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Israel is in shock. The most basic task of a country's defence forces is to guard and protect its borders. Yet the Israeli army was caught completely off guard when thousands of terrorists entered the country to murder and take hostages. Read the interview with Karin Aggestam, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies and expert on the Israeli-Palestin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/war-between-israel-and-hamas - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a collaborative study with other European research groups, scientists from Lund University in Sweden have shed new light on how the protein aggregates that accumulate in the Parkinsonian brain may contribute to neuronal injury during disease progression. The study is published in Cell Reports. The brain is a comple

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-toxic-protein-aggregate-formation-parkinsons-disease-size-matters - 2026-05-29

Anna Fossum, Project Manager at the StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research infrastructure, has been sorting cells with a variety of types of FACS machines for the past 23 years. But she hasn’t gotten tired yet of the job – quite the opposite. And now she has a new and more powerful member of the “FACS family” to look after. “I really love my job! It’s stimulating to meet so many people and hear a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-addition-lund-stem-cell-center-facs-facility - 2026-05-29

PhD student Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir not only has a background as a director, writer, theologian, life coach and actor. When she started her PhD in Lund, she was also an academic dean in her native Iceland. With the question 'How little is enough?' she has explored how little it really takes to create an artistic, transformative experience. Friday is the day of her defence. Steinunn Knúts Önnudót

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/how-little-does-it-take-create-artistic-experience - 2026-05-29

Researchers in Lund have discovered an antitoxin mechanism that seems to be able to neutralise hundreds of different toxins and may protect bacteria against virus attacks. The mechanism has been named Panacea, after the Greek goddess of medicine whose name has become synonymous with universal cure. The understanding of bacterial toxin and antitoxin mechanisms will be crucial for the future success

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-multipurpose-switch-inhibiting-bacterial-growth - 2026-05-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From the 1 of November there is a new Climate-KIC project coordinator at the Lund University working actively with involving research at the University in the different Climate-KIC initiatives. During the first months the position will be held temporarily by Olof Blomqvist. Here is a short interview with Olof. Intervi

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/new-climate-kic-coordinator-lund-university - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Simon Herzog has studied what factors determine the fate of iron from boreal rivers and is now defending his thesis "Fate of riverine iron over estuarine salinity gradients". Rivers have traditionally not been considered important sources of bioavailable iron (Fe) to the marine waters, since most iron is lost by salin

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/iron-boreal-rivers - 2026-05-29

A record number of PhD students, around 25, from 10 of SWEAH's 13 partner universities, participated in the spring SWEAH PhD Student Days at Kristianstad University last week. It was a replay of the popular theme "Introduction to Writing Retreats". As usual, the doctoral students networked, shared experiences and learned new things during a lecture on how AI can be used in scientific writing, and

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/popular-theme-attracted-many-sweahs-phd-student-days - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With a new sustainability plan, Lund University management wants to increase the level of ambition and develop sustainability work within the organisation. Education and research are to increase their positive impact, while the University is to halve its contribution to climate change by 2023. In autumn 2019 a strateg

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-plan-approved - 2026-05-29

Four researchers at Lund University are on the 2021 list of the most cited researchers, which is compiled every year by Clarivate, the company behind Web of Science. In its entirety, the list contains just over 6 600 researchers from all over the world, who have shown significant influence in their research fields through publication of several extensively cited articles over the past decade. Base

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-lund-university-researchers-among-most-cited-2021 - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Emissions from business travel by air dropped by 86% compared with the previous year, but energy consumption was not much affected by the pandemic. The environmental management report for 2020 has now been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency and shows that 5 out of 7 relevant environmental targets were me

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-2020-environmental-management-report - 2026-05-29

During the spring, the Purchasing and Procurement Office will gradually take over responsibility for all procurements over SEK 700,000. The previous threshold (below which no support was available) was SEK 1.5 million. A new procedure is being introduced, which means that procurements worth over SEK 700,000 will be carried out with support from procurement officers in the Division of Finances. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/threshold-procurement-support-being-reduced - 2026-05-30

Huntington's disease is known as the "dance disease" due to the patient's characteristic motor symptoms. However, Elna Dickson's Ph.D. project shows that the disease also leads to pathological changes outside the brain. February 17, she defends her thesis about metabolic alterations in Huntington's disease. Now, she shares perspectives on her research journey. Tell us about your research! "Hunting

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/huntingtons-metabolic-dysfunctions-phd-interview-elna-dickson - 2026-05-29

Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. The trade wars have clearly affected the global

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2026-05-30

A new PhD thesis by Bernard Ekumah examines why agricultural development in Ghana continues to generate uneven and contradictory outcomes, especially for smallholder farmers. It argues that these outcomes are not primarily the result of isolated failures of policy design or implementation. Rather, they arise from structural contradictions embedded in the internal logic of Ghana’s neo-liberal agrar

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/small-holder-farmers-reap-few-and-uneven-gains-ghanas-agricultural-development-policies - 2026-05-29

The Lung Bioengineering and Regeneration research group is made up of about 15 researchers focusing on chronic lung disease. The group’s work includes the development of different methods to study disease models for conditions such as COPD and pulmonary fibrosis. One of the researchers, John Stegmayr, has been awarded SEK 700,000 from the Carl Tesdorpf Foundation to expand research into idiopathic

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/focusing-chronic-lung-disease - 2026-05-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Patients with diabetes or Parkinson’s disease can be cured with stem cells at a clinic in China. Multiple sclerosis, stroke and cerebral palsy are treated at a stem cell clinic in Mexico, and in Thailand, the deadly disease ALS can be cured with stem cells... at least according to advertising from these and other clin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hyped-hope-shady-stem-cell-clinics-take-advantage-desperate-patients - 2026-05-29

For the first time, researchers have linked specific frequent defects in sperm to risk of pregnancy complications and negative impacts on the health of the baby. The study from Lund University in Sweden shows that high proportion of father’s spermatozoa possessing DNA strand breaks is associated with doubled risk of preeclampsia in women who have become pregnant by IVF. It also increases the risk

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/defective-sperm-doubles-risk-preeclampsia - 2026-05-29

How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study by LUCSUS researchers. It reveals that the answer is broader than just improved policies – it's about rethinking the very role of law itself. Researchers Ebba Brink, Ana Maria Vargas Falla and Emily Boyd examine how socio-legal processes shape climate vulnerability and resistan

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2026-05-29

LUCSUS research is global in scope and covers many topics and countries. Last year, in 2024, researchers conducted field work in places such as India, Nepal, Ghana, Colombia, USA and Kenya. Visiting the home of perennial research in Kansa, USALUCSUS researchers Elina Andersson, Lennart Olsson and Stefan Schuller, who are all working in the PERENNIAL project, participated in the project’s annual me

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/read-about-lucsus-fieldwork-2024 - 2026-05-29