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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Children of immigrants from countries with low risk of type 1 diabetes develop the disease more often than expected if they grow up in Sweden, which is a high-risk country. Scientists mean that it is something in the Swedish environment that causes this elevated risk. Ahmed Delli, who is a scientist at Lund University

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/moving-sweden-increases-risk-diabetes - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Antidiabetics that also provide cardiovascular benefit is a key unmet need in diabetes treatment. ApoA-l is a protein shown to have both glucose lowering and cholesterol-lowering effects and has been investigated by Jens Lagerstedt and Karin Stenkula for its therapeutic potential. They have now received 2,5 million Da

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lagerstedt-and-stenkula-receive-novo-seed-grant - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Message from the LUDC Executive Board. Dear Friends and colleagues,We are all now well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in Sweden and around the world. There is a lot of information to digest. Some of this is factual and helpful, but there is also a great deal of poorly informed speculation, that ris

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/updates-covid-19 - 2026-05-13

Sustainability Week 2026 offered an intensive and well-attended programme, as Lund was filled with discussions, meetings and activities centred on sustainable development. Over the course of six days, 73 events were organised, attracting more than 4,000 visitors. The events were arranged by an even larger number of dedicated organisers from both Lund University and Lund Municipality. This broad pa

https://www.sustainability.lu.se/article/4000-visitors-sustainability-week-celebrated-its-10th-anniversary - 2026-05-13

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/making-bone-alive-ceramic-material-transforming-new-bone-tissue-osteoporotic-patients - 2026-05-13

Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES to study political youth, water security, research data infrastructure or geopolitics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! Postdoctoral Fellow on Political Youth in Middle East Conflicts The postdoctoral position will be part of a research project focused on the Middle East and youth in armed conflicts. The conflicts in the Middle East and Nort

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-openings-4-cmes-postdoctoral-fellows-political-youth-water-security-and-geopolitics - 2026-05-13

Maj-Lena Finnander Linderson, researcher at Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, did a study on the effects of the Chernobyl-disaster. It has now been 40 years since the disaster happened, and we ask Maj-Lena about what she studied, how she reacted to the terrible news, and what she thinks we should learn. Hello, Maj-Lena Finnander Linderson!It has been 40 years since Chernobyl. Do you

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/40-years-chernobyl - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Emissions of greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the climate, whereas small airborne particles in the atmosphere, aerosols, act as a cooling mechanism. That is the received wisdom in any case. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden can now show that the tiniest aerosols are increasing at the expens

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aerosols-coniferous-forests-no-longer-cool-climate-much - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2026-05-13

The development of batteries for electric vehicles has progressed much faster than experts and policymakers had anticipated. New research shows that the market is well equipped to cope with both raw material shortages and price increases. This raises questions about which materials are actually critical to the energy transition, according to the researchers. A new study has analysed battery develo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/battery-technology-takes-markets-adjust - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every year since 1999, the Master’s students in Industrial Design at Lund University have done what most design students around the world can only dream of – go to NASA in Houston, Texas, USA and study at the Johnson Space Center. There they design products for an extreme environment – namely, space. “The missions to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-collaborate-nasa - 2026-05-13

Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, business actors, as well as informal institutions and norms and how their interplay shape the governance, legal culture and business environ

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University finds itself in a time of paradoxes. At the same time as the EU, via its framework programmes, works for openness and mobility for researchers and students, there are increasing nationalistic and protectionist trends. In addition, the trust and hope that society has in research as a solution for global

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/competitive-intelligence-increasing-difficulty-being-university - 2026-05-13

A surprising behaviour of atoms is giving scientists new insights into one of the most fundamental phenomena in nature: the absorption of light. A new physical phenomenon for light pulses has been discovered. The study, published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, was conducted by physicists at Lund University. In the world of atoms, the laws of nature as we know them do not apply

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/atoms-absorb-energy-unexpected-ways - 2026-05-13

Today, Times Higher Education (THE) published their latest ranking and Lund University has been ranked 95. This is an improvement of 11 places compared to last year. This means that Lund University has made strong progress in all three major rankings this year. “It’s easy to criticise rankings, but they aim to make sense of the complexity of what a university does and how we are working together t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-100-ranking - 2026-05-13

Ouyang Yuan defends her Ph.D. thesis on 14 October 2022. As a medical student with a longstanding interest in blood malignancies, her research has focused on better understanding the development of a specific type of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The hope is that these findings will help lead to a better understanding of AML and future treatments that can one day prevent, delay, or c

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/placing-acute-myeloid-leukemia-under-microscope-phd-interview-ouyang-yuan - 2026-05-13

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bioengineering-and-cell-derived-strategies-salivary-gland-regeneration-phd-interview-jiao-dong - 2026-05-13

What surprises a course participant from Africa on a short visit in Lund and to LUSEM? And what made the strongest impressions? Takes to bring back? And what about the group dynamic with new acquaintances from many different parts of the same continent? We are really curious about what happened during the fourth round of the course Innovation, Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Developm

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/what-we-learned-and-will-take-home - 2026-05-14