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27 Oct 2025
Martin L Olsson receives the President's Award
Martin L. Olsson, professor of Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, has received the 2025 President’s Award from the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (...
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27 Oct 2025
New findings on how breastfeeding affects the skeleton could boost development of drugs against osteoporosis
Pregnancies do not weaken a woman’s skeleton. Breastfeeding, however, can reduce bone density considerably. These are findings from a research report produced at Lund University in...
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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...
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17 Sep 2025
Largest ever TauPET study of Alzheimer’s deepens understanding of the disease
In a study led by Lund University and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyse aggregates of tau pathology in more than 12,000 people from all over ...
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15 Sep 2025
New digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. “This digital test, w...
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10 Sep 2025
Award-winning cancer researcher revolutionises diagnosis and treatment worldwide
Professor Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully tr...
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10 Sep 2025
Innovative ideas and pioneering solutions from Lund University celebrated
An innovative IVF test and a methane detector – these are some of the future innovation stars developed at Lund University. They are now being recognised by the University and Spar...
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4 Sep 2025
Rewriting Genetic Fate: Katherine High and the Rise of Gene Therapy
LUND SPRING SYMPOSIUM – When Katherine A. High began working with gene therapy, the field was new, promising – and riddled with uncertainty. Three decades later, she is a visiting ...
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4 Sep 2025
RNAi: A Genetic Spark in the Information Inferno of the Cell
The information age predates the internet by a long stretch – it began with life itself. Nobel Laureate Craig C. Mello described at the Lund Spring Symposium in May how living orga...
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4 Sep 2025
Science, Responsibility and Resilience – A Conversation on the Future of Medicines
At this year’s Lund Spring Symposium, two veteran leaders of pharmaceutical research – Jan M. Lundberg and Mikael Dolsten – engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about scientific ...
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4 Sep 2025
Highlights from the Lund Spring Symposium 2025
From Nobel Prizes to visions of the future – over a few days in May, world-leading medical researchers and biotech pioneers gathered to discuss new molecular therapies: from geneti...