By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 8 October 2013 Niclas Hagen at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Modern Genes; Body, rationality and ambivalence on October 4 2013. The focus of the thesis is Huntington's disease. Professor Susanne Lundi

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-niclas-hagen-your-phd - 2025-05-11

Published 5 November 2013 The Swedish Research Council has awarded a grant of 6.5 million SEK over 5 years to Petersen's research project entitled Critical hypothalamic circuitries controlling depression and anxiety in Huntington disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/65-million-sek-petersen-swedish-research-council - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 18 November 2013 Rachel Cheong and Sanaz Gabery receive in total 120 000 SEK from Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund for their research. Congratulations!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/cheong-and-gabery-receives-grants-kungliga-fysiografiska-sallskapet - 2025-05-11

Published 3 February 2014 PhD student Sanaz Gabery is featured in this month's newsletter from the Department of Experimental Medical Sciences at the Medical Faculty. In the article, Sanaz describes her interesting findings of hypothalamic changes in clinical HD. emvnewsletterjanuary2014.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-featured-emvs-newsletter - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 April 2014 Petersén, Gabery and Hagen give talks about psychiatric symptoms in HD, as well as about their ongoing research projects, at the National meeting on Huntington disease (HD) in Gothenburg on March 28 2014. The meeting is organised by the National patient organization for HD. They will also give talks and par

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-national-hd-meeting-gothenburg - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 8 May 2014 Sofia Hult Lundh is the first PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis. It is entitled Psychiatric and metabolic disturbances in experimental models of Huntington's disease and will be defended May 28 2014 at 13.00 in Segerfalksalen. It consists of three published papers in Cell Metabolism, Human Molecu

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/first-phd-thesis-tnu-has-been-traditionally-nailed-may-7 - 2025-05-11

Published 9 May 2014 Congratulations Dr Cheong to the prize for best poster at the Neuroscience Day at Lund University 2014! The poster was entitled Behavioral characterization of the psychiatric phenotype in the BACHD mouse model of Huntington disease. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-cheong-receives-prize-best-poster-neuroscience-day-lund-university - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 June 2014 Sofia Hult Lundh successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 28 2014 and has now a PhD in biomedicine from Lund University.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-sofia-hult-lundh-your-phd - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 31 March 2015 Disturbances in sleep and metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases are now gaining increased attention as their underlying mechanisms may provide targets for novel therapeutic interventions. This symposium will shed light on novel research focusing on different aspects of sleep and metabolism relevant for n

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-organizes-segerfalk-symposium-metabolism-and-sleep-hd-and-als - 2025-05-11

Published 24 April 2015 Sanaz Gabery is the second PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis and she traditionally nailed her thesis on April 22. The thesis is entitled New perspectives on pathology in Huntington’s disease - characterisation of hypothalamic changes and will be defended on May 13 2015 at 09.00 in Belfragesalen, BMC D15. It consists of three published papers in Acta Neuropatho

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/second-phd-thesis-tnu-traditionally-nailed - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 May 2015 Sanaz Gabery has today successfully defended her PhD thesis at Lund University!Congratulations Dr Gabery! 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-sanaz-gabery - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 19 August 2015 Petersén is invited to give a talk at the European Huntington Disease Association Conference, Warsaw, Poland, on September 18-20 2015. The talk is entitled: Change of personality - How to cope.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-lectures-european-huntington-disease-association-conference-warsaw - 2025-05-11

Published 23 September 2015 Petersén together with other speakers Joe Guilano, Michael Hayden, Bernhard Landwehrmer and the organisers Astri and Sven-Olof Arnesen at the EHA meeting. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-speaker-eha-meeting - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 January 2016 Rana Soylu is the third PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis and on January 11 it was traditionally nailed. The thesis is entitled “Hypothalamic and Metabolic Dysfunction in Genetic Models of Huntington’s disease" and will be defended on January 28 2016 at 09.00 in Belfrage lecture hall, BMC D1

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/third-phd-thesis-tnu-nailed - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 27 January 2016 On January 25 2016 Åsa Petersen gave an invited talk on “Hypothalamic pathology in HD” at the Department for Neurology at Ulm University in Germany. Here with one of the hosts; Dr Patrick Weydt.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/talk-ulm-university - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 1 February 2016 Rana Soylu Kucharz successfully defended her PhD thesis at Lund University on Thursday January 28! Congratulations Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-rana-soylu-kucharz - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 24 February 2016 In the magazine Reflex (1/2016), issued by Neuroförbundet, an article on the TNU research on Huntington's disease is highlighted. Three PhD theses have been published during 2014-2016 in the TNU group; all focusing on different aspect of the disease. Read the article here (in Swedish): artikel_i_reflex_1

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-research-highlighted-reflex - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 March 2016 Petersén is invited to give a talk entitled "Huntington disease - in the crossroads of neurology and psychiatry" at the Swedish Psychiatry Congress in Stockholm, March 16-18 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-about-huntington-disease-swedish-psychiatry-congress - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 22 April 2016 On Friday April 15 2016 Åsa Petersén hosted a national HD meeting in Lund for health care personnel. 50 participants from different parts of Sweden attended the meeting. program_nationellt_hd-mote_lund_15_april_2016.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-hosts-national-hd-meeting - 2025-05-11

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 26 April 2016 Åsa Petersén was appointed Professor in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University on March 16 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-now-appointed-professor-lund-university - 2025-05-11