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An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease. The study is now published in Cell Reports Medicine. People with type 2 diabetes are up to four times more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, anginas and other coronary heart diseases than healthy people. Therefo

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2025-10-27

Like learning to fly as the plane takes off.   Across the entire University, teaching staff are grappling with the transition to digital education and assessment at record speed in the unique situation caused by the coronavirus. The initial phase includes long workdays and getting the available digital tools to work in a critical situation. “We have grabbed hold of this. A lot must happen quickly

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/imposed-distance-education-puts-pressure-university-teaching-staff - 2025-10-27

An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease. The study is now published in Cell Reports Medicine. People with type 2 diabetes are up to four times more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, anginas and other coronary heart diseases than healthy people. Therefo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2025-10-27

Professor Stina Oredsson and the owner of the women’s underwear store Kvinnligt under, Carolina Le Prince, have together created a calendar of partially nude women. This unusual way to raise money for cancer research resulted in SEK 235,000. Stina Oredsson (right) receives the collected money from Carolina Le Prince (in the middle). Carolina Le Prince shows us the calendar when we visit her store

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/calendar-girls-promote-cancer-research - 2025-10-27

The more sugar we eat, the lower intake of vitamins and minerals we have, show new findings from Lund University Diabetes Centre. High sugar intake has been associated with numerous diseases and conditions such as dental caries, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this study the researcher have examined the effect of added sugar - that is sugar added to food and beverages during proc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/more-sugar-less-vitamins-study-shows - 2025-10-27

A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2025-10-28

From the vice-chancellor blog: Intensive work is being carried out on how we can open doors for Ukraine at the EU and national levels and at Lund University. Here, we are looking at all possibilities to enable us to take in students, academics and researchers who need to leave their country or will need to study or conduct research in their homeland in the future. We are working according to short

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/war-ukraine-affects-and-concerns-us-all-working-free-academia-and-democracy-more-important-ever - 2025-10-28

Kan mode någonsin bli hållbart? Hur ställer vi om till miljösmart e-handel? Och vilken roll ska universiteten ha i framtidens samhälle? Det är några av de ämnen som diskuteras under forskningsfestivalen Our Future City den 7-10 juni på Campus Helsingborg. Evenemanget görs tillsammans med Helsingborgs Dagblad och FoU Helsingborg och sker under den stora stadsmässan H22. Our Future City kan enklast

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-stader-och-samhallen-i-fokus-pa-ny-forskningsfestival - 2025-10-27

During the 8th - 11 th August 2022, the Development Research School held its first doctoral course in Methodology and Field Studies. It took place in Sogakope, Ghana. The doctoral course was organised by the Institute of Statistical, Economic and Social Research (ISSER), in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana, universities of Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala for doct

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/successful-completion-our-first-course-ghana - 2025-10-27

Master's student Hannes Olsson is currently studying his last semester at the civil engineering programme of Industrial Management and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering. He is studying a Master's in Supply Chain Management and did his degree project within Artificial Intelligence – without earlier knowledge in the field. Six months ago, Hannes was asked by his friend Joel from the Computer

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/hannes-olsson - 2025-10-27

On January 13th, London-based designers Guillaume Couche & Richard Shackleton held a guest lecture at the Department of Informatics. The guest lecture was delivered to students enrolled in the course Human-Computer Interaction - Design, part of the Master's Programme in Information Systems. The industry experts were invited by Lecturer and Course director Markus Lahtinen.Guillaume, who first visit

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/industry-experts-inspire-students-interface-design - 2025-10-28

In type 2 diabetes, the body’s cells are unable to assimilate the essential hormone insulin which is produced in the beta cells of the pancreas. Exactly what is wrong with the beta cells in type 2 diabetes is the question to which Professor Erik Renström at Lund University Diabetes Centre is searching for an answer. After just over twenty years of successful research in the field, he is now being

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nordic-award-research-what-wrong-beta-cells-type-2-diabetes - 2025-10-27

Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being reclassified as an ice field, is extremely worrying. The speed of change is crazy. When something so visible is lost, it also brings home the scale of global climate change, says Emily Boyd, professor at Lund University

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-venezuelas-last-glacier-points-future-where-loss-opposed-damage-new-reality - 2025-10-27

Lund University has achieved third place globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings, according to a press release issued by the university on Tuesday. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability evaluates approximately 1,750 institutions worldwide on their contributions to sustainable development. Lund University ranks first in Sweden, second in Europe, and third globally. Henrik Smith, Profe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-systematic-efforts-behind-lund-universitys-top-sustainability-ranking - 2025-10-27

Recently, the media has been featuring some of the research being conducted at the department. Here are some of the articles. The world's vegetation has increasedProfessor Ben Smith has been interviewed about satellite measurements that show the earth's vegetation has increased during the last 30 years. Smith says that this is not only due to the greenhouse effect, but also because of political ch

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/departments-research-media - 2025-10-27

So many lovely tips. 378 nature reserves in Skåne alone. Thank you! The Sustainability Forum has a mission from the  Vice-Chancellor: to support the core activities in realising the intentions of the University's sustainability strategy. Jenny Hansson, Communications Officer and project manager at the Sustainability Forum, gives us many, great tips on sustainable and exciting holiday activities in

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/holiday-tips-our-sustainability-forum-travel-sustainably-summer - 2025-10-27

The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the 15th Development Research Day: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030 Date: Thursday November 10, 2016. Time:  9.30-17.00 | Geocenter I, Sölvegatan 10, LUNDThe Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share and discuss their resear

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/15th-development-research-day-end-hunger-and-achieve-food-security-2030 - 2025-10-27

Today it was time for PhD-student William Son Galanza's half time review. He presented his work "AGE-TECH: Technologies supporting engagement in meaningful activities in and out of the home while ageing".  His research project focus on technologies supporting engagement in meaningful activities, in and out of the home while ageing. With the support of the research group Applied Gerontology, the pr

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/half-time-review-about-age-tech - 2025-10-27

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the evolution of our galaxy. The study is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Ytterbium is one of four elements i

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomers-map-mysterious-element-space - 2025-10-27

Martin Moström from Retail House shares insights on the necessity for the retail sector to embrace change. Contrary to rumours, the physical store is far from obsolete; it has consistently evolved. Over the past two decades in the grocery trade, store numbers in Sweden have decreased from over 3,000 to around 1,000. This transformation is a natural part of business, but the challenge lies in how w

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/seeing-grocery-store-fresh-eyes - 2025-10-27