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Sign up for the Information Evening on HD! If you wish to attend the Information Evening on Huntington Disease on 7 April 2025, sign up latest on 27 March 2025.All talks are in Swedish. Find out more on the Huntington Disease Center's page: Huntington Disease Center
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-hd-7-april-2025 - 2025-08-31
The European Huntington’s disease network (EHDN), with more than 3000 members, gather healthcare professionals, researchers and families with Huntington’s disease. Petersén was elected to the Executive Committee in 2022 and is now Deputy Chair.Link to the EHDN webpage: EHDN.org
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-elected-deputy-chair-ehdn - 2025-08-31
Development of international guidelines for treatment of psychiatric symptoms in advanced Huntington's disease is in progress within the European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN). The working group focusing on "Behavioural Phenotype” in Huntington's disease is addressing these guidelines. As part of the work, some members of the group recently met in Amsterdam, together with colleagues from USA
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/work-progress-international-guidelines-treatment-psychiatric-symptoms - 2025-08-31
The month of May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month and 15 May was Huntington Awareness Day. Åsa Petersén was invited to take part in a podcast about the disease, together with Jozefine, who is a carrier of the gene and related to a person diagnosed with HD.The podcast is produced by YTAN, Young Together Against Neurodegenerative Diseases, a digital platform for young relatives of persons wit
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/podcast-about-being-young-relative-hd-patient - 2025-08-31
The protein TDP-43 is involved in different neurodegenerative diseases, and Åsa Petersén and Sofia Bergh have investigated whether the protein harms the hypothalamus. Investigating if augmenting the quantity of the protein TDP-43 in the hypothalamus would lead to changes in the hypothalamus, emotional changes and metabolic problems was the aim of the new article from the TNU research group.Read mo
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-paper-tnu-published - 2025-08-31
Åsa Petersén and Mahmoud A Pouladi are guest editors of the Special Issue: Glia and non-neuronal cells in Huntington's disease that was published now in August. The Special issue on Glia and non-neuronal cells in Huntington's disease holds six expert review articles. The understanding how glial and other non-neuronal cells shape HD pathology is expanding amongst researchers in the field.The topics
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-guest-editor-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-31
On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund. 50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-08-31
Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-31
Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-08-31
Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-08-31
Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will take place on November 7 at “Forskningens dag”.Congratulations, Åsa!Read more (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-08-31
Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulations Rana!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-08-31
Hannie Lundgren, Head of Research at Region Skåne, Åsa Petersén and Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Dean at the Faculty of Medicine. Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-08-31
TNU är värd för ett råd- och stödgruppsmöte för Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom i Skåne torsdagen den 1:e juni kl 18.00 - 20.00.Program:18.00-18.10 Välkomna och introduktion av Susanne Zell, RHS18.10-18.40 Föredrag om den senaste forskningen av Åsa Petersén, Lunds Universitet18.40-19.10 Rundtur på forskningslaboratorium om Huntingtons sjukdom19.10-20.00 Fika och diskussion om anhörigförening
On July 31st 2008, Åsa Petersén was interviewed on Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Radio P1.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/radio-interview-asa-petersen - 2025-08-31
Gåva ger hopp om att stoppa grym sjukdom (in Swedish only)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sydvenskan-article-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-31
article_in_allers_2008.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-allers-magazine-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-31
Read about Huntington's disease and Åsa Petersén's research on page 26 (in Swedish).Aktuellt om Vetenskap & Hälsa - November 2008
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-huntingtons-disease-aktuellt-om-vetenskap-halsa - 2025-08-31
Åsa Petersén has been assigned to one of the six positions as senior clinical researcher in psychiatry advertised by the Swedish Research Council.The prestigious position is for three years with a possible extension for three more years, and includes a start-up package of one million Swedish kronor (around 100 000 euro) during the first year.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-assigned-position-psychiatry - 2025-08-31
Deniz Kirik and Åsa Petersén have been selected as the Allan and Maria Myers International visiting fellows for 2009. As part of this, they are invited to visit the Florey Neuroscience Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Fellowship provides support for leading international researchers to visit Australia, with the objectives of enhancing Australian exposure to cutting edge res
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/melbourne-2010 - 2025-08-31
