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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Universitetsstyrelsen, besök från UHR, Almedalen, Bokmässan, bisysslor, NORDTEK, diplomutdelning, Roskildebesök och Kunskapsveckan är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Universitetsstyrelsen har haft ett tvådagars internat där vi har haft nöjet och förmånen att närmare få lära känna våra nya styrelsemedlemmar C
https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-17-juni - 2026-06-18
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A half-day seminar about the green city (in Swedish only). Kan mer natur bidra till en ekologiskt, socialt och ekonomiskt hållbar stad? Vilka är vinnarna och vilka är de eventuella förlorarna? Välkommen till ett halvdagsseminarium om den gröna staden.Seminariet innehåller kortare presentationer om: gröna visioner, ges
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vision-green-city-how-green-can-it-become - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Patients with diabetes or Parkinson’s disease can be cured with stem cells at a clinic in China. Multiple sclerosis, stroke and cerebral palsy are treated at a stem cell clinic in Mexico, and in Thailand, the deadly disease ALS can be cured with stem cells... at least according to advertising from these and other clin
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hyped-hope-shady-stem-cell-clinics-take-advantage-desperate-patients - 2026-06-17
There is a constant war between bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages, where both try to outsmart each other. An international study led by Lund University provided an important missing bit to the puzzle of how the bacteria defend themselves against phages. This is an important stepping stone towards developing effective phage-based therapies to be used as an alternative to antibiotics. Bacte
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/war-between-bacteria-and-their-virus - 2026-06-17
In 2014, NanoLund was awarded in total 3.2 ME by the European Commission to train as many as twelve PhD students in the area of nanoscale materials for sustainable energy applications. Today, on the occasion of the graduation of Hailiang Xu, we proudly report that all twelve have graduated, and have produced a vast amount of new scientific findings on the way. The PhD4Energy project was funded fro
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/twelve-PhDstudents-graduate-nanomaterials-for-sustainable-energy - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Metformin is the first-line drug that can lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. One third of patients do not respond to metformin treatment and 5 per cent experience serious side effects, which is the reason many choose to stop medicating. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now identified bi
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metformin-type-2-diabetes-patients-or-not-researchers-now-have-answer - 2026-06-17
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. En sektion med en mycket central roll för hela universitetet! Så beskriver vicerektor Bo Ahrén sektionen Forskning, Samverkan, Innovation, FSI. Och i den utredning han nyligen presen terat skärps och tydliggörs uppdragen samtidigt som vissa ommöbleringar görs inom sektionen. Bo Ahrén, professor och vicerektor för Lu
https://www.lu.se/artikel/skarpta-uppdrag-och-ommoblering-foreslas-i-utredning-om-samverkan - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Stenkula, Emily Sonestedt and Sebastian Kalamajski have received grants from the The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Read about their research projects here. Karin Stenkula, Lund University Diabetes Centre:EHD2: a novel candidate essential for lipid transport and overall glucose homeostasisObesity is o
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundations-grant-holders-2020 - 2026-06-17
By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, researchers at Lund University map what happens in the brains of stroke patients. The study published in the scientific journal Stroke expands our understanding of stroke and opens doors to new treatment strategies. schemic stroke, caused by a blood clot in the brain, is the leading cause of d
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2026-06-17
By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, researchers at Lund University map what happens in the brains of stroke patients. The study published in the scientific journal Stroke expands our understanding of stroke and opens doors to new treatment strategies. Ischemic stroke, caused by a blood clot in the brain, is the leading cause of
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How we deal with people who return from terrorist groups – not just those who have travelled to ISIS but also those who have joined right-wing groups in, for instance, Ukraine – is crucial to our own safety, says Dan-Erik Andersson, one of the people behind a new national contract education course on violent extremism
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-provides-education-against-violent-extremism - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After observing the decrease in economic activities, air pollution and carbon emissions as a result of the lockdown measures during the COVID-19, some academics argue that such down-scaling can be considered as degrowth. Although the sudden, unplanned and chaotic downscaling of social and economic activities due to Co
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-degrowth-and-transformative-potential-covid-19 - 2026-06-17
Huntington's disease is known as the "dance disease" due to the patient's characteristic motor symptoms. However, Elna Dickson's Ph.D. project shows that the disease also leads to pathological changes outside the brain. February 17, she defends her thesis about metabolic alterations in Huntington's disease. Now, she shares perspectives on her research journey. Tell us about your research! "Hunting
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/huntingtons-metabolic-dysfunctions-phd-interview-elna-dickson - 2026-06-17
With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data. The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their research data according to legal requirements and security standards. This is achieved through techni
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-data-stewards-each-faculty - 2026-06-18
SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is the 10 February. Workshop description Though Hindu nationalists posit the existence of a monolithic ethnoreligious majority
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Rosengren, physician at Skåne University Hospital and researcher at Lund University Research Centre in Malmö, has received six and a half million swedish crowns from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Project of Excellence. - This means a lot. I can start a research group of my own and drive the research work faster,
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/large-research-grant-mapping-linkage-between-stress-and-diabetes - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The goal is set high, that during the coming ten years develop new methods to prevent, cure and treat diabetes. - Ambitious, but not unrealistic, says Leif Groop, coordinator for EXODIAB, the joint research project that Lund and Uppsala now will launch with a conference in Malmö September 9-10th. Wide range and conduc
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/kick-large-venture-diabetes-research - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the south of Sweden, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been working at Lund University Hospit
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-help-fight-against-covid-19 - 2026-06-17
