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A landmark study led from Lund, Sweden, has shown that transplanting stem-cell derived dopamine progenitor cells into the brain is feasible. Eight patients were transplanted in the first clinical trial, and no serious side effects directly linked to the transplanted cells were seen during the first year of follow up. The results are published in Nature Medicine. In Parkinson’s disease, patients lo
The University has made a further major investment in the Lund University Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP). The funding will go to the Centre’s graduate school, which will have eight new positions. The aim is to be Sweden’s leading hub for research, education and collaboration concerning preparedness and resilience. In the autumn of 2025, the University established the Lund Universi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-makes-new-investment-total-defence - 2026-07-19
The vision for the co-location of Lund University’s Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts in Sweden has now been finalised. On 3 June, the Faculty Board reached agreement on a new policy decision to work towards establishing a fine and performing arts campus in the Heleneholm area. The Faculty has been working for some time to bring the Malmö Art Academy, Malmö Academy of Music and Malmö Theatre Aca
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fine-and-performing-arts-campus-heleneholm - 2026-07-19
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed an AI tool that traces back the most recent places you have been to. The tool acts like a satellite navigation system, but instead of guiding you to your hotel, it identifies the geographical source of microorganisms. This means you can use bacteria to determine whether someone has just been to the beach, got off the train in the city
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-gps-system-microorganisms-could-revolutionise-police-work - 2026-07-19
A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity. The arc
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2026-07-19
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed one of the world’s most advanced test environments for the wireless communications of the future. Using the new test system, researchers have demonstrated for the first time that a distributed wireless network with 256 digitally beamformed antennas can operate in real time. This breakthrough opens up new opportunities to develop the technolog
Iryna Tsunovska and Nataliia Kohutyuk from Ukraine are taking home many new insights on how they can contribute to the protection of human rights in their professional roles. They have just completed a training course at Lund University for young policymakers, public servants and civil society workers from selected countries in the Baltic Sea Region/EU Eastern Partnership. Almost two weeks packed
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/young-ukrainian-civil-servants-explore-human-rights-lund - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University in Sweden has received prestigious grants of EUR 4 million from the European Research Council (ERC). The funding is allocated to two new projects in biology and environmental research respectively. One project concerns gaining insights into one of the animal world’s most sensitive biological compasses.
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Four promising young top researchers from the Faculty of Science at Lund University get over 1 million Euro each in so-called "Starting Grants" from the European Research Council, ERC. These are the biologists Jessica Abbott and Helena Westerdahl, the physicist Caterina Doglioni and the mathematician Erik Wahlén. Read
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-young-researchers-receive-european-research-council-grants - 2026-07-19
A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers at Lund University have mapped this. The research team has also identified an enzyme, a marker, that they hope will help predict who is at risk of having a myocardial infarction or a stroke due to a ruptured atheroscler
By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ivory trade routes of the Viking Age. They found that Norse Vikings and Arctic Indigenous peoples were probably meeting and trading ivory in remote parts of High Arctic Greenland, several centuries before Christopher Columbus “discovered” North America. The study is now publish
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/early-interactions-between-europeans-and-indigenous-north-americans-revealed - 2026-07-19
The MAX IV facility, set to become the brightest x-ray source in the world in 2016, has now been handed over to Lund University by the building contractor. Covering 50 000 square metres, the facility consists of a linear accelerator, storage rings, an office building and outdoor environments. It will now become the workplace for MAX IV’s 240 members of staff; in future the facility will be able to
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/max-iv-facility-handed-over-lund-university - 2026-07-19
Lao Saal has a mission; to make it possible to – just by testing a blood sample – reveal, not only if you have cancer, but also which therapies may be most effective, and how well is the cancer actually responding to treatment. His idea is to trace the genetic material that escapes from tumours and into the blood circulation. “It’s a great feeling when you can go the whole way from having an idea
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/service-cancer-patients - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was mad
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2026-07-19
Ten years’ work has paid off – UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. This means the Ravensbrück Archive is recognised as an example of cultural heritage of great value to humanity. Following the end of the war in spring 1945, Folke Bernadotte's White Buses rolled out of a bombed-out Germany. A total of 20,000 pe
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-receives-memory-world-status - 2026-07-19
Mammography screening supported by artificial intelligence (AI) is a safe alternative to today’s conventional double reading by radiologists and can reduce heavy workloads for doctors. This has now been shown in an interim analysis of a prospective, randomised controlled trial, which addressed the clinical safety of using AI in mammography screening. The trial, led by researchers from Lund Univers
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-supported-mammography-screening-found-be-safe - 2026-07-19
