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Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2026-04-16

Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question. Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of stud

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a collaborative study with other European research groups, scientists from Lund University in Sweden have shed new light on how the protein aggregates that accumulate in the Parkinsonian brain may contribute to neuronal injury during disease progression. The study is published in Cell Reports. The brain is a comple

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-toxic-protein-aggregate-formation-parkinsons-disease-size-matters - 2026-04-15

In recent years, great advances have been made in the development of new successful immunotherapies to treat cancer. CAR T-cell therapy and antibody treatments are two types of targeted immunotherapies that have revolutionised areas of cancer care. However, there are still significant challenges in the identification of cancer cell surface proteins as targets for immunotherapies. A research group

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-precision-technology-immunotherapy - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new research model of the early embryonic brain. The aim of the model is to study the very earliest stages of brain to understand how different regions in the brain are formed during embryonic development. With this new insight, researchers hope to be

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-method-provides-unique-insight-development-human-brain - 2026-04-15

What does your work consist of? As a coordinator, I have an overarching perspective since I work with all the faculty’s programmes. My job is partly to coordinating all written exams in the QPS system, and optimise the processes around this, and partly to provide training and support to the faculty's teachers and administrators. Currently I am focused on the written exams, but further on I will wo

https://www.qps.education.lu.se/en/article/frida-reisdal-exam-coordinator-faculty-medicine - 2026-04-15

Sahana Subramanian recently completed her master’s degree at Lund University. Her thesis “Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour”, studies Kerala’s Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme and, for this, she received this year’s SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award.  Sahana Subramanian, recently admitted as a doctoral student at LUCSUS, was introduced to the concept of ‘urban em

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sahana-subramanian-urban-india-facing-twin-crisis - 2026-04-15

Two CASE researchers, Wenqian Xu and Oskar Jonsson, have each received a "seed money grant" in the profile area Proactive Ageing's first internal call. Researcher Oskar Jonsson leads the one project, which was granted SEK 250,000 in the call: "Inclusive Living Environments to Attract the Joy of Movement and Promote Physical Activity for Proactive Ageing: Theory and Method Development and Full-scal

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/ai-and-movement-focus-profile-areas-seed-money-grant - 2026-04-15

LU Accommodation has now sent out the first 500 or so housing offers. In the beginning of next week we will send out approximately 250 more. Tenants who have not yet received an offer are urged to seek housing through other means, if they do not have a guarantee. Today (Friday 14 June) approximately 500 housing offers were sent out. At the same time a couple dozen applications were removed from th

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/first-student-housing-offers-sent - 2026-04-15

Sierd de Vries is an associate professor at the department of Hydraulic Engineering at Delft University (Netherlands), and will be working as a guest researcher with the Theme Coastal Perspectives. What is your background and research interests?I work on the creation of sustainable coastal landscapes. With my background in coastal engineering and coastal sciences, I study how Nature Based Solution

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/meet-guest-researcher-sierd-de-vries - 2026-04-15

On 27 April, the Government decided that Ingrid Petersson will be the new Chairperson of Lund University. She has had a long career in the public sector and on boards and among other roles has been Director General of the Formas research council (2013-2022). Ingrid Petersson took up the position on 1 May 2023. “Lund University is a strong research university and Ingrid Petersson is warmly welcomed

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingrid-petersson-new-chairperson-lund-university - 2026-04-16

Innovation is on the rise at Lund University. More and more researchers want to see how their research can be put to use through new treatments, products or services that reach society. In 2025, 161 ideas came in from researchers seeking support, compared to 125 the previous year. In total, almost 850 students and researchers received support from LU Innovation during the year. In 2025, LU Innovat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/record-number-lund-university-researchers-interested-innovation - 2026-04-16

During spring, a faculty group has worked on developing alternatives for a new organisation for the Faculty's research infrastructure. Kajsa M Paulsson has led the work and tells more. Why does the Faculty want to reorganise the research infrastructure?"A large number of the Faculty's research infrastructures have expressed that they want more dialogue with the Faculty management and increased opp

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/open-hearing-our-research-infrastructure-238-more-sustainable-and-efficient-organisation-way - 2026-04-15

What do you get when you mix a flutist, non-profit adviser and high competence within brand management? You get the driven Italian Carlotta Zorzi-Chapman. We asked her about her journey from the small city of Lund to the big global brands. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Carlotta, tell us about what you do today!I work for Shopify, within the Partnerships team. Shopify helps entrepreneu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/carlotta-zorzi-chapman-alumna-msc-international-marketing-and-brand-management-2014 - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During the week of Midsummer, Sweden will inaugurate its largest investment in research ever made – MAX IV Laboratory. “It has been a long process and it feels amazing that all the electrons and light are now working”, says Pro Vice-Chancellor Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen, responsible for the University’s infrastructure

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-inaugurate-swedens-largest-research-investment-max-iv - 2026-04-15

A lot of research explains which diets may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Much research remains to be done about how our genes respond to the foods we eat. A new study led by researchers at Lund University adds to evidence that variations in the AMY1 gene may affect the way the body breaks down starchy foods. Unhealthy food habits are risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes. An

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/bread-study-examines-role-genes-breaking-down-food - 2026-04-15

Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid-like, which leads to its rapid injection into the cell,” says Alex Evilevitch who led the stud

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2026-04-15

A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2026-04-15