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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD student Franziska Olm has been developing a microfluidic-based acoustophoresis method to process stem cell preparations label-free, a technique with great research and clinical potential. In this interview, Franziska tells us about her PhD project, her time at Lund Stem Cell Center and her plans following her thes

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-franziska-olm - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a novel target for the expansion of human blood stem cells ex vivo and shed light on the mechanism of action of a stem cell promoting molecule, currently in phase II clinical trials. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a curative therapy for many patients s

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-ex-vivo-expansion-transplantable-human-blood-stem-cells - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University have developed a promising new method for delivering biomolecules into human blood stem cells using nanotechnology. With little to no detrimental effects on target cells, this novel approach has great potential for research and clinical applications. The discovery and development of th

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/nanostraws-used-deliver-biomolecules-stem-cells - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Those who find themselves at Lund BMC can now discover exciting new artwork highlighting the visual side of research. Created by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, these images were part of ‘The invisible body – art in science’ exhibition held in Stockholm. Here, Christine Karlsson - director of the Research Sc

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/striking-research-images-decorate-lund-biomedical-center - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Prof. Johan Jakobsson has been appointed as coordinator and Assoc. Prof. Johan Flygare as deputy coordinator of StemTherapy and Lund Stem Cell Center.Together they will continue to manage StemTherapy and Lund Stem Cell Center towards scientific and educational excellence, whilst strengthening the direction of translat

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-leadership-lund-stem-cell-center - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Neuroscientists and stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a research model that allows studying human hippocampal neurons, the brain cells primarily affected by Alzheimer’s disease pathology. The study has been published in Stem Cell Reports. In Alzheimer’s disease the hippocampus, a brain

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-research-paves-way-developing-therapies-could-slow-down-alzheimers - 2026-04-22

Congratulations to Lund Stem Cell Center PI and Wallenberg Fellow Paul Bourgine, who has been awarded European Research Council funding. His research group, the Laboratory for Cell, Tissue and Organ Engineering, are using engineered miniaturized human bone organs to better understand the mechanisms of blood formation and cancer development. In Europe, over 80 million people suffer from blood disor

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-awarded-prestigious-european-research-council-grant - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Prof. Johan Jakobsson and Assoc. Prof. Agnete Kirkeby from Lund Stem Cell Center and University of Copenhagen, along with co-applicants Prof. Roger Barker from Cambridge, UK and Assoc. Prof. Molly Hammell from Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, US, have been awarded a prestigious grant from the Aligning Science Across Pa

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-investigate-role-transposable-elements-neuroinflammation-and-parkinsons-disease - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johan Richter's research has resulted in the successful development of gene therapy for the hereditary disease malignant infantile osteopetrosis. For the past few years, the research group has established a collaboration with an American biotech company and all the permits needed to start a clinical trial have now bee

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/successful-biotech-collaboration-brings-gene-therapy-project-clinic - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD student Nicola Guzzi will be defending his thesis titled “Post-transcriptional control of stem and cancer cell fate - new roles for an old RNA modification” on Thursday 24th of September 2020. In this interview, Nicola tells us about his PhD journey within the RNA and Stem Cell Biology research group at Lund Stem

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-nicola-guzzi - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marcella Birtele will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” on Friday 2nd October. Researching within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group led by Prof. Malin Parmar, here Marcella tells us about her PhD studies at Lund Stem Cell Cente

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-marcella-birtele - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With two articles published in quick succession from his time as a research fellow at Cambridge University, UK, Christopher Douse has moved to Lund Stem Cell Center to develop a research programme on newly-discovered guardians of the human genome. More than half of the human genome consists of transposons, DNA sequenc

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/hush-and-morc2-new-players-transposon-regulation-during-human-development - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every year the Swedish Society for Medical Research awards funding to promising young medical researchers. Grant recipients are funded for four years of full- or part-time research, with the aim of establishing an independent scientific career. At this year's call, 203 applications were assessed, of which eight were a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researcher-awarded-ssmf-large-grant - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a collaborative study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center and University College London have developed a novel method of isolating ‘young’ stem cells still present in old mice. They show that activity of mitochondria, the power generators of the cell, is a stronger indicator of stem cell fitness than age and is

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/novel-approach-identifies-young-stem-cells-old-mice - 2026-04-22

Thank you to all who submitted their entries to Lund Stem Cell Center image competition 2020. Now it’s time to choose a winner! Over the past six months, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been submitting images of their research and work environment to the image competition.Now it's time to pick a winner and, due to the current coronavirus restrictions, we will be deciding on the winning

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-scc-image-competition-time-cast-your-vote-0 - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Congratulations to Lund Stem Cell Center researchers Nicholas Leigh, Karolina Pircs, Isabella Artner and Zaal Kokaia on being awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council – Vetenskapsrådet. Wallenberg research fellow Nicholas Leigh has been awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Vetenskapsrådet starting g

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/vetenskapsradet-awards-lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-over-23-million-sek - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stefan Karlsson has been active as a researcher at Lund University for 25 years and during that time has received many major grants and awards. However, never a gold medal. - It feels like a very great honor because the medal is only awarded every nine years for medical research efforts, says Stefan Karlsson The Royal

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-stefan-karlsson-awarded-gold-medal-research-efforts - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nine researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded a total of over 29 million SEK in project grants and continued support from the Swedish Cancer Society, Cancerfonden. Congratulations to all researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center awarded support from Cancerfonden! Researchers awarded project grants include

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-awarded-funding-cancerfonden - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck Prize in Neuroscience. He receives the award for his many years of research on stroke, presented to him by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Erik

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2026-04-22

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Sandra Lindstedt - Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Wallenberg Molecular Medicine clinical researcher - has joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Professor Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant in thoracic surgery specializing in heart and lung transplantation, with a long-standing

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-principal-investigator-sandra-lindstedt - 2026-04-22