Published 9 December 2019 Mobile apps can help patients with neurological disorders manage their symptoms better and stimulate people into having a healthier lifestyle. This is indicated by interdisciplinary research conducted at the research centre CASE at Lund University, which has been published in the scientific journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. “The results are sign

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Published 9 December 2019 Einar Smith is being awarded the Swedish Savings Bank Foundation scholarship for his thesis. A prospective study which demonstrates that the metabolite ergothioneine, independent of other risk factors, can be linked to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. The study is published in BMJ Heart. Einar Smith is being awarded the Swedish Savings Bank Fo

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/connection-between-markers-healthy-diet-and-reduced-risk-cardiovascular-disease-resulted-scholarship - 2025-07-01

Published 9 December 2019 Para-athletics is growing in strength worldwide. However, behind the Paralympics that we watch on TV from our sofas there are greater challenges than those related to results. A new thesis from Lund University demonstrates how Paralympic athletes run the risk of sustaining injuries as a result of strict training as well as illnesses caused by their disability. To ensure t

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Published 11 December 2019 The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is worth in total EUR 600 million. Filipe Pereira at Lund University in Sweden is one of the 89 selected researchers, and will be a

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Published 13 December 2019 Zaal Kokaia, Professor within the Department of Clinical Sciences and Director of Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded Georgia’s most prestigious scientific prize - the National Prize in Science. The award comes as a result of his outstanding contribution to world class scientific research and was presented to Prof. Kokaia at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace, Tbi

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By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 18 December 2019 Prof. Åsa Petersén, Dep. of Experimental Medical Science, Astri Arnesen, President of The European Huntington Assocation and Patrick Weydt, the European Huntington Disease Network at the Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting in Lund. A few weeks ago The Huntington Disease Center in Lund, Swede

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-huntington-heights-met-lund-summit - 2025-07-01

Published 9 January 2020 Anna Häger Glenngård and Sixten Borg. (Photo: Louise Larsson) The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the he

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2025-07-01

Published 9 January 2020 Merab Kokaia and My Andersson (Photo: Tove Smeds) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments. For t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2025-07-01

Published 9 January 2020 Madelene Å Andersson, Sven Kjellström, Jitka Petrlova, Artur Schmidtchen, Ann-Charlotte Strömdahl, Manoj Puthia. (Photo: Olle Dahlbäck) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new hydrogel based on the body’s natural peptide defense. It has been shown to prevent and treat infections in wounds. The formulation kills multi-resistant bacteria, something that

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/next-generation-wound-gel-treats-and-prevents-infections - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] gilvad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Gilvad) - published 23 January 2020 European complementologists have joined forces and created CORVOS. A highly coordinated and innovative research and training program for early stage researchers in immunology and infectious diseases. Lund University is a part of the initiative. Anna Blom, Professor at Lund University, participating in the COR

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/corvos-european-joint-doctorate-programme-immunology - 2025-07-01

Published 13 June 2016 The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) holds its next Biennial Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra on 5 – 7 July 2016. The South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA) – the organisation behind the excellent South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies – actively participates in the Canberra conference with special panels; and Profes

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Published 13 June 2016 A Call for papers has been announced for a panel on ”Economic Transformation and Urbanisation: The future of pluriactive small farmers and rural workers in South Asia?” to be held at the International Sociological Association (ISA) Third Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, 10 – 14 July 2016. The panel will be chaired by Prof. Staffan Lindberg, Lund University, and Prof. S

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Published 13 June 2016 On Saturday 30 July 2016, the Bangalore Research Network – NAGARA invites scholars and ethnographers for its second annual workshop. The aim is to share recently-completed or advanced stage Ethnographic research on the city of Bangalore in a one-day workshop. The main goal is to take stock of the field of ‘Bangalore Studies’ over the last few decades and to consider future d

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Published 13 June 2016 The University of Jyväskylä in Finland invites participants to a conference entitled ”Poverty's Causes and Consequences in the Urban Developing World”, which will be held 4–6 August 2016. Anthropologists, ethnologists, sociologists, socio-economists, political scientists and development researchers among others are invited to submit session proposals for this conference. Ses

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Published 7 July 2016 SASNET and School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen) at Lund University invites you to a workshop day on September 23, 2016, from 9.30 to 3 pm in the LUX building in Lund. The event will discuss and highlight the future challenges for journalism and media in India and Sweden. The event is part of the Sweden–South Asia Media Project. During the day you will be able to meet

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-arranges-workshop-about-digital-media - 2025-07-01

Published 11 July 2016 The Second International Conference on Law and Economics will be held in at IIT Kanpur, India on 3 - 4 September 2016. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) jointly organize the conference. The conference seeks to provide a platform where intellectuals in international and na

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Published 11 July 2016 On 15–17 August 2016, the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at Oslo University organizes a PhD course entitled ”Global Food Governance: The Role of Non-State Actors”. The objective of the interdisciplinary course is to critically analyse the changing nature of global food governance: the norms, rules and institutions that govern international political and eco

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-course-global-food-governance-oslo-university - 2025-07-01

Published 11 July 2016 On 15-16 September 2016, the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University hosts a workshop to discuss issues concerning the typological profiles of the major language families of South Asia. The workshop convener is Professor Anju Saxena, and confirmed speakers include Gregory Andersson from the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages; Sonal Kulkar

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/uppsala-university-workshop-typological-profiles-language-families-south-asia - 2025-07-01

Published 11 July 2016 The Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Plant Biomass – Bioproducts, Biocatalysts, and Biorefinery (SUTB4) will be hosted by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in Coimbatore, India, 17 – 18 November 2016. The conference organised in association with Lund University; the SASNET Fermented Foods reserach network; the Indian Biomass A

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/coimbatore-conference-sustainable-utilization-tropical-plant-biomass - 2025-07-01

Published 11 July 2016 On Monday 20 June 2016, Assistant Professor Khalid Wasim from the School of Rural Development at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India, met with SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund. Wasim had come to Europe for a month long stay at University of Münster in Germany, but took a chance also to visit Lund University and SASNET with an aim to search for researc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/khalid-wasim-tiss-visited-sasnet-lund - 2025-07-01