Konkurrerande sjukdomsrisker och gynnsamma livsstilsförändringar kan eventuellt förklara varför färre män med typ 2-diabetes insjuknar i prostatacancer. Slutsatserna dras i en ny avhandling från Lunds universitet med fokus på prostatacancer och olika riskfaktorer, bl.a. den livsstilsrelaterade sjukdomen typ 2-diabetes. - Det finns ingen känd stark biologisk mekanism som kan förklara att färre män

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hogre-dodlighet-kan-forklara-lagre-sjukdomsrisk-bland-diabetiker - 2025-08-27

Många av de personer som har genetiska förutsättningar att utveckla förmaksflimmer, med kraftigt ökad risk för stroke som följd, kan upptäckas genom ett blodprov. Det visar ny forskning från Lunds universitet. Över 200 000 svenskar har förmaksflimmer. Antalet drabbade ökar påtagligt, vilket bland annat antas bero på att allt fler blir äldre. Den som har förmaksflimmer har också en kraftigt ökad ri

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/gentest-visar-risk-formaksflimmer-och-stroke - 2025-08-27

ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes) fyller jämt (40 år!) och håller i år sin kongress i insulinbehandlingens ursprungsstad Toronto. Här rapporterar barnläkaren Frida Sundberg från kongressen. Inledningsanförandet av ISPADs president Stephen Green tog upp de olika förutsättningar som ISPADS medlemmar arbetar under med det gemensamma målet att ge bästa möjliga vård ti

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/rapport-fran-internationellt-barndiabetesmote - 2025-08-27

I mer än 60 år har metformin varit förstahandsval av läkemedel vid typ 2 diabetes. Det är det äldsta och fortfarande vanligaste medlet. Nu visar amerikanska forskare att metformin även under många år kan förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut hos patienter med hög risk att insjukna. Metformin Det är den stora och långvariga studien Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) som publicerar den senaste uppföljnin

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/metformin-forebygger-typ-2-diabetes-under-lang-tid - 2025-08-27

Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz presented her recent project with the title "Striatal Neuropathology induced by Hypothalamic Overexpression of Huntingtin Fragments using Adeno-associated Viral Vectors in Mice” as an oral presentation in the Short Communication session at the EHDN meeting in the Hague, the Netherlands, in September 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-research-selected-oral-presentation-ehdn-meeting - 2025-08-27

Welcome to Jo Henningsen who started her postdoctoral fellowship two weeks ago with TNU. Jo will work on hypothalamic dysfunction in HD, and will be engaged in collaborations with the BRAINS unit.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-our-new-postdoc-jo-henningsen - 2025-08-27

There was an official ceremony for the new Professors at Lund University, Friday October 14 2016. Read more about Petersén's research in the official document from the ceremony and see pictures from the newspaper Sydsvenskan: Sydsvenskan broschyr-professorsinstallation-lunds-universitet-14okt2016.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-official-ceremony-new-professors - 2025-08-27

Petersén is invited to give a talk entitled "Hypothalamic dysfunction in Huntington disease: relevance for non-motor features and striatal pathology" at an International Huntington Conference in Vilnius, April 7 2017.Please see programme: hd_conference_programme_20170407.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-international-huntington-conference-vilnius - 2025-08-27

Cheong and Henningsen present their recent research findings and Petersén acts as discussion leader at the Gordon Research Conference on CAG Triplet Repeat Disorders in Mount Snow, USA, June 2017.See program at: https://www.grc.org/cag-triplet-repeat-disorders-conference/2017/

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-goes-gordon-research-conference-cag-triplet-repeat-disorders - 2025-08-27

A new initiative between Lund University and Region Skåne is the formation of an excellence center for Huntington disease. The aim is to bring research closer to the clinic and to provide multidisciplinary care by experts for families with HD at all stages.The center will work in close collaboration with industry and patient organizations. The center is headed by Professor Åsa Petersén. See press

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntingtoncenter-has-been-formed-lund-university-and-region-skane-headed-professor-asa-petersen - 2025-08-27

Drs Baldo, Henningsen and Soylu-Kucharz have received three research grants of a total of 286 000 SEK for their exciting projects on Huntington disease. Congratulations!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-grants-tnu-postdoctoral-fellows-royal-physiographic-society-lund - 2025-08-27

Åhlen Foundation gives a 200 000 SEK research grant to Dr Rachel Cheong, TNU, for her interesting research on Huntington disease.Congratulations!!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/ahlen-foundation-gives-200-000-sek-research-grant-dr-cheong - 2025-08-27

Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz has received the Best Neurobiology section thesis 2016 award at EMV, Lund University.Congratulations!!!   Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2016 Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2016 was awarded Dr. Rana Soylu Kucharz for her thesis Hypothalamic and Metabolic Dysfunction in Genetic Models of Huntington's Disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-receives-best-thesis-2016-award - 2025-08-27

Dr Sanaz Gabery is one of 14 to receive Hjärnfonden's (Brain Foundation) stipend for postdoctoral researchers during 2019. Her project is focusing on white matter alterations in Huntington's disease. Earlier research has shown that grey matter is reduced in Huntington patients’ brains, which can be one explanation to these patients’ motor symptoms. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown that chang

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sanaz-gabery-hjarnfonden-stipendee - 2025-08-27

Huntington Center is hosting this year's first information meeting in Lund on Huntington's disease on May 28. The evening is open for families with Huntington's disease and health care professionals. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Skåne University Hospital will be present, as well as researchers from Lund University and the patients' organization RHS. There will be opportunity to

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-information-evening - 2025-08-27

Team "Huntington Disease Center" made its first Lundaloppet-run!! The supporting family members ran the kids-run! Great day and well done everyone! Happy team members before the start The juniors contributed to the great performance

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hd-team-lundaloppet - 2025-08-27

In the latest edition of Neurologi i Sverige (Neurology in Sweden), Åsa Petersén has contributed with an article on her research group's findings on the effect on hypothalamus in Huntington's disease. These results might lead to future therapeutic strategies. This article is only available in Swedish. "Det är väl känt att hjärnans motorcentrum tar skada vid Huntingtons sjukdom. En forskargrupp vid

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-hd-petersen-neurologi-i-sverige - 2025-08-27

On May 28 the Huntingtoncentre in Lund hosted an information evening on Huntington's disease at the Biomedical Centre in Lund. 70 guests came to listen to Åsa Petersén, professor and senior consultant in psychiatry, and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, who talked about the latest research in the HD field and different symptoms and treatment possibilities.The visitors wer

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-hd - 2025-08-27

On November 5 and 6 2019 the annual event "Forskningens Dag" (Research Day) will take place in Malmö and Lund. Forskningens Dag is popular-scientific event with a specific theme each year, where the participating researchers present the current research in their field. The event is organized by the Faculty of Medicine and the health care organization Region Skåne.This year Åsa Petersén is the scie

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-day - 2025-08-27

The 2nd Nordic HD Research Meeting will take place on Tuesday November 26, 2019 in the Belfrage hall at D15 of the Biomedical Center (BMC), Klinikgatan 32, in Lund, Sweden. It is organized by the Huntington Center and is open to HD researchers and clinicians in the Nordic countries. There will be a large number of data blitz presentations to allow for both PI’s, postdoctoral fellows and PhD studen

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-welcomes-hd-researchers-and-clinicians-nordic-countries-one-day-nordic-huntington - 2025-08-27