Departments and specialised centres

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Departments

• Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund
• Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö
• Department of Experimental Medical Science
• Department of Health Sciences
• Department of Laboratory Medicine
• Department of Translational Medicine

Strategic research areas

In 2009, Lund University received strategic research funding from the Swedish Government in order to lead and develop world-leading research in nine different areas. The Faculty of Medicine is involved in several of these.

• EpiHealth (Epidemiology) Coordinator: Jonas Björk
• EXODIAB (Diabetes) Coordinator: Allan Vaag
• MultiPark (Neuroscience) Coordinator: Angela Cenci Nilsson
• The Nanometer Structure Consortium (Nanoscience and nanotechnology) Coordinator: Anders Mikkelsen (the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University) with participants including the Faculty of Medicine
• Stem Therapy (Stem cells and regenerative medicine) Coordinator: Malin Parmar
• BioCARE (Cancer) (2010-2019)

Specialised centres and research environments

• The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities
• BrainGain Sweden
• CASE – Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environment
• Centre for Evidence-based Psychosocial Interventions (CEPI) – Swedish National Centre
• CoPARLU - Centre of Physical Activity Research at Lund University
• LU-ATMP (Lund University Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products)
• LUCC – Lund Univesity Cancer Centre
• LUDC – Lund University Diabetes Centre
• LUVC - Lund University Virus Centre
• Lund Laser Centre – LLC (incl. Medical Laser Centre)
• Lund Stem Cell Center
• Malmö Cancer Centre (MCC)
• Neuronanoscience Research Centre (NRC) (no website)
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgery and Public Health (no website)

Specialised centres with university hospital healthcare in Region Skåne

• The Centre for Primary Health Care Research (CPF)
• Centre of Excellence in Biological and Medical Mass Spectrometry (CEBMMS) (no website)
• The Institute for Palliative Care (in Swedish)
• Medicon Bridge (regional hub in the national innovation programme for medical engineering, Medtech4Health)
• The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University

Joint centres aiming to bind together the research and healthcare chains (Lund University Faculty of Medicine and Region Skåne)

• Diabetes – Molecular Metabolism Researcher in charge: Hindrik Mulder (no website)
• Huntington Centre (Huntington’s disease) Researcher in charge: Åsa Petersen
• NeuroLund (Neurodegenerative diseases, e.g. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases) Researcher in charge: Oskar Hansson (no website)
• Neuronano Medicine (Neurological diseases) Researcher in charge: Jens Schouenborg (in Swedish)
• StrokeSyd (Stroke) Researcher in charge: Tadeusz Wieloch (no website)
• UroCan-LU (Prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer) Researcher in charge: Fredrik Liedberg (in Swedish)