By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 April 2024 Three researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Hannah Brooke is one of them. Read about her project "Identification of novel circulating biomarkers for incident cancer and targets for prevention using large-scale metabolomics data" here! Every year, more than 60,000 individuals in Sweden are d

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/grants-epihealth-uppsala-node - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 May 2024 Three Uppsala University researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Olga Titova is one of them. Her project aims to clarify whether and how sleep and psychosocial factors are linked to the risk of specific incident CVDs and to explore the potential mechanisms using proteomics and metabolomics data.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/big-congrats-olga-titova - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 15 May 2024 Dag Leonard’s research group at Uppsala University has years of experience of autoimmune diseases genetic and epigenetic studies. In this project the connection between autoimmune disease polygenic risk and cardiovascular diseases will be analyzed in the general population using the EpiHealth cohort. Cardio

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/dag-leonard-has-received-one-uppsala-epihealth-grants-2024 - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2024 EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. One of the five recipients is Karl Gisslander. His project is about the rare b

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-money-karl-gisslanders-project-about-anca-associated-vasculitis - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2024 Adam Mitchell is one of five recipients of this year´s EpiHealth seed money. Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic caused disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality in older adults, particularly in nursing homes for older adults. In Swedish nursing homes, COVID-19 was associated with a large excess in mor

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-project-about-pandemic-response-and-preparedness - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 October 2024 Postdoc Max Thorsson works within the IRMA study. Psychiatric conditions, above all depression and anxiety, are the leading cause of reduced ability to function in everyday life for children and young people. Children of parents with psychiatric problems have a high risk of developing their own problems,

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/identifying-risk-and-resilience-mental-illness-during-childhood-and-adolescence-irma-study - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 6 February 2025 Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. A total amount of 1 000 000 SEK

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-seed-funding-preparing-application-and-research-plan-writing-research-area-0 - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 6 February 2025 The strategic research area Epihealth at Lund University hereby announces research space for two years (SEK 750,000/year including OH) corresponding to a postdoctoral position. Around 200 employees (researchers and other staff) are attached to the Epihealth network who work with epidemiological research

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-research-space-postdoc-2025-application-closed - 2025-06-23

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 15 December 2020 New study aims to describe physical, mental and functional health in relation to family care in old age (60+) over a six-year period. Sölve Elmståhl, professor and coordinator for EpiHealth is behind the study and he is co-author of the article "The Health of Older Family Caregivers -

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/health-older-family-caregivers-6-year-follow - 2025-06-23

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 15 December 2020 Marju Orho-Melander, professor and deputy coordinator for EpiHealth is co-author of the article "Height, body mass index and prostate cancer risk and mortality by way of detection and cancer risk category" which has been published in the International Journal of Cancer. The study show

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/newly-published-article-international-journal-cancer - 2025-06-23

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 11 January 2021 We welcome Åsa Westrin as a new board member of EpiHealth. Åsa is a professor of psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University. Åsa's research area is within suicide research and includes psychobiological vulnerability and treatment of suicide attempters as well

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/welcome-professor-asa-westrin-new-board-member-epihealth - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 September 2021 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Håkan Jönson and Kiran Maini Gerhardsson are two of twenty-two authors from Lund University who will present their books at this year's book fair, Bokmässan, in Gothenburg - in Lund's digital stand - on Thursday 23 September.   Håkans Jönsson's book is entitled "Perspekt

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-researchers-participate-bokmassan-2021 - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 8 December 2021 Stig Ålund is a social worker and has extensive experience as a professional in the municipal sector, including as director of the Kommunförbundet Skåne. As a pensioner, he is very active in the civil society and has positions of trust for the National Association of Pensioners (PRO) at both local and

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/stig-alund-honorary-doctor-faculty-medicine - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 February 2022 Christina Heller, PhD student, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University Mid-way review 2022/02/01. With Björn Slaug, main supervisor, and one of the reviewers Marianne Abramsson. CASE PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 February 2022 Congratulations to CASE researcher Giedre Gefenaite who has received so-called "research space" for three years from the Medical Faculty Board. Giedre is active in the research group Active and Healthy Aging at the Department of Health Sciences and has recently also been appointed associate professor. I

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-studies-importance-environment-aging-receive-funding - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 March 2022 Lund University's collaboration initiatives are meeting places for knowledge and development in a number of different defined problem areas. “Social rights and housing for the aging population” (2018–2021) is one of the eighteen initiatives currently in place at the university. The steering group's report

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-processes-and-products-through-social-rights-and-housing-aging-population - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 March 2022 Christine Etzerodt Laustsen's dissertation is part of the research program UserAge. The goal of the program is to gain more knowledge about involvement of older people, relatives and professionals in research in aging and health. UserAge is a collaboration between Lund University, University of Gothenburg

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-userage-phd-student-defends-her-dissertation - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 5 April 2022 The jury has unanimously agreed to award the Susanne Iwarsson Sohlberg Prize. To be eligible, the candidate must have built up a strong research group and initiated research of great importance for the development of gerontology. The prize will be awarded during the opening ceremony of the Nordic Gerontolo

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/susanne-iwarsson-awarded-sohlberg-prize-nordic-regions-largest-prize-ageing-research - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 April 2022 Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash. This study explains how older people experienced and managed everyday life during the first 100 days of the coronavirus pandemic. The findings showed how doing was adapted and changed, how the pandemic gave opportunities for being and appreciating the moment, bu

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-research-article-hundred-days-confinement-doing-being-becoming-and-belonging-among-older-people - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 30 May 2022 On June the 16th at 09.15, Erik Smedberg will defend his Licentiate thesis “Egressibility – Applying the concept of accessibility to the self-evacuation of people with functional limitations”.  The defense will take place in hybrid mode, and it will be conducted fully in English. The defense will take place

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/erik-smedberg-licentiate-thesis-defense - 2025-06-23