By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Bento Luis) - published 16 January 2024 Raquel Garza Gómez defends her Ph.D. thesis “Transposable elements in the healthy and diseased human brain " on Friday, January 19th. Raquel Garza Gómez is a Ph.D. student at Lund University, who will be defending her thesis on January 19, 2024. With a background in computational biology, Raquel's

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/transposable-elements-healthy-and-diseased-human-brain-phd-interview-raquel-garza-gomez - 2025-05-13

By Stina [dot] BladhJonasson [at] skane [dot] se (Stina Bladh Jonasson) - published 29 January 2024 The United Neuroscience Campus (UNC) is a partnership between MultiPark and the Centre for Transdisciplinary Neurosciences Rostock (CTNR) at the University Medical Centre Rostock, which started by a signed agreement (“Memorandum of understanding”) in May 2022. The UNC is a virtual campus beyond the

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/united-neuroscience-campus-lund-rostock-unc - 2025-05-13

Published 28 March 2024 MultiPark is proud to co-fund and support World Parkinson's Day in Lund - 11 April 2024. World Parkinson's Day (WPD) is a global healthcare event celebrated on the 11th of April every year. It brings together all of us who care about Parkinson´s disease, in different capacities, around the world. To celebrate WPD, MultiPark and Parkinson Skåne have co-organised a symposium

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/world-parkinsons-day-lund - 2025-05-13

By future_faculty [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Future Faculty) - published 10 April 2024 Future Faculty is proud to present the 2024 Minerva Award to Dr Laura Wisse, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund. Future Faculty is proud to present the 2024 Minerva Award to Dr Laura Wisse, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Department of C

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/minerva-leadership-award-winner-2024 - 2025-05-13

Published 13 April 2024 The Jay Van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson’s Disease Research was established in 2012 in memory of Van Andel Institute founder Jay Van Andel, who battled Parkinson’s disease for a decade before his death in 2004. The award is given to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to Parkinson’s disease research and who have positively impacted hum

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/anders-bjorklund-honoured-jay-van-andel-award-outstanding-achievements-parkinsons-disease-research - 2025-05-13

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 8 May 2024 Maria Björkqvist, Dean, Njainday Jobe, affiliated, the Prize recipent Laura Wisse, Associate Professor, Anders Rasmussen, Associate Professor. Future Faculty has awarded the 2024 Minerva Award to Laura Wisse, Associate Professor. Congrats to the Minerva Leadership Award, Laura Wisse, Associate Professor

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/2024-minerva-leadership-award-good-academic-leadership-will-increase-future-success - 2025-05-13

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 13 May 2024 Photo from stem cell transplantation at Skåne University Hospital. Source: Skåne University Hospital. Higher dose cohort initiated after positive early safety evaluation in Parkinson's therapy. After a positive initial safety evaluation, the pioneering STEM-PD clinical trial has advanced to higher dose testing.

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/update-stem-pd-clinical-trial-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2025-05-13

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 16 May 2024 Three of the Lund University researchers that studied the brain environment of patients during an ongoing stroke. From left: Andreas Enström, Gesine Paul-Visse and Arne G. Lindgren. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, rese

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2025-05-13

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 29 May 2024 Popular Science SummaryWe are all familiar with the idea that living organisms are made of atoms and molecules. But not everyone knows that one of those molecules that are crucial for our lives are proteins. And no, they aren’t just something we have to eat. Proteins are an essential molecule which form

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/amyloid-oligomers-capturing-threat-between-disorder-and-order-phd-thesis-lei-ortigosa-pascual - 2025-05-13

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 7 August 2024 Film: Johan Nyman, Lund University A commercially available blood test has now been trialled in routine healthcare. “The blood test showed about 90% reliability even in primary care. This may have major implications for all those individuals who seek help for memory loss and suspected Alzheimer’s,” say the resear

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/groundbreaking-alzheimers-blood-test-proves-highly-effective-primary-healthcare - 2025-05-13

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 13 September 2024 Different aspects of neuroinflammation can be studied under the microscope. Here, astrocytes (red) and microglial (green) cells approach a plaque (blue) in an experimental model of Alzheimer's disease. Photo: Yiyi Yang. Neuroinflammation plays a significant role in neurodegenerative disorders. Tha

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/neuroinflammatory-pathways-neurodegenerative-diseases-special-interest-group - 2025-05-13

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 21 October 2024 A wide variety of digital tools can be used to monitor symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases. Pictures generated with Gencraft. Digital tools within healthcare are developing faster than ever before. Therefore, MultiPark researchers gather across groups to develop implementable tools for the diagno

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/digital-tools-evaluate-symptoms-special-interest-group - 2025-05-13

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 19 November 2024 Cellular reprogramming can directly convert cells, such as skin cells, into different types of brain cells for studying and treating neurodegenerative disorders. Illustration: Cathrine Ahlenius. Recent discoveries have shown that it is possible to convert one cell type into another, typically by fo

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cellular-reprogramming-special-interest-group - 2025-05-13

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 2 December 2024 Drug development requires a translational approach, from molecular investigations in cell cultures and animal models of neurodegenerative disorders to clinical trials involving patients. Illustration created with Biorender. Breakthroughs of new pharmacological treatments requires translational resea

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/regenerative-pharmacology-special-interest-group - 2025-05-13

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 16 October 2024 Emma Nyberg and Lluís Camprubí Ferrer, the Young MultiPark working group members, carry out the interviews. Illustration: Emma Nyberg In the podcast series "Meet our scientists", young MultiPark researchers interview our research group leaders about their academic journey and main scientific focus.

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/meet-our-scientists-continuation-parkinsons-revolution - 2025-05-13

Published 29 October 2019 Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)”, which has been published in the journal “Citizenship Studies”. Nationality determines access to political rights in most contemporary democracies. Yet, over forty countries currently allow non-cit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/should-immigrants-vote - 2025-05-13

Published 31 October 2019 What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that political fragmentation leads to more judicial indepen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-problem-judicial-independence-nondemocracies - 2025-05-13

Published 28 November 2019 Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electoral competition. To ensure continued political relevance

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-warlord-democrats-electoral-rhetoric - 2025-05-13

Published 16 December 2019 Jakob Skovgaard and Åsa Knaggård have co-authored the article “Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies: what polities price carbon and why?” together with Sofía Sacks Ferrari (SIPRI, formerly the Department of Political Science, LU). The article is published in the journal Climate Policy. It concerns what countries as well as sub- and supranational

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-knaggard-adoption-carbon-pricing - 2025-05-13

Published 8 January 2020 Douglas Brommesson and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article "Staten som kommunikatör - En panelstudie av effekterna av kampanjen Om krisen eller kriget kommer", which has been published in ”Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och tidskrift”. In 2017, the Swedish government took the initiative to conduct a country¬wide information campaign with the aim of i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-and-bengtsson-government-communicator - 2025-05-13