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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Altermark, Sara Kalm and Anders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-10-21

Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute. Critical Animal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-10-21

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the reform of the EU’s greenhous

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-10-21

On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-10-21

Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-10-21

Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-berattar-om-den-senaste-forskningen-riksforbundet-huntingtons-sjukdom-den-1e-juni-2017 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

Gåva ger hopp om att stoppa grym sjukdom (in Swedish only)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sydvenskan-article-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-10-21

article_in_allers_2008.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-allers-magazine-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-olivier-piguet-petersens-collaborator-sydney-visits-tnu-and-bagadilico-may-11-13 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21