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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Congratulations to Lund Stem Cell Center researchers Nicholas Leigh, Karolina Pircs, Isabella Artner and Zaal Kokaia on being awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council – Vetenskapsrådet. Wallenberg research fellow Nicholas Leigh has been awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Vetenskapsrådet starting g

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/vetenskapsradet-awards-lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-over-23-million-sek - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stefan Karlsson has been active as a researcher at Lund University for 25 years and during that time has received many major grants and awards. However, never a gold medal. - It feels like a very great honor because the medal is only awarded every nine years for medical research efforts, says Stefan Karlsson The Royal

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-stefan-karlsson-awarded-gold-medal-research-efforts - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nine researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded a total of over 29 million SEK in project grants and continued support from the Swedish Cancer Society, Cancerfonden. Congratulations to all researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center awarded support from Cancerfonden! Researchers awarded project grants include

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-awarded-funding-cancerfonden - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck Prize in Neuroscience. He receives the award for his many years of research on stroke, presented to him by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Erik

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Sandra Lindstedt - Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Wallenberg Molecular Medicine clinical researcher - has joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Professor Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant in thoracic surgery specializing in heart and lung transplantation, with a long-standing

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-principal-investigator-sandra-lindstedt - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CRISPR is a simple yet powerful Nobel Prize winning technology that allows sequence specific editing and manipulation of DNA sequences. The CRISPR facility at Lund Stem Cell Center is here to help you with your projects using this technology. What is CRISPR and who is it for? CRISPR started as a “traditional” gene edi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-crispr-facility-here-help - 2026-09-11

The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners of Lund Stem Cell Center Image Competition 2020. We are pleased to announce the winners of the Lund Stem Cell Center Image competition 2020 are:First place: Grasping at straws – Ludwig Schmiderer and Martin Hjort, Larsson group and NanolundSecond place: Floating – Maciej Ciesla, Bellodi groupThird place: Million dollars worth of antibodies –

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/image-competition-2020-results - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about their future plans for this center of research excellence. What have been your fi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/plans-future-lund-stem-cell-center - 2026-09-11

Despite the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are bringing science to schools both physically and using a digital platform. High school students across the Skåne region are learning about stem cell research in the ‘Taking science to schools – Borrow a scientist’ initiative, organized by the Research School in Stem Cell Biology.In this outreach project – planned for spring 20

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/taking-stem-cells-high-schools-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a specific type of neuron that could underlie several brain disorders including schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism, and are developing exciting new strategies to treat them. For the brain to function properly, signaling – be it excitatory or inhibitory – m

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/restoring-neural-networks-and-understanding-brain-disorders-0 - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the south of Sweden, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been working at Lund University Hospit

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-help-fight-against-covid-19 - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Emma Hammarlund and the Evolution of Stemness Control and Multicellularity research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Emma and her team aim to understand how the rise of animals on Earth relates to the evolution of stemness control, an event we know very little about. Why anim

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/emma-hammarlund-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria F Malmström is taking part of the conference: "Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: A Decade after the Arab Uprisings" Virtual Workshop Series (University of Gothenburg). The title of her talk is "Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Politics and Ambivalent Cairene Masculinities". The

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/navigating-ocean-suspicion-affective-politics-and-ambivalent-cairene-masculinities - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Research initiation CMES offers seed money for research initiation and preparation of applications for national and international rese

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-travel-grant-and-research-initiation-now-open-applications - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New calls for research funding, and scientific advisory board in the making! While we are still waiting for warmer spring weather to arrive there are some encouraging signs that we are now moving towards brighter times. The surrounding of CMES is distinguished by beautiful Magnolia trees in full blossom and the vaccin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-20-april-2021 - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Thursday 20 May Morten is giving a CMES Research Seminar on the topic: What is so Sectarian about Sectarian Politics? Identity Politics and Authoritarianism in a New Middle East. 1.    How has sectarian politics been debated before, during and after the Arab Revolts? The public debate on sectarianism easily leaves the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-questions-morten-valbjorn - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which  has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to Peace and conflict researcher Lisa Strömbom. The UN warns of full-scale war if the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas cont

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. External research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This project aims to interrogate existing boundaries to women’s participation in peace processes and identifies reasons for the failure of peace making to address the gendered foundations and impacts of conflict. The interdisciplinary research team co

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-research-project-gendering-peacemaking-middle-east - 2026-09-11

A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. However, integrative methods for joint social, ethical, human, and engineering approaches in SDG implementations are to a great extent still lacking. Access to safe water is a key element in many of the SDGs. Hydrosolidarity principles are important on a national and international scale. They seek to apply equita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-research-theme-hydrosolidarity-20 - 2026-09-11