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Meet our researchers! Medicinska fakulteten är en globalt framstående forskningsmiljö. Ny kunskap växer fram i laboratorier, på sjukhuskliniker och på andra platser i samhället. Den korsbefruktas och kommer till nytta - möt några av våra forskare!
https://www.medicine.lu.se/meet-our-researchers - 2026-11-01
When Ingrid Hedenfalk, many years ago, studied to become a biologist, she chose to write her degree project on ovarian cancer. She went on to doctoral studies focusing on breast cancer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the USA. She has now worked as a researcher for more than a quarter of a century and specialises in finding traces in endometriosis tissue that increase the risk of cer
- FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH A friendly ideas woman who knows to surround herself with other facilitators. Elisabeth Argentzell, occupational therapist and researcher, combines teaching and research with significant networking on and for improved mental health. She is happy that the initiative Balancing Everyday Life and the new occupational category Peer Support have been introduced in psychiatry.
https://www.medicine.lu.se/research-and-research-studies/meet-our-researchers/meet-our-researchers-blunt-elbows - 2026-11-01
Those who carry the mutated gene will develop the fatal Huntington’s disease at some stage in life. The brain disease, which can be inherited across generations, begins slowly and makes it increasingly difficult for sufferes to regulate their feelings, thoughts, and eventually movements. There is still no treatment. However, Huntington researcher and psychiatrist Åsa Petersén is working hard at it
Outside the different examining rooms at paediatric oncology unit 64 hang laminated name signs with rainbows, unicorns and tractors that the young patients have made themselves. Each year, the unit receives around 60 new paediatric cancer patients from southern Sweden requiring examination or treatment. Of these, 85 per cent survive. Kees-Jan Pronk shares his time between being a doctor in paediat
Cognitive diseases is the collective term for a number of diseases that affect the brain and destroy the ability to think and act logically, among which Alzheimer’s disease is the most common. At Lund University, Professor Oskar Hansson and his colleagues are carrying out research to find methods that improve diagnosis as well as quality of life for people with cognitive diseases. Currently, appro
Within the medical world, there is a growing need to be able to take images of our interior with increasing precision. In addition to image resolution and different types of image information, it is also about examining the human body’s micro universe at levels of detail never previously described. At these levels, new answers may be hidden about diseases and how the body’s different systems funct
The Department of Experimental Medical Science is one of six departments within the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. Here, research is conducted at the molecular, cellular and integrative levels into the biological processes that govern the body’s functions, both in health and in disease. We conduct research at the highest international level, serve as a hub for research bridging the gap be
https://www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university/departments/department-experimental-medical-science - 2026-11-01
The hand is the human tool. With the hand, we perceive touch and, without the help of sight, we recognise shapes and surface structures. The hand’s movements and gestures are also important for our body language, our personality and identity. It is the interaction between the brain and the peripheral nerves that controls the hand’s movements and ability to feel. At Lund University, researchers are
LBIC (Lund University Bioimaging Centre) is a research centre and joint infrastructure for bioimaging at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University. The centre was formed in 2008 and provides a number of platforms for advanced medical imaging. Platforms are available in the following areas: • Pre-clinical and clinical MR • Pre-clinical nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT, CT) • Microscopy • Nat
Hand surgery is young as a medical discipline and as a research field. Lund University conducts research at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö, which has one of the world’s oldest and largest hand surgery clinics. In 1988, the University received Sweden’s first and at the time only professorship in hand surgery with Göran Lundborg (born 1943). The hand surgery clinic in Malmö has been one of the m
Food can make us ill and it can make us healthy. “The current dietary recommendations are too general. Ideally, diets would be personalised for each individual, on the basis of a blood test taken at birth”, says Carin Andrén Aronsson, research dietician and head of unit at Skåne University Hospital. An important part of the faculty’s major population studies is to ask participants what they eat. F
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, one of six departments at the Faculty of Medicine. Clinical Sciences Lund intimately cooperate with Skåne University Hospital Lund, and the Medical Faculty in order to optimize the conditions for preclinical and clinical, translational research, research strategies and the development, as well as education at both undergraduate and postgraduate
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The Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö is one of the six departments at Lund University's medical faculty. We have a strong focus on clinical and epidemiological research, and we also conduct extensive preclinical laboratory research. About the department Our operations are located in a patient-friendly environment at Skåne University Hospital in central Malmö, and in other premises in Malmö
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The Department of Health Sciences (IHV) is one of six departments within the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. We are based at Forum Medicum in Lund. Our research and education are rooted in people’s needs – from the yet unborn babies to the very elderly – and aim to improve health, quality of life and participation at various levels of society. About the department Our research aims to un
https://www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university/departments/department-health-sciences - 2026-11-01
The Department of Laboratory Medicine (ILM) is one of six departments at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. We conduct research and education in the field of laboratory medicine, focusing on understanding how diseases arise and how diagnostics and treatment can be improved for the benefit of the patients. We conduct research across a broad spectrum of medical disciplines with strong clini
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The Department of Translational Medicine is one of the six departments at Lund University's medical faculty. We conduct basic research in laboratory environment, patient-related and clinical research, and we also conduct epidemiological studies. About the department We are present in point-of-care environments in Skåne University Hospital in central Malmö. Parts of our organisation are located a
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The Faculty of Medicine, in close cooperation with agents within public healthcare and medicine, contributes to increasing knowledge of high relevance to human health. This is done through education and research of the highest quality in cooperation with wider society. Our discoveries for a better tomorrow Our faculty was established when Lund University was founded in 1666 and since then has had
https://www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university - 2026-11-01
On this page, you can search for researchers or research groups at the Faculty of Medicine using the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s subject classification. Basic Medicine Pharmaceutical Sciences Researchers | Groups Pharmacology and Toxicology Researchers | Groups Medicinal Chemistry Researchers | Groups Social and Clinical Pharmacy Researchers | Groups Neurosciences Researchers | Groups Ph
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Most of the links on this web page will forward you to other websites. Departments Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö Department of Experimental Medical Science Department of Health Sciences Department of Laboratory Medicine Department of Translational Medicine Strategic research areas In 2009, Lund University received strategic research funding from the S
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