Published 22 May 2018 James Surmeier (Photo: Kennet Ruona) James Surmeier, professor at Northwestern University, recently visited Lund University where he gave the 2018 Segerfalk Lecture. In this interview, he talks about how technology is helping brain research to advance, about almost giving up research altogether – and the discovery that could slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. James 

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exciting-times-brain-researchers - 2025-07-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 7 November 2024 A new study by Lund University researchers suggests that the number of healthy blood stem cells at diagnosis could be an important factor in predicting how well patients with chronic myeloid leukemia will respond to standard therapies. Photo: Getty Images Researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-findings-reveal-why-some-chronic-myeloid-leukemia-patients-respond-better-treatment - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 13 December 2018 Firas Jumaah and Charlotta Turner. Photo:Kennet Ruona 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 se

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rescue-operation - 2025-07-05

Av agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - publicerad 20 april 2020 Magnus Zingmark. Foto: privat Under våren får forskargruppen Aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande vid CASE fyra nya medarbetare. Biträdande forskare Magnus Zingmark, vid Umeå universitet, som också är anställd som forskare vid Östersunds kommun, är en av dem. – Jag ser fram mot att komma ner till Lund och t

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/nya-medarbetare-pa-case-valkommen-magnus-zingmark-bitradande-forskare - 2025-07-05

Published 27 February 2023 Hani Alsafadi defended his Ph.D. thesis on the 13th of February, 2023. With a longstanding interest in biomedical research and a passion for better understanding one of the least regenerative organs in the body, the lung, he has spent the past four years helping to uncover some of the mechanisms that may drive a lung disease currently without a cure, idiopathic pulmonary

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/exploring-role-yap-and-taz-lung-epithelium-phd-interview-hani-alsafadi - 2025-07-05

Publicerad 21 mars 2018 Tove Harnett är lektor vid Socialhögskolan i Lund. Hon har tillsammans med forskarkolleger från Lund och Linköping producerat en film där de argumenterar för förändringar i LSS-lagen så att även personer över 65 års ålder ska kunna beviljas assistans. Hur är den här filmen kopplad till er forskning?I projektet ”Kan en handikappolitisk modell ge en bättre äldreomsorg?” under

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/aldrefaltet-kan-lara-sig-av-rattighetstankandet-i-handikappolitiken - 2025-07-05

Publicerad 6 oktober 2020 Pressmeddelande 6 oktober 2020 Tarmarnas bakterieflora, mikrobiotan, är förändrad hos personer med typ 2-diabetes. Nu visar en befolkningsstudie med stöd av bland annat Hjärt-Lungfonden att detsamma gäller vid förstadier till diabetes. Upptäckten öppnar för en mer individanpassad behandling. – Vår studie visar att undersökningar av tarmmikrobiotan skulle kunna användas fö

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/tarmbakterier-visar-vagen-mot-battre-behandling-av-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-07-05

Published 27 January 2020 Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This yea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2025-07-05

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 16 June 2020 Åsa Petersén works hard at i to find treatment that slows down Huntington's disease. A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-07-05

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 7 October 2022 Jessica Giacomoni defends her thesis 14 October 2022. Cell replacement therapy has long been a hope for patients with Parkinson’s disease and efforts are on their way to use stem cell derived-dopaminergic neurons in clinical trials. On 14 October, Jessica Giacomoni defends her thesis. Her project abo

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/turning-glia-neurons-inside-brain-phd-interview-jessica-giacomoni - 2025-07-05

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 14 October 2021 During her thesis project, Nadja Gustavsson has characterized structural changes inside neurons of a new mouse model for mixed neurogenerative disorders. On the 21st of October, she is defending her thesis supervised by Oxana Klementieva. In this interview, Nadja shares her ups and downs during her

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-nadja-gustavsson - 2025-07-05

Published 25 September 2018 A locked toilet station in the Gazdar Bandh informal settlement in Mumbai. – Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2025-07-05

By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 16 December 2024 Photocred: Crimfants, CC BY-SA 2.0 Angry children can be a feature of Christmas. The fact is that the disappointment children feel is a great opportunity to train them for challenges later in life. This is according to Elia Psouni, professor of developmental psychology. A friend not turning up on t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dealing-kids-disappointment-their-christmas-presents - 2025-07-05

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 4 October 2023 Megg Garcia-Ryde defends her thesis on the 10th of October 2023. Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/neuroimmune-crosstalk-early-alzheimers-disease-phd-interview-megg-garcia-ryde - 2025-07-05

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 11 September 2023 LUSEM is proud! Our Master’s in International Strategic Management climbs again in the Financial Times international ranking. Last year's #57 position has improved to #44. (Photo montage: Logo by Financial Times, photo by Charlotte Carlberg Bärg.) Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM)

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-even-higher-prestigious-ranking-masters-programmes-management - 2025-07-05

Published 16 April 2024 Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration, argues that it is best if students learn the basics in Swedish before they are taught in English. Photo: Jenny Leyman “English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2025-07-05

Published 13 June 2016 Corn starch, with elements of heavy metals, powdered brick, amphetamines, ink, wall paint or furniture polish. This is what can be found in falsified medicines, a market currently considered more profitable than that of drug crime. Professor of Ethnology Susanne Lundin. Photo: Kennet Ruona Some defective medicines were authentic to begin with, but have been wrongly stored or

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/industry-worth-billions-puts-lives-risk - 2025-07-05

Published 31 March 2022 Passion, creativity and community. That’s the essence of an ongoing craft trend, according to organisational researcher and homebrewer Stephan Schaefer. “Craft is a timeless form of work that has always been important for human development. But craft is not static. It adapts and develops to fit our modern times. This is an important message and something that companies can

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-craft-trend-alternative-form-organising-work - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 30 September 2019 Ulrika Sandén, taking a break from driving her motorcycle. Photo:Kennet Ruona. She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “C

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-07-05

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 20 April 2023 Maj Rundlöf looks at a blooming chestnut tree. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg-Bärg. An increasing number of people want to help bees and other pollinators by growing flowers that are rich in pollen and nectar. But which flowers are the most beneficial? If the point is to aid threatened bee sp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flowers-benefit-both-bees-and-biodiversity - 2025-07-05