Published 7 November 2023 Photographer: Tove Smeds Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. He receives the award for his work on reprogramming blood cells and the development of immunotherapies based on this technology. It was a sheep that determined Filipe Pereira's c

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By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 9 November 2023 SWEAH's research administrator Stina Elfverson. Photo: Lill Eriksson In a week or so it’s time for the National graduate school on ageing and health, SWEAH's biennial conference for affiliated researchers. For some, the first real event in a scientific context awaits. But what should you pack, wear and wh

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By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 7 May 2025 None of the technologies, except the medication robot, helped ease staff shortages, in the study. Photo: Sebastian Scholtz/Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes S

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By kontakt [at] artrosportalen [dot] se (The arthritisportal) - published 1 July 2022 Gustavo is a mechanical engineer from Colombia. During his master's studies, Gustavo got the opportunity to conduct an internship in Lausanne, Switzerland. In Lausanne, he worked in orthopedics and studied the mechanical response of knee implants for total knee replacements using numerical modeling. When Gustavo

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Published 9 September 2010 Marju Orho-Melander, professor of genetic epidemiology in Malmö, has been awarded Lund University’s Fernström prize. Her research is about genetic variants that are associated with blood lipids and lipoproteins and can therefore increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Many genes exist in different variants. Sometimes, some of the variants have a negative effect, in

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Published 22 May 2013 In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants to learn more about TCF7L2 by studying new ways of delaying

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Published 16 December 2015 Meet Ellen Hillbom, the economic historian, who, in cooperation with a Dutch and a German colleague, has created an online textbook on trends in Africa’s economic history. The book, which can be downloaded free of charge from the internet, has so far reached over 4,000 readers. Ellen Hillbom. Where did you get the idea for a free digital textbook about Africa? “At a worl

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Published 18 March 2016 “Yes, academic life is uncertain and competitive. However, that’s the case even for those who don’t have families. I don’t think it’s any harder to have children if you are a researcher than in any other line of work.” Olga Göransson is also a member in the network WINGS (Women in Great Sciences). So says Olga Göransson, who heads a research group at the Department of Exper

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Published 4 June 2018 The next EU framework programme focuses on “missions” rather than the previous “societal challenges”. This in itself will be a challenge for a university focused on basic research such as LU and will require new working methods among funding bodies and researchers applying for grants, according to research liaison officer Sophie Hydén Picasso. Sophie Hydén Picasso Photo:Jenny

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By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 18 February 2019 Photo:Jenny Loftrup Åsa Burman is a former doctoral student at LU who has developed a method for efficiency and stress management. In January she held a workshop for doctoral students and has also written a book entitled "Finish on time - the Doctoral Student Handbook". Here are her best tips.

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Published 18 March 2019 HR-director Ann Silbersky Isaksson. Photo:Maria Lindh The transition of the salary and human resources administration to the National Government Service Centre (SSC) is not painless. After just over four months, uncertainty still prevails among administrative staff and managers about processing cases through Primula. “We are happy to come and help people out where there is

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By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 11 May 2019 Marie Cronqvist Photo:Ulrika Oredsson The University will hold its first Future Week in October. It is to become an annual event in which researchers from the entire University will offer the general public lectures, panel discussions and debates intended to stimulate reflection about major futu

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By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 1 October 2019 Professor Mats Benner represents the the Electoral College. Photo: Johan Bävman The work to find a new vice-chancellor has begun. The recruitment committee, which now consists of equal numbers of members from the Electoral College and the University Board (with the chair of the board having the casti

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By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 28 February 2025 Marju Orho-Melander from the Leif C. Groop award committee presented the award winner Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at the event. Photo: Petra Olsson Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm received the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research at the annual LUDC Diabetes Research Day. "This award allows me to

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