Anders Björklund in the Lund University doctorate ceremony procession. Photo: Paulina Pettersson. Life is like a marathon. According to Dr. Anders Björklund, a pioneer and expert in cell replacement strategies for patients with Parkinson’s Disease, so is life in academia. Along his scientific run he has passed several milestones, the most recent being a jubilee honorary doctorate awarded by Lund U

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/looking-long-magnificent-road-neuroscientists-life-interview-anders-bjorklund - 2025-08-25

Mattias Magnusson joined the Research School in Stem Cell Biology as its Executive Coordinator earlier in 2023. Photo by: Alexis Luis Lund Stem Cell Center's Research School in Stem Cell Biology has a new Executive Coordinator, Mattias Magnusson. As a researcher with a passion for education and collaboration, he aims to take the research school to new heights by implementing innovative education p

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/meet-new-executive-coordinator-lund-stem-cell-centers-research-school-stem-cell-biology - 2025-08-25

The Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomes the beginning of a new chapter with the appointment of its new leadership team. As of January 1, 2025, Professor Malin Parmar has assumed the role of Director, with Associate Professor Göran Karlsson stepping in as Deputy Director. Together, they bring decades of expertise, deep connections to the Lund research community, and a shared vision fo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-leadership-team - 2025-08-25

The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) at Lund University is seeking outstanding young researchers to join our research community. We are looking for talented individuals with international research experience who are ready to make ground-breaking contributions in molecular medicine. Take your research career to the next level with the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine! Apply n

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/join-wallenberg-centre-molecular-medicine-lund-university-fellow - 2025-08-25

Nature Medicine asked leading researchers which clinical trials in the coming year that are likely to have an outsized impact on medicine. One of the 11 listed trials were the trial "Stem cells for Parkinson’s disease" done at Region Skåne in Lund. Both, WCMM Fellow Agnete Kirkeby and WCMM researcher Gesine Paul Visse, are part of the responsible team. The STEM-PD trial will transplant dopaminergi

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nature-medicine-lists-clinical-trials-will-shape-medicine-2024 - 2025-08-25

Although Lund University’s 350th anniversary celebrations are drawing to a close, some projects will live on, along with the working method known as the jubilee model. Carina Jensen, soon to step down from her role as jubilee coordinator, talks about Sunday’s big kick-off for the future, which is open to all. “It will start with an open house event in the main University building, celebrating the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubliee-concludes-kick - 2025-08-25

Bringing together the three academies of music, art and theatre, and sorting out steering documents and routines are important tasks for Solfrid Söderlind, new Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Solfrid Söderlind is new Dean of Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Professor Söderlind has most recently worked on an inquiry for Uppsala University, and prior to that at the National Muse

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-bring-together-our-campuses-malmo - 2025-08-25

What jobs will we do in the future? And who will work? Research shows that half of today’s jobs will not be necessary in 20 years’ time. Questions about unemployment and the future job market have been discussed at several different university events in recent months, most recently at Debatt i Lund. In early June, politicians, entrepreneurs and researchers gathered for the Innovation for Jobs conf

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-jobs-will-we-do-future - 2025-08-25

The Inter Arts Centre (IAC) in Malmö provides a forum enabling all parts of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts to conduct research together and create joint projects. Its objective is to find new approaches and to achieve collective results which are greater than the sum of their parts. An example of the Centre’s work is one of the largest symposia ever to be held in Scandinavia within the fi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experimental-art-across-boundaries - 2025-08-25

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As the holiday season approaches, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to you all.    After last year’s restrictive situation we are so happy to have been able to meet in person during 2022. Even so there are lessons to be learned and we are therefore staying partly with digital formats that work well. Here are some highlights from the past year: AI related Degree Project fairs both in Helsi

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/season-greetings-ai-lund - 2025-08-25

Bo Dilton. Photo:private The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is to them a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-central-administrator - 2025-08-25

Jack Senften. Photo:Kennet Rhona The time has now run out for applications for the vice-chancellor position and it is time for the recruitment group to select suitable candidates for interviews. This work will take place throughout the spring. LUM has talked to staff at different levels within several faculties about how they view the role of vice-chancellor, how important the vice-chancellor is t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-wishlist-students - 2025-08-25

Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever. At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge needs to be integrated in all aspects of society in order to facilitate the trans

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-08-25

As a significant advancement for preclinical research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg’s Research Foundation has awarded a grant of 3.9 million SEK to upgrade the Preclinical Magnetic Resonance (MR) platform’s imaging system. The investment will enhance the capabilities of the platform, which plays a crucial role in supporting cutting-edge research in areas

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-39-million-sek-mri-system-upgrade - 2025-08-25

https://www.odeum.lu.se/en/article/odeum-interviewing - 2025-08-25

A lot og people are allergic to timothy grass. Photo: Whiteway/Istockphoto. An international research team has found a new method for predicting entire pollen seasons, something that can help healthcare and allergy sufferers plan to reduce problems. No similar tool has previously been used in the area. The researchers also show that pollen seasons may be 60 per cent more severe in the future due t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-method-predicts-severity-grass-pollen-season-allergy-sufferers - 2025-08-25

PhD student Sofia Blomqvist and her dog Ylle look for bumblebees and other pollinating insects. This summer, Lund University doctoral student Sofia Blomqvist will be investigating how pollinating insects such as bumblebees and solitary bees are faring in flower-rich roadside habitats. However, there is one problem: bumblebee nests are very difficult to find. Now she hopes to be able to train Ylle

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/bumblebee-detection-dog-research-duty - 2025-08-25

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles - 2025-08-25

Claudia Tocco, researcher at Lund University, performing experiments with dung beetles at a light-polluted site in central Johannesburg. Photo: Marcus Byrne For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky. Instead, they are forced to use streetlamps, neon light or floodlights to orient the

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2025-08-25