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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 one of the main risk factors behind type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. B

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundations-grant-holders-2020 - 2025-12-17

Christopher Douse, Associate Professor at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine and group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF). The five-year, SEK 11 million award will support his team’s research into how repetitive DNA sequences linked to neurological diseases are controlled in the development of the human

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/decoding-repetitive-genome-christopher-douse-awarded-consolidator-grant-ssmf - 2025-12-18

A representative from the strategic research area (SRA) EpiHealth has talked to Martin L. Olsson, who is the faculty management representative of the EpiHealth board and Deputy Dean with special responsibility for research infrastructure and strategic issues at the Faculty of Medicine. Martin is also a Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and a consultant in t

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/genetically-upgraded-epihealth-cohort-gold-mine-could-help-more-researchers-excel - 2025-12-17

Faculty of Fine and Performing arts has named professor and artistic performer Terry O'Connor (UK) their Honorary Doctor 2022. Have you had any professional relations to Sweden and Scandinavia during your career? -I have often travelled to Scandinavia to perform and love to visit. Forced Entertainment was, I think, first invited to Bergen a couple of decades ago and then we made artistic connectio

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/these-were-incredible-teaching-experiences-me - 2025-12-17

Faculty of Fine and Performing arts has named professor and artistic performer Terry O'Connor (UK) their Honorary Doctor 2022. Have you had any professional relations to Sweden and Scandinavia during your career? -I have often travelled to Scandinavia to perform and love to visit. Forced Entertainment was, I think, first invited to Bergen a couple of decades ago and then we made artistic connectio

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/these-were-incredible-teaching-experiences-me - 2025-12-17

Students on the Master's Programme in Information Systems have the opportunity to earn valuable business analytics certificates to boost their resumes. The international Master's Programme in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management, is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge within the field of Information Systems. As pa

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/students-empowered-industry-recognised-certificates - 2025-12-18

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 - 2025-12-18

On Friday, February 28, Monica Porzionato defended her thesis "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Strategic communication studies usually consider emotions as psychological effects of communication or as an influence on people's understanding of an issue. In the first case, emotions like joy or desire result from strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-monica-porzionato - 2025-12-17

Associate Professor Barry Ness is LUCSUS' new Director from 1st January 2024. He is excited about this new venture in his career, and aims to bring a collaborative and inclusive leadership approach to the role, one that mirrors the greater developments in the field of sustainability science. Read more about Barry Ness, and about his vision for LUCSUS in this interview. What are you most excited ab

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/meet-new-lucsus-director-barry-ness - 2025-12-17

Meet Paul Franks... ... Professor of Diabetes Research and sportsman, who raised money for diabetes research by competing in the Copenhagen Ironman* triathlon race a while ago. How have the race and the fundraising gone? “I think it’s gone well. Despite a broken toe, I finished the race in just over 10 hours. I beat my previous Ironman record, which I set in a race 20 years ago. “We have raised ju

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/running-diabetes - 2025-12-17

There is a noticeably nervous atmosphere in the small examination room at the women's clinic. Medical students Caroline Hellsten, Joakim Öhman and Rasmus Hagberg are about to carry out a gynaecological examination for the first time during their studies. However, Marina Larsson Silly, who is today's 'professional patient' is calmer. She has done this before and is used to providing the students wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professional-patient-guides-way-medical-students - 2025-12-17

Meet Stina Vikingson and Pernilla Thellmark at Lund University School of Economics and Management’s career centre, who have begun working hands-on with personal development goals for a sustainable future. Their target group is students, but the methodology works for everyone from individuals to teams and larger groups in the workplace. ”Choose a skill that you would like to develop. Reflect on it

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/inner-development-goals-build-sustainable-careers - 2025-12-18

Ouyang Yuan defends her Ph.D. thesis on 14 October 2022. As a medical student with a longstanding interest in blood malignancies, her research has focused on better understanding the development of a specific type of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The hope is that these findings will help lead to a better understanding of AML and future treatments that can one day prevent, delay, or c

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/placing-acute-myeloid-leukemia-under-microscope-phd-interview-ouyang-yuan - 2025-12-17

Three first-year Master students at the Master’s programme in Strategic communication have been selected to present their papers at the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) congress to be held in October 2021. The students have worked on their papers during the course “Qualitative methods” and their Lecturer Leysan Storie will continue to work with the students on

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/master-students-presenting-papers-academic-conference-euprera - 2025-12-17

Heart attack and stroke are common complications of diabetes, as the body's ability to repair and form vessels is impaired. Researchers at Lund University have developed a new substance with the capacity to stimulate vascular repair response and the formation of vessels. In diabetes, the body's ability to repair vascular damage caused by the disease is impaired, which can lead to complications suc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-peptide-may-reduce-risk-diabetes-complications - 2025-12-17

How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For the first time, researchers have been able to show what happens in the brain of the bee. Bees and many other animals use what is known as optical flow to determine how fast they are going and how far they have moved through their environment. When ignoring all other

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-bees-find-their-way-home - 2025-12-17

Collaborations between the public sector and academia are increasingly common, and are often highlighted as the way forward for strategic climate planning. But how are practitioners and academics to work together to achieve results? Researchers at LUCSUS are investigating how a model can benefit transdisciplinary sustainability projects.  – Nowadays, many universities and municipalities want to wo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/structuring-collaboration-between-municipalities-and-academics-testing-model-transdisciplinary - 2025-12-17

The UNEXPECTED event that took place 1 June in Lund gathered unique and diverse minds and organisations, that exemplifies the dynamism of human creativity. With limitless possibilities that emerge when we break down barriers, we can embrace the unexpected. The international arts and science innovation forum, UNEXPECTED attracted researchers, politicians, civil servants, and entrepreneurs from acro

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/innovation-happens-edges-0 - 2025-12-18

There is a lot going on around the clinical WCMM researcher Gesine Paul-Visse right now! Both press releases and interviews is coming out of her lab. We could also catch a glimpse of her when Swedish Television made a short interview with the very first patient enrolled in the STEM-PD clinical trial and receiving stem cell treatment for his Parkinson’s disease. There has been several press release

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/updates-gesine-paul-visses-lab - 2025-12-17

The interactions between molecules are the foundation of life and how we treat diseases using medicinal drugs. But what does it actually look like when a protein meets another molecule and binds to it? A new research project that has been awarded EUR 8.7 million by the European Research Council now aims to shed light on this elusive process. The research team consists of researchers from Lund Univ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-research-dynamic-interactions-between-molecules - 2025-12-18