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Answers relating to diseases and accurately targeted drugs. Enhanced batteries and sensors. Smarter solar cells, LED lighting and semiconductors – and a reduced need for natural resources. Lund University’s new nano lab has been made possible due to a long-term collaboration with external stakeholders in which the aim is to meet sustainability challenges and find answers to many of the future’s cu

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-curiosity-driven-environment-new-nano-lab-one-cornerstones - 2025-12-21

Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara examined how nanoplastics that end up in the soil affect the microorganisms living there. The answer is clear: there is an effect on the organisms and how they behave. One could say that Micaela Mafla-Endara and her tea

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nanoplastics-influence-microbial-activity-soil - 2025-12-21

A new experimental and clinical study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the sleep hormone melatonin impairs insulin secretion in people with a common gene variant.

“This could explain why the risk of type 2 diabetes is greater among, for instance, overnight workers or people with sleeping disorders”, says Professor Hindrik Mulder who is responsible for the study. Melatonin is a naturally

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-explain-connection-between-melatonin-and-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-21

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 complex organ composed of billions of neurons, whose proper function is dependent on a

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-insights-toxic-protein-aggregate-formation-parkinsons-disease-size-matters - 2025-12-21

The interdisciplinary Pufendorf Institute has received excellent reviews in an international evaluation. The way people there think, experiment and collaborate across boundaries is impressive. According to the evaluators, the institute is now ready to also play a strategic role as the engine of interdisciplinary research throughout the University. At the Pufendorf Institute, interdisciplinary acti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pufendorf-institute-ready-become-interdisciplinary-engine - 2025-12-21

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have compared the effects of intravenous ketamine treatment with ECT treatment in severe depression. The results support the view that ketamine is a possible treatment, but also show that ECT treatment helps more people. In recent years, ketamine has emerged as a new treatment for depression, after studies have shown it to be a fast-acting antidepressant. “

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ect-more-effective-ketamine-severe-depression - 2025-12-21

The Econometric Game in Amsterdam is a competition known as the ”World Championship in Econometrics”. And now, after many years of Top 3 positions, the competing LUSEM student team has won the 2021 Game! LUSEM was represented by master’s students Ester Trutwin and Natalie Irmert, and doctoral students Devon Spika and Matthew Collins. They all study Economics at Lund University School of Economics

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-team-wins-world-championship-econometrics - 2025-12-22

In an ideal world, perhaps the Psychological Defence Research Institute in Helsingborg would not even exist. But the global situation has brought attention, increased research funding and significant interest in collaboration from wider society. “The entire research institute is built around the idea that the world is troubled. We could be ten times the size we are, there is such an enormous amoun

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/psychological-defence-research-institute-we-could-be-ten-times-size-we-are - 2025-12-22

The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the first time a researcher at Lund University has received a Nobel Prize, and atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier is only the fifth woman ever to be awarded the prize in Physics. By now it is widely known where atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier was when

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2025-12-22

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renovating-university-library-will-take-year - 2025-12-22

The aim is more efficient and effective communication operations that better meet the needs of the organisation and focuses on the user. On 4 February, the university director decided on a new organisation and mission for the communication activities of the Central Administration. The communication operations of faculties, departments and centres are not affected by the organisational change.Respo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-university-wide-communication-organisation-decided - 2025-12-22

For the first time, the University has investigated the collective climate footprint of the entire organisation. Emissions of greenhouse gases fell sharply during the pandemic, almost exclusively due to the suspension of travel. However, there is still a long way to go to meet the emission targets for 2023 in the sustainability plan. The recent report shows that, in 2018, the University emitted a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/goods-and-equipment-affect-environment-most - 2025-12-22

The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Olga had published academic work over 25 times before she fell victim to a predatory journal. Today she is embarrassed be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/watch-out-predators - 2025-12-22

Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a novel target for the expansion of human blood stem cells ex vivo and shed light on the mechanism of action of a stem cell promoting molecule, currently in phase II clinical trials. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a curative therapy for many patients suffering from life threatening blood disorders. This treatment is currently limit

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-ex-vivo-expansion-transplantable-human-blood-stem-cells - 2025-12-22

Marcella Birtele will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” on Friday 2nd October. Researching within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group led by Prof. Malin Parmar, here Marcella tells us about her PhD studies at Lund Stem Cell Center. What has been the research focus of your PhD?Although the projects that I have

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-marcella-birtele - 2025-12-22

The European Research Council (ERC) is a key research funder in Europe funding researchers with projects with potential to be ground-breaking across all fields of science. As the principal investigator for a project, Professor Martin Englund at Lund University, has been fortunate to have had such funding for a 5-year period for a project in the field of osteoarthritis. The menisci in the knee are

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/role-meniscus-development-knee-osteoarthritis-research-project-funded-european-research-council - 2025-12-21

We are now announcing the opportunity for project support of up to SEK 150,000 (including overhead costs) to enable artists, artistic researchers and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from each other in an open dialogue and exploratory environment.  The aim of ArtCollab is to enable artists, artistic researchers, and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-project-funding-artcollab - 2025-12-21

In just two weeks, Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical Geography at Lund University and a member of MERGE and BECC, gained 60.000 reads of his article “Gigantic solar farms of the future might impact how much solar power can be generated on the other side of the world”. How could this be? We asked Zhengyao Lu himself to share his experience. In just two weeks, Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical G

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/60000-views-conversation-two-weeks-whats-secret - 2025-12-21

A diversity of different pollinators and other beneficial organisms in an agricultural landscape leads to an increase in crop production. This has been shown by a comprehensive international study that included researchers from Lund University. The study investigated two so-called ecosystem services that are of great significance to our food production. They concern the pollination of crops and na

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/biodiversity-leads-increased-crop-production - 2025-12-21

Intensive efforts are being made in medical research to discover the genomic causes of undiagnosed hereditary diseases. Persistent work and new technology are providing answers to several previously unsolved, enigmatic neurological disorders. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 was one of these, but now a research team in Lund, Sweden, have identified the gene that is responsible. Almost half a million

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-genetic-cause-type-hereditary-ataxia-sca4-long-unresolved-conundrum - 2025-12-21