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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Donationskampanjen, ministerbesök, årsbokslutet, besök från Greifswald, rektorskonferens, Studieverkstaden, Open Arena 5, LERU, uppsatsvinnare och kungabesök är några av punkterna i detta rektorsbrev. Donationskampanjen. Förra fredagen drog donationskampanjen igång och det blev en lyckad invigning. Många kom under m
https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektorsbrev-3-februari - 2026-05-20
Carmelo D’Agostino, forskare inom trafiksäkerhet och beteende, och stamcellsforskaren Paul Bourgine får ERC:s Proof of Concept för sin forskning att ta fram en ny metod för trafiksäkerhetsbedömningar och för att hitta nya träffsäkra modeller för att testa immunterapier inom cancerbehandling. European Research Council:s Proof of Concept delas ut till forskare för att undersöka den kommersiella pote
https://www.lu.se/artikel/tva-lundaforskare-far-erc-proof-concept - 2026-05-20
This years' WCMM Research Day 2024 with the focus on "Tissue & Bioengineering in Molecular Medicine" served as an ideal platform for WCMM Lund affiliates to dive into the topic of regenerative medicine, a strong focus of the WCMM Lund that has created many projects that resulted in high quality peer-reviewed publications and the opportunity for good education of young researchers. The event has br
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-day-2024 - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Forum Medicum – the new major construction of the Faculty of Medicine at the top of Sölvegatan – will become a reality. For a while, things looked bad, but by making small adjustments here and there, the project can now be pursued to begin construction in the winter of 2018/2019. The idea of Forum Medicum is to establ
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-slimming-down-construction-plans-forum-medicum-now-underway - 2026-05-19
Have you ever wondered what it takes to grow a brain in a petri dish or how scientists use viruses to fight genetic diseases? These are just some of the fascinating topics explored on UniStem Day 2023 at Lund Stem Cell Center in Sweden. On 10 March 2023, more than 220 high school students from across Sweden's southern Skåne region arrived at Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University for a day of le
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/inspiring-tomorrows-scientists - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Triple negative breast cancer is an aggressive type of cancer representing approximately nine percent of all breast cancer cases in Sweden. It is more common among younger women, has a high heredity factor and causes more frequent relapses earlier in the course of the disease than other breast cancers. Researchers hav
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/patient-specific-diagnostics-breast-cancers-are-difficult-cure - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University is investing SEK 100 million in an interdisciplinary research programme focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. The programme is to attract international research expertise and to bring about the establishment of more internationally leading research environments in sustainability. “With i
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Triple negative breast cancer is an aggressive type of cancer representing approximately nine percent of all breast cancer cases in Sweden. It is more common among younger women, has a high heredity factor and causes more frequent relapses earlier in the course of the disease than other breast cancers. Researchers hav
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/patient-specific-diagnostics-breast-cancers-are-difficult-cure - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In May, screening for colorectal cancer will be offered in Skåne to all those born in 1961. Subsequently, Swedes aged 60 to 74 will be tested for blood in their faeces, to detect cancer at an early stage. Once all regions in Sweden have introduced the screening, at least 300 lives are expected to be saved per year. Sw
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/screening-colorectal-cancer-starts-spring - 2026-05-19
There has been great and broad interest in the University’s international assistant professor (associate senior lecturer) positions and visiting professorships. In total, the University received 1,326 applications and the first selection phase has been completed. In October the top candidates began to arrive in Lund to present their research in tough competition. The call for applications referred
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Tack vare hårt arbete och fokus på att attrahera externt kapital, har Historiska museet i Lund etablerats som en av de viktigaste kulturella mötesplatserna i Sverige. Vi har träffat museichef Per Karsten för en pratstund om hur museet gått från nedläggningshotad verksamhet till ett historiskt vetenskapsnav med stor
https://www.lu.se/artikel/historiska-museet-donationsfokus-och-fornyelse-blev-vagen-framat - 2026-05-19
Simon Timpka, forskare vid Lunds universitet och läkare inom obstetrik och gynekologi vid Skånes universitetssjukhus, tilldelas Bundy Academy’s stora pris på tre miljoner kronor för sin forskning om sambandet mellan graviditetskomplikationer och framtida hjärt-kärlsjukdom hos kvinnor. Simon Timpka leder en forskargrupp inom perinatal och kardiovaskulär edpidemiologi vid Lunds universitet och vill
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/2026-ars-pristagare-av-bundy-academys-stora-pris - 2026-05-20
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. LU trillade nyligen ur topp 100 i Times Higher Education-rankingen. Under lång tid har universitetets placeringar i de stora internationella rankingarna långsamt försämrats. Nu satsar LU på bättre samordnad rankingkompetens. – Att åka ur topp 100 är inte bra för vår attraktivitet. Om utvecklingen dessutom är ett tec
https://www.lu.se/artikel/lu-halkar-ner-i-ranking-satsar-pa-egen-statistik-och-battre-rankingkompetens - 2026-05-20
Nyhetsbrevet kommer ut en gång per termin. Här kan bibliotek och grupper dela med sig av information till hela nätverket. Texterna är skrivna av respektive bibliotek/grupp och sammanställs av Infrastrukturgruppen för kommunikation. BibliotekSVGArenagrupperInfrastrukturgrupperExpertområdenBibliotekEkonomihögskolans bibliotekUnder 2025 utvecklade vi Uppsatsveckan för att stärka insatserna mot uppsat
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-varterminen-2026 - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a new national register study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have studied the link between prostate cancer and infertility. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, includes over one million Swedish men. “Men who seek health care for infertility and assisted reproduction were shown to be at
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/link-between-assisted-reproduction-and-risk-prostate-cancer - 2026-05-19
What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing with her anxiety about climate change. Now she has been awarded an honourable mention for her doctoral thesis on end-of-life care in the Swedish welfare state
Did you know that about 70% of rare diseases begin in childhood? How about that 1 in 5 cancers are considered a rare disease? Or that nearly three-quarters of all rare diseases are genetic diseases? With more than 6,000 rare diseases known to impact the lives of an estimated 300 million people around the world – rare diseases are all too common. Limited knowledge of these diseases often res
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/shining-spotlight-rare-disease-research - 2026-05-19
When LINXS moved from its old premises at Ideon to The Loop in Science Village in March, the institute became the first research environment from Lund University to make the move to Brunnshög. Since then, activities have more than doubled, new collaborations have emerged, and the team’s mood is distinctly optimistic.I met with Anna Ntinidou, Head of Administration, Noomi Egan, Communications Offic
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/home-linxs-pioneer-paving-way-science-village - 2026-05-19
In healthcare, treatments developed for broad patient groups are often used. This is not always an effective approach. Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova has therefore distributed research grants to eleven Swedish innovation environments whose research aims to develop more individually adapted healthcare for patients. The stem cell researchers at the IndiCell innovation environment have been award
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sek-40-million-innovation-environment-customised-stem-cell-treatments - 2026-05-19
A unique pilot study from Tanzania, exploring the link between health – economy – well-being for women using menstrual cups, shows that extended menstrual cup use has multiple direct and indirect health outcomes, impacting women's physical and physiological health. Efforts to reduce period poverty for girls and women around the world has increased in the last decade because of growing scientific e
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-multiple-health-outcomes-women-using-menstrual-cups-tanzania - 2026-05-19
