Foto: Marika Eriksson Hur minns du coronapandemin? I mars 2020 stängdes stora delar av samhället ner för att minska virusspridningen, många människor blev svårt sjuka och dog av viruset. Det är nu fem år sedan Världshälsoorganisationen (WHO) meddelade att spridningen av covid-19 var en pandemi. Pandemin innebar att vi i varierande grad blev tvungna att frysa våra sociala kontakter, att arbeta hemi

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-undersoker-minnen-av-pandemin - 2025-08-30

Det nya forskningscentrumet – Wallenberg Centre of Molecular Medicine at Lund University – med fokus på regenerativ medicin, ingår i en nationell plan för att åter ta Sverige till världsledande position inom medicinsk forskning. Bakom centrumet står Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse tillsammans med Lunds universitet och Region Skåne. – Det är mycket glädjande att Stiftelsen, tillsammans univers

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Olle Melander, som forskar om hjärt-kärlsjukdomar, och Diana Karpman, som forskar om njursvikt, blir Wallenberg Clinical Scholars. Anslaget på 15 miljoner kronor vardera ger dem en möjlighet att fördjupa sin forskning och föra ut sina resultat i vården. Målet med forskningsprogrammet Wallenberg Clinical Scholars är att stärka svensk klinisk forskning genom att identifiera de bästa kliniska forskar

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tva-forskare-vid-lunds-universitet-blir-wallenberg-clinical-scholars - 2025-08-30

Joakim Zander kombinerar forskning och författarskap. Foto: Johan Persson Lundalektorn Joakim Zander blev jurist i Uppsala och doktor i Nederländerna, men författarskapet har han tagit med sig till Lund, hem­staden sedan drygt tio år. Snart har filmatiseringen av spännings­romanen ”Ett ärligt liv” premiär på Netflix. Där utgör Lund både skåde­plats och brottsplats för en juriststudents drömmar och

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Information meeting about the final report from the investigation of the animal houses at the Faculty of Medicine on 17 June. Photo: Jon Ulvsgärd The final report of how to achieve a cost reduction of SEK 40 million in the animal house organisation by 2027 including an action plan to reach this goal has now been presented. "The main message is that it is now time to act, we urgently need to do som

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/final-report-new-organisation-and-reduced-costs-animal-house - 2025-08-29

Photo: Tbel Abuseridze | Unsplash Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady de

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-08-29

For a long time, there has been a lack of concentrated efforts among researchers focusing on taxation, but that is about to change. On June 5th, plans for a new Taxation Centre will be presented. "The idea of an interdisciplinary taxation centre and the need for it have existed for many years, and several of us researchers were given the opportunity to concretize our thoughts—especially regarding

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-taxation-centre - 2025-08-29

Photo: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund. The Pufendorf theme “DigiJustice: Rethinking Digital Inequalities and Human Rights in the Age of AI” has wrapped up with a conference and exhibition. The interdisciplinary group has shifted its focus throughout the year-long theme. What began as discussions on AI's part in amplifying digital inequality became a practical exploration into how this is

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/science-meets-art-digijustice-finale - 2025-08-29

Maria Stanfors. Photo: Johan Persson This spring, LU is launching a joint faculty initiative to further train already established research supervisors. They constitute a hitherto forgotten group when it comes to professional development according to Maria Stanfors, vice chair of the Research Programmes Board (Swedish abbreviation FUN) and the person leading the project. “Over the years, there has

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overlooked-supervisors-receive-further-training - 2025-08-30

It took four weeks to build the new laboratory. Photo: Erik Andersson After a trip from Portugal, the new exposure chambers have arrived in Lund. LTH’s aerosol and climate scientists welcome the lab delivery with great expectations and are getting ready for a four-week construction project. Several years of preparation are now bearing fruit. The aerosol and climate labs at LTH have merged into one

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unique-combo-lab-paves-way-new-research-breakthroughs - 2025-08-29

Anders Lindskog (on the left) and Johan Lindgren, studying fossils. Photo: Johan Joelsson During the excursion week this spring, Master’s students from the Department of Geology visited Öland and the Danish town of Faxe. This year there was also a new location in the programme. Students had the opportunity to learn more about the Cretaceous period and its fossil remains in the bat-filled Tykarp Ca

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-university-and-underground-world - 2025-08-29

Elif Tiryakioglu, Turkey, Roxanne Mae Targa, the Philippines and Nawapan Boonchum from Thailand did their degree projects at Tetra Pak 2020, within the Erasmus Mundus Master's programme FIPDes, Food Innovation and Product Design. Photo: Erik Andersson "When I was a kid, I said tetra about all the juice drinks," says Roxanne Mae Targa when she talks about her first experience with Tetra Pak. Now sh

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On January 18th the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) organized an information and discussion meeting about the profile areas. The general sentiment was that the new task provided surprisingly little direction for how the financing of the profile areas should be developed. On January 13th the Swedish government (U2022/00168) gave the Swedish Research Council and the other

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-level-funding-profile-areas-has-moved-forward - 2025-08-29

Bo Dilton. Photo:private The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is to them a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-central-administrator - 2025-08-29

Jack Senften. Photo:Kennet Rhona The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-students - 2025-08-29

Our national project partner in Kyrgyz Republic, The Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic (hereinafter referred to as the Council) headed by Nuruipa Mukanova, Secretary General, visited Washington, D.C. and New York from August 10 to August 19  to exchange experiences, build capacity of staff and members of the Council, as well as employees of the government

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/strengthening-capacity-and-promoting-experience-exchange-fight-against-corruption - 2025-08-29

Melissa García-Lamarca is showing LUCSUS' Theo Hagman-Rogowski how to place notes on the map of Lund. LUMES student Carolina Sandoval Marmolejo organised a workshop on how to densify Lund during Lund Sustainability Week together with fellow student Sari Nomura. With their stand in the city centre, they aimed to start a conversation on how the public would like to see their buildings and public spa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-students-aim-densify-city-lund-preserve-green-spaces-and-build-community - 2025-08-29

Photo: Kennet Ruona. It’s time to nominate the Faculty's Honorary doctors for 2026. In recent years, other faculties have appointed Honorary doctors such as Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse, musician Timbuktu and actress Pernilla August. We at the Faculty of Medicine now want to find more of our own "stars" and associate them with us through Honorary doctorates. Do you have a prominent person in your

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In January, the university director will make a decision on adopting a new remit and organisation for Corporate Communication within the Central Administration. Corporate Communication must be able to meet new needs at no extra cost. In this situation, other activities need to be deprioritised. The University Management has identified LUM as an activity that should be reprioritised in favour of ot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/proposal-reprioritisation-leads-closure-lum - 2025-08-30