Åsa Petersén has been researching Huntington’s disease for 25 years and means that a lot can be done to reduce suffering, increase quality of life and make various adaptations for both the patient and their loved ones. Photo: Agata Garpenlind Huntington’s disease is hereditary, genetic and usually begins between the ages of 30 and 50. In Sweden, around 1,000 people have the diagnosis and several t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/huntingtons-complex-brain-disease-affects-movement-thoughts-and-feelings - 2025-08-25

Growing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, he knew that one wrong word could get you killed; as a forced recruit, he came close to death many times. But after three Master’s degrees, Dara Maghdid has earned a PhD with his investigation of cultural differences in the teaching of mathematics. Now he wants to thank Lund University. In the future, motivation among students of mathematics could increase – in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/phd-mathematics-against-all-odds - 2025-08-25

As long as we need to examination remotley, we will need to do it in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an examination on campus into the same examination done at home, and different forms of examination handle the adjustments needed differently. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinations that work just as well and someti

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/easier-formative-assessment - 2025-08-25

As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Exam hall and home examinations Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinat

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2025-08-25

2019-12-16 The yearly winter cleaning competition in most of LU Accommodation's corridor housing ended today. The winners this year was the following corridors: Eddan C            1101 - 1106      1st Prize Eddan D            1205-1209        1st Prize Eddan E             1501-1506       1st Prize North Spoletorp 1201-1206        1st Prize South Spoletorp 2:1410-1419     1st Prize Eddan C         

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2019 - 2025-08-25

Photo: IIIEE researcher Naoko Tojo Textile – a growing sustainability challengeWe are buying more clothes than ever before, but there is still no efficient system to close the material loop. What if we handed over responsibility of our discarded clothes to the producers – would it lead to a quality rise in our wardrobes? IIIEE researcher Naoko Tojo has looked into textile – a growing sustainabilit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-naoko-tojo - 2025-08-25

Pictured left to right: Blerim Emruli, Erik Påander, Jordina De Sousa, Iván Ortiz Del Noval & Alfriyadi Rafles. Photo: Carla Böhme. Students on the Master's Programme in Information Systems have the opportunity to earn valuable business analytics certificates to boost their resumes. The international Master's Programme in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics, Lund University School

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/students-empowered-industry-recognised-certificates - 2025-08-25

Together with Sara Linse, professor of biochemistry and Oskar Hansson, professor of clinical memory research, Johannes Rousk is one of three LU-researchers on the list of the world’s most influential researchers. Photo: Kathrine Rousk Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was ma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2025-08-25

The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the Development Research Day 2016: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030. The Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share and discuss their research with each other, students and the public. Theme: End hunger and achieve food secur

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/development-research-day-2016 - 2025-08-25

Pavla Kruzela has worked as a teacher at Lund University for 30 years. A few questions to Pavla Kruzela who held a "Career Development Workshop" for master students on Friday the 24th of March. Around 40 students participated. What is the workshop about?– I have held this workshop for the past two years at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It is aimed at students fromTthe Department of Service Manag

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/important-knowlege-future-career - 2025-08-25

Universitetshuset. Foto: Mikael Risedal En ny mandatperiod på tre år har inletts för universitetets åtta dekaner. Fem av dem är nya i rollen, tre har varit med ett tag. Här berättar de vilka utmaningar som väntar och vad som är roligast med att vara dekan. LTHSatsar på profilområden och spetsrekryteringar  Annika ­Olsson. Foto: Kennet Ruona Annika Olsson, rektor för LTH, andra mandatperiodenVad är

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/dekanerna-tar-sats-tre-nya-ar - 2025-08-26

Nordic and Andean countries started their economic modernisation in the same way: with export of raw natural resources. Later on, Norway and Sweden became rich, while Bolivia, Chile and Peru followed a quite different path. What made them diverge from the common road? Different fiscal policies may be one of the reasons, new research from Lund University suggests. In the mid-19th century, Norway ex

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/resource-curse-new-light-research-findings-fiscal-policy-andean-and-nordic-countries - 2025-08-25

I oktober bjuder Musikhögskolan i Malmö in till en temadag om Sveriges nationella minoriteters musik i anslutning till Malmö Folk Festival. Bakom eventet står Pär Moberg –skolans lektor i folk- och världsmusikensemble – som länge har engagerat sig i medmänskliga och musikaliska projekt. Pär Moberg började spela instrument tidigt. Först var det blockflöjt på kulturskolan som gällde sedan blev det p

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/par-moberg-om-musik-och-engagemang-0 - 2025-08-25

Bild från stamcellstransplantation. Foto: Skånes universitetssjukhus. Positiva tidiga säkerhetsresultat har uppnåtts efter de fyra första patienterna som genomgått transplantation av dopaminproducerande stamceller inom den kliniska studien STEM-PD. STEM-PD-studien undersöker för första gången i människa en ny terapi mot Parkinsons sjukdom. Målet är att ersätta dopaminceller som gått förlorade på g

https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/klinisk-stamcellsbaserad-transplantationsstudie-stem-pd-mot-parkinsons-har-inlett-doshojning - 2025-08-25

I mer än 60 år har metformin varit förstahandsval av läkemedel vid typ 2 diabetes. Det är det äldsta och fortfarande vanligaste medlet. Nu visar amerikanska forskare att metformin även under många år kan förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut hos patienter med hög risk att insjukna. Metformin Det är den stora och långvariga studien Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) som publicerar den senaste uppföljnin

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/metformin-forebygger-typ-2-diabetes-under-lang-tid - 2025-08-25

Fotograf: Joelin Quigley-Berg. Vi välkomnar Ulrika Dahl som gästprofessor under höstterminen på Genusvetenskapliga institutionen med en intervju där vi får lära känna Ulrika både som forskare och person. Hej Ulrika Dahl, professor i genusvetenskap vid Uppsala universitet. Du ska vara gästprofessor hos oss på Genusvetenskapliga institutionen i Lund till hösten, vill du berätta vad du ska göra hos o

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/professor-ulrika-dahl-gastar-institutionen - 2025-08-25

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 - 2025-08-25

TEDDY-studien har bidragit till fördjupad kunskap om vad som händer före ett insjuknande i autoimmun diabetes (typ 1-diabetes) och visat att en maginfektion kan trigga igång celiaki. Nu har Lunds universitet fått drygt 40 miljoner kronor från amerikanska hälsovårdsministeriet NIH för att fortsätta med TEDDY-studien i ytterligare fem år. Forskarna i TEDDY-studien har en stor utmaning framför sig.- 

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/teddy-studien-far-40-miljoner-att-fortsatta - 2025-08-25

Magnesium är en livsviktig mineral som påverkar en rad biologiska processer i kroppen. Illustration: iStock/Just_Super Ett internationellt forskarsamarbete lett från Lunds universitet visar hur magnesium tar sig in och ut genom cellmembranet. Magnesium är en livsviktig mineral som påverkar en rad biologiska processer i kroppen. Ämnet har bland annat betydelse för att cellernas energikraftverk, mit

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/sjalvreglerande-kanaler-forser-vara-celler-med-magnesium - 2025-08-25

By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ivory trade routes of the Viking Age. They found that Norse Vikings and Arctic Indigenous peoples were probably meeting and trading ivory in remote parts of High Arctic Greenland, several centuries before Christopher Columbus “discovered” North America. The study is now publish

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/early-interactions-between-europeans-and-indigenous-north-americans-revealed - 2025-08-25