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Researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have made new strides in understanding why some patients with chronic myeloid leukemia respond better to treatment than others. Their study, recently published in eLife, suggests that the amount of healthy blood stem cells at diagnosis could be a key factor in predicting how well patients will respond to standard therapies. Chronic myeloid leu
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a completely new explanation: the body temperature of small birds can increase by more than 4°C to exceed 45°C when they are feeding their young. Larger broods woul
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-birds-almost-overheat-while-feeding-their-young - 2026-06-17
Several Nobel laureates, renowned scientists, and successful biotech entrepreneurs are coming to Lund in May to participate in the Lund Spring Symposium, an international symposium on drug research. Medications are the physician's primary tool when treating their patients, and understanding how drugs work is fundamental to being a good doctor, according to Lars Grundemar, adjunct professor of clin
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/superstars-coming-lund-drug-and-pharmaceutical-symposium - 2026-06-17
On Friday, 21 October, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden". For the past five years, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal studied why women in Sweden start, continue, and sometimes stop using drugs. Her thesis explores female drug experiences and what they mean to the users; how users
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hermann Grimmeiss, who founded the research field of Semiconductor Physics in Lund, has been awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. In 1965-1996, Prof. emerit. Hermann Grimmeiss was appointed as first professor in Solid State Physics and Head of the Department at the Te
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/medal-founder-semiconductor-physics-research-lund - 2026-06-17
Future Week has become Future Days. It will continue to showcase innovative research with focus on the big questions of the future. The popular science programme will now be formed around the pioneering visions of researchers and teaching staff from all the University’s faculties. For the past three years, Lund University’s Future Week has presented ground-breaking research; research that has its
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-days-2022-future-week-new-guise - 2026-06-18
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Andra Jugånaru comes from the threatened CEU university in Hungary. After three months as a visiting doctoral student at LU, she is not sure whether she will have any university to return to. Andra Jugånaru and Samuel Rubenson. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “If the university is closed down, it is a very big step backwards, a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-community-deplores-threat-closure-hungarian-ceu - 2026-06-17
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 - 2026-06-17
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 - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the health c
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2026-06-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the health c
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2026-06-17
The Swedish Migration Agency should speed up visa processing for international students and researchers – a move that Lund University has eagerly awaited. And more Swedish students should study abroad. These are two of the proposals in the report of the Swedish Government’s commission of inquiry on increased internationalisation at higher education institutions (HEIs). The long processing times at
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visa-processing-should-speed-order-increase-internationalisation - 2026-06-17
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Frågan om den akuta sockerbristen vid djupa insulinkänningar skadar hjärnan har undersökts många gånger men resultaten har varit motstridiga. Nu visar en studie på tonåringar med typ 1 diabetes att inte ens upprepade blodsockerfall med medvetslöshet eller kramper som följd på sikt påverkar hjärnan negativt. Hjärnan
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/djupa-blodsockerfall-och-hjarnskador - 2026-06-15
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Internationella Diabetesfederationen (IDF) publicerar nya och än mer dystra siffror om världens diabetesepidemi. I länder som inte tillhör den rika världen ligger diabetes bakom miljoner människors fattigdom. Sjukdomen är så spridd att samhällsutvecklingen hotas. Sju av tio av världens diabetiker lever i låg- eller
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetes-gor-manniskor-fattiga-och-hotar-samhallsekonomin - 2026-06-15
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Den sjukliga fetman bland typ 2 diabetiker i USA blir allt vanligare. Fler än var femte har ett BMI över 40 vilket motsvarar en övervikt på ungefär 50 kilo. I Sverige har kurvorna på övervikten för första gången på länge planat ut. - Ökningen av sjuklig fetma bland diabetiker går alarmerande snabbt och får mycket st
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/allt-fetare-diabetiker-i-usa-i-sverige-har-fetmaepidemin-hejdats - 2026-06-15
