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Bladder cancer is as common as malignant melanoma. However, in the past three decades, the death rate has remained high and the treatment has been the same since the 1970s. Yet only a very small part of research funding goes to bladder cancer. Through a unique collaboration, researchers now want to transfer new research about the disease to clinical practice. However, first they have to find a way
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-cancer - 2025-10-23
During the pandemic, employees should avoid putting pressure on their managers for clear answers for which there is no basis. “As a manager, you have to stand firm in the uncertainty and not take hasty decisions”, says Johan Bertlett, who is in charge of the popular new summer course on Leadership and Followership in Organisational Change Processes. The course is part of the study opportunities in
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dont-pressure-your-manager-clear-messages-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2025-10-23
The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Olga had published academic work over 25 times before she fell victim to a predatory journal. Today she is embarrassed be
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/watch-out-predators - 2025-10-23
The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the first time a researcher at Lund University has received a Nobel Prize, and atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier is only the fifth woman ever to be awarded the prize in Physics. By now it is widely known where atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier was when
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2025-10-24
A newly started project is to produce a web solution to support potential students in the process of choosing courses and programmes. The decision to implement the project “A unified web experience for education” was taken at the Vice-Chancellor’s decision-making meeting on 30 November. The aim of the “a unified web experience for education” project is to create a modern service website that provi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-web-solution-will-focus-prospective-students - 2025-10-24
Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a novel target for the expansion of human blood stem cells ex vivo and shed light on the mechanism of action of a stem cell promoting molecule, currently in phase II clinical trials. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a curative therapy for many patients suffering from life threatening blood disorders. This treatment is currently limit
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-ex-vivo-expansion-transplantable-human-blood-stem-cells - 2025-10-23
On Thursday June 16, Hasan Hosseini is defending his PhD thesis in Water Resources Engineering, "Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation – Local to Regional Scale Modelling". Welcome to attend! Hasan Hosseini is defending his PhD thesis in Water Resources Engineering, Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation – Local to Regional S
In a collaborative study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center and University College London have developed a novel method of isolating ‘young’ stem cells still present in old mice. They show that activity of mitochondria, the power generators of the cell, is a stronger indicator of stem cell fitness than age and is a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of age associated disease. The
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/novel-approach-identifies-young-stem-cells-old-mice - 2025-10-23
I believe that a common vision, clear and explicit core values and systematic work on the priority issues can better enable the researchers at the University to conduct research of the highest international quality that helps people to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. The Research Board has drawn up a new Research Strategy for 2023-26, which has now been approved
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-strategy-will-research-be-better-now - 2025-10-24
Back then, the red brick buildings rose like a lonely wall against the open fields of eastern Lund. Now, the buildings are a hub in the middle of the knowledge highway that links the centre of the city with the research facilities on the outskirts of Brunnshög. We are talking, of course, about the buildings on the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) campus. Architect Klas Anshelm’s red brick buildings ha
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-time-move-newly-renovated-m-building - 2025-10-24
In March 2015, a valuable globe of Mars was stolen from the Astronomy Library. After disappearing without a trace for almost a decade, it suddenly turned up at an antique dealer in Stockholm. The astronomical treasure has finally been returned to Lund. Astronomers have been using globes to visualise moons and planets ever since the 18th century. As telescopes improved in the late 19th century, int
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mystery-stolen-mars-globe - 2025-10-24
What has been the main option for a long time – i.e. relocating basically all physics and chemistry to Science Village – is no longer relevant. The costs would be too high and the logistics of providing first and second-cycle education in particular would be difficult to organise. “This was crucial. The costs plus the fact that everything indicated that if we had relocated first and second-cycle e
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-scraps-plan-relocate-chemistry-and-physics-science-village - 2025-10-24
How much water do we need to drink to stay healthy? How do different diets affect our metabolism? Studies of various hormones in the body are providing diabetes researchers with new answers to these questions. The goal is to develop individualized treatments and dietary recommendations that could lower the risk of developing obesity and diseases such as type 2 diabetes. The endocrine system and th
Data literacy is increasing its importance for current and future professionals. But what is ‘data literacy’ exactly and how do LUSEM educators work with it? We asked Blerim Emruli, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, and recently announced as one of the select participants in the Inaugural Professor Ambassador Class at Qlik. Senior Lecturer Blerim Emruli is one of seven educators from around the glob
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/data-has-power-transform-business-and-improve-society - 2025-10-23
A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that slows down the disease. But Huntington researcher and psychiatrist Åsa Petersén works
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-10-23
Cell replacement therapy has long been a hope for patients with Parkinson’s disease and efforts are on their way to use stem cell derived-dopaminergic neurons in clinical trials. On 14 October, Jessica Giacomoni defends her thesis. Her project about the direct conversion of human glial cells into therapeutic neurons directly within the brain has the ultimate goal to become an alternative to cell t
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/turning-glia-neurons-inside-brain-phd-interview-jessica-giacomoni - 2025-10-23
In the early 1950s, no one knew what caused Parkinson's disease. Then, Arvid Carlsson's discovery of dopamine opened the door to world-leading transplantations for Parkinson's patients. Thanks to the pioneering basic research at MultiPark, stemcell-derived neural cells can now be tested in a clinical trial for the first time. In Parkinson's disease, the nerve cells in an area of the brain that con
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/world-parkinsons-day-transplantations-parkinsons-disease-time-travel - 2025-10-23
From internal training courses for university lecturers in which the participants take a deep dive into case method teaching, to dedicated conferences and competitions. The alternatives to traditional classroom teaching are increasing and one of them is known as case method teaching, with assignments based on real situations which students must solve in collaboration. April was high season for cas
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-case-method-teaching-spreads-one-lecturer-another - 2025-10-23
