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Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2009. They were all conduct
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-12-13
Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market policies and practices, bettering the conditions for immigrated labourers. In a report published in 2019, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found that dishonest employers across the EU hire migrant workers u
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologists-law-investigating-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2025-12-13
People with type 2 diabetes have epigenetic changes on their DNA that healthy individuals do not have. This has been shown in a major study by researchers at Lund University. The researchers also found epigenetic changes of a large number of genes that contribute to reduced insulin production. “This shows that the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is not only genetic, but also epigenetic”, said C
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/epigenetic-changes-could-explain-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-13
Nyligen var Luke Dawson, gästprofessor vid MedCUL i Lund och professor i dental utbildning vid universitet i Liverpool, på besök vid Lunds universitet. Han har arbetat med utveckling av digitala pedagogiska verktyg i många år och är imponerad av QPS-arbetet i Lund. Hämtad från MedFaks tidigare QPS-blogg. Publiceringsdatum: 2019-11-15 | Författare: Teresa Lindstedt What is your overall impression w
https://www.qps.education.lu.se/artikel/has-potential-show-world-what-possible - 2025-12-13
An observational study from Lund University in Sweden examining sugar consumption has attracted considerable international attention. The study shows that sweetened beverages have a greater negative impact on health than other sources of sugar. They significantly increased the risk of ischaemic stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Of the 70,000 Swedes who took
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/questions-and-answers-lund-university-sugar-study - 2025-12-13
Britta Padberg (PhD), tidigare ansvarig för Center for Interdisciplinary Research vid Bielefeld University i tolv år och föreståndare för The New Institute i Hamburg, har varit här på Pufendorf IAS sedan slutet av augusti på en fyra veckor lång forskningsvistelse. Vi känner henne sedan tidigare: Britta Padberg var en del av vår utvärderingspanel under 2024 och besökte oss både i maj och i oktober
https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/valkommen-tillbaka-till-pufendorfinstitutet-britta-padberg - 2025-12-13
En ny anläggning för djurförsöksverksamhet planeras att byggas på Brunnshög i nordöstra Lund. Det är ett strategiskt beslut av Medicinska fakulteten – dels för att det nuvarande djurhuset inte längre är optimalt för avel och dels för att kunna erbjuda internationella forskare en säkrare forskningsmiljö. LUM har träffat tre av LU:s experter i försöksdjursfrågor. Djurhuset vid Medicinska fakulteten
https://www.lu.se/artikel/sakrare-forskning-i-nytt-djurhus - 2025-12-14
82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that fill a gap of 50 years. Emma Kritzberg In Sweden and many other countries in the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2025-12-13
EUGLOH stands for European University Alliance for Global Health and is a partnership between 9 European universities*. To further develop relations within the alliance, an annual summit is held each year. This year the meeting will be held at Lund University and takes place between 13-14 June. We welcome staff, students, and PhD candidates from Lund University to participate. The annual meeting i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eugloh-annual-summit-2023-held-lund-13-14-june - 2025-12-14
It’s Friday night in Lund and soon Mikael Dolsten, acclaimed head of research and visiting professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, is about to tell the incredible but true story of how, in just nine months, his company developed one of the vaccines that could save us from the pandemic. It would have taken nine years if the circumstances hadn’t been so dire. Important research issues
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/our-visiting-professor-tells-astonishing-story-vaccine-can-save-world-pandemic - 2025-12-13
The Lund Stem Cell Center’s Annual Image Competition returned this year with another vibrant display of creativity, curiosity, and scientific discovery. From intricate cellular landscapes to artistic interpretations of research, this year’s submissions once again highlighted the diverse and inspiring work of our research community. Now in its fourth year, the Lund Stem Cell Center Annual Image Com
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/celebrating-art-science-images-2025-image-competition - 2025-12-14
After just over a year as acting director of MAX IV, Olof Karis was named ordinary director earlier this summer. Was it an easy decision to stay on? “Oh definitely, I communicated my interest both in the application and in interviews. Ever since I was a doctoral student, I have wanted to see an increased use of synchrotron radiation in Swedish research.” What do you feel most proud of since you be
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/challenges-await-new-ordinary-director-max-iv - 2025-12-14
LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa
https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-12-13
LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2025-12-14
Using a specially designed camera, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded for the first time in recreating how birds see colours in their surroundings. The study reveals that birds see a very different reality compared to what we see. Human colour vision is based on three primary colours: red, green and blue. The colour vision of birds is based on the same three colours – but also
https://www.science.lu.se/article/unique-camera-enables-researchers-see-world-way-birds-do - 2025-12-13
Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we talk about the climate and endangered species. Ahead of Biodiversity Day on 22 May, Maria Hansson, a researcher at Lund University, offers tips on how to create a non-toxic environment in your own garden, benefiting all its inhabitants, big and small. Synthetically prod
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-ways-create-toxin-free-garden - 2025-12-13
Mathematics Professor Kalle Åström studies the future of agriculture with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). He develops mathematical models to optimise harvests and contribute to climate-friendly agriculture. Artificial intelligence and agriculture may seem like two different worlds, but not for Kalle Åström. On the contrary, he sees synergies and is keen to bring the two together. The Pro
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ai-provides-agricultural-intelligence - 2025-12-14
Joan Yuan, researcher and associate professor in immunology, receives the Eric K. Fernström prize for younger, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University in 2024. Her research is about how the immune system is formed and how it affects us throughout life. Award justification: "For her decisive discoveries that have changed our understanding of hematopoiesis and the immune
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstrom-award-young-successful-researchers-goes-joan-yuan - 2025-12-13
Vägledning för implementering av färdplan för öppenvetenskapSUHF har reviderat sin färdplan för öppen vetenskap. Det har tillkommit en ny rekommendation och ett åtgärdsförslag avseende öppna lärresurser. SUHF:s nu nio rekommendationer är ett av policydokumentet LU lutar sig mot när verksamhetsplan för öppen vetenskaps-arbetet ska formuleras.Den nya versionen hittar ni under rekommendationer på SUH
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-februari-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-3 - 2025-12-13
They govern everything we think and do, they give us the ability to feel pain and to secrete insulin: they are the ion channels that are present in every one of our cells and that control the electrical impulses in our nerve and muscle cells. “For me, they are the very spark of life”, says Dame Frances Ashcroft, professor at the University of Oxford, who is also now to be an honorary doctor at Lun
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/injections-pills-research-neonatal-diabetes - 2025-12-13
