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Lina Rosengren explores factors for maintaining life satisfaction despite suffering from Parkinson’s disease. December 17, she defends her Ph.D. projects supervised by Prof. Jan Lexell. Lina explains her most important findings, future directions, and time as a Ph.D. student in the Rehabilitation Medicine group at MultiPark. Tell us about your research! I work part-time as a physician in Rehabilit

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-lina-rosengren - 2026-07-05

Kajsa Brolin explores how our genes and environment affect the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. March 27, she defends her Ph.D. project partly based on MultiPark’s biobank sample collection. Here, she tells about the newly discovered genetic risk factor that might be specific to people in the southern part of Sweden. And is coffee really protective? Tell us about your research! “My research

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genes-and-environment-pd-phd-interview-kajsa-brolin - 2026-07-05

Earlier this fall, Milda Pucetaite was one of the 400 European researchers to receive an ERC Starting Grant for her project “Tracing single-cell scale chemical signalling between interacting soil fungi". As Milda is a member of BECC, we were curious to know a little bit more about her grant. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-career researchers and the only selection criterion is scienti

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/milda-pucetaite-receiving-erc-grant - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Despite rules and legislation on water for all at a reasonable cost, water shortages hit the poor hardest. In slums in large cities, illegal water mafia have emerged that take advantage of people’s desperate need for water. Maryam Nastar has studied water politics in two fast growing cities, Hyderabad in India and Joh

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/water-mafia-take-advantage-poor - 2026-07-05

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2026-07-05

Many of the University’s staff members state that they seldom or never use AI at work, according to a survey conducted by the Ad Hoc Group. As previously mentioned in LU News, a questionnaire on the use of AI was sent to a random selection of technical and administrative (TA) staff at the University. The survey was conducted within the framework of the University’s digitalisation and AI initiative

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ta-staff-opinions-are-divided-ai - 2026-07-06

Congratulation to Wolfgang Knecht and his collaborators, who have been awarded a grant for a LINXS theme initiative titled Pandemics and Alertness (PandA)! The theme is a “spin-off” from the Pandemics and Alertness the thematic collaboration initiative at Lund University, with a deeper focus on advancing understaning of viruses and strengthening crisis preparedness. The themes want to achieve an i

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/grant-awarded-linxs-theme-initiative-pandemics-and-alertness-panda - 2026-07-05

On 25 November, after two years of intense legal preparations, the youth organsation Aurora, submitted a litigation against the Swedish state for its insufficient climate policies – the very first of its kind in Sweden. Mark Connaughton, research assistant at LUCSUS, and member of the GAMES research project, a collaborative project led by LUCSUS with Copenhagen University and Imperial College Lond

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/aurora-climate-litigation - 2026-07-05

Today two separate batches of available housing were published, one for September and one for remaining accommodations in late August. Please note that response deadlines for August rooms will be very short. Two batchesToday (19 August), the fifth batch of available housing for August 2024 was published, as well as the first batch of housing available from September. These batches have different d

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/september-and-late-august-batches-published - 2026-07-05

The brain's big-eating immune cells can slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease. This is shown by a study that is now published in Nature Aging. The brain's own immune cells are called microglia and are found in the central nervous system. They are big eaters that kill viruses, damaged cells and infectious agents they come across. It has long been known that microglial cells can be activa

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brains-immune-cells-can-be-triggered-slow-down-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-05

A new study have identified which blood tests are best at detecting Alzheimer’s disease during the earliest stages, and also another blood test that is optimal for detecting relevant treatment effects. These findings will speed up the development of new therapies that can slow down the disease progression. The article was originally published as a press release from the Sahlgrenska Academy, Univer

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/optimal-blood-tests-development-new-therapies-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-05

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/top-ranked-lusem-shines-latest-world-university-rankings - 2026-07-05

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/tiktok-algorithms-and-feedback-loops-new-thesis-david-bazan-royuela-explores-digital-interactions - 2026-07-05

From the Vice-Chancellor’s blog: For several years, Lund University and many other stakeholders within the sector and beyond have been calling on the Government to alter and simplify immigration legislation and its regulations for researchers and doctoral students. Sweden and its universities are competing in a highly competitive international study and labour market, and there have been far too m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-immigration-rules-researchers-and-doctoral-students-welcomed - 2026-07-06

Amanda Moberg In Amanda Moberg´s MFA exhibition ”The paths are a pattern only the weaves can see” I was meet by numerous works, all navigating around weaving as a focus point. The works seemed to be engaged with how the notion of weaving comes from language itself and how language can be shifted into new meanings, forms and questions. In French for example, text and textile share the same etymolog

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/mfa-student-interview-series-part-vi-amanda-moberg-and-alice-ryne - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Properly managed, the agricultural sector in Europe can contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by improving food security, reducing poverty and enhancing biodiversity. But new research shows that indicators to measure key SDGs such as health and equality are entirely missing fro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-points-out-key-gaps-eus-largest-funding-scheme-common-agricultural-policy - 2026-07-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ”Jag måste erkänna en sak. Jag tillhör dem som har kritiserat den förda penningpolitiken – inte inflationsmålen i sig – utan den penningpolitik som gett oss det väldigt ensidiga fokus som det har varit på att nå 2,0 procents konsumentprisinflation.” Så inledde nationalekonomen Fredrik NG Andersson sitt anförande inf

https://www.lu.se/artikel/finansforskaren-riksbankens-penningpolitik-ar-alltfor-expansiv - 2026-07-05

Jobbar du med grafisk form, uppslukas av spelutveckling eller designar smycken i ett eget företag? Kultur och kreativa uttryck som affärsidé är en tydligt växande arbetsmarknad i Sverige. Men många i dessa yrkesgrupper behöver riktade stödinsatser för att kunna utvecklas och hitta kunder och samarbetsparter. Under flera år har vårt intresse av kultur och kreativa uttryck ökat kraftigt. Mycket kan

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/kulturella-och-kreativa-naringar-utvecklas-bast-med-skraddarsydda-insatser - 2026-07-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Projektrapporterna på masterkursen ”Livsmedelsteknik och nutrition” vid LTH har blivit bättre – tack vare en idrottspsykolog! – Vänta vänta, kom hit! Och sen så går du under där, bra, och nu kan du hoppa… instruerar Daniela Chiang och brister ut i skratt när kursaren Malaley Rahmani snavar och trillar ihop i en fnis

https://www.lu.se/artikel/virrvarr-battre-gruppdynamik - 2026-07-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Fredsbyggande, medling och rättvisefrågor har alltid stått på agendan. Men forskarbanan var inte självklar för Karin Aggestam som nu fått den prestigefyllda Pufendorfprofessuren. Hon är både första kvinna och statsvetare som får den, – och hon hoppas bana vägen för ett internationellt mastersprogram i diplomati. Kar

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fred-och-rattvisa-pa-agendan - 2026-07-05