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Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-19
Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will take place on November 7 at “Forskningens dag”.Congratulations, Åsa!Read more (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-11-19
Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulations Rana!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-11-19
Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-11-19
TNU är värd för ett råd- och stödgruppsmöte för Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom i Skåne torsdagen den 1:e juni kl 18.00 - 20.00.Program:18.00-18.10 Välkomna och introduktion av Susanne Zell, RHS18.10-18.40 Föredrag om den senaste forskningen av Åsa Petersén, Lunds Universitet18.40-19.10 Rundtur på forskningslaboratorium om Huntingtons sjukdom19.10-20.00 Fika och diskussion om anhörigförening
On July 31st 2008, Åsa Petersén was interviewed on Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Radio P1.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/radio-interview-asa-petersen - 2025-11-19
Gåva ger hopp om att stoppa grym sjukdom (in Swedish only)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sydvenskan-article-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-11-19
article_in_allers_2008.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-allers-magazine-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-11-19
Read about Huntington's disease and Åsa Petersén's research on page 26 (in Swedish).Aktuellt om Vetenskap & Hälsa - November 2008
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-huntingtons-disease-aktuellt-om-vetenskap-halsa - 2025-11-19
Åsa Petersén has been assigned to one of the six positions as senior clinical researcher in psychiatry advertised by the Swedish Research Council.The prestigious position is for three years with a possible extension for three more years, and includes a start-up package of one million Swedish kronor (around 100 000 euro) during the first year.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-assigned-position-psychiatry - 2025-11-19
Deniz Kirik and Åsa Petersén have been selected as the Allan and Maria Myers International visiting fellows for 2009. As part of this, they are invited to visit the Florey Neuroscience Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Fellowship provides support for leading international researchers to visit Australia, with the objectives of enhancing Australian exposure to cutting edge res
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/melbourne-2010 - 2025-11-19
Åsa Petersén håller föredrag om psykiatriska symtom vid Huntingtons sjukdom i Oslo den 10 april 2010 på 30-års jubileumsdagen för "Landsforeningen for Huntington sykdom" i Norge.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-haller-foredrag-i-oslo - 2025-11-19
Dr. Olivier Piguet is a NHMRC fellow and senior lecturer at University of New South Wales and Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. He works on frontotemporal dementia and will give a talk Wednesday May 12 at 16.30 in the GK-salen with the title: Facts, feelings and fiction: Clinical considerations on frontotemporal dementia.
The International Basal Ganglia Society Tenth (IBAGS X) triennial meeting will take place June 20-24, 2010 at Ocean Place Resort, Long Branch, New Jersey. Petersén will give a talk in the session Non-Motor Sequela in Basal Ganglia Diseases with the title: Metabolic disturbances and neuroendocrine changes in Huntington's disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-ibags-x-meeting-new-jersey-june-2010 - 2025-11-19
Associate Professor Anthony Hannan runs a research group on Huntington's disease at the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He will give a talk Monday July 12 at 12.00 in the seminar room at D11 with the title: Molecular mediators and environmental modulators of behavioural endophenotypes in Huntington's disease transgenic mice.
We would like to welcome Nathalie Nilsson! She has a Bachelor degree in Biomedical science from Lund University and has just finished her first year at the Master program in Biomedical science at Lund University. She has received a stipend from the Medical Faculty and will do a research project in TNU during the summer of 2010.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/summer-student - 2025-11-19
Dr Stephan von Hörsten, Professor for Experimental Biomedicine at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, visits TNU and TRAINS September 7. He will give a talk on the title "Very early onset and intervention in a pre-HD-syndrome in transgenic mouse and rat models of Huntington´s disease" 12.00-13.00 in the seminar room at BMC D11.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-stephan-von-horsten-germany-visits-tnu-and-trains - 2025-11-19
TNU members Sofia Hult, Rana Soylu, Sanaz Gabery and co-member Niclas Hagen presented their research as posters at the European HD Network (EHDN) meeting in Prague, September 3-5, 2010. Åsa Petersén was elected a member of the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee (SBAC) in the EHDN.
Forskningens dag (the Research day) is arranged every year by the Medical Faculty at Lund University and Region Skåne. The theme for 2010 is depression and mania. The audience is the general public. Petersen presents her research on hypothalamic changes and depression in HD. The titel is: The hypothalamus - the thermostat of emotions.Read more about Petersén's research in Vetenskap & Hälsa (Scienc
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-presents-research-day-2-311-2010-lund-and-malmo - 2025-11-19
A FENS-IBRO Partially Supported School on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases will take place July 20 - 26 2011 in Reisensburg/Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizers and the faculty. The school is designed to attract PhD students and postdocs in neurosciences, medicine, metabolism and related fields that wish to explore the new opportunities in this field.Application Deadlin
