Cancerfonden logo Big congratulations to PI:s Håkan Axelson Transformation of renal epithelial cells: the nephron and renal cell carcinoma, Anders Bjartell Integration of Biomarkers in Clinical Models for Improved Outcome Prediction and New Therapies in Prostate Cancer, Emma Hammarlund Utilizing the isotopic elemental fingerprint of cancer to understand tumorgenesis and for the development of trul

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/pis-tcr-receive-cancerfonden-grants-0 - 2025-09-05

Big congratulations to Alexander Pietras group on receiving ERC grant. Tumor recurrence and therapeutic resistance: exploring and exploiting the post-radiotherapy brain microenvironment for therapeutic opportunities in malignant brain tumors.  

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/alexander-pietras-group-receives-erc-grant - 2025-09-05

Big congratulations to: Alexander Pietras, The irradiated brain tumor microenvironment: Biology and therapeutic tagets, on receiving Senior Investigator Award, and to Paulina Bolivar, in Kristian Pietras group, Integrative single-cell and spatial analyses to reveal micriniche organization in the tumor microenvironment of triple negative breast cancer, on receiving Postdoc grant from Cancerfonden.

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/new-cancerfonden-grants - 2025-09-05

PI Daniel Bexell has been awarded millions in funding from Åke Wibergs foundation that goes to young PIs in medical research. One of the aims is to find out why some tumors develop resistance to today’s treatment but also to find new treatment strategies. Every year around 20 children in Sweden are diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, most before even turning 5 years of age. It is a rare and complexed tu

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/millions-funding-pi-daniel-bexell - 2025-09-05

The platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signalling pathway is often dysregulated in cancer and PDGF-receptor expression has been linked to unfavourable prognostic factors in breast cancer (e.g. ER negativity, high Ki67 and high grade). This study aimed to evaluate the expression of PDGFRα, PDGFRβ and ligand PDGF-CC in breast cancer in relation to molecular subtypes and prognosis. Methods: Protei

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/pdgf-pathway-breast-cancer-linked-tumour-aggressiveness-triple-negative-subtype-and-early-recurrence - 2025-09-05

Congratulations to Yvonne Ceders group and to Alexander Pietras group on receiving Cancerfonden grants.

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/researchers-tcr-receives-cancerfonden-grants - 2025-09-05

Big congratulations to Göran B Jönssons group (Oncology), Kristian Pietras group and Joan Yuans group (Developmental Immunology) on receiving a joint grant from Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation (KAW).   Article about the project via this link (in Swedish).

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/researcher-tcr-receives-kaw-grant - 2025-09-05

Big congratulations to  Kazi Uddins group on receiving Barncancerfonden grant for "Utveckling av riktade kombinationsterapi och nya verktyg för att förutspå terapi-resistens" and to Alexander Pietras group on receiving Barncancerfonden grant for "Syrebristberoende måltavlor i barngliom och ponsgliom".

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/researchers-tcr-receive-barncancerfonden-grants - 2025-09-05

Big congratulations on receiving grants from Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR):Daniel Bexell, Mekanismer och nya behandlingsstrategier mot resistent neuroblastom, and to...Anders Bjartell, Målriktade behandlingar och biomarkörer vid avancerad prostatacancer, and to...Kristian Pietras, Definiering av funktionella cell-nischer i tumörens mikromiljö som mål för precisionsmedicin.

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/researchers-tcr-receive-swedish-research-council-grants - 2025-09-05

Big congratulations on receiving Cancerfonden grants:Daniel Bexell, Decoding and Targeting Treatment-Resistant Metastatic Neuroblastoma, an to...Christer Larsson, Induction and consequences of interferon expression in breast cancer cells, and to...Ramin Massoumi, Novel preclinical models for treatment of lung cancer. 

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/researchers-tcr-receive-cancerfonden-grants - 2025-09-05

One ERC-funded postdoc position in Molecular Pediatric Oncology lab, led by PI Daniel Bexell. The group is working with neuroblastoma (NB), a severe childhood cancer. The overall aims are to unravel mechanisms leading to metastasis and treatment resistance of NB, and to test compounds targeting aggressive NB. The post-doc will lead and develop his/her own analyses and projects, and also work in cl

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/tcr-now-has-two-postdoc-positions-available - 2025-09-05

Kristian Pietras group is part of project receiving the biggest donation in Lund University's history - 420 million SEK.Read more via this link. (Swedish)Visit Kristian Pietras group via this link.

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/group-tcr-part-receiving-420-million-sek-donation - 2025-09-05

We are proud to have Swedish Cancer Society announce Cancer Researcher of the Year, 2025, Kristian Pietras.Read more on Swedish Cancer Society's webpage. (Swedish)Read more about Kristian Pietras Research via this link.Read more about Kristian Pietras Research group via this link.

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-year-2025-kristian-pietras - 2025-09-05

Hur påverkar bedömning studenternas lärande? Professor Luke Dawson från School of Dentistry i Liverpool visar på en tydlig koppling mellan typen av bedömning och studenternas lärandeprocess. Läs artikeln här! 

https://www.qps.education.lu.se/artikel/lastips-expert-pa-besok-anvandbar-aterkoppling-stottar-studenternas-larande - 2025-09-05

Malin Ferm, provsamordnare vid Medicinska fakulteten Malin är ny provsamordnare för Medicinska Fakulteten sedan februari 2024. Vem är du?Jag heter Malin, är 45 år och bor i Löddeköpinge med min familj och två hundar.Vad har du gjort tidigare?Jag kommer från Läkarprogrammets kursadministration där jag arbetat som utbildningsadministratör samt provsamordnare.Innan jag började vid LU, arbetade jag so

https://www.qps.education.lu.se/artikel/malin-ferm-ny-provsamordnare-medicinska-fakulteten-vid-lunds-universitet - 2025-09-05

A study has recently been published on how the Kremlin circumvented EU sanctions on Russian state media in the first weeks of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. In a recently published journal article, James Pamment discusses some of the tactics the Kremlin used to circumvent the EU’s 2022 state media sanctions. The study finds that while the initial “fog of information war” significantly disrupted

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/impact-eu-sanctions-russia-state-media - 2025-09-05

A capability definition and assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference The NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence recently published a report titled A capability definition and assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference. In the report, the author James Pamment, Director of

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/capability-report-1 - 2025-09-05

Microsoft uses framework for attribution developed by Pamment and Smith Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC) is attributing a recent influence operation targeting the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attribution made builds upon a framework for attribution developed by James Pamment at the PDRI and Victoria Smith, presented in the report “Attributing Information Influence

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/attribution-framework-used-microsoft - 2025-09-05

Research Conference in Lund, 10-11 October 2023 A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions across Sweden from varied disciplines such as international relations, political science, sociology, strategic communicat

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/research-conference-lund - 2025-09-05

Photo: Fredrick Tendong/Unsplash Video games have captured the spotlight for decades, sparking debates about their impact on players since the early 1990s. Played by over 3 billion people worldwide, this report acknowledges video games' political and ideological dimensions and their potential for being used for strategic communication and propaganda purposes. It attempts to better understand how i

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/video-games-tool-malign-foreign-interference-and-info-influence - 2025-09-05