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(DIABETES) After more than a decade of stagnation, there is a major surge in kidney research effort. New drugs and biomarkers make it possible to detect and slow the progression of the disease earlier – something that long seemed unattainable. This will impact people with diabetes, for whom kidney damage is a serious long-term complication. “We are entering a new era. What is happening now is simi
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hope-kidney-care - 2025-12-13
An international team of researchers has investigated whether oral insulin can prevent early signs of type 1 diabetes and clinical diagnosis in children with an increased risk of developing the disease. Although treatment with oral insulin could not prevent development of diabetes-related autoantibodies, oral insulin delayed the rate of disease progression in children who developed such autoantibo
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/oral-insulin-delayed-onset-type-1-diabetes-some-children-increased-risk-disease - 2025-12-13
Lund University has climbed to first place in the world in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. The ranking includes around 2,000 higher education institutions from about 100 countries and measures how universities contribute to a sustainable future – through research, education, and the way they operate as organisations. “Humble, proud, and inspired to continue moving forward –
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-best-world-sustainability - 2025-12-13
Christopher Douse, Associate Professor at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine and group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF). The five-year, SEK 11 million award will support his team’s research into how repetitive DNA sequences linked to neurological diseases are controlled in the development of the human
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/decoding-repetitive-genome-christopher-douse-awarded-consolidator-grant-ssmf - 2025-12-13
Borders don’t just divide nations — they define our bodies too. At the skin and in the gut, our barrier organs form the frontline of defense against infection. Here, diverse communities of friendly microbes, the microbiota, help maintain health and keep these borders strong, backed up by an immune system ready to deploy antibodies against any intruder. Protecting these barrier organs is central to
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/inta-gribonika-awarded-ssmf-starting-grant-research-skin-humoral-immunity - 2025-12-13
Eleven research centers across four thematic areas have been awarded funding in Forte's call for Research center grants 2025. Two of these centers will be led from Lund University, focusing on the themes of severe mental illness and women’s health and disease. The two new research centers at Lund University that have been granted long-term funding from Forte will be led by Ulrika Bejerholm in the
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/forte-research-center-grants-2025 - 2025-12-13
Kompetensportalen, Lucat, Lupin, Lubas and LUCRIS. Those are the names of some of Lund University’s administrative systems. They are now also the names of five new bacteriophages that have recently been discovered in the ponds of Lund University’s Botanical Gardens. Bacteriophages – often abbreviated to phages – are viruses that attack bacteria. Phages are astonishingly effective assassins – these
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/fishing-phages-lund-universitys-botanical-gardens - 2025-12-13
While researchers at Lund University have long contributed to understanding the heterogeneity of diabetes, a new report from the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – co-chaired by Professor Paul W. Franks at Lund University – sets out an unprecedented global roadmap for the field. We spoke with Professor Paul W. Franks, who co-chaired the working group be
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/global-call-rethink-diabetes - 2025-12-13
An increasing number of Swedes are getting tattoos and Sweden’s population is now one of the most tattooed in Europe. At the same time, the incidence of melanoma is increasing. A new epidemiological study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that tattoos could be a risk factor for melanoma. The state of research on tattoos and cancerIn view of the lack of knowledge concerning the long-term heal
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/tattoos-could-be-risk-factor-melanoma - 2025-12-13
Some blood pressure medications can make the skin extra prone to sunburn. A registry study from Lund University in Sweden shows a possible increased risk of basal cell carcinoma with certain blood pressure medications. The risk increase is relatively low—at most nine percent. “Blood pressure treatment should not be discontinued. But it’s good if doctors inform patients that extra sun protection ma
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/important-use-sun-protection-during-blood-pressure-treatment - 2025-12-13
Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles delivered directly into the tumour could pave the way for new treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive form of brain tumour among adults. Even with intensive treatment, the average survival period is 15 months. The tumour has a high genetic variation
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/electrotherapy-offers-hope-glioblastoma-treatment - 2025-12-13
The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 recycling companies in Sweden. Among the results, high levels of lead in air and elevated levels of multiple metals were detected in the blood of those who work in recycling. Different forms of metals are in
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/harmful-exposure-metal-recycling - 2025-12-13
Researcher Paul Bourgine has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to further study immunotherapies in cancer treatment. Can you describe your research?"ImmunhOss is built on the hypothesis that our bone marrow tightly regulates inflammation and immunosuppression. Now, what cells are involved, how they organise, and if they can have a dual role remains a mystery. Here we will develop
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-awarded-erc-consolidator-grant - 2025-12-13
Lund University researcher Wenqian Xu will investigate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in home care and the risks associated with its implementation, together with colleagues from Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The project, called AMICA, has been granted SEK 14,9 million from NordForsk, along with an additional SEK 1.6 million from the Estonian Research Council. It is one of se
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-powered-care-home - 2025-12-13
A blood biomarker yet to be used in cardiac arrest care can give a clearer picture of the extent of brain damage after a cardiac arrest. This has been shown in a large international multicentre study led by researchers at Lund University that has been published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Worldwide, around four million people each year suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. “This will transform c
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/blood-test-reveals-prognosis-after-cardiac-arrest - 2025-12-13
The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 genes and proteins. The results show aberrant folding in the DNA
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-12-13
Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund. First published: 2019-05-26Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on genetically-modified babies and where Malin Parmar hopes
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-12-13
First published: 2019-05-03Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women.Gestational diabetes is characterized by impaired insul
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-12-13
After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and thereby the mechanisms by which the brain works First publi
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-12-13
The number of cases of disease caused by Leishmania, a parasite that is spread via bites by sand flies which are mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden. The most serious form of the disease usually leads to death if untreated. First published: 2019-05-06“This disease is still very rare in Sweden but the number of cases has
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-increase-parasite-disease-sweden - 2025-12-13
