By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 31 May 2011 The paper Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits by Hult S, Soylu R, Björklund T, Belgardt BF, Mauer J, Brüning JC, Kirik D and Petersén A, published in Cell Metabolism 13(4) 428-439, 2011, was selected Article of the Month at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund Uni

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-paper-selected-article-month-may-2011-medical-faculty - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 28 June 2011 This week, Sanaz Gabery and Sofia Hult, PhD students in TNU, give talks about their research at an educational camp for HD families in Sweden held June 27-July 1 in Grebbestad on the Swedish west coast. They also present their latest studies on hypothalamic changes in HD as posters at the 2011 Björntorp symp

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-and-hult-present-their-research-hd-family-camp-and-european-obesity-symposium - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 1 August 2011 TNU members Gabery, Hult, Sajjad and Soylu participate in a FENS-IBRO partially supported school on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases on July 20 - 26 2011 at the Reisensburg castle in Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizing committee but could not travel due to pregnancy.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/four-tnu-members-participate-fensibro-summer-school-metabolic-aspects-brain-diseases-germany - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 1 August 2011 The paper entitled Early changes in the hypothalamic region in prodromal Huntington disease revealed by MRI analysis from TNU, published in Neurobiology of Disease, was selected article of the month in the Newsletter from the European HD Network (EHDN).Read the Newsletter here: ehdn_news_july_2011.pdf  Link

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-paper-mri-analyses-hd-selected-article-month-ehdn-newsletter-july-2011 - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 5 September 2011 Sanaz Gabery, Sofia Hult and Rana Soylu present their latest research findings as posters at the World Congress of Huntington's Disease (WCHD) in Melbourne, Australia September 11-14. The travels have been funded by travel stipends from the Maggie Stephen's Foundation, the Royal Physiographic Society in

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-present-their-research-world-congress-hd-melbourne-sept-2011 - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 September 2011 The Journal of Huntington's Disease is a new international multidisciplinary journal that aims to facilitate progress in understanding the genetics, molecular correlates, pathogenesis, pharmacology, diagnosis and treatment of Huntington's disease and related disorders. Editors-in-Chief are Blair R. Leav

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-editorial-board-new-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 21 September 2011 Sofia Hult håller föredrag med titeln "Huntingtons sjukdom - när en gen avgör" på årets Neurodag, arrangerad av Neurologiskt Handikappades Riksförbund (NHR) i Stockholm den 28:e september 2011.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hult-gives-talk-neuro-day-stockholm - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 6 December 2011 Petersén and her team were awarded a grant from Ragnar Söderberg's Foundation for their research on Huntington's disease.About the project at Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse's webpage (in Swedish) 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/3-million-sek-ragnar-soderbergs-foundation-petersens-research - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 3 January 2012 Dr Barbara Baldo received a PhD in Neurobiology in 2011. The PhD studies were performed at Novartis Pharma, Basel and Basel University, Switzerland, and the thesis was entitled "Innovative approaches to monitor mutant huntingtin and to facilitate its degradation in Huntington’s disease models”. It was fund

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-new-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-barbara-baldo - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 7 March 2012 The link between neurodegeneration and energy metabolism is the focus of not only TNU:s research but also for the international colleagues Drs Patrick Weydt, Ulm University, Germany, and Luc Dupuis, Strasbourg University, France. They have now written a letter entitled Progranulin bridges energy homeostasis

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-co-authors-letter-cell-metabolism-march-2012 - 2025-07-01

Published 10 May 2012 Sanaz Gabery, PhD student in TNU, was awarded the prize for best presentation at the poster session of the Neuroscience Day, May 2012, in Lund.Barbara Baldo, postdoctoral fellow in TNU, received a grant of 55 000 SEK from the Segerfalk Foundation for her work on the role of orexin neurons in Huntington's disease, which also was announced at the Neuroscience Day.Congratulation

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-wins-prize-best-presentation-and-baldo-receives-grant-segerfalk-foundation - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 June 2012 We would like to welcome Natalie Adlesic back to TNU! Natalie is returning to our group on Monday June 18th on a summer stipend. She will work with us for the next eight weeks.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-back-natalie - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 19 June 2012 Petersén and Gabery has written an invited review entitled Hypothalamic and limbic system changes in Huntington's disease in the first issue of Journal of Huntington's Disease.Link to the article

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-publishes-review-hypothalamic-changes-hd-first-issue-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 26 July 2012 An International summer camp for young adults in families with HD visits TNU on July 27, 2012. The camp is organized by Riksförbundet Huntingtons Sjukdom and European Huntington Association (EHA) with Carina Hvalstedt in charge, and takes place at Hotel Båstad for one week.30 young adults from the ages of 15

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/international-summer-camp-young-adults-hd-families-visits-tnu-and-bagadilico - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 30 July 2012 On Friday the 27th of July TNU and Bagadilico had visitors from the International summer camp for young adults in families with HD. The regional newspaper Skånskan Dagbladet published an article on the visit, describing the symptoms of HD and how life in a family with HD can be. Link to the article on Skånsk

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-skanska-dagbladet-visit-tnu-lab - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 19 September 2012 TNU members attended the 7th EHDN Plenary Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16 2012. The TNU team presented posters on the development of assays to measure huntingtin and studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of depression, anxiety and metabolic changes in HD. Petersén chaired one of

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-attends-ehdn-plenary-meeting-stockholm - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 6 November 2012 Petersén begins her tenured faculty position as Senior Lecturer (universitetslektor) in medical research with specialization in Neuroscience at the Medical Faculty of Lund University in November 2012 after three years with a position as senior researcher (forskaretjänst) in psychiatry at 50% appointed by

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-appointed-senior-lecturer-neuroscience-lund-university - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 3 December 2012 The Network of European CNS Transplantation and Restoration (NECTAR) held its annual meeting in Lund Nov 29-30 2012 with around 130 participants. Petersén was invited to give an overview of mouse models in HD, and Soylu and Sajjad were selected to present their recent research findings in the data blitz s

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-annual-nectar-meeting - 2025-07-01

Published 28 January 2013 Congratulations to Sofia Hult Lundh who received one of the five stipends of 2012 from the Swedish Lundbeckfoundation at a ceremony at Trolleholm castle on the 17th of January 2012. The stipend will be used to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying depressive- and anxiety-like features in mice with Huntington's disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/phd-student-sofia-hult-lundh-received-prestigious-stipend-swedish-lundbeckfoundation - 2025-07-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 1 February 2013 Dr Rachel Cheong starts a postdoctoral fellowship in TNU 1st of February 2013. Dr Cheong is from Singapore and has a PhD in Neuroscience from University of Otago, New Zealand. Her PhD thesis was entitled Effects of estradiol on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons. In Lund she will investigate the role

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-dr-rachel-cheong-group - 2025-07-01