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Stort grattis till cancerforskaren Göran Jönsson som mottar årets Göran Gustafssonpris i medicin. Priset som delas ut av Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien är ett av de mer prestigefulla priserna och delas ut till yngre forskare som nått stora framgångar inom sitt område. Göran Jönsson, professor i molekylär onkologi vid Lunds universitet får priset ”för hans banbrytande arbete med att beskriva det geneti

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/goran-gustafssonpriset-i-medicin-banbrytande-forskning-om-immunterapi - 2026-06-15

Våra dendritiska celler (DC) är immunsystemets vaktposter och de patrullerar våra kroppar efter bakterier, virus eller cancerceller. När DC hittar en främmande partikel bryter de ner den i mindre bitar – antigen - och presenterar bitarna på cellytan för immunförsvarets mördarceller. På så vis lär sig mördarcellerna vilka smittoämnen och cancerceller som de ska söka upp och döda. I flera studier ha

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/okad-effektivitet-i-omprogrammerade-immunceller - 2026-06-15

Med inspiration från den enorma kraftsamling som placerade Neil Armstrong på månen 1969, lanserade Joe Biden 2016 – då vicepresident och nu president i USA – forskningsprogrammet Cancer Moonshot. En grupp forskare vid Lunds universitet är del av satsningen och publicerade förra året två vetenskapliga artiklar om en atlas över proteiner som uttrycks i melanomtumörer. Flera lärosäten och sjukhus run

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/proteinatlas-over-malignt-melanom-framtagen - 2026-06-15

På bara en dryg vecka har en ny studie om hur Pfizer BioNTechs covid-19-vaccin (BNT162b2) påverkar humana leverceller i odlingsskål väckt stort intresse. Studien har hittills fått nästan 800 000 läsningar och resultaten sprids i sociala medier, där den i flera fall även misstolkas. Men vilka resultat handlar det om, och hur ska de förstås? Två av forskarna bakom studien, professorerna Yang de Mari

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/studie-om-covid-19-vaccin-vacker-uppmarksamhet - 2026-06-15

Anna Fossum, projektledare på forskningsinfrastrukturen StemTherapy FACS Core Facility, har sorterat celler med olika typer av FACS-maskiner i 23 år. Men tröttnat på jobbet har hon inte gjort - tvärtom. Nu har hon fått en ny och mer kraftfull medlem i FACS-familjen att sköta om. – Jag älskar mitt jobb! Det är stimulerande att träffa så många människor och höra om deras olika forskningsprojekt. Man

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nytt-tillskott-i-facs-familjen - 2026-06-15

Det är tisdag eftermiddag på patologen i Lund och cancerforskare David Gisselsson Nord sitter framför sin dator och studerar ett detaljerat foto av en njure. Njuren kommer från en sexårig pojke och har opererats bort efter det att han diagnostiserats med Wilms tumör - en cancerform som nästan uteslutande drabbar barn under sex år. – Men man kan leva med endast en, eller delar av en njure utan att

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/jag-vill-radda-fler-barn - 2026-06-15

Martin L. Olsson, professor of Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, and head of the Transfusion Medicine and Red Cell Biology research group at Lund Stem Cell Center, has received the 2025 President’s Award from the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB). At the AABB General Meeting award ceremony in San Diego on October 25, 2025, Martin L. Olsson was honored as one o

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/martin-l-olsson-receives-aabb-presidents-award-advancing-blood-transfusion-medicine-and-safety - 2026-06-15

This year, the Mats Paulsson Foundation is awarding grants to eight outstanding research projects, two of which are led by researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center. The projects include an advanced cancer treatment using cellular reprogramming and a platform for the development of new cell therapies. On 24 October 2025, at an awards ceremony at Medicon Village, six researchers from t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/mats-paulsson-foundation-grants-propel-innovations-advanced-therapy-development-0 - 2026-06-15

Each year, the Lund Stem Cell Center presents its Article of the Year Award to acknowledge and celebrate the groundbreaking discoveries made by its members. For 2025, the Article of the Year Award was presented to Dr. Ervin Ascic from the Pereira Research Group for his research on in vivo reprogramming of cancer cells into immune cells, offering a new strategy for cancer immunotherapy. Now in its

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/turning-cancer-against-itself-ervin-ascic-awarded-2025-article-year-award - 2026-06-15

The Swedish Research Council has announced this year’s grant decisions in medicine and health, awarding more than SEK 1.2 billion nationally for 2025. Several researchers from the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University are among the recipients, securing new funding to advance stem-cell and regenerative medicine research with strong translational and clinical potential. The awards include seven g

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-swedish-research-council-grants-strengthen-stem-cell-and-regenerative-medicine-research-lund - 2026-06-15

Christopher Douse, Associate Professor at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine and group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF). The five-year, SEK 11 million award will support his team’s research into how repetitive DNA sequences linked to neurological diseases are controlled in the development of the human

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/decoding-repetitive-genome-christopher-douse-awarded-consolidator-grant-ssmf - 2026-06-15

In its largest investment yet, Cancerfonden, the Swedish Cancer Society, has announced its 2025 funding decisions, awarding SEK 1 billion SEK to strengthen cancer research across Sweden. Lund University received SEK 144.8 million, including SEK 50 million for projects led by ten researchers affiliated with the Lund Stem Cell Center. Among this year’s awardees is Dr. Sandra Lindstedt, senior consul

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cancerfonden-invests-next-generation-cancer-diagnostics-and-treatment-research - 2026-06-15

For the last three years, middle-school classrooms in Lund and Staffanstorp have been getting a special visit during the autumn: scientists walk in with stories about their favorite research topic and what it is like to work in a lab. This is the Science to Schools program, an initiative that began as an idea from PhD student Abigail Altman and has now grown into a collaboration involving Lund Ste

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bringing-science-classroom-taking-science-middle-schools-lund - 2026-06-15

Paul Bourgine, research group leader at Lund Stem Cell Center and the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how the human bone marrow microenvironment can regulate the function of immune populations. The funding will support the development of advanced research models aimed at revealing previously unknown interactions

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-awarded-erc-consolidator-grant-investigate-how-human-bone-marrow-may-influence-immune - 2026-06-15

Six researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded SEK 13.4 million from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund, Barncancerfonden, in its latest funding round. The projects address key challenges in childhood cancer, from understanding how the disease develops to designing treatments that are more precise and less harmful for young patients. In total, Barncancerfonden is inves

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/six-lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-awarded-sek-13-million-advance-childhood-cancer-research - 2026-06-15

Researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain’s support cells into parvalbumin-positive cells. These cells act as the brain’s rapid-braking system and are significantly involved in schizophrenia, epilepsy and other neurological conditions. Parvalbumin cells play a central role in keeping brain activity in equilibrium. The

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-create-cells-help-brain-keep-its-cool - 2026-06-15

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the “recipe” for the transformation. Researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center have now created a library of the 400 factors needed for reprogramming and have begun the work of finding the right combination – the recipe – for each type of immune cell. Our immune system c

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/recipe-book-reprogramming-immune-cells - 2026-06-15

In a research system where publishing success can shape scientific careers, targeted support can make a decisive difference. Sofie Mohlin, Associate Professor at Lund University and a research group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center has received a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Award from the Life Science Editors Foundation. Today’s publish-or-perish research culture means that

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/may-publishing-be-you-sofie-mohlin-receives-international-jedi-award - 2026-06-15

Addgene is a global, nonprofit repository that helps scientists share plasmids, DNA-based research tools that are widely used in the life sciences. Researchers whose plasmids have been distributed to other scientists 100 times or more are recognized with Addgene’s Blue Flame Award. Among this year’s recipients are, Henrik Ahlenius and Isaac Canals. Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that s

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-receive-blue-flame-award-contributions-open-science - 2026-06-15

Bone and skeletal injuries cause extensive and long-term functional impairments worldwide. In a new study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show how a cell-free cartilage structure can safely guide bone repair without triggering strong immune responses. The transplant has been successfully tested in animal models, and the next step is to evaluate the tissue engineering approach in humans.

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/universal-method-could-transform-future-bone-transplantation - 2026-06-15