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One of Europe’s largest type 1 diabetes research cooperations has passed a significant milestone: The international platform GPPAD (“The Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes”) has successfully included 520 babies across Europe in the type 1 diabetes prevention trial POInT (Primary Oral Insulin Trial) – half of the targeted 1040 participants. The POInT study aims to train the i
The Vice-Chancellor has designated three of the university’s major research infrastructures as University Core Facilities. The designation signals that these research infrastructures are of high strategic importance for the entire university. “We are very happy that Lund Nano Lab (LNL) has been selected as one of three new Lund University Core Facilities. This recognition underscores LNL’s vital r
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-nano-lab-among-three-research-infrastructures-named-university-core-facilities - 2026-06-03
Three members share their take-aways from getting involved in an organization committed to bringing forward the voice of young researchers and teachers at the Faculty. Register for the anniversary on May 2, no later than April 20. Anders Rasmussen, 40, Associate Professor in Neuroscience & PI, Future Faculty Chair:How, when and why did you get involved in Future Faculty?"I went to a retreat in Yst
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/celebrating-20-years-future-faculty-has-taught-me-how-navigate-academia - 2026-06-03
Folkuniversitetet in southern Sweden is producing a lecture catalogue for 2027 in collaboration with Lund University. Researchers interested in sharing research-based knowledge with a wider range of audiences across the region are being sought. The lecture catalogue is aimed at libraries, museums, cultural centres, associations and other organisers in southern Sweden. Through Folkuniversitetet’s a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/would-you-give-talk-about-your-research-libraries-southern-sweden - 2026-06-04
Maiken Røed has defended her dissertation ”Interest Group Influence on Political Parties in Western Democracies”. The dissertation concerns interest groups’ influence on political parties. Parties are central actors in elections, legislatures and governments and they are an important intermediary between voters and the state in democracies. To better understand how public policy comes about and wh
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maiken-roed-has-defended-her-dissertation - 2026-06-03
In a recent study from the Netherlands, researchers investigated whether PRP has any effect on ankle osteoarthritis. In a new study, treatment with PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) for ankle osteoarthritis has been investigated. The study lasted for one year and involved 100 participants, with half randomly assigned to receive PRP treatment and the remaining participants receiving a placebo treatment. E
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/new-study-prp-ankle-osteoarthritis - 2026-06-03
Right now, two new course starts are planned under SWEAH's auspices next year. All SWEAH courses are open to all PhD students, nationally and internationally, but SWEAH affiliates are given preference. Doctoral students connected to SWEAH's research school undertake to participate in at least two of the courses on aging and health that make up SWEAH's Core Curriculum during the connection period.
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/time-plan-spring-semester - 2026-06-03
A new technology has brought researchers one step closer to a future cure for Congenital Muscular Dystrophy type1A, a devastating muscle disease that affects children. The new findings are based on research by Kinga Gawlik at Lund University, Department of Experimental Medical Science, and were recently published in Nature. Congenital Muscular Dystrophy type1A, MDC1A, a progressive genetic disease
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reversing-muscle-dystrophy - 2026-06-03
Salem Thawaba, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Birzeit University in Palestine, visited Lund at the end of April. He was there to participate in teaching activities and discuss potential collaborations with Lina Eklund from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo). On 30 April, he held a seminar entitled “Colonisation and ever-shifting borders: A Case from the West Bank”
https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/researcher-highlights-effects-border-changes-west-bank - 2026-06-03
Salem Thawaba, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Birzeit University in Palestine, visited Lund at the end of April. He was there to participate in teaching activities and discuss potential collaborations with Lina Eklund from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (MGeo). On 30 April, he held a seminar entitled “Colonisation and ever-shifting borders: A Case from the West Bank”
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-highlights-effects-border-changes-west-bank - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PUBLICATION: Doctor of Sociology Terese Anving has published the article “Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Lone Mothers and Intergenerational Support in Sweden” in the journal Studies in the Maternal. Read or download the article at mamsie.bbk.ac.ukAbstractEconomic divisions have deepened in Sweden in recent years, and l
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lone-mothers-struggling-make-ends-meet - 2026-06-03
Get to know Ann-Catrin Johansson, the new coordinator at the Unit for Educational Support since the beginning of the year. Ann-Catrin has previously worked as a librarian at LTH with a focus on teaching information literacy as well as reading and writing support for students. Over the next two years, Ann-Catrin will work to strengthen the forms of accessible and inclusive teaching through the proj
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ann-catrin-johansson - 2026-06-03
After many years, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has sequenced and characterized the entire genome of oats. This opens up for breeding healthier oats with even better nutritional content, and growing oats in a more environmentally sustainable way. The detailed genetic analyzes also strengthen the evidence that oats are safe in a gluten-free diet. The results are published in Natu
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/entire-oat-genome-mapped - 2026-06-03
Around 40 physicians from different specialist areas are now being trained in team-based learning, TBL, a pedagogical approach that will better equip future medical students for a complex reality. “We work according to a vision of how healthcare should work," says programme director Sara Regnér. The new six-year medical programme, launched in autumn 2021, has a new curriculum and new qualitative t
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/training-trainer-team-based-learning - 2026-06-03
Researchers from Lund University interested in understanding how aging affects the brain have made a new discovery that will help make it easier to study age-related brain diseases and potential treatments in the future. The key to this? human skin cells. The human brain is often likened to the night sky. Look up and one will see billions upon billions of stars. Our brains are similar in that with
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/how-our-skin-cells-might-be-key-better-understanding-human-brain - 2026-06-03
