Published 16 December 2019 PI Daniel Bexell has been awarded millions in funding from Åke Wibergs foundation that goes to young PIs in medical research. One of the aims is to find out why some tumors develop resistance to today’s treatment but also to find new treatment strategies. Every year around 20 children in Sweden are diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, most before even turning 5 years of age. It

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Published 1 June 2018 The platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signalling pathway is often dysregulated in cancer and PDGF-receptor expression has been linked to unfavourable prognostic factors in breast cancer (e.g. ER negativity, high Ki67 and high grade). This study aimed to evaluate the expression of PDGFRα, PDGFRβ and ligand PDGF-CC in breast cancer in relation to molecular subtypes and prog

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Published 16 November 2022 Congratulations to Yvonne Ceders group and to Alexander Pietras group on receiving Cancerfonden grants.

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Published 1 November 2022 Big congratulations to Göran B Jönssons group (Oncology), Kristian Pietras group and Joan Yuans group (Developmental Immunology) on receiving a joint grant from Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation (KAW).   Article about the project via this link (in Swedish).

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By johanna [dot] verngren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Verngren) - published 18 January 2023 Big congratulations to  Kazi Uddins group on receiving Barncancerfonden grant for "Utveckling av riktade kombinationsterapi och nya verktyg för att förutspå terapi-resistens" and to Alexander Pietras group on receiving Barncancerfonden grant for "Syrebristberoende måltavlor i barngliom och ponsgliom

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By johanna [dot] verngren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Verngren) - published 29 November 2023 Big congratulations on receiving grants from Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR):Daniel Bexell, Mekanismer och nya behandlingsstrategier mot resistent neuroblastom, and to...Anders Bjartell, Målriktade behandlingar och biomarkörer vid avancerad prostatacancer, and to...Kristian Pietras,

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By johanna [dot] verngren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Verngren) - published 30 November 2023 Big congratulations on receiving Cancerfonden grants:Daniel Bexell, Decoding and Targeting Treatment-Resistant Metastatic Neuroblastoma, an to...Christer Larsson, Induction and consequences of interferon expression in breast cancer cells, and to...Ramin Massoumi, Novel preclinical models for treatm

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By johanna [dot] verngren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Verngren) - published 30 April 2024 One ERC-funded postdoc position in Molecular Pediatric Oncology lab, led by PI Daniel Bexell. The group is working with neuroblastoma (NB), a severe childhood cancer. The overall aims are to unravel mechanisms leading to metastasis and treatment resistance of NB, and to test compounds targeting aggres

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Published 14 March 2025 Kristian Pietras group is part of project receiving the biggest donation in Lund University's history - 420 million SEK.Read more via this link. (Swedish)Visit Kristian Pietras group via this link.

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Published 14 March 2025 We are proud to have Swedish Cancer Society announce Cancer Researcher of the Year, 2025, Kristian Pietras.Read more on Swedish Cancer Society's webpage. (Swedish)Read more about Kristian Pietras Research via this link.Read more about Kristian Pietras Research group via this link.

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Published 2 June 2020 science.pdf File science.pdf Subscriber: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES | Sign In as Individual | FAQ | Access Rights | Join AAAS21 July 2003DNA Goes BallisticJust how viruses manage to get their DNA into a host cell has been a long-standing question in biology. Research now shows that they shoot their DNA in by keeping it under high pressure.DNA cannon. The Lambda virus ke

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Published 2 June 2020 nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf File nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf High-powered living DNA cannonWe all know that a viral infection can be developed extremely quickly, but in factit's even more dramatic than that - the process is literally explosive.The pressure inside a virus is 40 atmospheres, and it is just waiting for anopportunity to blow up

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Published 14 November 2022 A study has recently been published on how the Kremlin circumvented EU sanctions on Russian state media in the first weeks of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. In a recently published journal article, James Pamment discusses some of the tactics the Kremlin used to circumvent the EU’s 2022 state media sanctions. The study finds that while the initial “fog of information wa

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Published 9 January 2023 A capability definition and assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference The NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence recently published a report titled A capability definition and assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference. In the report, the author Ja

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Published 8 February 2023 Microsoft uses framework for attribution developed by Pamment and Smith Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC) is attributing a recent influence operation targeting the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attribution made builds upon a framework for attribution developed by James Pamment at the PDRI and Victoria Smith, presented in the report “Attribut

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By psychologicaldefence [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Psychological Defence Research Institute) - published 17 October 2023 Research Conference in Lund, 10-11 October 2023 A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions

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Published 17 October 2023 Photo: Fredrick Tendong/Unsplash Video games have captured the spotlight for decades, sparking debates about their impact on players since the early 1990s. Played by over 3 billion people worldwide, this report acknowledges video games' political and ideological dimensions and their potential for being used for strategic communication and propaganda purposes. It attempts

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Published 6 December 2023 A new report on Russian influence tactics has been published by the Psychological Defence Research Institute. This report analyses Russian information influence tactics on social media platforms following the atrocities committed by Russian troops in Bucha, Ukraine, in March 2022. The analysis focuses on the Bucha massacre as a significant news event to demonstrate how th

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Published 19 February 2024 Members of the ADAC.io consortium at meeting in Lund ADAC.io - Attribution – Data – Analysis – Countermeasures. InterOperability, a Horizon project started on 1 February. A week later, the partners of the ADAC.io-consortium met at the Old Bishop's House at Lund University to elaborate on the details of the project that is planned for three years. The seven partners of AD

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Published 23 March 2024 The latest report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute is now available: Building Resilience and Psychological Defence. It outlines an analytical framework, guidebook, and template addressing six dimensions of hybrid threats and foreign influence and interference from a nation-state perspective. Acknowledging that these types of threats are complex and multifac

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