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https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/se-vilka-fakulteternas-hedersdoktorer-2026-ar - 2026-07-18

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Just before Christmas, his department lost out on a top international researcher, an investment worth over SEK 100 million. A month later, his group reported a major breakthrough in pheromone research. Professor Christer Löfstedt, head of the Department of Biology, one of the largest departments at Lund University, fe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rollercoaster-life-head-department - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they ga

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2026-07-17

At the Lise Meitner seminar 2025, two new Lise Meitner professors were introduced, while the main lecture looked back on 100 years of female excellence in the field of Automatic Control. Professor Carolyn Beck Carolyn Beck is a professor at the University of Illinois and an expert in control theory and dynamic systems over networks, with applications ranging from epidemics and financial risks to e

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/new-and-old-role-models - 2026-07-17

Since his graduation from the master’s programme in Management in 2018, alumnus Glenn Lio has been on quite the adventure, from military training in Taiwan to rubbing elbows with business leaders in chambers of commerce. Personal reflection, the vivid student life and the importance of community are Glenn’s key learnings from his LUSEM days and experiences he still finds great use for in his job a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/glenn-connecting-global-business-communities-taipei - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A few weeks ago The Huntington Disease Center in Lund, Sweden, welcomed researchers, clinicians and representatives from patient organizations in the Nordic countries to the second Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting in Lund. Among the prominent visitors were Patrick Weydt, representative of the European Huntin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-huntington-heights-met-lund-summit - 2026-07-17

When researchers are working in the field, they may be faced with challenging and sometimes dangerous situations. How does Lund University prepare its doctoral students and researchers for fieldwork? When LUM asks about the faculties’ procedures, it becomes clear that the departments are primarily responsible. Dealing with dangerous situations in the field once they have arisen is not enough – the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-who-responsible-security - 2026-07-18

Food impacts not only the body but also the brain. Researchers at Lund University strive to understand how a diet rich on fat and sugar impacts memory functions in relation to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Their new study on mice shows that although an unhealthy diet leads to memory impairment, the damage does not have to be permanent. Obesity is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes and car

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diet-rich-fat-and-sugar-damaged-memory-mice-not-permanently - 2026-07-17

What constitutes leadership? The idea of leadership is often that of a strong individual offering positive solutions and heroic deeds. But this is difficult to demonstrate in everyday interactions without falling into arguments that could be criticised, given that leadership is practised all the time and everywhere. In his thesis “How is leadership enacted?: Sacralization in everyday interactions

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-leadership-enacted-new-thesis-examines-leadership-everyday-situations - 2026-07-17

There is a lot of talk about ChatGPT just now – one of the chat-based AI services delivering answers to all possible questions in matter of seconds. But the new technology is not merely generating answers, but also raising many questions. In order to get insight into what everyone is talking about, LUM has given it a try. It is easy to get started – all that is required is to create an account on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dialogue-chatbot - 2026-07-18

Just over two weeks after the climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. The issue is less well-known than the climate crisis and no framework corresponding to the Paris agreement is in place – something that many people hope the December summit in Montreal will rectify. It i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/it-time-put-biodiversity-agenda-five-lund-researchers-challenges-cop15 - 2026-07-17

Peptides from the common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus speed up the pathological aggregation of α-synuclein, a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease. This was discovered by researchers at MultiPark and published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Staphylococcus aureus is carried by 30–70% of the general population as a commensal bacterium. It produces a special kind of peptides c

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/common-skin-bacteria-may-trigger-aggregation-parkinsons-disease-protein - 2026-07-17

Researchers have investigated whether there is a correlation between hip osteoarthritis and alcohol habits in women. Alcohol habits have been studied many times before, and both benefits and drawbacks have been discussed from various health perspectives. According to the researchers, no specific correlation between osteoarthritis and alcohol has been found. However, it has been found that alcohol

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/can-womens-alcohol-habits-be-related-need-hip-replacement-surgery-due-osteoarthritis - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An extensive study has confirmed that the risk of developing coeliac disease is connected to the amount of gluten children consume. The new study is observational and therefore does not prove causation; however, it is the most comprehensive of its kind to date. The results are presented in the prestigious journal JAMA

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/association-between-coeliac-disease-risk-and-gluten-intake-confirmed - 2026-07-17

The MOCCA project (Multi-level Orders of Corruption in Central Asia), in collaboration with the MARS project, hosted an international research seminar at Lund University on January 22, bringing together scholars and early-career researchers to examine critical issues at the intersection of migration, governance, labor mobility, and higher education reform in Central Asia.Organized by Professor Rus

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-and-mars-research-seminar-explores-corruption-governance-and-higher-education-challenges - 2026-07-17

The MOCCA project (Multi-level Orders of Corruption in Central Asia), in collaboration with the MARS project, hosted an international research seminar at Lund University on January 22, bringing together scholars and early-career researchers to examine critical issues at the intersection of migration, governance, labor mobility, and higher education reform in Central Asia.Organized by Professor Rus

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/mocca-research-seminar-explores-corruption-governance-and-higher-education-challenges-central-asia - 2026-07-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With a research focus on the development and application of in vitro models to study human brain evolution and disease, PhD student Daniela Grassi will be defending her thesis on Thursday 23rd of April 2020. Here, Daniela tells us about her research in the Molecular Neurogenetics group, led by Johan Jakobsson, and her

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-daniela-grassi - 2026-07-17

Förändringar i syresättning och klimat hade fundamental betydelse för marina miljöer och ekosystem under en av de mest omvälvande tiderna i livets utveckling. Det visar en ny studie där forskare analyserat jod och kalcium i kalkstensprover från Sverige, Estland och Ryssland. Det har länge spekulerats kring storskaliga samband mellan biodiversitet och syretillgång under livets tidiga utvecklingshis

https://www.lu.se/artikel/kallare-klimat-och-syrerika-havsstrommar-lade-grund-moderna-marina-ekosystem - 2026-07-18

Några frågor till Kiran Maini Gerhardsson, som tillsammans med Steven Schmidt och Susanne Iwarsson författat den vetenskapliga artikeln om första studien som genomfördes i MoRe-Labs testlägenhet vid Lunds universitet. Hur kan era resultat bidra till att förbättra allmänhetens hälsa?– I forskningsstudien undersöktes förutsättningarna för att äldre personer, 70 år och uppåt, ska kunna gå en Internet

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/forsta-studien-fran-more-lab - 2026-07-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Mat med mycket fibrer förbättrar både blodsockerkontroll och blodfettsbalans men den kan ha en nackdel – fibrerna minskar kroppens förmåga att absorbera kalcium ur födan vilket är viktigt för skelettet. - Vi rekommenderar att patienter, till exempel med typ 2 diabetes, som gör som de ska och äter mycket fibrer att t

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/fiberrik-mat-minskar-kalciumupptaget - 2026-07-17