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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...
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4 Sep 2025
ERC grants awarded to research on the interplay between immunology and fertility, and Alzheimer's disease
Congratulations to Jacob Vogel and Camila Consiglio who have been awarded grants to develop their research projects on Alzheimer's and fertility. Camila Consiglio's research focuse...
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3 Sep 2025
New global initiative on maternal and newborn health to be led from Sweden
A new international commission will pave the way for a global boost in maternal and newborn health. The project is led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, whose motivatio...
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1 Sep 2025
Urine test can assess risk of kidney cancer recurrence
A simple urine test that can assess the risk of kidney cancer recurrence at an early stage could spare patients from frequent imaging scans, e.g. CT-scans, and thus reduce the asso...
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29 Aug 2025
Scientists uncover cellular “toolkit” to reprogram immune cells for cancer therapy
An international team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has identified the molecular tools needed to reprogram ordinary cells into specialised immune cells. The disco...
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25 Aug 2025
Why repetitive DNA matters for human brain evolution and disease
For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as ‘junk’ and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Swede...
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22 Aug 2025
Hjelt Diabetes Foundation supports research that can pave the way for new cell therapies
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that usually requires lifelong treatment. A central goal for many diabetes researchers is to develop new cell therapies that can cure the disea...
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20 Aug 2025
Children waiting for a new heart –study shows marked improvement in survival rates and the importance of Nordic cooperation
In a new observational study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden looked at all children listed for heart transplants in the Nordic countries between 1986 and 2023. A total of...
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11 Aug 2025
Biomarkers reveal risk of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes
An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disea...
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2 Jul 2025
Aggressive skin cancer driven by mitochondrial processes –existing drugs offer promising treatment path
A new study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, reveals that melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, can in some cases be driven by mitochondrial processes, which...
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1 Jul 2025
Brussels meeting: Advancing personalised treatment for childhood AML across Europe
In June, pediatric cancer experts from 16 countries gathered in Brussels for the annual meeting of the NOPHO-DB-SHIP consortium—an EU-wide collaboration working to improve outcomes...
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27 Jun 2025
Brain activation pattern behind impulsivity in Parkinson’s treatment discovered
An experimental study from Lund University reveals for the first time that different Parkinson’s medications affect brain activity in distinct ways. This could explain why some pat...