Published 4 July 2024 Oskar Simonsson har completed his Master's studies and passed with Distinction. Oskar has been with TNU since the end of October 2023 to work on his Master's thesis. In the end of May he presented his work "Effects of TDP-43 overexpression in oxytocin neurons on neuropathology and metabolism in mice". Congratulations to your Master of Science in Biomedicine, Oskar!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-oskar - 2025-07-05

Published 28 August 2024 We are honoured to announce that Åsa Petersén has received a two-year grant from Hjärnfonden, The Swedish Brain Foundation, for the project The importance of variations in the CAG repeat for Huntington disease.The awarded amount for the two years is SEK 1 600 000.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-grant-hjarnfonden - 2025-07-05

Published 30 August 2024 Mahmoud A. Pouladi, Åsa Petersén, Huu Phuc Nguyen, Jiří Klempíř and A. Nazlı Başak. Together with researchers from Germany, Canada, Turkey and the Czech Republic Åsa Petersén was awarded the JPND grant for the project Delineating the role of HTT Cis-Variants in the pathogenesis of Huntington disease. In Sweden the grant  is funded by Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research C

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/jpnd-project-kickoff-istanbul - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 16 September 2024 Åsa Petersén will participate in the HD patients' organization's national meeting later in September. The patients’ organization, RHS, is inviting you to the national meeting in Gothenburg on 26 September 2024. Åsa Petersén will give an overview of the current HD research and the day will include inform

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/rhs-national-meeting-2024 - 2025-07-05

Published 1 October 2024 Åsa Petersén is one of the lecturers at MultiPark Café in October. On Wednesday 16 October, at 17.00-19.00, MultiPark Café is hosting an evening with lectures on “Psychiatric health in neurodegenerative diseases”. Åsa Petersén will talk about “Psychiatric health in Huntington’s disease”.All talks are in Swedish.Link to the event on MultiPark’s website

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-petersens-talk-psychiatric-health-hd - 2025-07-05

Published 17 October 2024 The Swedish patients' organization RHS is arranging a weekend on Huntingon disease for young adults on 18-20 October 2024 in Karlstad. During the weekend there will be presentations on various topics, like genetic counselling, and the weekend also offers an opportunity to network with other young adults and to share experiences.Åsa Petersén will give a talk on HD research

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-will-give-talk-hd-young-adults - 2025-07-05

Published 21 October 2024 On 23 October 2024, Åsa Petersén will be moderating the webinar "Research insights: Latest updates on ongoing studies", arranged by the European Huntington Association. The webinar will give information on ongoing clinical trials in the Huntington disease field. Representatives from companies with ongoing trials, or finalized, will be participating.The European Huntington

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/webinar-hd-clinical-trials - 2025-07-05

Published 6 November 2024 The webinar on clinical trials, with an overview of the latest developments, is now available to watch online. The webinar “Research insights: Latest updates on ongoing studies” was arranged by the European Huntington Association (EHA) in October.You find it on EHA:s website

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/webinar-clinical-trials-now-available-online - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 20 December 2024 Huntington Disease Center in Lund is inviting you to an information evening on 7 April 2025, 18.00-20.30 in the Belfrage lecture hall on BMC D15 in Lund. The evening will include update on clinical trials and current research status in Sweden and internationally, as well as talks on different aspects on

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/save-date-hd-information-evening-7-april-2025 - 2025-07-05

Published 24 February 2025 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 - 2025-07-05

Published 25 February 2025 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 - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 26 February 2025 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 t

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/work-progress-international-guidelines-treatment-psychiatric-symptoms - 2025-07-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 22 May 2025 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

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/podcast-about-being-young-relative-hd-patient - 2025-07-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 June 2025 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

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-paper-tnu-published - 2025-07-05

Published 11 April 2025 The voices of the survivors make clear how incredibly fragile a democracy is; how quickly the moral foundations of a society can crumble and make the unthinkable possible,” says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. It recognises the Rave

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/ravensbruck-archive-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-07-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 December 2018 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 paus

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-07-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 November 2018 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

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-07-05

Published 9 November 2018 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 - 2025-07-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 7 November 2018 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 - 2025-07-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 18 September 2018 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 t

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-07-05