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På en vacker platå i en ekdunge i Johannishus gräver lundaforskare fram ny kunskap med ny teknik. Projektet som lockar flera vetenskaper har pågått i många år och flera små guldgubbar har tittat upp ur den blekingska rullstensåsen. – Men vi aktar oss för att drabbas av guldfeber utan vill istället hitta historien och berättelserna om människorna som levde här under järnåldern och ännu tidigare, sä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/blekinge-satts-pa-jarnalderskartan - 2025-10-09

Filipe Pereira och hans forskarteam har utvecklat ett recept på hur cancerceller kan omprogrammeras till immunsystemets vaktposter, dendritceller. Dessa behövs för att kickstarta och förbättra kroppens förmåga att bekämpa cancer. Metoden är en lovande strategi för cancerbehandling och projektet som nu tilldelas anslag har som mål att konstruera själva ”fordonet” som ska leverera instruktionen som

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/erc-proof-concept-grant-till-filipe-pereira - 2025-10-09

Just over ten years after Goran Basic came to Sweden as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia, he travelled back to his ethnically cleansed village. As a researcher in sociology, he wanted to try and carry out a non-judgemental study and interview survivors about forgiveness, reconciliation and the role of victim. One thesis and ten years later, he has now published his research articles. “Previous

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/life-goes-scars-remain - 2025-10-09

A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of whether they have had any symptoms. “Unlike other serological tests to determine

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-rapid-and-robust-covid-19-antibody-test-developed - 2025-10-09

Closed loops in the sharing city?Sharing is caring – but is it always sustainable? The sharing economy is altering the way we look at ourselves as consumers and our idea of the market, but it also raises other questions: what role should the city take in this, and how can we ensure that the result is truly sustainable?The sharing economy is a buzzword in the modern urban society of the mid-2010s.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-yuliya-voytenko - 2025-10-09

This year, the Centre for European Studies has awarded the 2020 Best Thesis Award to Kristy Louise Rhades for her thesis in the Master of Arts of European Studies. Note: this article was originally published on December 18, 2020.  Kristy Louise Rhades’ thesis is called “How European welfare states perpetuate the growth imperative and why alternatives are needed” and this is how the jury motivated

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/best-thesis-award-2020 - 2025-10-09

Postal address: Industriell näringslära och livsmedelskemi, LTH, Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Visiting address: Getingevägen 60, Entrance E Web site: http://www.food-health-science.lu.se/en/start SASNET Fermented Foods web page: http://www.fermented-foods.net/ Contact persons: Professor Emeritus Baboo M Nair, phone: +46 (0)46 222 9634 Professor Rickard Öste, phone: +46 (0)46 222 2383 Applied Nu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/food-health-science-centre-lund-university - 2025-10-09

A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology among others – and was recently presented in a doctoral thesis. The brain is both our mos

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-10-09

A galactic journey spanning the history of the Milky Way. The supernatural powers of migratory birds. Two exciting research projects will soon commence at Lund University thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Time travel through the Milky WayTwo Lund astronomers, Sofia Feltzing and Oscar Agertz, will use a galactic time machine, partnering with colleague

https://www.science.lu.se/article/research-projects-galaxies-and-migratory-birds-awarded-grants - 2025-10-09

CEC is one of 24 European research institutes and organizations that is participating in the EU-funded Safeguard project, where world-leading researchers and experts are collaborating to reverse the loss of wild pollinators in Europe. The project is unique as it takes an interdisciplinary holistic approach to both the problems and the solutions. Losses of wild pollinators in Europe continue. To de

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participates-international-research-project-protect-wild-pollinators - 2025-10-09

Today Sarai-Anne Ikenze succesfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity’, in which she descriptively demonstrates significant continuity over time in terms of which sectors were prioritized and the policy approaches used to structure economic activity within those sectors in ten Sub-Saharan African countries between t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarai-anne-ikenze-has-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-10-09

The proposal for a renewed Campus Plan will soon be subject to a consultation round. It is an update of the current Campus Plan which will soon expire. For two years, the Campus Development Office has been drawing up the Campus Plan in collaboration with consultants and on behalf the Campus Development Council. The Campus Plan covers a lot of space – Lund University has around 540,000 square metre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-campus-plan-be-decided-autumn - 2025-10-10

The need for learning support is growing. To make support more effective, the Unit for Educational Services has started a two-year project that will focus on professional development initiatives, common guidelines and a new advisory entity to ensure a unified strategy for accessible and inclusive teaching. We know that the need for learning support is increasing. At Lund University, the number of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-focus-accessible-and-inclusive-teaching - 2025-10-10

The 45th Annual Madison Conference on South Asia was held 20–23 October 2016. This year's theme was DECAY. The conference, sponsored by the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this year attracted over 750 scholars and specialists on South Asia, coming from countries all over the world and much of the United States. This year the Joseph W. Elder keynote lecture at the conf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-reports-45th-madison-south-asian-studies-conference - 2025-10-09

Hur sårbar är mänskligheten inför klimatförändringarna? Och hur har de redan idag påverkat människor runt om på jorden? Det är några av de frågor som besvaras av FN:s klimatpanel den 28:e februari. I slutrapporten deltar tre forskare från Sverige varav två – Martina Angela Caretta och Emily Boyd – kommer från Lunds universitet. Under tre års tid har cirka trehundra toppforskare från hela världen g

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/fns-klimatrapport-28-februari-hur-sarbara-ar-vi-och-hur-kan-vi-anpassa-oss - 2025-10-09

I gränslandet mellan estetik och ekonomi omvandlar Centrum för estetik och företagets kreativitet (ABC) innovation genom att sammanföra estetik, ekonomi och teknik i ett organisatoriskt sammanhang. Vi fick möjlighet att prata med Alexandra Huang-Kokina och Robin Porsfelt – två nya postdoc röster som hjälper till att forma centrets ambitiösa vision, från AI-drivna operaföreställningar till hantverk

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/dar-konst-moter-innovation - 2025-10-09

Hur sårbar är mänskligheten inför klimatförändringarna? Och hur har de redan idag påverkat människor runt om på jorden? Det är några av de frågor som besvaras av FN:s klimatpanel den 28:e februari. I slutrapporten deltar tre forskare från Sverige varav två – Martina Angela Caretta och Emily Boyd – kommer från Lunds universitet. Under tre års tid har cirka trehundra toppforskare från hela världen g

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fns-klimatrapport-28-februari-hur-sarbara-ar-vi-och-hur-kan-vi-anpassa-oss - 2025-10-10

It is not easy to make ends meet for many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Everyday life is a complex management of many activities, especially for women, such as providing, preparing and cooking food; provide water and energy for cooking; manage farm activities; rearing children; and not least ensure that the family is healthy. Ill-health can easily tip families into abject poverty. Imp

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-building-capacity-and-improving-everyday-life-sub-saharan-africa - 2025-10-09

It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at that time,” he says. “But now it turns out that Medicon Village is a great success and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2025-10-09

Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the crowd. Cyberattacks against higher education institutions and other public authorities, as well as against companies, have s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2025-10-09