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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.ludc.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2025-10-03

Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledge of the actual causes and the interplay between genetics and lifestyle factors. By studying how our genes express themselves in response

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/review-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-10-03

Lund University Diabetes Centre has entered into a collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center LLC (RGC) and the University of Helsinki involving exome-sequencing and whole genome array genotyping of greater than 9,000 individuals. The collaboration will involve the largest sequencing study in diabetes families to date and aims to help generate knowledge about how to predict diabetes, causes

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lund-initiates-genetic-sequencing-study-diabetes-families-provide-new-insights-what-causes-disease - 2025-10-03

Research from Lund University in Sweden can explain why type 2 diabetes is inherited to a greater extent from an individual’s mother. The heredity of a previously known risk gene, THADA, has proven to be dominant if it comes from the mother, whereas it has little or no effect on the child’s risk of disease if it originates from the father.
“Our research contributes to increased knowledge about the

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/thada-new-findings-role-mother-type-2-diabetes - 2025-10-03

A new experimental and clinical study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the sleep hormone melatonin impairs insulin secretion in people with a common gene variant.

“This could explain why the risk of type 2 diabetes is greater among, for instance, overnight workers or people with sleeping disorders”, says Professor Hindrik Mulder who is responsible for the study. Melatonin is a naturally

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-explain-connection-between-melatonin-and-type-2-diabetes - 2025-10-03

One in three people with diabetes will face some form of renal impairment in the course of their lives. Studies conducted by researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre may lead to the development of an entirely new principle for treating type 2 diabetes and preventing kidney damage in the future. Previous analyses have not been able to identify genetic causes as to why some people have a h

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-can-lead-new-principle-treating-diabetic-kidney-damage - 2025-10-03

One in three people with diabetes will face some form of renal impairment in the course of their lives. Studies conducted by researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre may lead to the development of an entirely new principle for treating type 2 diabetes and preventing kidney damage in the future. Previous analyses have not been able to identify genetic causes as to why some people have a h

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-can-lead-new-principle-treating-diabetic-kidney-damage-0 - 2025-10-03

The European Research Council makes a large investment in diabetes research. A project led by Professor Paul Franks at Lund University Diabetes Centre is to develop methods that can be used in the design of preventive treatment for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. - Through this project we will use functional genomics and epidemiology to identify novel molecular mechanisms that underlie

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/focus-personalized-treatment-type-2-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-10-03

Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledge of the actual causes and the interplay between genetics and lifestyle factors. By studying how our genes express themselves in response

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-10-03

Although Lund University’s 350th anniversary celebrations are drawing to a close, some projects will live on, along with the working method known as the jubilee model. Carina Jensen, soon to step down from her role as jubilee coordinator, talks about Sunday’s big kick-off for the future, which is open to all. “It will start with an open house event in the main University building, celebrating the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubliee-concludes-kick - 2025-10-03

Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes. The agreement will be cancelled 30th of June. This means that employees and students at Lund University will not have access to journal articles published by Elsevier after June 30, 2018. However, one can still read Elsevier articles published between 1995 and 30 June 2018. LU researche

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sweden-stands-open-access-cancels-agreement-elsevier - 2025-10-03

LUM managed to sneak in an interview with Carita Håkansson before she packs her bags for a hiking trip in Greece. For the first time in many years she has the chance once more to do what she loves the most – to experience nature and landscapes on foot. Thanks to a transplant, she is living a new life. Carita Håkansson fell ill around just 40 years of age. When her stomach started growing doctors d

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-got-new-liver-and-new-life - 2025-10-03

The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufacturing into a liquid that is chemically identical to petrol. The plan is to have Swedish forest fuel available at service stations by 2021. “This is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2025-10-03

Ninety thousand people die in Sweden every year. Despite 80 percent of Sweden’s population stating they would like to donate their organs after death, fewer than 200 people actually become organ donors each year. Why? This is due to, among other reasons, our limited legislation and organs not being made available because of a shortage of intensive care beds. Simply dying is not enough to become an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overstretched-intensive-care-leads-fewer-donations - 2025-10-03

“Superbosses” are exceptional at attracting talented people and getting them to perform at their best – while also developing them to become new, good leaders. Are superbosses to be found at the University? “I’m convinced that we would also find superbosses at Lund University if we looked”, says Christine Blomquist, who adds that there are many good leaders here. Christine Blomquist conducts resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/superbosses-make-others-become-good-leaders - 2025-10-03

Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the same couple of weeks, both researchers published findings on the technology which has now resulted in a Nobel Prize for chemistry. Since th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2025-10-03

A social sciences centre in the Paradis quarter and a continued reinforcement of the Knowledge Highway are priorities in the new premises plan that presents the University’s intended renovations, extensions and new builds for the next five years. “It will be nice to complete the major projects that have been underway for a long time”, says Åsa Bergenudd, head of LU Estates. As the head of estates

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-premises-plan-reveals-universitys-future-building-projects - 2025-10-03

Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the thesis work, a view supported by a survey conducted by the Swedish Union of Civil Servants (ST). More than 45 percent of responses from doctoral s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2025-10-03

Lund University is investing SEK 64 million in a graduate school focusing on societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda. Kristina Jönsson, associate professor in political science, will be its coordinator. “This is a unique opportunity to achieve something really new and exciting”, she says. The graduate school is funded from 2019 to 2023 with agency capital from the faculties. When fully developed,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-64-million-leading-graduate-school - 2025-10-03

Migration is a talking point everywhere – in politics, in the media, and not least in academia. It is often presented as problematic and demanding on resources, seldom as something which contributes to economic, cultural, and indeed intellectual development. But without migrants where would academia be exactly? That’s the question being asked by Mine Islar who has been a driving force behind the P

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-would-academia-be-without-migrants - 2025-10-03