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22 Oct 2025
Study offers clues to why leukemia develops in infants
Researchers at Lund University have identified a previously unknown precursor stage of leukemia. The discovery may help explain why an especially aggressive form of blood cancer in...
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15 Oct 2025
Type 1 diabetes increased among young people during the pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an unexpected increase in the number of cases of type 1 diabetes in Sweden, particularly among children under five and young adult men. The ...
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7 Oct 2025
Best Hematology Thesis of the year
Congratulations to Hanna Thorsson, whose thesis has been awarded the title of Best Hematology Thesis of 2025 by the Swedish Society of Hematology.
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3 Oct 2025
New mechanism revealed: How leukemia cells trick the immune system
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body’s immune system. By developing an antibody that bl...
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30 Sep 2025
From Lund to the world stage – meet Fernström Prize winner Kaj Blennow
From a rejected article to world-leading Alzheimer’s research. Kaj Blennow has made it possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 20 years before symptoms appear – an achievement...
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29 Sep 2025
Lifetime Achievement Award to Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson
Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Professor of Lung Biology at Lund University, has been awarded the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Lifetime Achievement Award in Basic and Translati...
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23 Sep 2025
A detective in the mysterious world of proteins
Gemma Atkinson has been awarded this year’s Eric K. Fernström Prize for particularly promising and successful early-career researchers at Lund University. Her research focuses on b...
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22 Sep 2025
Psychedelics in the treatment of anorexia – a new pilot study
Anorexia nervosa is a serious psychiatric disorder for which there are limited treatment options, and it has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric diagnosis. A pilo...
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22 Sep 2025
AI model from Lund University indicates four out of ten breast cancer patients could avoid axillary surgery
A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilise...
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18 Sep 2025
From healthy to sick in 3D
This year’s largest grant from the IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse goes to Vinay S. Swaminathan at Lund University. He is awarded five million SEK for his research...