Published 8 May 2025 Fiona Nermark, postdoctoral researcher in analytical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, with the stuffed bird Olof. Photo: C. Schubert Olof the bird – a stuffed bird of prey with a stern expression – currently stands in the heart of The Science Student Union (LUNA), keeping watch over students’ discussions and union activities. But few are eager to get too close. A sign

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/stuffed-bird-olof-full-arsenic-new-measuring-device-gives-us-answers - 2025-06-29

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 1 February 2023 While it is well known that men and women have different health needs, have you ever considered why? The Systems Immunology research group, led by Camila Consiglio, has. Together, Lund Stem Cell Center’s newest members are working to uncover whether the answer lies in the differences between the female

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/unveiling-gender-gap-immunity-camila-consiglio-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-06-29

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 24 May 2023 A model of a proteasome, a protein complex which degrades unneeded or damaged proteins. Image from: Getty Images. A recent study conducted by researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center, and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, has unraveled the intricate inner workings of UM171—a mo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/decoding-inner-workings-blood-stem-cell-boosting-molecule - 2025-06-29

Published 17 February 2017 A detective work that reflects society in terms of both working life and fashion trends. This is how you could describe Cecilia Svedman’s task as a dermatologist and researcher, specialising in contact allergies. Cecilia Svedman. Cecilia Svedman is the director of the main hospital in Helsingborg, who at the same time manages a research group at the Division of Occupatio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-looking-what-itches-stings-and-peels - 2025-06-29

Published 23 March 2017 Love poems, playing cards and secret notes. For half a millennium, people who have attended mass at Lund Cathedral have found ways to pass the time when the sermons felt too slow. In a few years, the Lund University Historical Museum will introduce a new cabinet of curiosities, containing notes and strange objects which have fallen down or been hidden between the choir stal

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2025-06-29

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 18 February 2019 "There is a difference between teaching with or to. I want to talk with the students, not to or about them. Learning takes place when they are engaged with the material. Quite simply, we do it together", says Nadja Sörgärde. Photo:Kennet Ruona Senior lecturer, Nadja Sörgärde, has received the students'

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-are-co-producers - 2025-06-29

Published 18 February 2019 Variety, belonging and a feeling of manageability are factors that contribute to recovery at work. Do you leave work full of energy and excited about what the rest of the day has to offer? If not – maybe it is worth trying to improve recovery during the working day.  Lina Ejlertsson's thesis is about recovery of staff in one of the most stressful work environments – heal

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recover-during-working-day - 2025-06-29

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 4 June 2019 Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Different values, cultures and language. Leading an international research group comes with additional challenges. Margareta Sandahl and Charlotta Turner are deliberately developing the emotional expertise in their group. "It pays off in t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/focus-improving-groups-eq - 2025-06-29

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 23 June 2025 Charlotte Ling and Lena Eliasson from Lund University Diabetes Centre are part of the organising committee for the conference. Photo: Petra Olsson International researchers who study islets of Langerhans met for a conference in Malmö in June. Studies of insulin-producing cells help us understand disease mechan

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/international-islet-cell-researchers-met-conference-malmo - 2025-06-29

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 5 October 2021 Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. Photo: Göran Ekeberg. Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 202

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/prize-worth-millions-awarded-leading-blood-vessel-researcher - 2025-06-29

Published 13 April 2015 We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierzbicka, who is coordinating an interdisciplinary theme at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2025-06-29

Published 16 November 2015 “We are dependent on one another globally – this became evident not least through the Ebola epidemic. For cooperation to work and develop, Africa cannot be left out of the loop”, says Benedict Oppong Asamoah, researcher and lecturer in public health. He hopes that the University’s focus on Africa will lead to more and better contacts Benedict Oppong Asamoah. Photo: Gunna

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-strategy-shows-great-potential - 2025-06-29

Published 18 March 2016 15 per cent of the population – almost one in seven Swedes – suffer from digestive problems in the form of bloating, abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhoea. But since these problems are not life-threatening, and the status of the digestive tract is low, medical researchers and funders have shown only moderate interest. Now this seems to be changing. Bodil Ohlsson gives

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-gives-hope-gastric-patients - 2025-06-29

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By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2024 By coating sutures with the peptide TCP-25, researchers have now demonstrated the ability to reduce inflammation and bacterial growth. The images to the right shows how bacteria die upon contact with the peptide. Photo: Jitka Petrlova. Applying a peptide coating to sutures, capable of combating both bacteria and

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/surgical-sutures-coated-peptide-reduce-infections - 2025-06-29

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 11 March 2025 Filipe Pereira, professor at Lund University, together with Cristiana Pires and Fábio Rosa founded Asgard Therapeutics AB. Photo: Kennet Ruona Asgard Therapeutics, in partnership with Lund University and Herlev Hospital, has been awarded €2.5 million for an EIC Transition project from the European Innovation Coun

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/innovative-cancer-cell-therapy-project-lands-eu25-million-eic-funding - 2025-06-29

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 15 June 2022 From left: Ewelina Golec, Ben King and Anna Blom, three of the researchers behind new findings on insulin secretion. Photo: Tove Smeds. Insulin secretion into the bloodstream requires a protein called CD59. New research led by Lund University shows that the two protein variants that are responsible for this functi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-protein-variants-are-key-insulin-secretion - 2025-06-29

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 29 September 2022 Rita Charon, M.D. PhD, Professor and Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Narrative medicine provides tools for clinicians to read patients better. 2022 Sandblom Prize Lecture will be given by pioneering Professor Rita Charon of Columbia University on the disci

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sandblom-prize-expanding-creativity-clinical-worlds-through-narrative-medicine - 2025-06-29

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