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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
Leukemia stem cells have a clever survival strategy, they evade the body's immune defenses, making the disease difficult to treat. In a recent study in mice published in Haematologica, researchers at Lund University identified a gene that helps these cells avoid detection by natural killer (NK) cells—the immune system’s frontline defense. Each year in Sweden, around 350 adults are diagnosed with a
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-leukemia-stem-cells-evade-immune-surveillance - 2026-05-03
Nair Ferreira Barbosa da Costa, kindly called Voinha in the family, was married off at 14. She gave birth to thirteen children, had to leave her first four children behind, fled 1500 miles to escape an abusive marriage and later became a single mother. "I had the guts. If I decided to do something, I would just do it." Now, Agenda 2030 PhD student Iury Salustiano Trojaborg's interviews with her gr
Victoria O’Bryan is in her fourth semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “After graduation, I chose to study a technical foundation year at Malmö University, where mathematics was my favorite subject
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-victoria-obryan - 2026-05-04
How the world is governed in times of environmental crises, and how migration and urban life shape people’s experiences in cities worldwide. These are the questions studied by the Faculty of Social Sciences’ new honorary doctors – Frank Biermann and Brenda Yeoh. They will be awarded their honorary doctorates at Lund Cathedral on 29 May. Frank Biermann – from Faculty of Social Sciences’ nomination:
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/new-honorary-doctors-faculty-social-sciences - 2026-05-03
Soroor Mansouryar has been a LUSEM student for five years, first in the bachelor's programme in International Business and then in the master's programme in International Strategic Management. When she graduated in 2023 she felt ready to step into her dream job as a management consultant. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Hi Soroor! Can you share a bit about what you have been up to since
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/soroor-mansouryar-alumna-international-strategic-management-2023 - 2026-05-03
Oksana Tymoshchuk, professor from Ukraine, came to Sweden in April 2022 when a full-scale war broke out in her country. A grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation brought Oksana and Iben Lundgaard together and today Oksana is working in the Lundgaard lab trying to find out more about the mysterious glymphatic system. We are all well aware of the situation in Ukraine. Prof Oksana Tymoshc
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/story-oksana-tymoshchuk-and-mysterious-glymphatic-system - 2026-05-03
There are many health factors in the 2023 OSA questionnaire. Here we list the departments and answers that stood out a little extra. Read what the Heads of Department have to say about the matter. Performance appraisal Hi Agneta Malmgren Fänge, Head of Department at IHV! The average for completed staff appraisals for the faculty landed on 88%, and you reached a full 98% plus 1.2 for new employees
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/health-factors-osa-questionnaire-indicates-were-our-toes-and-want-deliver - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When Lund University switched to digital teaching there were many challenges both for the teaching staff and students. How exams and assessment were to be conducted now that the students were not on-site was an important question and a very difficult challenge. The existing tools for digital on-campus exams were teste
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-exams-campus-and-remote-solutions - 2026-05-03
The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 recycling companies in Sweden. Among the results, high levels of lead in air and elevated levels of multiple metals were detected in the blood of those who work in recycling. Different forms of metals are in
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/harmful-exposure-metal-recycling - 2026-05-03
The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 recycling companies in Sweden. Among the results, high levels of lead in air and elevated levels of multiple metals were detected in the blood of those who work in recycling. Different forms of metals are in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/harmful-exposure-metal-recycling - 2026-05-03
Sweden’s industry uses about one third of the country’s entire energy consumption. How can industry convert to a better considered and sustainable circular economy? Researchers at Lund University are working closely with companies to find smarter solutions that focus on improving sustainability in materials recycling. We would like to have an electric car, solar cells on our roof or the latest mod
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recycling-alpha-and-omega-sustainable-circular-economy - 2026-05-03
Interest in type 1 diabetes screening is growing as methods improve and new treatments become available to more patients. New research at Lund University demonstrates how screening for autoimmune diseases can be carried out on a large-scale basis. A new treatment that can delay the onset of type 1 diabetes has been approved for use in the United States. If the treatment Teplizumab becomes availabl
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-method-allows-large-scale-screening-autoimmune-diseases - 2026-05-03
The exhibition “Coded Threads” traces threads from the origin of the digital, the woven fabric, into today’s and tomorrow’s digital realities. The loom is the basis of binary coding: the thread can go over or under the warp, be a one or a zero. The thread is coded and acquires meaning – becomes an image, a pattern, a calculation, an algorithm. Everything can become data through the thread in the w
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-coded-threads-skissernas-museum - 2026-05-02
During two well-attended days, researchers, healthcare professionals and interested members of the public gathered in Malmö and Lund to take part in the latest research in the field. Research Day 2025 with the theme "Children's minds taken seriously – About Children's and Young People's Mental Health", offered a wide-ranging program of lectures, discussions and films. Moderator Lisa Kirsebom led t
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/young-peoples-mental-health-focus-research-day - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tourism researcher Dianne Dredge comes to Campus Helsingborg as part of gender equality initiative. Senior lecturer Erika Andersson Cederholm applied for funding of a visiting professor in Hedda Andersson's name.– We could definitely become more gender equvalent here at the department when it comes to professors, says
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/dianne-dredge-service-management-visiting-professor - 2026-05-03
During two well-attended days, researchers, healthcare professionals and interested members of the public gathered in Malmö and Lund to take part in the latest research in the field. Research Day 2025 with the theme "Children's minds taken seriously – About Children's and Young People's Mental Health", offered a wide-ranging program of lectures, discussions and films. Moderator Lisa Kirsebom led t
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/mental-health-children-and-young-focus-research-day - 2026-05-03
Colourful illustrations shone in Forum Medicum's foyer when WCMM inaugurated Fusion 2025 – an exhibition format where art and science meet. Last autumn, WCMM announced a competition in which researchers at WCMM units around Sweden were invited to contribute their best scientific illustrations. 21 entries were submitted and on Friday it was time for the opening in Forum Medicum's foyer. In addition
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/marvel-forum-medicum-art-meets-science-wcmm-fusion-2025-exibit - 2026-05-03
She grew up in oil-rich Norway, with a father who travelled the world working in the oil sector. Little did Lina Lefstad know that just two decades later she would be a researcher at the forefront of efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and tackle the climate crisis. What if we could easily capture carbon dioxide from combined heat and power plants and industrial sites, cool it to liqu
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/can-oil-industrys-know-how-help-solve-climate-crisis - 2026-05-03
