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Missiologist Mika Vähäkangas thinks that Scandinavians can be a little self-righteous. He says that he has become who he is in great part thanks to his research in Africa – there he learnt what he knows about compassion.  Over nearly thirty years, he first carried out missionary work and then research, teaching and fieldwork in Africa on African Christianity.    "It has always been Africa. My pare

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-has-given-me-more-i-could-ever-give-back - 2025-10-23

Thursday 20 May Morten is giving a CMES Research Seminar on the topic: What is so Sectarian about Sectarian Politics? Identity Politics and Authoritarianism in a New Middle East. 1.    How has sectarian politics been debated before, during and after the Arab Revolts? The public debate on sectarianism easily leaves the impression that this is a very recent issue emerging in the wake of the Arab rev

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-questions-morten-valbjorn - 2025-10-23

Lunds universitet har sammanställt en lista med experter som kan kommentera och bidra med kunskaper kring coronaviruset ur olika aspekter.  Medicin och hälsa  Hans Norrgren, docent i infektionssjukdomar, överläkare infektionsmedicin  Telefon: 046-17 13 37  E-post: hans [dot] norrgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se   Forskning/expertområde: smittspridning och hur virus orsakar sjukdom, infektionsmedici

https://www.lu.se/artikel/expertlista-press-och-media-coronavirus - 2025-10-24

Studenter från Lunds universitet befinner sig på olika platser runt om i världen för att bedriva utbytesstudier, praktik eller fältarbete. En del av dem har åkt hem till Sverige under coronakrisen, medan andra stannar kvar. Vi har bett några av dem ge en bild av deras situation där de befinner sig på olika platser i världen. Fler porträtt kommer efterhand. Anna är kvar i ett isolerat Belgien men h

https://www.lu.se/artikel/studenter-utomlands-berattar-om-livet-under-coronakrisen - 2025-10-24

The SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) is the is one of the latest research initiative funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation. Lund University has successfully recruited two DDLS Fellows starting now in the beginning of 2023. The practice of life science is continuously becoming more data-dependent. The amount and complexity of data is growing expo

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-wallenberg-national-program-data-driven-life-science - 2025-10-23

På Campus Helsingborg pågår ett projekt för att utreda vilka möjligheter det finns att utveckla nuvarande lokaler så att de i högre grad motsvarar framtidens behov av attraktiva arbets-och lärandemiljöer. Ambitionen är även att skapa bättre förutsättningar för samverkan mellan olika verksamheter samt att utnyttja lokalerna effektivare. På denna sida publicerar vi samlad information och uppdatering

https://www.ch.lu.se/internt/artikel/campusutveckling-helsingborg - 2025-10-23

Snart inleds FN:s klimatkonferens, COP27, i Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypten. Världens länder möts för att diskutera det globala klimatarbetet och hur Parisavtalet ska implementeras. Lunds universitet har många forskare som är insatta i frågor som kommer att diskuteras under COP27, som pågår mellan 6-18 november. Journalister är välkomna att kontakta forskarna nedan. Forskare på plats i Sharm el-Sheikh so

https://www.lu.se/artikel/experter-infor-cop27 - 2025-10-24

Som diagnos är diabetesformen MODY ovanlig, patienterna får ofta en annan vanligare diabetesdiagnos och andra är odiagnostiserade. Eftersom behandlingen skiljer sig åt vid de olika MODY-formerna är rätt diagnos viktig. Här en omarbetad och förkortad text som ST-läkaren Jonas Bengtsson vid labmedicin, klinisk kemi i Region Skåne och Leif Groop, överläkare och professor i endokrinologi vid Lunds uni

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesformen-mody-hur-manga-missar-vi - 2025-10-23

Plastskatt, förbud mot engångsartiklar och alternativa material: att få bukt med plastnedskräpningen ligger högt på den politiska agendan. Men hur hanterar vi nanoplaster som kan tas upp av vattenlevande djur och människor? Forskare vid Lunds universitet undersöker riskerna med dessa ytterst små partiklar. – Nanoplaster reagerar med naturen på ett helt annat sätt än mikroplaster. Det beror på att

https://www.lu.se/artikel/oklart-hur-vaxande-mangd-nanoplast-paverkar-natur-och-manniskor - 2025-10-24

När de pluggade vid Lunds universitet studerade de effekter av klimatförändringarna. Nu förhandlar alumnerna framtidens klimatpolitik för EU:s och regeringens räkning. Med olika titlar, mål och syfte begav sig LU-alumner till COP-29-förhandlingarna i Azerbajdzjan. Efter förhandlingarna möttes Christofer Ahlgren, Kajsa Nåtby och Yuichi Tsuchibuchi för ett reflekterande seminarium arrangerat av Lund

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lu-alumner-lamnar-klimattoppmotet-cop29-med-hopp - 2025-10-24

The idea behind procurement is to guarantee the right product or service at the right price. But what happens when public procurements are consciously structured to avoid appeals – or are simply discontinued early? Fredrik Tesch-Morawetz’s doctoral thesis in business law examines these issues and has been commended by the Lund University School of Economics and Management as the faculty’s best the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/sweden-needs-review-option-appealing-against-public-procurements - 2025-10-23

BEAt-DKD (“Biomarker Enterprise to Attack Diabetic Kidney Disease”), a unique public private partnership funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), member companies from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and the state of Switzerland has announced the launch of a 5-¬¬year project (total budget 28

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/innovative-medicines-initiative-project-precision-medicine-dkd - 2025-10-23

An antibody that did not fulfil its purpose against the disease multiple sclerosis, MS, instead made its big break in cancer research and is now starring in southern Sweden’s largest licensing agreement in Life Science history. The “father” of the antibody is Professor Carl Borrebaeck. Carl Borrebaeck. Photo: Gunnar Menander It is one of the windiest days in late summer, and the wind is blowing es

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-antibody-behind-billion-crown-life-science-deal - 2025-10-23

Within 100 years, approximately half of the 6,000 languages in the world will become extinct. A window to the past is currently being opened in Lund, where you can listen to languages that are no longer spoken thanks to a special resource for digital language documentation. Niclas Burenhult. Every two weeks, a language is lost. Through an infrastructure project funded by the Swedish Foundation for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/language-collectors - 2025-10-23

Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and the Lund Municipality invite you to participate in sustainability activities. It is a week full of discussions and lectures, serious issues and hopeful visions for the future. Here you can find all the events of the week with participants from the Centre for Environment and Climate Science. Monday 8 April - Friday 12 AprilSearching f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/our-events-sustainability-week-lund-2024 - 2025-10-23

Entry phones can cause problems. For elderly people with a visual impairment or reduced mobility, getting into one’s flat can suddenly become a challenge. However, researchers can also experience problems. One person who knows is occupational therapist Elina Taurina, who has mapped environmental obstacles for elderly people in Latvia together with researchers from Lund University. “A number of tim

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedish-elderly-research-exported-latvia - 2025-10-23

BEAt-DKD (“Biomarker Enterprise to Attack Diabetic Kidney Disease”), a unique public private partnership funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), member companies from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and the state of Switzerland has announced the launch of a 5-year project (total budget 28.9

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/beat-dkd-innovative-medicines-initiative-project-precision-medicine-dkd - 2025-10-23

A lab where you can “craft” new materials on the atomic level, bringing together cross-disciplinary scientists to produce nanomaterials and semiconductor components. A neighborhood with major research infrastructures, complementary to each other. And most important: an open environment where academia, industry, and society can meet and collaborate, finding solutions for a sustainable world. Intrig

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-it-big-nano-crafting - 2025-10-23

Betty Saenyi is in her last semester of her doctoral studies at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her PhD journey so far. Betty, why did you choose to pursue a doctoral education?“Funny enough, a PhD was never my dream. After my undergraduate studies, I worked in industry for quite a while and only decided to retur

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/meet-betty-saenyi-doctoral-student-department-informatics - 2025-10-24

Dag Oredsson took up the position of communications director on 1 October. He brings broad experience of the public sector, industry and the student world. With a strong commitment to strategic communication, cultural construction and external engagement, he looks forward to contributing to the development of the University. Dag Oredsson replaces the previous communications director Johanna Sandah

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dag-oredsson-universitys-new-communications-director - 2025-10-24