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Christopher Douse, a new group leader at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award by The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This award includes a $1.2 million grant to support his lab’s exploration of the repetitive portion of the human genome, so-called ‘genomic dark matter’, and its role in human brain development and degeneration. Repe
In everyday life, he is a professor of economics and, once a year, he helps award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. But now Tommy Andersson is receiving an award of his own: Teacher of the Year 2025! LundaEkonomerna’s prize for best teacher is awarded annually following a vote among students at LUSEM. The Best Teacher of 2025 is Professor of Economics Tomm
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lundaekonomerna-teacher-year-award-2025 - 2025-12-14
For many years there has been an on-going discussion about how academic freedom is being challenged in many parts of the world, including Sweden. And when even some of the strongest academic bastions in the world such as Harvard are now fighting for their independence against the American federal administration’s political directives, it is clear that academia has not been crying wolf. Academic fr
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/storm-clouds-gather-usa-institutional-freedom-and-independent-academia-are-essential - 2025-12-14
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 blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be used to develop preventive treatments that reduce the child's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Previous research by diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad has shown
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-parents-metabolic-traits-can-affect-childs-health-over-time - 2025-12-13
The WCMM Fireside Chat is a series of articles dedicated to showcasing the remarkable work of researchers within and around the Lund Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM). Our goal is to encourage collaboration, communication, and inspiration among the scientific community by highlighting innovative research, breakthrough discoveries, and the people driving these advancements. In this mo
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-wcmm-fusion-co-organisers-carolina-and-elin - 2025-12-13
Negative emission technologies, or large scale carbon dioxide removal, are increasingly seen as key to slow or halt climate change. Researchers now warn that they are fraught with uncertainties, and raise questions about land use, justice and power. Wim Carton, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, explains what these technologies are about, and why the promises of these
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/uncertain-future-negative-emission-technologies - 2025-12-13
Head of Faculty Office Catrin Malmström reflects on the changes that have taken place at the Faculty office over the past year, and on the ongoing work to build a clearer structure and more coordinated support for the faculty’s activities. With new managers now in place for all functions, and several new roles strengthening both education and research support, the office has taken important steps
Everyone knows about source criticism, but researchers Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin want to emphasise source confidence. “There has been an intensive focus on the critical aspect. Pupils leave school with the attitude that you cannot trust anything, so source confidence is an important complement to source criticism. There must be confidence in our social institutions”, says Jutta Haider. Olof Sun
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-strike-blow-source-confidence - 2025-12-13
Type 2 diabetes is a complex disease that can lead to serious health problems. It is important to find ways to predict the disease to take preventive measures. A large interdisciplinary study led by Lund University has identified a biomarker in the blood that predicts type 2 diabetes several years before diagnosis. Diabetes is on the rise and over time, diabetes can lead to complications such as c
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-biomarker-identified-predicts-type-2-diabetes-several-years-diagnosis - 2025-12-13
A new app will make it easier for people on sick leave due to anxiety and depression to get back to work. In the project mWorks, Professor Ulrika Bejerholm and her research colleagues focus on what strengths, abilities and new strategies can help people on sick leave successfully transition back to working life. The research team wishes to move away from the current focus on diagnosis and disabili
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-app-help-people-return-work-following-sick-leave-due-mental-illness - 2025-12-13
Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuity, colour vision (tested with Sahlgren's Saturation Test or the Ishihara colour vision test) or t
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-12-13
Eighteen nationalities come together during lunch on level B10 at Biomedical Centre (BMC). There is a hotchpotch of dishes and languages. Lunch becomes an opportunity to meet colleagues across borders and to learn about other cultures and approaches. Diversity, openness and curious taste buds are good prerequisites for unique food meetings. Qianren Jin - China Title: Research engineer Age: 44 Num
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-meets-lunch - 2025-12-13
The work in SWEAH's management continues with high energy. At the turn of the year, some new people entered as members of the graduate school's board. In addition, alumni have been granted assignments in their postdoctoral career development. The graduate school SWEAH is led by a board consisting of members from SWEAH's partner universities. Affiliated PhD students and a SWEAH alumnus also partici
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-commitment-new-year - 2025-12-13
Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-12-13
The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in temperature usually stimulates photosynthesis and growth for plants at our
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2025-12-13
Regeringen har utsett tre nya ledamöter i Klimatpolitiska rådet. En av dem är Anna Maria Jönsson, professor vid institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemanalys vid Lunds universitet och vice koordinator i BECC. (In English below) Grattis, Anna Maria Jönsson, till det nya uppdraget. Vilken expertis bidrar du med i Klimatpolitiska rådet?– Min forskning handlar om klimateffekter på skogliga ekosy
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/anna-maria-jonsson-utsedd-till-ledamot-i-klimatpolitiska-radet - 2025-12-13
WINGS Workshop with Finish on Time:From negative to positive stress & from efficiency to effectiveness for doctoral student supervisors Date and timeFriday 8 November, 09.00-16.00 PlaceAF Borgen, Sandgatan 2, Lund (https://goo.gl/maps/bCj8eCTMX4cwXw1s5) Target groupDoctoral student supervisors ObjectiveThe objective of this one-day workshop is to show and discuss various stress management and aca
Helena Filipsson, professor at the Department of Geology, together with colleagues, has received seed funding from Lund University for the interdisciplinary project From Microns to Models: Leveraging μCT and Machine Learning for High-Resolution Morphological Diversity Analysis (MICROMORPH). The project brings together expertise in geology, biology, mathematics, and statistics, and is carried out i
Laura Betancur Alarcón graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she is pursuing a PhD at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). For the last nine years she has worked in the environmental sector in various roles as researcher, writer, lecturer, and journalist for different organisations in academia, media, and i
