“Our goal is to make advances in stem cell therapy by modifying and adapting cells to the patient’s needs", explains Malin Parmar. Photo: Tove Smeds. Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The four researchers aim to develop custom-made neurons from stem cells for

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-awarded-development-custom-made-stem-cell-therapies - 2025-08-25

Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta — a hallmark

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-08-25

“Our goal is to make advances in stem cell therapy by modifying and adapting cells to the patient’s needs," explains Malin Parmar. Photo: Tove Smeds Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The four researchers aim to develop custom-made neurons from stem cells for c

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-awarded-development-custom-made-stem-cell-therapies - 2025-08-25

Polar bears followed the expedition in the Arctic. Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2025-08-26

The POInT clinic at the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö welcomes parents with their young children. One of the research nurses who sees them is Annika Björne Fors, who coordinates all sample-taking and appointments related to the study. The aim of the POInT study is to train the immune system to tolerate the body’s own insulin and thereby preventing destructive immune reactions. Photo: Ken

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/intersection-healthcare-and-academia - 2025-08-25

Could burying carbon dioxide under the seabed be the answer for the future? Lina Lefstad, who received an Honourable Mention in the Agenda 2030 Award, is exploring this in her research. Photo: Sara Håkansson She grew up in oil-rich Norway, with a father who travelled the world working in the oil sector. Little did Lina Lefstad know that just two decades later she would be a researcher at the foref

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/can-oil-industrys-know-how-help-solve-climate-crisis - 2025-08-25

An increased number of floods is considered the major reason for migration in the context of climate change in Bangladeshl. Photo: Moniruzzaman Sazal / Climate Visuals Countdown. The UNFCCC climate meeting COP27 is less than a week away. With evidence growing that green house gas emissions are making extreme events occur more frequently, and with greater intensity, loss and damage has emerged as o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-and-damage-most-critical-question-cop27 - 2025-08-25

MOCCA: The Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia project delivered one-week methods workshop on “Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods to Understanding and Combatting Corruption: Theory, Practice and Policy-Making”. The workshop, held at Lund University, Sweden, from 18 November to 22 November 2024, brought together researchers, policymakers, and academics to advance the fight against

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/mocca-workshop-interdisciplinary-approaches-and-methods-understanding-and-combatting-corruption - 2025-08-25

The committee gathering before the two day conference in Norrköping. Photo: Lill Eriksson On November 21-22, SWEAH's research conference is arranged for everyone who is active in the research school at the 13 affiliated universities – a big event and the first major event for most of the future researchers in the conference committee. Chairman Mahwish Naseer and the other junior researchers on the

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-create-years-sweah-conference-chance-you-have-take - 2025-08-25

Lund University. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Lund University has achieved third place globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings, according to a press release issued by the university on Tuesday. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability evaluates approximately 1,750 institutions worldwide on their contributions to sustainable development. Lund University ranks first in Sweden, second in Europe, a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-systematic-efforts-behind-lund-universitys-top-sustainability-ranking - 2025-08-25

Jishnu J.R, Ph.D Scholar from the Department of Law at University of Kerala in India, recently travelled back to Kerala after a month in Lund. Jishnu is pursuing his Ph.D on "Copyright and trademark aspects of social media" at University of Kerala and was here as a guest-reseacher at the Department of Law and SASNET. Jishnu has not only a interest in property and cyber laws but a keen interest in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jishnu-jr-guest-researcher-lund-university - 2025-08-25

Tre nya Wallenberg Academy fellows: Jan Marcus Dahlström, VladislavaStoyanova och Per Anders Rudling Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse har utsett 29 nya Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Tre av dessa kommer från Lund. Det femåriga anslaget ger de unga forskarna möjligheter att göra viktiga vetenskapliga genombrott genom att få långsiktig forskningsfinansiering i Sverige. Historikern Per Anders Rudlin

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tre-lundaforskare-blir-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2019 - 2025-08-25

John Hultén är föreståndare för K2. Han har disputerat i statsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet och har bedrivit forskning om politiska beslutsprocesser, transportplanering och finansiering. K2 – Sveriges nationella centrum för forskning och utbildning om kollektivtrafik– grundades i Lund 2013. Sedan dess har K2 producerat mycket forskning, utbildning och arrangerat mängder av arrangemang med målet

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/nationellt-centrum-forskning-och-utbildning-om-kollektivtrafik-gar-i-ny-fas - 2025-08-25

Översvämningar och skyfall kommer att bli allt vanligare på grund av klimatförändringarna. Foto: Mostphotos Ett förändrat klimat innebär att vi medborgare kommer att behöva ta mer ansvar för att skydda oss själva och vår egendom vid extrema väderhändelser. Samtidigt finns det stora skillnader mellan oss vad gäller resurser och förmåga att göra detta. En ny avhandling från Lunds universitet menar a

https://www.lu.se/artikel/klimat-och-extremvader-vi-behover-ta-mer-eget-ansvar - 2025-08-25

Donald Trumps tullkrig har dominerat årets nyhetsflöde. Men enligt nationalekonomen Fredrik NG Andersson riskerar vi att stirra oss blinda på de kortsiktiga effekterna. I själva verket står världen inför en ny maktordning som på sikt förändrar både politik och ekonomi – och markerar slutet för 1990-talets världsbild. Osäkerheten kring tullarna har väckt en rad frågor: vilka blir de omedelbara effe

https://www.lu.se/artikel/dags-att-saga-adjo-till-1990-talet - 2025-08-26

Marie Dacke, Mia Liinason, Heiner Linke, Martin Dribe, Tobias Uller, Vanya Darakchieva och Oksana Mont blir alla nya Wallenberg Scholars medan Anna Blom, Anne L’Huillier, Kimberly Dick Thelander, Stephanie Reimann och Johannes Rousk får förlängda anslag. Tolv forskare vid Lunds universitet har utsetts till Wallenberg Scholars, ett program finansierat av Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse som stö

https://www.lu.se/artikel/de-blir-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-08-26

Sommaren 2025 närmar sig, och det är äntligen dags att njuta av en välförtjänt ledighet. Ge dig själv tillåtelse att släppa vardagen, ladda om batterierna och njuta av solen. Semester handlar inte bara om att koppla av, utan också om att ge kroppen och själen den återhämtning den behöver. Med tipsen nedan kan du lättare slappna av, komma ner i varv och verkligen ta vara på din ledighet. I god tid

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tips-infor-sommarsemestern - 2025-08-26

Photo: Brendel at en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons High income and education level, and being married are beneficial if you end up unable to pay your mortgages. In a quantitative study published in the Journal of Consumer Policy, doctoral candidate in sociology of law Mikael Lundholm found that “higher socio-economic status is positively correlated with greater potential for c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/people-high-socio-economic-status-get-more-value-their-properties-when-faced-foreclosure - 2025-08-25

Tobias Linné, Head of the Department of Communication. It has now been four months since our two communication departments merged to become the Department of Communication (IKO). Tobias Linné, Head of Department, tells us how the merger has gone so far and what lies ahead. The new Department of Communication has now been in place for four months. What has happened since the start of the year? "We

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/hi-iko-how-are-you-doing - 2025-08-25

Johan Nilsson will join SASNET to prepare a project tracing the reception of South Asian religion in Swedish Theosophy. Nilsson recently completed his PhD in the history of religions at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Nilsson's primary focus of study is esoteric and occult movements active during the 19th and 20th century. He has successfully defended his doctoral d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-johan-nilsson - 2025-08-25