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Around 20 000 Swedes are currently suffering from Parkinson’s disease, yet there are still only treatments to alleviate symptoms. Through a new biobank, researchers gain access to the genetic profiles of 1000 Parkinson’s patients together with comprehensive information about their lifestyles and medical histories. “I am convinced that many researchers will use the biobank over the next few years,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-biobank-provides-insights-parkinsons-disease - 2025-11-23

Researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center have identified a previously unknown precursor stage of leukemia. The discovery may help explain why an especially aggressive form of blood cancer initiates already during fetal life. When we think of cancer, we usually imagine a disease that develops over many years in adults. But for one particular group of leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-find-new-clues-why-leukemia-develops-infants - 2025-11-23

Timos Karpouzoglou visited LUMES and LUCSUS on 24th November to hold a round table discussion on the ‘elephant in the room – power’. Here is his guest blog on reflecting on the round table discussion:Bringing the Elephants to the table: What is the role of power in sustainability research? We live in a warming and increasingly unequal world. Moving towards safe and just futures requires transdisci

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/elephants-room-guest-blog-timos-karpouzoglou - 2025-11-23

This April, the first national interim report on responsible internationalisation was published. The aim is to create national guidelines and a national support structure for responsible internationalisation. The report is commissioned by the Swedish government and is written by Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR), Vetenskapsrådet och Vinnova. Tommy Shih and Sylvia Schwaag Serger, both researche

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/responsible-internationalisation-tommy-shih-comments-new-national-report - 2025-11-23

Stroke kan komma att orsaka nära 10 miljoner dödsfall årligen år 2050 och kosta upp till 2 biljoner dollar. Det varnar nu en forskarkommission för i en rapport som presenteras i Lancet Neurology. Allra hårdast drabbas låg- och medelinkomstländer. – Den viktigaste slutsatsen är att det finns stora möjligheter att vända trenden, säger Bo Norrving, forskare och läkare och en av dem som startat upp oc

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/stroke-kan-komma-att-orsaka-nara-pa-10-miljoner-dodsfall-arligen-ar-2050 - 2025-11-24

Det nya forskningsprojektet ”Socioekonomisk segregation – betydelsen av grannskap, skolor och policy över livscykeln” ska skapa en forskningsmiljö med hälsoekonomer, utbildnings- och arbetsmarknadsekonomer, geografer och demografer. Vi pratade med projektledaren Martin Dribe, professor i ekonomisk historia på Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitetet och föreståndare vid Centrum för ekonomisk demog

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/nytt-projekt-undersoker-socioekonomisk-segregation-da-och-nu - 2025-11-24

Increased collaboration within the faculties and a general revitalisation.  This is already a clear result from the RQ20 research evaluation that was presented in March. “We have caught sight of each other” was a frequent comment heard in a round of telephone calls to the deans and research managers. Most of the faculties were encouraged to identify their strengths, combine their strengths and mak

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-regrouping-after-rq20 - 2025-11-24

During a unique rescue operation, Lund University sent armed security forces into an Islamic State (IS) warzone to rescue a doctoral student and his family. For several years, Firas Jumaah, his supervisor Charlotta Turner and former chief security officer, Per Gustafson, have kept quiet on the events; however, now they are telling their story. In the summer of 2014, Charlotta Turner was unaware he

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rescue-operation - 2025-11-23

Artificial intelligence has gone from horror visions on film to a tool in everyone’s pocket. From spelling advice to shopping tips – and now to assigning work and measuring performance. What’s next? We met with organisational researcher Sverre Spoelstra to talk about algorithmic leadership and management. You may not have your boss in an app, yet. But the idea is not as futuristic as it may sound.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/he-researches-algorithmic-leadership - 2025-11-24

In this interview, we reconnect with Anna Fedusiv, a 2016 graduate from the master’s programme in International Marketing and Brand Management. Anna shares her journey from working with global brands like LEGO and Schweppes to becoming a leadership and career coach. She reflects on her favourite parts of her LUSEM studies, lessons learned throughout her career and offers advice for aspiring profes

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/anna-fedusiv-alumna-msc-international-marketing-and-brand-management-2016 - 2025-11-24

SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has received an invitation from Latin America's leading and largest institution in public health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. – The research group I am going to visit is running a gigantic population study involving six major federal universities. It is reminiscent of the SNAC study, which I am using data from here in Sweden, but in multi-form

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-learning-about-vulnerability-violence-and-grassroots-activism - 2025-11-23

PhD student Martina De Santis will be defending her thesis titled ‘Next generation bioengineering of lung tissue for transplantation’ on Friday 19th February 2021. In this interview, Martina tells us about her research in the Lung Bioengineering and Regeneration group and time spent at Lund Stem Cell Center. Can you tell us about your research? -Over three million people die each year and over 60

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martina-de-santis - 2025-11-24

Find your unique selling point – and enjoy your studies and your studentlife. That were some of the advice and topics that were touched upon on the webinar “From Lund to leaders – Meet the CEOs of Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank” on 13 April. The CEOs also talked about science-based targets and actions for banking. Watch the full webinar whenever you like to learn more! ”We long for Lund! Lundagår

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ceos-handelsbanken-seb-and-swedbank-their-student-life-lund-and-usp-career-banking - 2025-11-24

Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first researcher the University has received through the network Scholars at Risk. Despite the start not being as he imagined he sees exciting opportunities in his new research community.  On the Ebla Private University website, there is a photo of Moheiddin Homeidi in a suit, as the somewhat austere dean of the Faculty of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2025-11-24

During the pandemic mediators and conflict parties have had to interact, discuss and even negotiate via computer screens. Women negotiators have benefited from this and describe how they experienced the virtual medium as a more equal space since it is more difficult for men to dominate with body language and appearance, for example. This is described by Isabel Bramsen and Anine Hagemann in the art

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/virtual-meetings-more-equal-space-women-peace-negotiators - 2025-11-24

MultiPark researchers have discovered a new promising pharmacological approach stimulating recovery after stroke. Professor Tadeusz Wieloch tells about how the MultiPark Innovation Office supported the first steps in converting their academic research findings into something with commercial potential that may finally benefit the patients. Around 80% of people who suffer a stroke permanently lose s

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/turning-academic-discoveries-therapies-how-multipark-innovation-office-helps - 2025-11-23

When alumnus Marlow Guttmann graduated from the master's degree programme in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in 2023 he had his eyes set on a career in consulting in Hamburg. In our interview, you will learn about Marlow's journey of landing his first job after graduation, the impact of the Leapfrog scholarship and the rewarding experience of working on a sustainable mobility project. Hi Marlow! Y

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/marlow-guttmann-alumnus-msc-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-2023 - 2025-11-24

Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. "The trade wars have clearly affected the globa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2025-11-24

What is worth sustaining? Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir's research is all about a theatre audience facing themselves with that profound question. "In my work I offer a frame or a situation for my guests to meet their own stories and their values through an encounter with a host in their own surroundings". For 20 years, the Icelander Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir has tried to create a meaningful dialogue w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-man-island - 2025-11-23

Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. The trade wars have clearly affected the global

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2025-11-24