By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 1 October 2021 Professors Anna Falk (left) and Malin Parmar (right) will use the funding from Vinnova to establish a collaborative innovative environment for precision medicine with their project IndiCell. (Photo Anna Falk: private, photo Malin Parmar: Kennet Ruona) Vinnova is Sweden's innovation agency with the mission

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-scientists-awarded-5-year-grant-vinnova - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 8 October 2021 The coding DNA in humans and chimpanzees are close to identical, yet we are very different. A recent study from the Jakobsson lab look into the non-coding parts of our DNA for answers. (Illustration: Marie Jönsson) Johan Jakobsson and his team tries to understand how the human brain is so different in comp

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/what-makes-human-brain-different-brain-chimpanzee - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Paul Bourgine) - published 19 October 2021 The current study opens up for the possibility to manufacture off-the-shelf cell-free grafts for tissue regeneration, illustrated by Peter Szabo. Associate senior lecturer Paul Bourgine and his team has generated a “cell-based but cell-free” biomaterial harboring the necessary signals fo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/towards-establishment-human-tissue-factory-programming-cells-building-units - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 29 October 2021 (Photo by Visual Stories || Micheile on Unsplash) At 2pm on the 28th of October scientists all over Sweden were scrolling though the list of awarded grants in Medicine and health from The Swedish Research Council, in hope to find their name. The yearly awarded grants from The Swedish Research Council cont

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/scc-scientists-awarded-326-million-swedish-research-council - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Shamit Soneji) - published 2 November 2021 The virtual reality environment CellexalVR is built on gaming technology and allows single-cell data to be analysed in 3D using hand controllers, here demonstrated by the PhD student Mikael Sommarin. (Foto credit: Shamit Soneji) The Soneji lab has developed an open-source virtual reality

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/single-cell-analysis-enters-third-dimension - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 5 November 2021 (Photo collage: Marie Jönsson) The Foundation supports research aiming to elucidate the mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease with the vision of improved treatments as well as prevention of the disease. This year's annual announcement of granted project proposals from The Swedish Parkinson Foundation reve

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-parkinson-foundation-grants-several-scc-projects - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 10 November 2021 Maria performed her doctoral studies in the group of Jenny Hansson at the SCC and defended her thesis on June 9th, 2021. Maria’s doctoral studies at the SCC resulted in the thesis “Molecular and Functional Dynamics of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Fate During Ontogeny” in which she focused her work on bl

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-society-hematology-has-awarded-maria-jassinskaja-thesis-year - 2025-07-05

Published 16 November 2021 The cover of Taha Sen's thesis is inspired by Pink Floyd and cell sorting. He defends his thesis on the 17th of November. Taha Sen’s PhD thesis focus on the life span of red blood cells and elucidates the important role of mitochondria. He is defending his thesis on the 17th of November and in this interview he gives us an overview of his results as well as what it’s bee

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-taha-sen - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 11 November 2021 Martin Stenlo defends his thesis on the 12th of November. Martin Stenlo’s PhD thesis aims to improve the intensive care of lung patients as well as to increase the health status of transplantable donor lungs which will improve the success rate of lung transplantation. He is defending his thesis on the 12

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martin-stenlo - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 23 November 2021 The Swedish Cancer Foundation is one of Sweden's largest funding agencies and awarded 7 of SCC's scientists with project grants this year. (Photo: Pixabay, merged with The Swedish Cancer Foundation's logo) The Swedish Cancer Foundation supports cancer research with a record sum this year: 850 million SEK

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-cancer-foundation-funds-lund-scc-scientists-232-million-sek - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 25 November 2021 The cover of Martiné Wlosinska's thesis is illustrated by her sister and shows a heart shaped garlic bulb among garlic cloves. She defends her thesis on the 26th of November. (Photo: Private). Martiné Wlosinska, medical doctor and PhD student, will be defending her thesis titled “Prev

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martine-wlosinska - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 6 December 2021 The cover of Giulia Beneventi's thesis illustrates all of the different RNA types in cells. She defends his thesis on the 8th of December. Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 2 December 2021 The Distinguished Professor programme was created by the Swedish Research Council to allow the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, ground-breaking research which has great potential for achieving scientific breakthroughs. The Distinguished Professor programme is awarded to at least 2 scientis

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-awarded-distinguished-professorship-swedish-research-council - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 8 December 2021 The career program Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the largest private investment in young researchers in Sweden. It provides the most promising young researchers with long-term resources, giving them excellent opportunities to establish themselves and build up their research groups. Wallenberg Academy Fell

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/daniella-rylander-ottosson-has-been-admitted-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 15 December 2021 The cover of Mikael's thesis is an artistic take on hematopoetic stem cell biology, combining the old and new view of hematopoietic differentiation, with the hematopoietic stem cell highlighted in the centre. Mikael has been investigating the influence of cellular heterogeneity in ont

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-mikael-sommarin-0 - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Alessandro Fiorenzano) - published 17 December 2021 A human midbrain organoid visualised by staining for proteins important during the maturation of dopaminergic neurons. (photo: Alessandro Fiorenzano) In their latest study, published in Nature Communications, the Parmar Lab has established midbrain organoids using silk microfibe

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/human-midbrain-organoids-grown-silk-recapitulate-midbrain-development-and-support-functionally - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Leal Oburoglu) - published 13 January 2022 An optimised iPSC-differentiation protocol allowed the authors to study endothelial cells (purple), transitioning cells (pink), and hematopoietic stem-like cells (blue) using scRNA-seq. A UMAP visualise the cells in the shape of a butterfly. In a recent study from the SCC group of Niels-

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/metabolic-switch-during-embryonic-hematopoiesis-major-regulator-lineage-commitment - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 20 January 2022 Ludwig Schmiderer has studied how to overcome delivery challenges in stem cell biology with nanotechnology. In this interview, he tells us about his research and generative art. What have you been working with during your PhD studies? At the beginning of my PhD, I was trying to reengin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-ludwig-schmiderer - 2025-07-05

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Björn Nilsson) - published 27 January 2022 The Nilsson lab performed a genome-wide association study on 13,167 individuals, 18-78 years old, and identified previously unknown regulators of blood HSPC levels. Stem cell transplantation is a cornerstone in the treatment of blood malignancies. In order to succeed, stem cells need to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/large-scale-genome-wide-association-study-reveals-new-potential-drug-target-blood-stem-cell - 2025-07-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Faculty of Medicine) - published 14 March 2022 Principal Investigator, Filipe Pereira. Photo: Kennet Ruona The Pereira research group has previously shown that it is possible to reprogram human skin cells into dendritic cells that strengthen the immune system. However, the efficiency of these reprogrammed cells has been shown to be very low. New

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-findings-indicate-ways-increase-efficiency-reprogrammed-immune-cells - 2025-07-05