Published 24 October 2023 Mats Jerkeman will take over as LUCC coordinator next year (1 March 2024) when Sophia Zackrisson's 3-year term of office as coordinator ends. It is the Dean of Faculty of Medicine that decide about the LUCC coordinator within LUCC after an internal nomination procedure.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator-start-1-march-2024 - 2025-07-01

Published 23 January 2024 Pamela Buchwald (left) is new member of LUCC executive group, starting 1 January 2024. She is also new Scientific Director of Skåne University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre (SUHCCC) replacing Lisa Rydén.We have also new LUCC board members from last year - PhD student representative Juliane Albrecht (upper middle) and Carina Bernardo (right) representing Future Facu

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-members-lucc-board-and-executive-group - 2025-07-01

Published 15 February 2024  The best cancer thesis of the year 2023 is Communication about serious illness as a relational process by Mattias Tranberg with the following motivation: "The work by Mattias Tranberg provides novel knowledge to improve clinical cancer care from a holistic viewpoint with focus on the relationship between health care staff and seriously ill patients". The price sum for t

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/best-phd-thesis-cancer-year-2023 - 2025-07-01

Published 24 February 2025 New organisation in the management and new board members. We have reorganized the management within LUCC and also got new members plus a new vice coordinator since the beginning of the year. The former board and the executive group have been merged to an operational board. This will streamline the organization and adapt it to current needs.The current members of the Boar

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/reorganisation-lucc-management - 2025-07-01

By pia [dot] berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 10 June 2025 Meet the new guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) Mary Beth Terry from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, US. Mary Beth Terry was recently employed as guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre from March 2025 until 2028. She will be working 10% of full time and her

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/meet-new-guest-professor-cancer-epidemiology-and-prevention - 2025-07-01

By Pia [dot] Berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 5 April 2020 New members in LUCC executive group - Håkan Axelson (education) and Sophia Zachrisson (research). Håkan Axelson will replace Karin Jirström, who has new assignment as vice-dean at the Faculty of Medicine with responsibility for third-cycle education. Sophia Zachrisson will replace Mikael Sigvardsson, who wil

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/changes-lucc-management - 2025-07-01

Published 9 September 2020 New board member: Ulf Ellervik, Faculty of Science, Lund University Professor Ulf Ellervik will replace professor Olov Sterner as academic staff representative for the Faculty of Science in the board of Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) with starting date September 9th, 2020.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-member-lucc - 2025-07-01

Published 10 December 2020 LUCC Annual report in Swedish is now approved by the LUCC Board and available for download. lucc_verksamhetsberattelse_2020.pdf  LUCC Annual report will be translated to English and published here in the end of December 2020 or begining of January 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/lucc-annual-report-2020-sv - 2025-07-01

By pia [dot] berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 8 January 2021 Kristina Åkesson, Dean of Faculty of Medicine New chairman: Kristina Åkesson Kristina Åkesson, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, is the new chairman in the board of Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) with starting date January 1st, 2021. She will replace Erik Renström.  

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-chairman-lucc-board - 2025-07-01

Published 10 March 2023 Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has in cooperation with Åsa Petersén produced a short film about Huntington's disease and Petersén's research on HD. Petersén was awarded Wallenberg Clinical Scholar in 2020. Link to the movie "Huntington's disease - the hunt for treatment" on YouTube  

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/film-about-hd-asa-petersen - 2025-07-01

Published 7 November 2023 Curious about HD research and wish to learn more? The European Huntington Association/Moving Forward Team is inviting you to a webinar in Norwegian on 22 November. Astri Arnesen, the President of the European Huntington Association, will speak about international HD research, Lasse Pihlstrøm, a Norwegian HD neurologist and researcher, will address HD studies and trials in

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hd-webinar-22-november-2023 - 2025-07-01

Published 28 November 2023 The European Huntington Association/Moving Forward Team’s webinar in now available on our site! You find it under Talks & Movies:Talks & Movies

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/watch-webinar - 2025-07-01

Published 14 December 2023 The National meeting for HD is a yearly event arranged by the patients’ organization RHS. This year, 2023, it took place in Gothenburg on 30 November. All talks at the meeting are available on RHS website; only in Swedish.You find Åsa Petersén’s research update about 13 minutes into the film. To access the video, go to RHS website:RHS website

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-update-national-meeting-hd-sweden - 2025-07-01

Published 6 February 2024 Every spring, Huntington Disease Center in Lund traditionally hosts an information night on Huntington disease. This year is no exception! The program is set for the evening:Staff from the clinical team and representatives from the patients’ organization, RHS, as well as HD researchers, will give talks about different aspects of the the disease and the current research. A

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-info-night-hd-22-april-2024 - 2025-07-01

Published 21 March 2024 Sofia Bergh, PhD student in TNU, gave two presentations on Huntington disease on 11 and 12 March 2024 during the NMT Days.This is an annual event, arranged by the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. A week of talks and demonstrations on a variety of topics show today’s research, and students in upper secondary schoo

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/bergh-presented-nmt-days - 2025-07-01

Published 21 March 2024 Åsa Petersén gave a talk about Huntington disease and her research for the patients' organization, RHS, in Stockholm on 12 March 2024, where she was invited.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gave-hd-talk-stockholm - 2025-07-01

Published 3 May 2024 Sofia Bergh's talk from the NMT days is now available online. See more on the Talks & Movies page.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/see-sofia-berghs-talk-hd - 2025-07-01

Published 31 May 2024 Sofia passed her half time review on 28 May 2024. Sofia Bergh presented her work titled "Cellular and molecular mechanisms of hypothalamic pathology in Huntington disease and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia disease spectrum" before the audience and the reviewers Niels Henning Skotte, research group leader, Department for Drug Design and Pharmacology,

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-sofia-bergh - 2025-07-01

Published 4 June 2024 For the second time, the European Huntington Association/Moving Forward initiative for the Nordic countries will be hosting a webinar on research updates. The Webinar will be held on 11th June, from 18:00 CET to 19:15 CET. You need to register beforehand to be able to join.Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdeyupz4oH9KRCnkguo_KMuS0Y6…Åsa Petersén

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/webinar-research-updates-nordic-countries - 2025-07-01

Published 4 July 2024 Oskar Simonsson har completed his Master's studies and passed with Distinction. Oskar has been with TNU since the end of October 2023 to work on his Master's thesis. In the end of May he presented his work "Effects of TDP-43 overexpression in oxytocin neurons on neuropathology and metabolism in mice". Congratulations to your Master of Science in Biomedicine, Oskar!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-oskar - 2025-07-01