By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 29 September 2022 Rita Charon, M.D. PhD, Professor and Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Narrative medicine provides tools for clinicians to read patients better. 2022 Sandblom Prize Lecture will be given by pioneering Professor Rita Charon of Columbia University on the disci

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sandblom-prize-expanding-creativity-clinical-worlds-through-narrative-medicine - 2025-06-23

By susanne [dot] sundell [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanne Sundell.) - published 14 December 2023 Organizing group for Career Day: Petter Hartman, Lottie Norrsén, Divya Bali, Pernilla Carlsson and Susanne Sundell For the second year in a row, Careers Centre at the Faculty has collaborated with Medicon Village to organize a Career Day for 170 life science students, including PhD students, and ear

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/career-day-2023-know-your-future-job-market - 2025-06-23

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2024 By coating sutures with the peptide TCP-25, researchers have now demonstrated the ability to reduce inflammation and bacterial growth. The images to the right shows how bacteria die upon contact with the peptide. Photo: Jitka Petrlova. Applying a peptide coating to sutures, capable of combating both bacteria and

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/surgical-sutures-coated-peptide-reduce-infections - 2025-06-23

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 11 March 2025 Filipe Pereira, professor at Lund University, together with Cristiana Pires and Fábio Rosa founded Asgard Therapeutics AB. Photo: Kennet Ruona Asgard Therapeutics, in partnership with Lund University and Herlev Hospital, has been awarded €2.5 million for an EIC Transition project from the European Innovation Coun

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/innovative-cancer-cell-therapy-project-lands-eu25-million-eic-funding - 2025-06-23

Published 8 April 2010 At the time of the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s, the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere increased dramatically. Now researchers from Lund University have developed a method for measuring the carbon-14 content in atherosclerotic plaques in patients. The measurements reveal how old and dangerous the plaques really are. "On the one hand it’s impo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nuclear-weapons-tests-provide-information-dangerous-atherosclerosis-plaque - 2025-06-23

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/early-partial-answer-why-obesity-operations-cause-remission-diabetes - 2025-06-23

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 15 June 2022 From left: Ewelina Golec, Ben King and Anna Blom, three of the researchers behind new findings on insulin secretion. Photo: Tove Smeds. Insulin secretion into the bloodstream requires a protein called CD59. New research led by Lund University shows that the two protein variants that are responsible for this functi

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-protein-variants-are-key-insulin-secretion - 2025-06-23

Published 17 February 2017 A detective work that reflects society in terms of both working life and fashion trends. This is how you could describe Cecilia Svedman’s task as a dermatologist and researcher, specialising in contact allergies. Cecilia Svedman. Cecilia Svedman is the director of the main hospital in Helsingborg, who at the same time manages a research group at the Division of Occupatio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-looking-what-itches-stings-and-peels - 2025-06-23

Published 23 March 2017 Love poems, playing cards and secret notes. For half a millennium, people who have attended mass at Lund Cathedral have found ways to pass the time when the sermons felt too slow. In a few years, the Lund University Historical Museum will introduce a new cabinet of curiosities, containing notes and strange objects which have fallen down or been hidden between the choir stal

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2025-06-23

Published 22 April 2021 Lars-Erik Wernersson Lars-Erik Wernersson, professor of nanoelectronics, has received an ERC Advanced Grant for the integration of new materials into the high-performance, energy-efficient transistors and circuit solutions of the future. Silicon is the current material of choice for most transistors and other components. The problem is that in certain cases these parts cons

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-research-ferroelectric-transistors - 2025-06-23

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By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 5 October 2021 Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. Photo: Göran Ekeberg. Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 202

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/prize-worth-millions-awarded-leading-blood-vessel-researcher - 2025-06-23

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 April 2024 In our Annual Report for 2023, we have gathered highlights from the year from research, policy and engagement. We also outline key events within our PhD programme and our Education. Read the Word from our Director Barry Ness, and download our Annual Report 2023. LUCSUS Annual Report 2023Read about our development

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/read-lucsus-annual-report-2023 - 2025-06-23

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-attracts-people-endurance-running - 2025-06-23

Published 13 April 2015 We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierzbicka, who is coordinating an interdisciplinary theme at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2025-06-23

Published 16 November 2015 “We are dependent on one another globally – this became evident not least through the Ebola epidemic. For cooperation to work and develop, Africa cannot be left out of the loop”, says Benedict Oppong Asamoah, researcher and lecturer in public health. He hopes that the University’s focus on Africa will lead to more and better contacts Benedict Oppong Asamoah. Photo: Gunna

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-strategy-shows-great-potential - 2025-06-23

Published 18 March 2016 15 per cent of the population – almost one in seven Swedes – suffer from digestive problems in the form of bloating, abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhoea. But since these problems are not life-threatening, and the status of the digestive tract is low, medical researchers and funders have shown only moderate interest. Now this seems to be changing. Bodil Ohlsson gives

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-gives-hope-gastric-patients - 2025-06-23

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 June 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in Nor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2025-06-23

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 27 January 2020 Sara Nolbrant defends her thesis on Friday 31st January Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-sara-nolbrant - 2025-06-23