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The WCMM Fireside Chat is a series of articles dedicated to showcasing the remarkable work of researchers within and around the Lund Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM). Our goal is to encourage collaboration, communication, and inspiration among the scientific community by highlighting innovative research, breakthrough discoveries, and the people driving these advancements. This time

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-agnete-kirkeby - 2025-12-01

From a rejected article to world-leading Alzheimer’s research. Kaj Blennow has made it possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 20 years before symptoms appear – an achievement that has not only transformed research but also laid the foundation for new therapies. He has now been awarded the Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize for his groundbreaking research. Professor Kaj Blennow also enjoys gettin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-world-stage-meet-fernstrom-prize-winner-kaj-blennow - 2025-12-01

Det skriver vår professor Malin Parmar i tidskriften Universitetsläraren, och ger konkreta förslag på hur vi minskar gapet mellan kvinnor och män. Läs Intrameds intervju med Malin Parmar här och Medicinska fakultetens svar. Efter samtal med Anna Falk, professor, och docenterna Emma Hammarlund och Sofie Mohlin, alla verksamma vid vår fakultet, har du skrivit en debattartikel om den bristande jämstä

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/debattartikel-fullt-mojligt-att-skapa-riktade-satsningar-att-oka-jamstalldheten-inom-akademin - 2025-12-02

…a Lund University alumna who has taken a new position as director of the Big Data Institute in Oxford! “Thank you! I am very excited about this”, says Cecilia Lindgren. She describes the managerial role at the Big Data Institute (BDI) as a new chapter, but on something in which she is strongly rooted. Ever since she completed her PhD at Lund University, she has used Big Data in her research in va

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/congratulations-cecilia-lindgren - 2025-12-01

Stiftelsefrågan, forskningsanslag, Afrikaresa, Brasilienresa, adventskalender, LERU och rektorsmottagning är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Stiftelsefrågan. Per har skrivit en debattartikel som publicerats i Vetenskapsrådets tidning Curie där han föreslår en mellanväg mellan ett klassiskt, statligt universitet och en stiftelse. Det bästa av två världar vore att låta universitetet förbli s

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-18-november - 2025-12-02

I november anordnade Centrum för europaforskning, CFE, ett seminarium för att uppmärksamma trettioårsdagen för den svenska folkomröstningen om EU-medlemskap. Elva inbjudna talare delade med sig av sina erfarenheter och kunskaper om medlemskapets påverkan på Sverige genom decennierna. Allan Larssons inledningstal: ”The inside story”Seminariets inledningstalare var tidigare finansminister Allan Lars

https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/trettio-ar-sedan-folkomrostningen-om-eu - 2025-12-01

Här kommer ett utökat Ekonominytt med följande innehåll:Slopad kompensationsrätt för ingående moms vid representation för myndigheterBakomliggande information ändrad för konto 57323 Måltid arbetsmöteÅterbetalning av utländsk moms från EU-landSkatt på kemikalier i viss elektronikNamnbyte på aktiviteterLista makulerade fakturorLista över artiklar med tillhörande kontoEn påminnelse om rutinen vid ext

https://www.ekonomiwebben.lu.se/artikel/nytt-om-representation-kemikalieskatt-fakturor-med-mera - 2025-12-01

Fördjupat samarbete inom Lärosäten Syd, Studentbostäder invigda, internationell satsning på MAX IV, LERU, Rektorsmottagning, Samverkan med Helsingborg och en enkätundersökning om innovation är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Rektorsmötet inom Lärosäten Syd (Malmö Högskola, Lunds universitet, SLU i Alnarp, Högskolan i Kristianstad och Blekinge Tekniska Högskola nämnda från kust till kust) s

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-3-december - 2025-12-02

He is our least known celebrity – a man of power who took the initiative for Lund University and was literally ‘prepared for both’. The 17th century bishop Peder Winstrup is an exciting historical person – and corpse – that will now be studied in a major interdisciplinary project. For many years, a beautiful coffin has stood in the crypt of the Cathedral. In it lies 17th century bishop Peder Winst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/old-bishop-winstrup-returns-academy - 2025-12-01

"Diskussioner om värde i välfärden måste bli mer nyanserade" skriver Pernilla Danielsson och Ulrika Westrup i en nyligen publicerad artikel i tidskriften Organisation & Samhälle. I takt med förändringar i samhället har en riktning mot ökad användarorientering betonats som nödvändig inom välfärden för att kunna möta invånarnas många och komplexa behov av tjänster. Numera talas det om betydelsen av

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/betydelsen-av-varde-i-valfarden - 2025-12-01

The new Global Biodiversity Framework is seen as an important step towards addressing the nature crisis, not least the ambitious goal to restore, protect and conserve 30 per cent of land and 30 per cent of the water globally by 2030.  Mine Islar, senior lecturer at LUCSUS, and coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), shares her refl

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/can-new-post-2020-global-biodiversity-framework-stop-biodiversity-loss-mine-islar-comments-outcomes - 2025-12-01

The construction of a dam in Ethiopia could solve many problems for the growing population along the Nile. However, when the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began, it was met with warmongering from countries downstream. Egypt in particular felt threatened by the dam, which would regulate the Nile, the artery that runs through the heart of the country. “From a scientific perspec

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nile-lifeblood-and-source-conflict - 2025-12-01

Narrative medicine provides tools for clinicians to read patients better. 2022 Sandblom Prize Lecture will be given by pioneering Professor Rita Charon of Columbia University on the discipline that uses the arts to improve understanding. Clinicians trained in narrative medicine are more able to listen for what their patients tell them, to see from others’ perspectives – including patients and fami

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sandblom-prize-expanding-creativity-clinical-worlds-through-narrative-medicine - 2025-12-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have launched a free app to help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge of the coronavirus. “Data from the app will give us a clearer picture of the development of the disease and why some people only experience mild symptoms while others get seriously ill and die”, says Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology. It takes approxim

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/covid-symptom-tracker-app-launched-sweden - 2025-12-01

In this autumn’s second "Dean's corner" Charlotta Turner reflects on the Faculty’s first Inspiration Day for Science Teachers and on the ongoing work to establish a Learning Lab in the Astronomy Building – a testbed for the teaching and learning environments of the future. It’s now been a week since the Faculty hosted its very first Inspiration day for science teachers, and I must say I still smil

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/deans-corner-charlotta-turner-education-something-we-create-together - 2025-12-01

Nearly four in ten female upper secondary school students suffer from iron deficiency. Among vegetarians and vegans, seven in ten have low iron levels, according to a new study led by Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff. The research has received considerable attention in the press, radio and television. "We were surprised by the results," says Anna Stubbendorff. The past two weeks have been

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/nearly-four-ten-female-students-suffer-iron-deficiency - 2025-12-01

Last year, we had several opportunities to engage with Amanda Sjögren’s work during her time as a PhD student at the Unit for Clinical Epidemiology in Orthopedics at Lund University. For those who need a reminder of what Amanda does, the previous parts can be read here, or by scrolling to the bottom of the page. In short, Amanda focuses on knee osteoarthritis at the molecular level during her PhD.

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/two-years-exciting-oa-research-phd-student-amanda-sjogren - 2025-12-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have launched a free app to help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge of the coronavirus. “Data from the app will give us a clearer picture of the development of the disease and why some people only experience mild symptoms while others get seriously ill and die”, says Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology. It takes approxim

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/covid-symptom-tracker-app-launched-sweden - 2025-12-01

The results from the autumn travel habits survey show that a majority of the University’s staff (approx. 80%) get to and from work by walking, cycling or using public transport. This is a higher percentage than for other large organisations in Lund. However, there is potential for even more people to commute sustainably by investments in public transport and measures to promote cycling on campus.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-staff-are-best-sustainable-commuting - 2025-12-02

A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Since I’m starting my second term as dean, LTH will continue with what we started duri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-12-02