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Turning scientific knowledge into solutions that improve people’s lives is the ultimate goal of research. But the path from novel scientific data to an innovation that may impact health care is long; many promising ideas never get a fair chance. For 16 years, MultiPark Innovation has supported researchers in their first efforts in transforming discoveries into inventions that may benefit patients

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-innovation-grants-have-generated-inventions-2011 - 2026-05-13

Modern technology is helping our researchers to get a sneak peek into the brain – and now the winning image has been chosen in MultiPark’s photo competition #Neurovision. All entries will be on display for the public at MultiPark Café’s exhibition – come and explore the secrets of the brain with us on 3 March! MultiPark is a strategic research area at Lund University, where interdisciplinary resea

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multiparks-vernissage-neurovision-celebrating-winners-our-photo-competitions - 2026-05-13

New blood tests for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease are making early diagnosis increasingly feasible. However, the fact that the markers being measured change long before any symptoms develop represents a challenge. Research led by Lund University in Sweden shows that a previously unused blood marker, when combined with those markers already in use, can significantly reduce the risk of misleading d

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-blood-marker-reduces-risk-false-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-05-13

The symptom profiles of different neurodegenerative diseases often overlap, and diagnosing age-related cognitive symptoms is complex. A patient may have multiple overlapping disease processes in the brain at the same time. Now, researchers at Lund University have developed an AI model showing that it is possible to detect several neurodegenerative diseases from a single blood sample. The study is

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-ai-model-can-detect-multiple-cognitive-brain-diseases-single-blood-sample - 2026-05-13

Simpler diagnosis using a smell test, mapping brain circuits behind symptoms linked to Parkinson’s, and significant funding for advanced gene therapies. And a recently completed clinical trial with promising results for stem cell-based transplantation in Parkinson’s patients. These are five examples from the strategic research area MultiPark over the past year. MultiPark conducts multidisciplinary

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/world-parkinsons-day-five-multipark-projects-could-improve-diagnosis-understanding-and-future - 2026-05-13

The 2026 Jeffrey L. Morby Prize has been awarded to researchers from Lund University and Washington University for a study published in Nature Medicine. The paper describes a blood test capable of detecting changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Oskar Hansson, Professor of Neurology, and Gemma Salvadó, Research Associate – both at Lund University – are co-authors of the article:

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/drop-blood-can-detect-alzheimers-international-award - 2026-05-13

A team of international researchers led by senior lecturer Åsa Mackenzie at Lund University has received a $9 million USD grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, in partnership with The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), to advance understanding of Parkinson’s disease treatment, with a particular focus on depression, anxiety, and other psychiatr

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/exceptional-success-multipark-researchers-highly-competitive-international-call-parkinsons-research - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do you stop Alzheimer’s disease without a simple way to diagnose it? It’s a real chicken and egg problem, as I wrote last year on TGN. Discovering a treatment for Alzheimer’s requires lots of clinical trials for new drugs—but it’s difficult to enroll participants without a way to identify people who have the disea

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/unexpected-way-we-might-one-day-diagnose-alzheimers - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. The researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Recently published in JAMA Neurology, the study suggests that the NFL concentration

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/more-evidence-blood-tests-can-detect-risk-alzheimers - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to researchers that the protein galectin-3 is involved in inflammatory diseases in the brain. A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden now shows the de facto key role played by the protein in Alzheimer’s disease. When the researchers shut off the gene th

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/researchers-block-protein-plays-key-role-alzheimers-disease - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Daniella was awarded the prize for "successful effort as a young researcher and group leader". Link to Jeanssons Foundation website (in Swedish)

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/daniella-ottosson-receives-prize-jeanssons-foundation - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Future Faculty is proud to present the 2019 Minerva Award to Tomas Deierborg, associate professor at the Department of Experimental Medical Sciences.The Minerva award selection committee's motivation for the choice is: "The core values of the Minerva award are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/minerva-award-tomas-deierborg - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In today’s JAMA Neurology, researchers led by Oskar Hansson, Lund University, Sweden, report how a fully automated immunoassay for plasma Aβ performed when they put it through its paces. Roche Diagnostic’s Elecsys system predicted Aβ-positive individuals with about 80 percent accuracy. That number improved by 5 percen

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/drawing-closer-alzheimers-blood-test-primary-care - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Scientists are becoming more nuanced in how they use amyloid scans—not just to detect the presence of Alzheimer’s pathology, but also to pinpoint disease stage. At this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 13–18 in Los Angeles, researchers led by Niklas Mattsson and Oskar Hansson at Lund

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-pet-staging-scheme-amyloid - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On October 30, MultiPark arranged, in collaboration with the Parkinson Skåne patient organization and Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, a half-day study visit for the public to the Biomedical Center. Professor Angela Cenci Nilsson led the event and guided the audience through the afternoon.       The chair of Parkinson Skå

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/parkinson-skane-visits-bmc - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Oskar Hansson, professor of neurology at Lund University and cheif physician at Skåne University Hospital, is included in this year´s list of highly cited researchers that Web of Science compiles each year.Read the article (in Swedish) on the Faculty of Medicine website.

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/congratulations-oskar-hansson-list-highly-cited-2019 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Half as many diagnosed with depression, a delayed manifestation of Parkinson’s, a reduced risk of developing vascular dementia - but not Alzheimer’s. These connections were discovered by researchers when they compared 200 000 people who had participated in a long-distance cross-country ski race between 1989 and 2010 w

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/skiers-had-lower-incidence-depression-and-vascular-dementia-not-alzheimers - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We have launched a new website! Have a look around, and please let us know what you think. The School of Social Work has launched a new website, in both a Swedish and English version. Please complete our mini survey and let us know what you think! If you have any  other questions or comments, please contact the depart

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  Håkan Jönson and Tove Harnett, researchers at The School of Social Work, and Annika Taghizadeh Larsson (Linköping University) and Stina Johansson (Umeå University) have received 3.1 million from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) for the project "Would a disability model mean be

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-3-million-research-ageing - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University's Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson will be stepping down at the end of the year. There will be a farewell reception today, 12 December.As leaving gifts, Per Eriksson has asked for donations to help eradicate homelessness in Sweden, including to the School of Social Work's Housing First project.Read more ab

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/vice-chancellor-asks-donations-eradicate-homelessness - 2026-05-13