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New member of the Faculty Board

The by-election to the Faculty Board has now been completed and Annika Björkdahl has been appointed as a new board member. Due to a vacancy in the Faculty Board in the category of teaching staff member with research expertise, the Faculty held a by-election between 17 February and 3 March. A public count of votes has now taken place at the Faculty Office. The election results show that Annika Björ

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-member-faculty-board - 2025-12-09

HD webinar on 22 November 2023

Curious about HD research and wish to learn more? The European Huntington Association/Moving Forward Team is inviting you to a webinar in Norwegian on 22 November. Astri Arnesen, the President of the European Huntington Association, will speak about international HD research, Lasse Pihlstrøm, a Norwegian HD neurologist and researcher, will address HD studies and trials in Norway, and Åsa Petersén,

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hd-webinar-22-november-2023 - 2025-12-09

AcouSort product on innovation list

A product from the Lund University spin out AcouSort been selected as one of the top 10 innovations of 2018 by the life science journal The Scientist. AcouSort was founded in 2010 by, among others, NanoLund member Thomas Laurell. They use acoustofluidics to combine acoustics and microfluidics to separate and trap cells and particles in acoustic fields. It is their product AcouWash which now qualif

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/acousort-product-innovation-list - 2025-12-10

New information security blog

There is now a blog devoted to the work on “Introducing a management system for information security”, which will enable you to follow information security developments at the University. Among other things, you can read about the information security course recently taken by the University Management. The blog’s main focus is on the project, but it will also feature relevant new material on infor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-information-security-blog - 2025-12-10

New presentation material about the University available

The University’s general presentation material is updated with new profile texts, PowerPoint presentations and new facts and figures, to use as a basis for speaking about the University, for example at a conference or during a study visit. The following material is updated with new facts and figures:Profile texts about the University, in three lenghtsPowerPoint templatesWeb pages The University at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-presentation-material-about-university-available - 2025-12-10

PhD student Juan Antonio Samper explores the relationship between collective identity and place in the Colombian Andean-Amazonia

PhD student Juan Antonio Samper hopes that his research some day can play a role in emancipatory causes currently happening in the territory of Putumayo, and make a difference for social life in specific places. He explores the relationship between collective identity and place, and the ways in which this relation is mobilised by different groups in the Colombian Andean-Amazonia to resist extracti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-juan-antonio-samper-explores-relationship-between-collective-identity-and-place - 2025-12-09

Name suggestions for a potential joint department

The heads of the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology have agreed on a proposed name for a joint department, contingent upon a co-organisation decision in September. Below is a background on how the departmental representatives, tasked with developing name proposals, have crafted the pre

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/name-suggestions-potential-joint-department - 2025-12-09

New insights into fetal development may protect against leukaemia

During the fetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the fetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University demonstrate that one of these fetal programs appears to protect against acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). “We have used an experimental mouse model that always results in this type of leukaemia.

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-fetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia - 2025-12-09

Activism and academia go together

What’s the point of having lots of higher education credits if you don’t use them to make the world a little better? Activism and academia go together, according to student Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. “As a child, I dreamed of fighting side by side with the Apache indians”, Johannes laughs. Now he is studying theology and sociology, and has recently returned from a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2025-12-09

Research community deplores threat of closure of Hungarian CEU

Andra Jugånaru comes from the threatened CEU university in Hungary. After three months as a visiting doctoral student at LU, she is not sure whether she will have any university to return to. Andra Jugånaru and Samuel Rubenson. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “If the university is closed down, it is a very big step backwards, a step towards the higher education of the Communist era in these countries”, says

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-community-deplores-threat-closure-hungarian-ceu - 2025-12-09

Screening finds children at high risk for type 1 diabetes and celiac disease

In Skåne, newborn babies can be screened for type 1 diabetes and celiac disease (gluten intolerance). More than expected have been found to have an increased risk of developing these diseases, and about thirty children have already been recruited for research studies aimed at lowering this risk. Large-scale screening of newborn children in Skåne started in the summer of 2018 and will last until 20

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/screening-finds-children-high-risk-type-1-diabetes-and-celiac-disease - 2025-12-09