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The PALS program, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) for 2024–2028, continues to foster ground-breaking research through its collaboration between WCMM, DDLS, and SciLifeLab Fellow programs. Following an evaluation process in the second annual call for collaborative PALS projects, eight projects have been approved for funding. We are thrilled to announce that WCMM Lund Fellow

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/success-wcmm-lund-fellows-pals-call-2024 - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At a pub in Yokohama, history of religions scholar Andreas Johansson by chance came in contact with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. For two weeks, he was hanging out with the mafia, and will soon publish a book on the tattoos of the Yakuza and what they symbolise. It requires over 200 hours of painful pricks by hand,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researcher-intrigued-mafia-tattoos-japanese-mafia-photographed-lund-researcher - 2026-05-23

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body’s immune system. By developing an antibody that blocks the mechanism, the researchers could restore the immune system’s ability to kill the cancer cells in laboratory trials and in mice. The discovery is published in Nature Cancer. In brief:Facts about the study: peer-r

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-revealed-how-leukemia-cells-trick-immune-system - 2026-05-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. . Åtta toppstudenter, ett hus i New-England-stil, svindlande natur och en vänlig småstad mötte universitetsläraren Blaženka Scheuer och hennes familj under vistelsen i USA. Nu vill hon uppmuntra fler att söka STINT:s program Teaching Sabbatical. Blaženka Scheuer berättar om sitt halvår i Williamstown, Foto: Gunnar M

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lararutbyte-gav-ny-syn-pa-livet - 2026-05-23

De senaste årens utveckling med ökad konkurrens, hållbarhetsfokus och inte minst digitalisering, har väckt frågan kring handelns långsiktiga konkurrenskraft och förutsättningar för mer systematisk innovation i samspel med den dagliga, operativa verksamheten. Men hur ser handeln på innovation och vilka är förutsättningarna? Till skillnad från industriella och högteknologiska branscher – där merpart

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/fran-standiga-forbattringar-till-systematisk-innovation-inom-handeln-utopi-eller-mojlighet - 2026-05-23

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 - 2026-05-23

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Diabetesepidemin i Europa och i världen är nu så omfattande, så allvarlig och ett så stort hot mot folkhälsan att hela samhället måste engageras. Ord som ”vår tids pest” och frågor som ”varför förlorar vi kampen mot diabetes” präglade EU-mötet i Köpenhamn där 760 politiker, tjänstemän och forskare samlats för ett ge

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/internationell-mobilisering-mot-diabetes-dagens-stora-hot-mot-folkhalsan - 2026-05-24

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Lediga dagar med sol, bad och glass är en bild av den svenska sommaren. En annan verklighet är besvärliga insekter och kryp som för många blir en sommarplåga. Både människor och husdjur drabbas: i skogen, på stranden, i trädgården. Christer Hansson, intendent vid biologiska museet i Lund, listar här några av sommare

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sommarplagor-som-bits-sticks-och-suger-blod - 2026-05-24

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vetenskapsrådet (VR) beviljar MAX IV-laboratoriet 1,39 miljarder kronor i driftsbidrag för 2013-2018 och Lunds universitet går in med 250 miljoner kronor under samma tidsperiod. Dessutom anslår VR 250 miljoner kronor i investeringsbidrag för nya strålrör. - Detta är fantastiskt goda nyheter för alla de forskare som

https://www.lu.se/artikel/max-iv-far-nara-19-miljarder-kronor-drift-och-stralror - 2026-05-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How has life and work changed during the pandemic? LUM has met coworkers with widely different situations, starting with Tove Eriksson and Anna Löthman. Anna Löthman and Tove Eriksson, Communication officers at EHLLU has become a race car!Many people are working from home due to the coronavirus, but not you. Why?"We l

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyday-life-wake-corona-crisis - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the medical students who has begun working at Skåne University Hospital to strengthen Skåne's health service in the fight against Covid-19 is Hanna Djerf. For her, giving help where it’s needed is an obvious thing to do. She is also gaining valuable insight into how intensive care works. At the end of March, th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/you-want-help - 2026-05-23

Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Why did you chose Sweden and the School of Economics and Management as your study destination?I had moved to Stockholm in 2014 years to work in the British Embassy, I first heard of Lund University from a friend who studied in Lund and went on to a successful career. After eight years in the Diplomatic service, I wanted to focus my career to be more econo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/william-dendy-alumnus-msc-economics-2017 - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researchers are developing an Urban Living Lab approach to adress sustainability in the food, water, energy nexus through the case of craft beer sector in Sweden (Scania). The LUCSUS researchers, Barry Ness, Darin Wahl and Christine Wamsler are working in a large transdisciplinary research project called GLOCUL

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/promoting-sustainability-swedish-craft-beer-sector-through-urban-living-labs - 2026-05-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the same couple of weeks, both researchers published findings

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2026-05-23

I guess you can say that it goes up and down, but I would say that IT security is a question that worries me. We must act fast and start by analysing the current situation. We hear almost daily about threats from the surrounding world of intrusion, ransomware attacks* and spying. Lund University is of course no exception regarding these threats and we need to equip ourselves better to withstand th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-state-it-security-lund-university - 2026-05-23

IndiCell, short for Individualized Cell Therapy, is a national initiative in Sweden to speed up the development of advanced therapies that can help treat or cure a range of diseases and medical conditions. The project, led by researchers at the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University, is now celebrating its second anniversary. Launched in 2021 with funding from Vinnova, the Swedish Innovation Age

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/innovation-environment-customised-stem-cell-treatments-turns-two - 2026-05-23

In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equipment at centre’s Preclinical Nuclear Medicine platform. The funds will be used to enhance the positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-26-million-sek-nuclear-medicine-imaging-equipment-upgrade - 2026-05-23

Brist på livsmiljöer och klimatförändringen - parametrar som forskare vet påverkar antalet pollinatörer. Men hur mycket påverkar de och vad mer bidrar till att bin och humlor blir en allt ovanligare syn i landskapet? Det har Maria Blasi i Romero försökt ta reda på i sin avhandling som presenteras den 26:e november. Ett säkert vårtecken är de smörgula rapsfält som varje vår breder ut sig som ett tä

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/modellering-humlornas-overlevnad - 2026-05-23

Nätbolagen fortsätter att höja elnätsavgifterna. Professor emeritus Stefan Yard är expert på elnäts­regleringar och reder ut hur den framtida elnätsregleringen kommer att utformas. Nätbolagen fortsätter att höja elnätsavgifterna. Men de förslag Energimarknads­inspektionen (Ei) arbetar på för skärpta intäktsramar för bolagen från 2028 ser att bli en halvmesyr som inte rättar till viktiga fel i de b

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/elnatsbolagen-overkompenseras-pa-kundernas-bekostnad - 2026-05-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Policy instruments and business models for closed material loops:Lamp collecting systems in need of improvement A group of three IIIEE researchers are busy searching for good examples of how discarded lamps can be collected and the materials reused in new lamps.  “With authorities taking more responsibility consumers

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-thomas-lindhqvist - 2026-05-23