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If you are eligible to vote and nominate candidates, you can now nominate candidates for a by-election to the Nomination Committee. We need your nomination by 31 October at the latest! The by-election is for one teaching staff with research expertise to the Faculty of Social Sciences' Nominating Committee for immediate appointment and until 28 February 2027.Those eligible to vote and nominate at t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/nominate-candidates-facultys-nominating-committee - 2026-01-09

In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Science will launch a new international master's programme at Campus Helsingborg: Innovation and Societal Change. The one-year programme is aimed at students who want to understand and influence how innovation can help meet today's major societal challenges, from climate change to social inequality. - Our society, both locally and globally, faces multiple and

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-innovation-and-societal-change-campus-helsingborg - 2026-01-09

On 24 October, the Faculty's six newly appointed professors will be inaugurated at a ceremony in the Main University Building. A total of 28 new professors will be inaugrated at Lund University. De new professors at the Faculty of Social Sciences are:Katherine Gough, Human GeographyMarkus Grillitsch, Economic GeographyKimberly Nicholas, Sustainability ScienceRoger Persson, Work and Organisational

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/congratulations-facultys-six-new-professors - 2026-01-09

The Faculty Office, ”Kansli S”, is currently preparing for a reorganisation at the turn of the year. The aim is to create a clearer, more efficient and better-coordinated organisation that meets the needs of the organisation and demands of the future more effectively. The Faculty Office has had an increasingly complex and growing workload for a long time. To meet this challenge and improve the wor

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-organisation-faculty-office-more-efficient-and-clearer-operational-support - 2026-01-09

Due to a vacancy in the Nominating Committee a by-election is now being held. You have until 26 November to cast your vote. The task of the faculty's Nominating Committee is to prepare nominations and to establish suggestions of candidates for the positions of dean and deputy dean as well as for the Faculty Board and the University Electoral College. As Magnus Jirström is leaving his position in t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-nominating-committee - 2026-01-09

The Department of Sociology, which includes the divisions of Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Sociology, has elected a new head. Sandra Jönsson assumed the role on 15 November. We asked Sandra a few questions to introduce herself. Can you tell us a little about your background?I earned my PhD in work and organisational psychology at Lund University in 2005. After that, I spent many rewardin

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/meet-new-head-department-sociology - 2026-01-09

The Faculty's by-election to the Nominating Committee is now complete, and a meeting to announce the election results has been held at the Faculty Office. The new member of the Nomination Committee is Terese Anving, senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology. The committee now has the following composition:Representatives of teaching staff with research expertiseÅsa Thelander, senior lecturer,

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/terese-anving-elected-facultys-nominating-committee - 2026-01-09

In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Sciences will start a new Swedish Master's Programme in Comprehensive Defence and Civil Preparedness at Campus Helsingborg. The programme meets the increasing demand for expertise in the field of total defence and provides students with interdisciplinary knowledge of how society can withstand and manage crises – from security policy challenges to climate chang

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-comprehensive-defence-and-civil-preparedness - 2026-01-09

Several Faculty buildings in the Paradis area in Lund will be given new street addresses. This is due to police and ambulance staff having difficulties finding the exact location when responding to alarms. The new addresses are put into effect on 1 July 2019. Faculty units with new street addresses from 1 JulySchool of Social Work (the new building Gamla köket) – Allhelgona kyrkogata 8 and Norra v

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-street-addresses-paradis-area - 2026-01-09

An international research project led from Lund University is now awarded 33 million SEK by the European Innovation Council, EIC Pathfinder. The idea behind the project is to use drugs to reprogram cancer cells into immune cells, in order to increase the body's natural anti-tumor response and fight cancer. And it is small molecules that will do the work. The research project that has received fund

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/enemy-friend-33-million-reprogramming-cancer-cells - 2026-01-09

Cancer researcher Harald Stenmark, professor at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, is the recipient of this year’s prize. Harald Stenmark is being recognised for his groundbreaking research in cell biology, in which he has elucidated in detail the functions of proteins essential for the regulation of endosomes and cell division of significance to cancer. Harald Stenmark’s researc

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstrom-nordic-prize-2023-awarded-cancer-researcher - 2026-01-09

How do heritability and the fetal environment affect the risk for the child to develop type 2 diabetes? This is a question that Rashmi Prasad studies in her research projects that that may lead to individualised prevention measures. She will be awarded this year’s recipient Medeon stipend on the World Diabetes Day Skåne event on November 14. Diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad at Lund University Dia

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-inherited-type-2-diabetes-awarded - 2026-01-09

David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy to show a bit of attitude in front of the camera. David Gissel

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2026-01-09

Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2026-01-09

Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2026-01-09

Intensive efforts are being made in medical research to discover the genomic causes of undiagnosed hereditary diseases. Persistent work and new technology are providing answers to several previously unsolved, enigmatic neurological disorders. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 was one of these, but now a research team in Lund, Sweden, have identified the gene that is responsible. Almost half a million

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-genetic-cause-type-hereditary-ataxia-sca4-long-unresolved-conundrum - 2026-01-09

Christopher Douse, a new group leader at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award by The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This award includes a $1.2 million grant to support his lab’s exploration of the repetitive portion of the human genome, so-called ‘genomic dark matter’, and its role in human brain development and degeneration. Repe

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/exploring-genomic-dark-matter-christopher-douse-awarded-12m-grant-chan-zuckerberg-initiative - 2026-01-09

Through a simple, inexpensive five-minute test, one can obtain an initial indication of whether a child has ADHD or not. This is demonstrated by a research team at Lund University, connecting the changes in the cerebellum associated with ADHD to a finger-tapping test. The test can be used as a complement to existing diagnostic methods. ADHD is considered the most common neurodevelopmental disorder

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/five-minute-test-indicate-adhd - 2026-01-09

The development of a new treatment strategy for bacterial infections and sepsis is being led by researchers at Lund University. In a study the researchers demonstrate how they, by mimicking a substance naturally present in the body, can neutralize toxic substances from bacteria and thereby mitigate harmful inflammation that could otherwise lead to sepsis. “Despite decades of research, there are cu

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/step-closer-treatment-severe-bacterial-infections-and-sepsis - 2026-01-09

An international team of researchers has identified 13 biomarkers that significantly improve the ability to accurately predict cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 diabetes. The analysis was led by Lund University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The study was published in Communications Medicine. Although people with type 2 diabetes are two times mo

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-biomarkers-improve-prediction-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes-2 - 2026-01-09