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Read about Åsa Petersén and her research at the website "Vetenskap & Hälsa" (”Science and Health”). Link to article (in Swedish only):https://www.vetenskaphalsa.se/huntingtons-sjukdom-en-fascinerande-gata/The website "Vetenskap & Hälsa" is a cooperation between Lund University, Malmö University and the healthcare organization Region Skåne, to spread information about research about medicine and he

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/portrait-asa-petersen-vetenskap-halsa - 2025-12-01

On September 24, the Swedish National Huntington Meeting took place, hosted by the patients' organization RHS. The physical meeting that orginally was planned to be in Gothenburg, had to be transformed into an online event, as many other meetings this year, characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic.Active clinicians and researchers at the Huntington Disease Center in Lund gave talks at the National M

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/talks-and-virtual-lab-tour-swedish-national-hd-meeting - 2025-12-01

Åsa Petersén will give several talks on HD and genetic testing at HD Education Day on November 26. The Education Day is an online event, sponsored by the National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden. This day will be followed by a session two weeks later, where Åsa Petersén, Håkan Widner, Carina Hvalstedt and Katarina Holmsten will be online, live, to answer questions. Both Petersén and Widner a

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-several-talks-hd - 2025-12-01

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation appointed Åsa Petersén Wallenberg Clinical Scholar in 2020. An article on Åsa's research is now published on the foundation's website. The Wallenberg Clinical Scholar is aimed for researchers combining their research with clinical work and is a grant for five years. The article on Petersén's research is presenting the psychiatric symptoms and hypothalamic chang

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-early-hd-symptoms-can-lead-new-treatment-strategies - 2025-12-01

TNU:s study on ALS together with Australian collaborators on Lund university's top news today. Åsa Petersén, Sanaz Gabery and collaborators in Australia have, for the first time, shown changes in hypothalamic neurons regulating metabolism, sleep and emotions in ALS patients. Since long, researchers have assumed that changes in metabolism are affecting the progress of the disease. Identification of

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-publication-als-tnu-and-australian-collaborators - 2025-12-01

TNU published a new paper on early changes in the limbic system in Huntington disease together with international collaborators in Acta Neuropathologica, August 26, 2021. Link to article (opens in a new window): Early white matter pathology in the fornix of the limbic system in Huntington disease Link to Lund University webpage for news article on the the results (in Swedish): Känslohjärnan – en n

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/important-paper-huntington-disease-gabery-et-al-acta-neuropathologica-2021 - 2025-12-01

Petersén and Gabery give talks about research at the National Huntington Meeting October 13, 2021. It is a digital meeting where you can see the talks at the home page of the Swedish patient organisation RHS:  https://huntington.se/13-oktober-valkomna-pa-nationellt-mote-kring-huntingtons-sjukdom/ (Opens a new window)  

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-and-gabery-give-talks-about-research-national-huntington-meeting-october-13-202 - 2025-12-01

Petersén gives talks about research and clinical care for Huntington disease to young adults in HD families at a conference in Gothenburg October 21-24, 2021. See homepage of the patient organization Swedish Huntington Association (Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom) for more information:  Link to Swedish Huntington Association's webpage (opens in a new window)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talks-conference-young-people-hd - 2025-12-01

On 11-12 November 2021 the SWEMODIS annual meeting on Parkinson’s disease and other Movement Disorders took place in Stockholm, where Åsa Petersén gave a talk on Huntington's disease. SWEMODIS webpage (opens in a new window)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gave-talk-annual-swemodis-meeting - 2025-12-01

Huntington disease is the topic of today’s episode of the radio program Kropp & Själ, Body & Mind, on the Swedish public service radio. The dilemma of genetic testing is one of the aspects of the disease discussed in the program, where Åsa Petersén is a guest. You can access today’s episode on Sveriges Radio’s website: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/huntingtons-sjukdom-den-felande-genen (in Swed

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/about-huntington-disease-swedish-radio - 2025-12-01

Petersén (PI) and Gabery (co-PI) received a research grant of 1.2 MSEK from the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden) for a project on novel mechanisms of disease and a potential future therapy for HD. Link to the Swedish Brain Foundation's webpage  

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-grant-swedish-brain-foundation - 2025-12-01

Petersén (PI) received a research grant of 6 MSEK from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for 2023-2026 for a project on novel cellular and molecular mechanisms in the limbic system for psychiatric symptoms in Huntington disease. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-01

Åsa Petersén has been elected member of the executive committee for the European Huntington Disease Network (EHDN). The EHDN is a nonprofit research network committed to advancing research, facilitating the conduct of clinical trials, and improving clinical care in HD. Through the EHDN a platform has been created such that basic scientists, clinicians, patients and families can collaborate on acad

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-elected-member-executive-committee-european-huntington-disease-network-ehdn - 2025-12-01

Researchers have investigated the possibilities of independent, global monitoring of fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions globally based on satellite observations. This would improve the quality of the monitoring compared to today, which is built on individual reporting by countries. Three researchers from our department contributed to this study. In the updated Paris Agreement from COP26 Climate

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/improved-model-monitoring-co2-emissions - 2025-12-01

Dr. Oskar Löfgren, who works interdisciplinary between remote sensing and botany to understand plant communities and their ecology, has been awarded for his thesis. "Plants can provide an overall picture of the habitat's characteristics that physically measured environmental variables cannot. Analyzing many species at the same time is important: each species contributes its own explanatory model f

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/award-winning-thesis-combines-remote-sensing-and-botany - 2025-12-01

Associate Professor Frans-Jan Parmentier has been awarded in Norway for his article about climate and permafrost. Our researchers continue to recieve awards (see previously awarded dr Oskar Löfgren). This time it is Frans-Jan Parmentier who is acknowledged, who has received the Fægri award in Norway. The Fægri award goes to the best popular science articles published in 'Naturen', Norway's oldest

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/awarded-popular-science-article - 2025-12-01

...who has been nominated by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to be the Swedish representative in the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Cryosphere working group. The scientific core elements of IASC are its five Working Groups. The main function of the working groups is to encourage and support science-led international programs by offering opportunities for planning and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/congratulations-margareta-johansson - 2025-12-01

High-yield food production is concentrated today in certain geographical areas, so-called "breadbaskets". But what will happen to these areas in a warmer climate? To secure food production during climate change, adapted strategies may be needed. If global warming continues, food producers may need to adapt to changing conditions. Researchers try to predict different scenarios with important crops

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/agricultural-hotspots-may-move-future-climate - 2025-12-01

Many of us have digital maps at our fingertips in our smartphones, but these maps are not adapted to guide us when walking or finding our way in new environments, for example, as tourists in an unfamiliar big city. Creating such maps requires in-depth knowledge about map design which can be further improved by using new technology that can process large amounts of data. “We are collaborating with

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/digital-maps-tomorrow-improve-how-we-find-our-way - 2025-12-01

Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department, was interviewed about climate projects that have been put on hold after collaborations with state institutions in Russia ceased due to the war. Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, was interviewed about climate projects that have been put on hold following the Government’s call to

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/war-has-put-stop-climate-projects-arctic - 2025-12-01