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In May, Salma Mahamed, Gustavo Cadenas Delascio, Marta Pitino and Ismail Bazine participated in our third doctoral course, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg: ‘Making Foreign Aid Work: Managing tensions between top-down and bottom-up approaches’. The participants took part in online literature seminars, but also our onsite workshop in Gothenburg. The course brought together both doctoral
Laura Andreoli defends her thesis on the 14th of December 2021. Ph.D. student Laura Andreoli spent several years digging into the neural pathways involved in involuntary movements in Parkinson’s disease. On the 14th of December, she defends her thesis. And she is eager to share her findings and thoughts about her time in the Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology Lab headed by MultiPark’s coordinator Angel
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-laura-andreoli - 2025-08-25
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
Three of the Lund University researchers that studied the brain environment of patients during an ongoing stroke. From left: Andreas Enström, Gesine Paul-Visse and Arne G. Lindgren. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, researchers at Lund University map what happens in the brains of stroke patients. The st
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2025-08-25
A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun (By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024)Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-08-25
A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trilli
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-08-25
Angela Merkel gestures as Vladimir Putin looks on during a press conference after talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 10, 2015. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/Reuters. The war in Ukraine has been going on for a year. The devastation is enormous as are the violations of human rights. So far, the focus has been placed on arms deliveries rather than on diplomacy. When is the right time for diploma
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/diplomacy-still-relevant - 2025-08-25
Three of the Lund University researchers that studied the brain environment of patients during an ongoing stroke. From left: Andreas Enström, Gesine Paul-Visse and Arne G. Lindgren. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist. By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, researchers at Lund University map what happens in the brains of stroke patients. The s
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2025-08-25
Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) is an intercultural leadership programme initiated by the Swedish Institute, 2016 run for the third or fourth time. The programme is directed towards young people with leadership talents from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka who represent different sectors of society and are visionaries in positions to make a difference. SASNET deputy dire
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-swedish-institute-leadership-programme-young-southasians - 2025-08-25
Swati Aggarwal and Ashley Middleton are from two completely different worlds but have found a creative and exciting way to create art from research. Photo: Kennet Ruona. A handful of selected artists have paired up with researchers from the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the results are unexpected meetings, different thoughts and new challenges. Both for the artists and the researchers. The
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-research-new-ways-seeing - 2025-08-25
Angela Merkel gestures as Vladimir Putin looks on during a press conference after talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 10, 2015. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/Reuters. The war in Ukraine has now been going on for a year. The devastation is enormous, as are the human rights abuses. At the moment, most of the talk is about arms supplies and very little about diplomacy. When will be the appropriat
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/has-diplomacy-been-exhausted - 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
(Photo montage: Logo by Financial Times, photo by Charlotte Carlberg Bärg.) Lund University School of Economics and Management has done it again! The school has been ranked #44 in the world in the Financial Times' prestigious annual ranking of 100 Master’s programmes in Management. This marks a climb of 13 spots compared with last year. Lund University's Master’s programme in International Strateg
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-even-higher-financial-times-ranking - 2025-08-25
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 time as a Ph.D. student in MultiPark. Tell us about your Ph.D. research! Our lab utilizes a novel ap
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-nadja-gustavsson - 2025-08-25
A scientific collaboration organised by the Department of Food Science, Copenhagen University in association with Danish Ministry of External Affairs, Danish Ministry of Food and Environment, Danish Embassy in India and Indian Embassy in Denmark. A scientific workshop was organised on 6th and 7th of September the Department of Food Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark. The purpose of the workshop was to
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-indo-danish-workshop - 2025-08-25
Diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad has led the research project about subgroups of type 2 diabetes in India. Photograph: Petra Olsson Researchers at Lund University have previously shown that type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes can be divided into five subgroups, and that there are genetic differences between the four subgroups relating to type 2 diabetes. A research collaboration between Sweden an
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/swedish-research-about-different-forms-type-2-diabetes-relevant-indian-people - 2025-08-25
Researchers from the School of Social Work and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) met for a conversation about improving home care. Photo: Kennet Ruona How long does it take to comfort someone? Does an egg need to be fried rather than boiled? LUM invited home care researchers from the School of Social Work and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) for a conversation. They are meeting for the first time;
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/one-persons-workplace-anothers-home - 2025-08-26
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.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/huntingtons-complex-brain-disease-affects-movement-thoughts-and-feelings - 2025-08-25
When 1,200 researchers from 60 countries arrived at the end of July, it marked a milestone: the largest academic congress ever held in the city – and the most important event in the field of economic history worldwide. For one week, the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) transformed Lund into a hub for ideas, networking, and public engagement. “I was very nervous right up until Monday morning,
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/nerves-pride-lusem-made-history-lund-universitys-largest-congress - 2025-08-25
