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The 3rd National Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society, SCS2025, takes place in Stockholm next year, June 16-18, 2025. Participants from all fields of chemistry are welcome. The program will include inspiring presentations, interactive poster sessions, and ample networking opportunities.More information on the website of SCS2025 – 3rd National Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society.

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/visit-stockholm-next-summer-scs2025-meeting-everyone-passion-chemistry - 2025-10-01

The CLIMB - Complex lipid membranes for science and technology doctoral network aims to leverage fundamental research on cell membranes to enhance the performance of lipid-based drug carriers and membrane-active drugs.Recruitment for 12 doctoral candidates will begin in spring 2025.CLIMB is coordinated by (links open on LinkedIn):Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Yuri Gerelli) with Johannes Gute

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/physics-chemistry-and-pharmaceutical-sciences-join-hands-msca-doctoral-network-hashtag-climb-awarded - 2025-10-01

The Young Academy of Sweden, an interdisciplinary academy for a selection of the most prominent younger researchers in Sweden, has launched "A Beginner’s Guide to Swedish Academia", a guide for international researchers, to help navigate Swedish academia and remove time-consuming obstacles. The Young Academy of Sweden (YAS) is an independent platform that provides young researchers with a strong v

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/beginners-guide-swedish-academia - 2025-10-01

The WCMM centre has got yet another new doctor! Roberta Battistella, PhD student in the Lundgaard lab, successfully defended her thesis this month. Roberta Battistella, PhD student in the Lundgaard lab and part of MultiPark, defended her PhD thesis entitled “Methods to study glymphatic system in rodents´ brain during physiological and pathophysiological processes” on the 1st of December. Roberta w

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor-0 - 2025-10-01

Karin Tran Lundmark was awarded funding from the Heart-Lung Foundation for the project "Synchrotron-based imaging to decipher cardiovascular pathobiology". The funding includes 800.000 SEK per year for 3 years. The main purpose of this project is to find novel treatments for pulmonary hypertension. To achieve this, Karins group aims to:  Use synchrotron-based imaging combined with other methods to

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/karin-tran-lundmark-receives-heart-lung-foundation-grant-24-million-sek - 2025-10-01

The first pair of WCMM ScienceBrew popular science talks was a success. Stay tuned for the many exciting plans we have for our popular science talks series! Thanks to all the speakers for their fantastic performance at Café Ariman! At the inaugural WCMM ScienceBrew we heard from: Luís, on turning skin into immune cells to fight disease. Zackarias, on the "sweet" science of sugars that decorate our

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/two-wcmm-sciencebrews-down-many-more-come - 2025-10-01

The SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) is the is one of the latest research initiative funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation. Lund University has successfully recruited two DDLS Fellows starting now in the beginning of 2023. The practice of life science is continuously becoming more data-dependent. The amount and complexity of data is growing expo

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-wallenberg-national-program-data-driven-life-science - 2025-10-01

Filipe Pereira was awarded the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant covering €150.000 for a period of 18 months for the idea to identify cancer neoantigens with dendritic cell reprogramming (NeoIDC). The ERC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) grant aims at facilitating the exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC-funded research. The project, for which Filipe Pereira got the grant, aims to e

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-awarded-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2025-10-01

Gesine Paul-Visse and consultant neurologist and clinical fellow Robert Carlsson received 3 million SEK of funding by Cancerfonden covering 3 years for their project. The already ongoing project entitled “Modulating key targets in pericytes: impact on tumor infiltration and immune evasion in glioblastoma” will investigate if and how modulation of previously selected targets in pericytes antagonize

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/gesine-paul-visse-receives-3-million-sek-cancerfonden - 2025-10-01

SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a joint organisation for the advancement of molecular biosciences in Sweden. What started off as a joint effort between Stockholm-based universities is now a national collaboration with operations at 11 universities. In 2022, SciLifeLab site Lund was started. SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a joint organisation for the advancement of molecula

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-national-resource-unique-technologies-and-expertise - 2025-10-01

The WCMM centre has got yet another new doctor! Cecilia Skoug, PhD graduate from Joao Duartes group, defended her thesis “Bioactive lipids as neuroprotective targets in type 2 diabetes” on the 1st of March in Belfragesalen at BMC. In her thesis, Cecilia has explored the change in the lipidome and the consequences for brain function in type 2 diabetes (T2D). In metabolic diseases, such as obesity a

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor-1 - 2025-10-01

On 13th of February, a transplant of stem cell-derived nerve cells was administered to a person with Parkinson’s at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. The product has been developed by Lund University and it is now being tested in patients for the first time. The transplantation product is generated from embryonic stem cells and functions to replace the dopamine nerve cells which are lost in the p

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/first-patient-receives-milestone-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2025-10-01

Martin Magnusson received a 4.8 million VR project grant 2023-2026 for the project "Incretin system´s impact on cardiovascular disease and cancer" together with Joao Duarte and Anja Meissner. The aim of this study is to assess the long-term effects of incretin hormones GIP and GLP-1 on the cardiovascular system. These hormones initiate insulin secretion, which reduces blood sugar levels after a me

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellows-receive-vr-grant-2 - 2025-10-01

Cecilia Skoug, PhD graduate from Joao Duartes group, defended her thesis “Bioactive lipids as neuroprotective targets in type 2 diabetes” on the 1st of March in Belfragesalen at BMC. Cecilia explored the change in the lipidome and the consequences for brain function in type 2 diabetes (T2D). In metabolic diseases, such as obesity and T2D, the brain is impacted and variety of bioactive lipids and t

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor-2 - 2025-10-01

Johan Korduner, PhD graduate from Martin Magnusson’s group, defended his thesis “The heterogeneity of obesity for risk of cardiometabolic disease. Epidemiology and clinical aspects” on the 24th of March at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö. Johan was interested in exploring variants of obesity with lower risks of cardiometabolic disease and exploring the pathways between individuals wit

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/johan-korduner-new-wcmm-doctor - 2025-10-01

Oksana Tymoshchuk, professor from Ukraine, came to Sweden in April 2022 when a full-scale war broke out in her country. A grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation brought Oksana and Iben Lundgaard together and today Oksana is working in the Lundgaard lab trying to find out more about the mysterious glymphatic system. We are all well aware of the situation in Ukraine. Prof Oksana Tymoshc

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/story-oksana-tymoshchuk-and-mysterious-glymphatic-system - 2025-10-01

Never before so much data has been produced within life sciences. At the same time, computing power, artificial intelligence and other technology necessary to handle data have been greatly improved. The theme of this year’s WCMM Research Day held on April 12th in Lund, was artificial intelligence (AI) in medical research. A widely discussed topic that has opened up endless amounts of new opportuni

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-day-2023 - 2025-10-01

The National Molecular Medicine Fellows Program - NMMP - is a collaborative program between the four Wallenberg centres and SciLifeLab that was established in 2017. The aims of the program is to improve scientific networks and collaborations across Sweden, as well as to increase the awareness and accessibility of the cutting-edge infrastructure at SciLifeLab.  Over the years, the four sites of WCM

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nmmp-annual-scientific-conference-2023 - 2025-10-01

After a long break due to the pandemic the WCMM Research Day has been organized in its full form on-site again. It brought WCMM researchers, communicators, economist, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members, the director Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, and co-directors Jonas Larsson and Lars Dahlin, the two newly recruited DDLS fellows and everyone else invited together to embrace the excellent t

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/interview-research-day-organization-committee - 2025-10-01

Did you know that current RNA therapeutics are highly inefficient and less than 1 percent of the RNA molecules seem to end up in the right place? Anders Wittrup and his team published a new article in Nature Communications about their newest technology counting RNA molecules delivered into a single cell. To continue the development of this promising technique, Anders and his team received a new hi

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/anders-wittrup-receives-fastest-confocal-microscope-nordics - 2025-10-01