Search results

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 - 2025-12-22

Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs are a new form of govern

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2025-12-22

Lung patients die for lack of organs healthy enough for donation. The project called "The bridge - lungs for life" aim to create a centralized Danish-Swedish "revitalizing facility" for damaged lungs – the first in Europe! Lung transplantation is the only treatment for patients with severe lung disease, but the organs are not enough, resulting in patients dying while waiting for organs. Increasing

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/project-bridge-lungs-life-receives-eu-funding - 2025-12-21

Open inspirational seminar 5th of March with Simon Bates, University of British Columbia, Canada. “Learning science and educational research has contributed to a huge body of knowledge into how we can make teaching (and therefore learning) more effective for our students. However, for faculty members within disciplines, this can often seem an impenetrably dense body of literature, and opportunitie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-learning-research-can-tell-us-about-effective-blended-learning-course-design - 2025-12-21

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 - 2025-12-21

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. The programme is organised in collaboration between the Depart

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2025-12-21

• Do you get your Friday emails from Research professional with the latest funding opportunities? • Is your profile in LUCRIS, ORCID-ID and PRISMA in order? • What happens with your articles once they are published? How do you get them in all these databases? Warmly welcome to a workshop on tools for researchers at LU on 9 February 10–12. This event is open to both CEC Fellows and PhD-students!Hea

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/workshop-tools-researchers-lu - 2025-12-22

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 - 2025-12-21

In their quest to find new and better methods to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment, Karin Lindkvist and her research group at Lund University in Sweden are looking into the world of molecules, using the X-rays at the MAX IV laboratory. The researchers believe that limiting the cells' access to sugar will make cancer cells more sensitive to treatment. Many of the cancer treatments use

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-believe-sugar-and-obesity-can-make-cancer-cells-more-difficult-kill - 2025-12-21

Every year Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt and Ellinor Martin dissolve five to ten tonnes of limestone with highly dangerous chemicals. The aim is to find microscopic grains from fossilised meteorites that are many millions of years old, which can provide important clues to the development of life on Earth.  LUM was given a tour of the world-unique acid laboratory.  There is a smacking sound as Fr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemically-empowered-hunt-space-grains - 2025-12-21

Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the same couple of weeks, both researchers published findings on the technology which has now resulted in a Nobel Prize for chemistry. Since th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2025-12-21

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 - 2025-12-22

Throughout life, our lungs are vital organs. For newborns as well as for elderly patients, there is a need for safe and continuous lung monitoring in the healthcare. Some of today's common methods of examining the lungs, such as X-rays and computed tomography are limiting since they can not be applied continuously and carry ionizing radiation. A new technology for clinical lung monitoring is now o

https://www.combustionphysics.lu.se/article/measuring-oxygen-lungs-lasers-finished-master-project - 2025-12-21

Today two separate batches of available housing were published, one for September and one for remaining accommodations in late August. Please note that response deadlines for August rooms will be very short. Two batchesToday (19 August), the fifth batch of available housing for August 2024 was published, as well as the first batch of housing available from September. These batches have different d

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/september-and-late-august-batches-published - 2025-12-21

The brain's big-eating immune cells can slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease. This is shown by a study that is now published in Nature Aging. The brain's own immune cells are called microglia and are found in the central nervous system. They are big eaters that kill viruses, damaged cells and infectious agents they come across. It has long been known that microglial cells can be activa

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brains-immune-cells-can-be-triggered-slow-down-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-21

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/top-ranked-lusem-shines-latest-world-university-rankings - 2025-12-22

The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of research-based policy briefs, including formatting and writing conventions, identifying and disseminating to an audience, and evaluating their impact. The workshop is a joint collaboration with the LU Agenda 2030 Graduate School and the Pufendorf Institute Advanced Study Group "Wildfires in the Anthropocene". Researchers are increasingly encour

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-writing-policy-briefs - 2025-12-21

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 - 2025-12-21

The POInT clinic at the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö welcomes parents with their young children. One of the research nurses who sees them is Annika Björne Fors, who coordinates all sample-taking and appointments related to the study. The clinic is located one floor above the main entrance and belongs to both Lund University and Region Skåne, which is the principal of several of the stud

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/intersection-healthcare-and-academia - 2025-12-21

Här är en lista över forskare från Lunds universitet som kan svara på många olika slags frågor som kan bli aktuella under de stundande helgerna, från A till Ö. God jul önskar Lunds universitet! AAdvent, jul och trettondag: historia, teologi och praktikStephan Borgehammar, professor i praktisk teologi, kan svara på frågor om uppkomsten och innebörden av det kristna jul- och trettondagsfirandet, adv

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-julexperter-2019 - 2025-12-22