Isabel Gonçalves, Tobias Erlöv and Magnus Cinthio receive the major innovation award. An interdisciplinary team in medicine and technology took the help of LU innovation to concretize and commercialize their idea for better stroke diagnostics. "Talk about your idea already when you are at an early stage of the process, because if you then publish the results, it may be too late to get help", advis

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/interdisciplinary-ambition-became-prized-innovation - 2025-08-31

We welcome all our employees to join our digital Morning meeting with the Faculty. Join up ´til starting time. At the December meeting Dean Kristina Åkesson will give us an update about current topics at the faculty and university and reflect on her time as dean, as this will be her last morning meeting in this role. NOTE: This meeting will be held in Swedish.These are recurring monthly meetings w

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/join-kristinas-last-morning-meeting-faculty - 2025-08-31

If the university's information security fails, it can have major consequences. Therefore - take a course (LUISA) on safer information management. In order to carry out your work and duties as an employee, researcher or student, you both produce and have access to large amounts of information and data necessary for your particular role. It needs to be correct and accessible whenever you need it. I

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/important-course-about-information-security - 2025-08-31

A connection between ORCID and LUCRIS also means that every time you post a publication in LUCRIS, your ORCID profile is automatically updated. As an LU researcher, you can connect your ORCID id and your LUCRIS profile. By having your ORCID ID on your profile in the Research Portal, you ensure that visitors such as external funders can ensure that you are you. Using ORCID in all parts of the publi

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/connect-orcid-id-lucris-profile-affects-lus-ranking - 2025-08-31

Lucia brings lit candles when it's at its darkest. Today, she and her white-clad entourage walked into CRC and Forum Medicum. The modern Lucia celebration is considered to have started in the 1920s in Stockholm, with a public procession organized by a newspaper.Lucia's origins: as a saint in Sicily, via German 18th century tradition to today, December 13, 2023, when she is now apparently housed am

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lucia-thawed-frosty-morning-faculty-medicine-and-it-was-beautiful-and-funny - 2025-08-31

Today Ulf Dahlstrand nailed his doctoral thesis. Ulf will defend his thesis on March 20th. 

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-doctoral-thesis - 2025-08-31

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 Marcelo Ayala, the examination committee members and the supervisors present.The disse

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/ulf-dahlstrand-have-successfully-defended-his-phd - 2025-08-31

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 opponent Professor Olav H Haugen, from Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, No

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/linda-thorisdottir-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-08-31

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 early diagnosis, and to minimize the risk of non-radical removal of tumors, sever

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/congratulations-benjamin-sjogren-and-yousef-hamid-who-successfully-presented-their-master-thesis - 2025-08-31

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 students will be supervised by Professor Malin Malmsjö and the research team.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/we-welcome-new-master-students - 2025-08-31

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 (tested with Sahlgren's Saturation Test or the Ishihara colour vision test) or t

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-08-31

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 give a general overview and the latest findings in some of the research projects

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/talk-uhf-symposium - 2025-08-31

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 program and interface for our spectroscopy equipment. By combining his knowledge fro

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/inspiring-future-generation-engineers-and-researchers - 2025-08-31

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/project-update-non-invasive-skin-tumor-diagnosis - 2025-08-31

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 department's web editor.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2025-08-31

 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 better care for the elderly?"In June 2014 Forte announced SEK 15 million in funding

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-3-million-research-ageing - 2025-08-31

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 about the Vice-Chancellor here.Read more about Housing First here.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/vice-chancellor-asks-donations-eradicate-homelessness - 2025-08-31

Senior lecturer Anna Angelin has recently published an article on service participation in social work education in Norway and Sweden. In the article Angelin compares two participatory projects that have developed and implemented practices that integrate service users into academic social work education: the Norwegian HUSK project and the Social Work as Mobilization and Entrepreneurship course, al

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/article-service-user-integration-looks-lunds-unique-course - 2025-08-31

Innovation in Social Welfare and Human Services, by Marcus Knutagård, lecturer at the School of Social Work, and Rolf Rønning, Professor at the University of Lillehammer, has just been published by Routledge. The new book explores the popular concept of innovation and what it actually means in a health and social welfare context. The authors discuss relevant differences between the private and pub

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-innovation-social-and-human-services - 2025-08-31

Marcus Knutagård, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, is one of the authors of the indepth publication "The Finnish Homelessness Strategy – An International Review", which was recently completed. The report looks at work on homelessness done in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the USA, focusing particularly on operating practices that could be used in work on homelessness in Finland.Access

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researcher-contributes-report-finnish-homelessness-strategy - 2025-08-31