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24 Nov 2021
Dolly the sheep inspired him to build a Trojan horse
It was Dolly the sheep that decided the fate of Filipe Pereira's future career. The choice lay between becoming an architect or a researcher, when one of the world's most extreme e...
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24 Nov 2021
Guest Professor hoping to infuse new life into medical cornerstone field
He was best friends with Mikael Dolsten in Medical School in Lund in the 80´s. Since then he has held prominent positions around the world, both within Academia and the Medical Ind...
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17 Nov 2021
MoRe-Lab opens the gates
MoRe-Lab (Movement & Reality Lab) is an experimental health science test environment for studies of movement, activity and behavior in full scale. A new platform for interdisciplin...
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17 Nov 2021
Camilla Davids shares her time between Lund and Cape Town.
For the next four years, Camilla Davids from Namibia will share her time between Lund and Cape Town thanks to the "Double PhD-programme”. With the guidance of supervisors Gabriela ...
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2 Nov 2021
Another SEK 6 million for research into HIV and tuberculosis in Ethiopia
In 2017, the Faculty of Medicine received a private donation targeted at a team of researchers studying infectious diseases and public health in low-income countries, specifically ...
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25 Oct 2021
Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities is looking for staff
Have you heard of Birgit Rausing Center for Medical Humanities at Lund University? Perhaps you are interested in joining our team?
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20 Oct 2021
Visit our research portal - new features and design
The Lund University research portal has been upgraded. Welcome to explore old and new features.
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19 Oct 2021
Research projects will examine the effects of development assistance on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Hello there, Björn Ekman and Jesper Sundewall! You’re both researchers in social medicine and global health at Lund University, and now you’ve been granted SEK 600,000 from the Exp...
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19 Oct 2021
SEK 40 million for an innovation environment for customised stem cell treatments
In healthcare, treatments developed for broad patient groups are often used. This is not always an effective approach. Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova has therefore distributed ...
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12 Oct 2021
Hjelt Foundation grants for mechanistic studies of type 2 diabetes
Three researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) receive generous grants from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation in 2021. Ola Hansson, Karl Bacos and Malin Fex have been awar...
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5 Oct 2021
Prize worth millions awarded to leading blood-vessel researcher
Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. This is one of ...
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5 Oct 2021
Lund researchers lead the work at SciLifeLab’s Clinical Genomics platform
Since 1 June of this year, Thoas Fioretos, Professor of Clinical Genetics at Lund University and Senior Physician in Clinical Genetics and Pathology, Region Skåne, is leading the w...
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5 Oct 2021
Johan Malmström Scientific Director at SciLifeLab platform ISB
On behalf of the Swedish Government, SciLifeLab develops and provides advanced technologies, instruments and expertise to researchers in academia, industry and healthcare throughou...
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22 Sep 2021
Honoured for the best possible care with the least possible environmental impact
Peter Bentzer, Professor of Anaesthesiology at Lund University and an anaesthesiologist at Helsingborg Hospital, is being honoured by the Swedish Society of Medicine for initiative...
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22 Sep 2021
Anna Blom receives the 2021 Berzelius Medal for advances in medical chemistry
Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovat...
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20 Sep 2021
A bigger picture of Alzheimer’s disease
The international Alzheimer day takes place on 21 September. About 100 000 people in Sweden suffer from Alzheimer, a disease which also affect many family members and relatives.
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8 Sep 2021
Help researchers – measure your home!
During September and October, schoolchildren, seniors and other interested parties are examining the obstacles that exist in Swedish housing. Their tools in this work are a ruler a...
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8 Sep 2021
Lund researcher joins the Olympic Offensive
Congratulations, Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg, Docent at Lund University! You’re one of six sports researchers who will take part in a two-year development program in which the Swedi...
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8 Sep 2021
New study: Can probiotics prevent type 1 diabetes?
Children who had autoantibodies before falling ill with type 1 diabetes have also had an imbalance in their intestinal flora, previous research shows. In a new study conducted with...
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6 Sep 2021
European gold medal in Respiratory Medicine awarded Professor in Lund
Europe's largest respiratory society, ERS, has awarded its winners for 2021. By doing so the society wishes to recognise the achievements of leaders in the field of respiratory med...