Johan Flygare and Aurélie Baudet, stem cell researchers at Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. Stem cells programmed to produce insulin in people with type 1 diabetes or to repair the heart muscle after a heart attack. Gene and cell therapies that improve cancer treatments. These new and innovative therapies have the potential to cure, alleviate and treat diseases where traditional medicines ar

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/advanced-treatments-future-are-soon-here - 2025-09-03

Photo: Istock/Jirapong Manustrong Data literacy is increasing its importance for current and future professionals. But what is ‘data literacy’ exactly and how do LUSEM educators work with it? We asked Blerim Emruli, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, and recently announced as one of the select participants in the Inaugural Professor Ambassador Class at Qlik. Senior Lecturer Blerim Emruli is one of se

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/data-has-power-transform-business-and-improve-society - 2025-09-03

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 increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-09-03

Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a purely geographical point of view, is a measurable stretch in space: 350 years of U

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2025-09-03

Mohamed Eldeeb defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 9, 2023. With a passion for scientific discovery with clinical impact, Mohamed has dedicated the last four years to unraveling the mysteries as to why some children develop pediatric leukemia and others don’t. His research shed light on the mechanisms that prevent and suppress leukemia initiation, paving the way for more effective and targeted treat

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/mechanisms-initiation-and-suppression-pediatric-leukemia-phd-interview-mohamed-eldeeb - 2025-09-03

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2025-09-03

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CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with separate Director and Chair of the Board will strengthen CEC. The Director will be supported by four Assistant Directors focusing on undergraduate educ

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-year-new-name-new-director-and-new-organisation-cec - 2025-09-03

We have been given the opportunity to continue our reportage series where we have interviewed Amanda Sjögren about her work. We have been given the opportunity to continue our reportage series where we interviewed Amanda Sjögren about her work. Earlier this year, we wrote about Ph.D. student Amanda Sjögren, who started her position at Lund University in the spring of 2022. Now, a little over a yea

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/reportage-one-year-phd-student - 2025-09-03

"I am pleased that IMS has acknowledged the collaborative nature of my work. Developing efficient computational tools requires cooperation between specialists from many different areas,” Malgorzata Bogdan comments. We are happy to announce that Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics at Lund University School of Economics and Management and University of Wroclaw, has been named Fellow of the In

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/statistics-professor-malgorzata-bogdan-now-part-prestigious-fellowship - 2025-09-03

Annika Mårtensson chats with colleague Louise Larsson. Like learning to fly as the plane takes off.   Across the entire University, teaching staff are grappling with the transition to digital education and assessment at record speed in the unique situation caused by the coronavirus. The initial phase includes long workdays and getting the available digital tools to work in a critical situation. “W

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/imposed-distance-education-puts-pressure-university-teaching-staff - 2025-09-03

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2025-09-03

Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Ok

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2025-09-03

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/antibody-discovery-paves-way-new-therapies-against-group-streptococcal-infections - 2025-09-03

Jenny Rissler is a Principal Investigator at NanoLund, and active in the Mistra Environmental Nanosafety research program. Photo: Kennet Ruona A new study shows that carbon nanotubes used as additives to polymers – to make materials lighter, stronger, and electrically conductive – do not necessarily degrade under the conditions that normally prevail in waste incineration plants. However, if the te

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/higher-temperatures-are-needed-ensure-carbon-nanotubes-decomposition - 2025-09-03

Podcast: What role do mindsets play in sustainability and climate action? LUCSUS has established new cooperation in the context of the Inner Green Deal Initiative. The aim is to research and support personal qualities and methods that can enable the activation of sustainable climate action. The initiative is a collaboration between LUCSUS and the training company Awaris. The initiative seeks to co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-addresses-human-dimension-climate-action - 2025-09-03

Mixed-reality project “Breathe” by Diego Galafassi and collaboration with Phi-Centre (Canada) and Crimes of Curiosity (U.S.A.)). Photo: Diego Galafassi. Diego Galafassi, researcher at LUCSUS, is leading a new research project on emerging media practices. Using co-creation, and a practice-led approach, the aim is to analyse how emerging media - innovative media forms at the intersection of art, sci

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-project-will-analyse-how-emerging-media-practices-and-art-can-support-sdgs - 2025-09-03

In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowledge co-creation might play in realizing the SDGs.What sustainability challenge do

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2025-09-03

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2025-09-03

Who is Professor Hervé Corvellec? What does he say about the masters's programme in Service managment, specialisation Sustainable Service Management? What is he currently working on in terms of research projects? And what will students be surprised to find out about him? What is your academic background and what did you do before you started teaching at Lund University? "I have a business administ

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-teachers-herve-corvellec - 2025-09-03