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The Swedish patients' organisation, RHS, held their yearly meeting in October 2025 and Professor Åsa Petersén was invited speaker. Petersén's talk addressed early symptoms in HD connected to research. The meeting was recorded and the films are now available on RHS' website.Link to the content at RHS' website - in Swedish only (opens in a new window)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersens-talk-rhs-meeting-2025 - 2026-05-01
Jennifer Oraha, PhD student in Åsa Peterséns's research group, has her first publication out. The article is based on her study of the effects of overexpression of TDP-43 or mHTT in AgRP-expressing neurons on metabolic, behavioral and neuropathological features in mice.FTD/ALS and HD share early traits when it comes to altered metabolism and psychiatric symtoms, and it has been suggested that thes
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-jennifer-her-first-publication-phd-student - 2026-05-01
Åsa Petersén has been interviewed by the website “Vetenskap & Hälsa” (Science & Health) about Huntington’s disease and the ongoing research to find a future treatment. Recent research has come up with some interesting findings, which are crucial for the development of efficient treatments.Link to the pod on the Vetenskap & Hälsa website – in Swedish only (opens in a new window)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/pod-huntingtons-disease-asa-petersen - 2026-05-01
For the first time ever, the four Swedish patients’ organizations for Alzheimer’s, Huntington, Parkinson’s and ALS are arranging a joint conference on neurodegenerative diseases. Åsa Petersén, Professor and Senior Consultant in Psychiatry, and Håkan Widner, Professor and Senior Consultant in Neurology, both active at the Huntington Disease Centre in Lund, will be taking part in a panel discussion
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/mds-huntington-centre-lund-take-part-swedish-conference - 2026-05-01
After nearly four years' of PhD studies it is time for Sofia Bergh to defend her thesis in early May. Date and time: 6 May 2026 at 13.00Venue: The Belfrage Lecture Hall, BMC D15, Klinikgatan 32, LundAll welcome!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sofia-bergh-phd-thesis-defence-6-may-2026 - 2026-05-01
We are excited to invite you all to celebrate the release of two new books by scholars from the Department of Gender Studies! Under the headline ”From AIDS activism to homonationalism – LGBTQ+ lives and LGBTQ+ mobilisation in Sweden 1980-2024”, Jens Rydström and Katharina Kehl will talk to Mia Liinason about their recently published monographs. In “När staten inte räcker till”, Jens Rydström and L
https://www.gender.lu.se/article/book-release-and-conversation-lgbtq-lives-and-mobilisation-sweden-1980-2024 - 2026-05-01
The change means that Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Sociology and will become divisions in a larger department – the three subjects have already shared a building since August 2024. The decision, taken by the Faculty Board of Social Sciences on October 17, is part of the larger process of reducing the number of departments at the faculty as a whole. The merger will formally take place as
https://www.gender.lu.se/article/gender-studies-social-anthropology-and-sociology-form-new-joint-department - 2026-05-01
Gender Studies at Lund University hosts the Inaugural Nordic Feminist Theory Workshop 10-11 April 2025. The Nordic Feminist Theory Workshop is a new transnational collaborative platform to encourage dynamic exchanges among scholars of feminist, queer and gender studies in the Nordic region and beyond. The platform provides a travelling workshop series and network. Focusing on the theme Engaging Ge
https://www.gender.lu.se/article/first-nordic-feminist-theory-workshop-be-held-lund - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today Ulf Dahlstrand nailed his doctoral thesis. Ulf will defend his thesis on March 20th.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-doctoral-thesis - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Friday March 20th, Ulf Dahlstrand successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Diagnostic Tools for Skin and Periorbital Cancer: Exploring Photoacoustic Imaging and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy" The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the faculty opponent associate professor Marce
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/ulf-dahlstrand-have-successfully-defended-his-phd - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Friday May 22nd, Linda Thorisdottir successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Visual Screening of Amblyopia, new Techniques and Surgical Solutions for Strabismus." The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the local examination committee members and the supervisors present. The faculty o
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/linda-thorisdottir-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On June 11th and 12th medial students Benjamin Sjögren and Yousef Hamid successfully presented their master thesis.Benjamin's thesis investigated non-invasive hyperspectral imaging in skin cancer diagnostics. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In order to improve patient survival through
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We welcome two new master thesis student this fall! Medical student Douglas Larsson Albèr will investigate spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for boarders demarkation of melanoma. Medical student Ivan Nikolic will investigate Spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for borders demarkation of non-melanoma skin cancer. The
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/we-welcome-new-master-students - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuity, colour vision
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On September 11th 2020 Professor Malin Malmsjö presented at the 2020 symposium on Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound in Translation Research in Paris, France.The talk Clinical Applicationsof Photoacoustic Imaging Combined with Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound was included in the Future Development Session.This 12 min talk
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/talk-uhf-symposium - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the Photoacoustic Center we want to inspire the future generation of engineers and researchers! As a part of this, we have invited Mustafa Rajabi to do his High School Thesis within the Photoacoustic Center. Mustafa is studying his final year at the technical program and will work on developing a new analytical pro
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/inspiring-future-generation-engineers-and-researchers - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/project-update-non-invasive-skin-tumor-diagnosis - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Perfusion monitoringFull-thickness eyelid flaps and free skin grafts are frequently used in reconstructive surgery. Perfusion monitoring has recently been implemented in several reconstructive surgical procedures, however, perfusion monitoring of a rotational eyelid flap and free skin grafts has not been described pre
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications-0 - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On April 23rd Cu Dybelius Ansson nailed his PhD thesis "Perfusion Monitoring of Advancement and Rotational Flaps". The thesis will be defended on May 21st 2021.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-phd-thesis - 2026-05-01
We welcome new PhD students Magne Tordengren, MD and Azin Khodaverdi, MSc. Magne and Azin will work in the skin tumor project with application and development och photoacoustic imaging.
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/welcome-new-phd-students - 2026-05-01
