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The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at LUCSUS, explains the significance of the report’s findings, which was released today, 6th May 201

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mine-islar-comments-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-10-23

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/collaborative-research-speed-sustainable-transition-cities - 2025-10-23

It’s Friday night in Lund and soon Mikael Dolsten, acclaimed head of research and visiting professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, is about to tell the incredible but true story of how, in just nine months, his company developed one of the vaccines that could save us from the pandemic. It would have taken nine years if the circumstances hadn’t been so dire. Important research issues

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/our-visiting-professor-tells-astonishing-story-vaccine-can-save-world-pandemic - 2025-10-23

Lina Rosengren explores factors for maintaining life satisfaction despite suffering from Parkinson’s disease. December 17, she defends her Ph.D. projects supervised by Prof. Jan Lexell. Lina explains her most important findings, future directions, and time as a Ph.D. student in the Rehabilitation Medicine group at MultiPark. Tell us about your research! I work part-time as a physician in Rehabilit

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-lina-rosengren - 2025-10-23

During her thesis project, Elin Byman discovered a role of alpha-amylase in Alzheimer’s disease. January 21, she defends her Ph.D. work supervised by Malin Wennström in the Preclinical memory research group at MultiPark. Here, she tells about the journey and major breakthroughs. Tell us about your research! The enzyme alpha-amylase has long been known to be abundant in saliva and the gastrointesti

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-elin-byman - 2025-10-23

The POInT clinic at the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö welcomes parents with their young children. One of the research nurses who sees them is Annika Björne Fors, who coordinates all sample-taking and appointments related to the study. The clinic is located one floor above the main entrance and belongs to both Lund University and Region Skåne, which is the principal of several of the stud

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/intersection-healthcare-and-academia - 2025-10-23

Many farmers are positive to measures beneficial for biodiversity and the environment. But bureaucracy and regulatory hassle often stand in the way, says Lovisa Nilsson in a new dissertation, while also calling for better financial incentives for the individual farmer to choose the best environmental measures. In a new doctoral dissertation, presented at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Re

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/farmers-incentives-choosing-most-appropriate-environmental-measures-must-increase - 2025-10-23

The quest to control the remarkable phenomena of quantum physics is ongoing around the world. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is making the subject even hotter. Lund University is also involved in exploring the unknown – and at times mind-boggling – perspectives of quantum states. Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer in Physics, leads the way down the basement corridor of the Laser Centre at F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researching-another-reality - 2025-10-24

Emma Kritzberg took the train to a meeting on Mallorca. A journey that took 54 hours and cost double what it would have to fly a couple of hours to the Mediterranean island. Yet, flying was never an option. She has not flown once for work or privately in the last six years, a conscious decision she took to reduce her carbon footprint. Emma Kritzberg, professor at the Department of Biology, stepped

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/54-hours-one-way-join-job-meeting-mallorca - 2025-10-24

WithSecure visited the Department of Informatics on their European Cyber Tour, allowing students on our Bachelor's programme to get hands-on experience with the handling of cyber threats in a simulated environment. On October 30th, 2023, students taking the course IS and Business Development got to experience something never seen before in the Bachelor's programme on Design of Information Systems.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/cybertruck-cyber-security-simulation - 2025-10-24

The Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University has relaunched its Professional Development Program (PDP), which provides PhD students support beyond research, equipping them with the personal and professional skills essential for long-term career success. While most doctoral programs focus on scientific expertise, the PDP broadens that approach by equipping students with skills for career growth, se

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-relaunches-professional-development-program-phd-success - 2025-10-23

At the Department of Physics, she is Stina Loo, education administrator for first and second cycle programmes. But she can also call herself a linguist, entrepreneur and television personality. And now, with a dream come true: author. The book ‘Hitta din historia – släktforskning för alla’ (Find your story – genealogy for everyone), which Stina wrote together with Ingeborg Arvastsson, will be rele

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/stina-brings-history-life-new-book - 2025-10-23

My recent research trip to Amazon, Colombia was a stark reminder that sustainability science is as much about being at the forefront of knowledge as it is about physically visiting man-made frontiers and conflict areas. I think this has to do with the importance to connect with local communities and people and try to understand how they see the world, what problems they have identified and want a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/colombian-amazon-doing-research-complex-environments-torsten-krause - 2025-10-23

The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million is awarded to Sebastian Palmqvist, Associate Professor of Clinical Memory Research at Lund University and Senior Physician at the Memory Clinic at Skåne University Hospital, for his research on improved diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease. The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million was awarded yesterday to Sebastia

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/awardees-2022-bundy-academy-major-prize - 2025-10-23

LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause have been researching hunting, forest fauna and wild meat consumption, particularly in the Amazon, for the past three years. He is currently in Colombia, where his fieldwork was cut short due to the current coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, he reflects on the impacts of the coronavirus on vulnerable indigenous communities, and on the link between humanity's

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-impacts-coronavirus-indigenous-communities-amazon-torsten-krause - 2025-10-23

The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in research. Project Manager for the study is researcher Sinem Tas, Fellow in Darcy

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2025-10-23

Svetlana Soboleva is set to defend her Ph.D. thesis on 13 April, 2022. For the past few years her world has revolved around red blood cells, as she has worked to establish methods that allow for the generation of enucleated cells, using immortalized erythroid cell lines, to develop erythrocytes. In short, she’s been working to find ways to produce red blood cells in a lab. In this interview she te

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/blood-lab-phd-defence-interview-svetlana-soboleva - 2025-10-23

https://www.msf-malmo.lu.se/article/new-radiation-technology-adapts-real-time-tumors-movements-during-treatment - 2025-10-23

This autumn, Lund University will offer its first three free open online courses, known as MOOCs. They will be in green economy, global health and European business law. Despite this decision, opinions are still partially divided. Some see MOOCs as a motor for development that will rejuvenate and adapt higher education to new methods of learning. Others fear that the hype surrounding MOOCs will ro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/green-light-three-moocs - 2025-10-23

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-10-23