Curiosity, openness and compassion are words to live by for Sylvia Schwaag Serger, who will become the new deputy vice-chancellor as of next year. She believes that we all have a civic duty to be proactive but must also be aware that we might, actually, be wrong. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, new deputy vice-chancellor at Lund University. Sylvia Schwaag Serger currently works at Vinnova, as the director

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaving-her-comfort-zone-lund-university - 2025-09-05

A human inherits genes from both parents and the genes control what traits a human should have. The researchers behind a new study have studied how metabolic traits are passed on from mothers and fathers to children. Photograph: Kennet Ruona New research at Lund University shows that the biological parents’ genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and b

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-parents-metabolic-traits-can-affect-childs-health-over-time - 2025-09-05

Carl-Johan Fraenkel. Photo: Tove Smeds Contagion spreads in various ways, with airborne viruses being especially difficult to protect oneself against. Norovirus, or the winter vomiting bug as it is sometimes known, is just such a virus. Carl-Johan Fraenkel, infectious disease and healthcare hygiene specialist, is currently defending his thesis at Lund University, looking at various aspects of how

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-track-spread-norovirus-hospitals - 2025-09-05

PhD student Luís Oliveira drew resounding applause for his presentation on how he reprograms cancer cells. Photo: Bodil Malmström. By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win in this year's Research Grand Prix. It is a competition in presentation technique for r

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/research-reprogramming-cancer-cells-won-presentation-competition-research-grand-prix - 2025-09-05

Read about our research, engagement and researchers at COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted by Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh. It is held between 6-18 November. Reports launched at COP27 The land Gap report  Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on inequitable and unsustainable land-based measures to capture and store carbon. This is stated in a new study, c

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-engagement-during-cop27 - 2025-09-05

LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they gained from the LUMEs programme and what career advice they have for future LUMES g

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2025-09-05

Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift recently published a special issue on the Middle East after twenty years of the war on terror with contributions from CMES researchers Lina Eklund, Isabell Schierenbeck, Karin Aggestam, Linda Eitrem Holmgren, and Lisa Strömbom. The special issue was edited by Anders Persson and includes the following articles written (in Swedish) by CMES researchers and affiliated resea

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-and-20-years-war-terror - 2025-09-05

CMES scholar Rola El-Husseini Dean has been interviewed for an article about the Lebanese election in Göteborgs-Posten. Lebanon’s fraudulent elite predicted to remain in power For the first time since 2018, at a time when one crisis was followed by another in Lebanon, the country holds a general election. Although a majority of the population has been thrown into poverty, of which the current lead

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rola-el-husseini-dean-interviewed-about-lebanese-election-goteborgs-posten - 2025-09-05

Here the student group, who has developed a solution for how to more easily find vacant parking places in the city, presents their work. Photo:Maria Lindh Collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship!  These concepts are now being taken seriously in first, second and third cycle programmes. LUM sat down with students taking the elective "Interdisciplinary project development" and the compulsory

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/entrepreneurship-timetable - 2025-09-05

Kids playing in the backyard of newly built houses in Johanneshov, Stockholm, 1943. Photo: Johansson (SvD). Stadsmuseet i Stockholm/Stockholmskällan. The new research project, “Socioeconomic Segregation - The Impact of Neighborhoods, Schools and Policy Across the Life Course”, aims to establish a research environment involving health economists, education and labour market economists, geographers,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-project-explores-socioeconomic-segregation-then-and-now - 2025-09-06

FOTO: MARIA_SBYTOVA/Smartphotos Most women will experience menopause at some point in their working lives. How can a workplace be set up to make things easier for employees going through their menopausal transition? A pilot project at Lund University is investigating the issue. Sweating, mood swings and poor sleep. Many women are adversely affected by menopause. According to a 2021 study published

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-can-lund-university-become-more-menopause-friendly-workplace - 2025-09-06

Donationskampanjen, Universitetsstyrelsen, delegationsresa till Indonesien, Lärosäten Syd, QS rankning, konferens om kvalitetssäkring och GUL-möte är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Ekonomisk delrapport för Lunds universitets donationskampanj. Det har gått sex månader sedan LU lanserade donationskampanjen ”Lunds universitet - För en bättre värld”, som syftar till att öka samverkan och dial

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-16-september-0 - 2025-09-04

Arkeologen Greer Jarret har seglat i vikingarnas farleder på sina forskningsexpeditioner. Arkeologen Greer Jarrett har seglat som en viking under tre års tid. Nu kan han visa att vikingarna seglade längre bort från Skandinavien, och tog rutter längre ut från land, än man tidigare trott var möjligt. I sin senaste studie har han hittat spår av ett decentraliserat nätverk av hamnar, belägna på öar oc

https://www.lu.se/artikel/seglande-arkeolog-identifierar-mojliga-vikingahamnar-langs-norges-kust - 2025-09-04

För personer med psykisk ohälsa kan vägen till ett fungerande arbetsliv vara lång och krokig. En ny avhandling från Lunds universitet ringar in vad som krävs för att göra arbetslivet möjligt för personer med psykisk ohälsa: Hopp och tro på personens förmåga att arbeta. Att arbeta personcentrerat och öka kunskapen om psykisk ohälsa bland både arbetsgivare och dem som jobbar med arbetsrehabilitering

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tro-pa-personers-formaga-att-arbeta - 2025-09-06

En kost med mycket fett och socker försämrade minnet hos möss, men förändringarna behöver inte bli bestående. Foto: iStock Maten vi äter påverkar inte bara kroppen utan även knoppen. Forskare vid Lunds universitet strävar efter att förstå hur en kost med mycket fett och socker påverkar minnesförmågor i samband med övervikt och typ 2-diabetes. Deras nya studie på möss visar att fet mat och sockersö

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/en-kost-rik-pa-fett-och-socker-forsamrade-minnet-hos-moss-men-inte-gott - 2025-09-05

I en tid då hotet från antibiotikaresistens blir allt större ökar behovet av nya behandlingsstrategier mot bakterier. Nu publicerar forskare vid Lunds universitet tillsammans med kollegor vid Köpenhamns universitet en artikel i Nature Communications som kan ge hopp om en sådan alternativ behandlingsstrategi vid bakteriell hjärnhinneinflammation, en allvarlig infektion som kan leda till sepsis. Vår

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-icke-antibiotisk-strategi-behandling-av-bakteriell-hjarnhinneinflammation - 2025-09-05

Illustration av antikropp. Forskarna Pontus Nordenfelt och Arman Izadi är något av antikroppsdesigners. “Hybridantikroppen är betydligt bättre än kroppens egna antikroppar på att bekämpa streptokocker som SARS-CoV-2”. Illustration: iStock/Jitendra Jadhav. Antikroppar är kroppens superhjältar som känner igen och röjer undan sjukdomsframkallande ämnen. Genom att kombinera delar från antikroppar har

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/receptet-pa-en-fantastisk-antikropp - 2025-09-05

FOTO: MARIA_SBYTOVA/Smartphotos De flesta kvinnor kommer någon gång under sitt yrkesliv att befinna sig i klimakteriet. Hur kan en arbetsplats riggas för att underlätta för anställda i övergångsåldern? Ett pilotprojekt vid Lunds universitet undersöker frågan. Svettningar, humörsvängningar och dålig sömn. Många kvinnor lider av att vara i klimakteriet. Enligt en studie från 2021 publicerad av Socia

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-kan-lu-bli-en-mer-klimakterievanlig-arbetsplats - 2025-09-06

Vasili Hauryliuk, recipient of the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Molecular Biology 2024. Photo: Tove Smeds. Vasili Hauryliuk, Senior Lecturer in Medical Biochemistry at Lund University, is awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Molecular Biology with the motivation "for pioneering studies of how protein synthesis is regulated in bacteria". The Göran Gustafsson Prize, a total of SEK 33 million, is now a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/goran-gustafsson-prize-fight-against-antibioticresistance - 2025-09-05

IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Green economy depends on high national ambitionsSustainable growth, supporting a resource efficient and low-carbon economy, is a high priority for most governments today. But which way is the most effective for the transition towards a green economy? IIIEE researchers Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij are soon wrapping up a major global benchmar

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-researcher-luis-mundaca - 2025-09-05