicerad 6 augusti 2009 Brist på vitamin D är vanligt i alla åldersgrupper. Nu visar en undersökning att ju större vitaminbrist en ungdom har desto vanligare är det att de har allvarliga riskfaktorer för att senare i livet insjukna i diabetes och hjärt- kärlsjukdomar. Forskarna, bland annat från Johns Hopkins University i Baltimore, USA, som upptäckte det mycket starka sambandet mellan vitaminbr

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/starkt-samband-vitaminbrist-bland-unga-och-framtida-diabetesrisk - 2025-07-11

Av jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - publicerad 23 juni 2020 Bildkälla: Freepik Att bli förälder är en stor livsomställning och föräldrars upplevelse av första tiden efter att barnet är fött påverkas bland annat av den information och förberedelse de får under graviditeten. I ett nytt avhandlingsarbete vid Lunds universitet har forskare utvecklat ett evidensbaserat pro

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/foraldraforberedelse-ett-tryggare-foraldraskap - 2025-07-11

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-kan-probiotika-forhindra-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-07-11