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Can you tell us a little about your research area?My research spans the lifespan. We investigate prevention and treatment and use joint damage as a risk factor for osteoarthritis. We conduct studies from young people with injury or risk of injury to older people with osteoarthritis and focus on exercise.Can you tell us about your current research projects?I-PROTECT is a project that deals with pre
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/meet-eva-ageberg - 2026-06-21
Can you tell me a little about your research area? How would you describe your work?I am a professor at Lund University and a physician with a background in orthopedics. My research focuses broadly on osteoarthritis, particularly knee osteoarthritis. We conduct studies in laboratory environments, patient-centered clinical settings, and registry-based research, investigating everything from molecul
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/meet-martin-englund - 2026-06-21
When we think of dinosaurs, we often imagine majestic giants that ruled the Earth millions of years ago. But even these ancient creatures were not immune to diseases familiar to humans today, such as osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is relatively rare in today’s wild mammals (less than 1%) but is not uncommon in domestic or working animals like dogs and horses, as well as in birds, with a prevalence
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/osteoarthritis-dinosaurs-when-prehistory-meets-modern-medicine - 2026-06-21
Research on osteoarthritis receives a significant boost as the founder and owner of Artrosportalen, Professor Martin Englund, is awarded one of the newly established medical prizes from the Greta and Johan Kocks Foundations – an award worth one million SEK. The prize is given to outstanding medical researchers with strong future potential, and Englund is highlighted as an internationally influenti
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/prestigious-award-one-million-sek-leading-osteoarthritis-researcher-lund - 2026-06-21
An international research team has conducted the largest genetic study ever on osteoarthritis—using data from nearly two million people. They found 962 genetic associations, more than 500 of which are completely new. This provides a much more detailed picture of the biological basis of the disease. What does this mean?Of the 962 genetic associations, the researchers identified 700 genes that appea
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/new-research-reveals-genetic-puzzle-pieces-behind-osteoarthritis - 2026-06-21
What is actually true or false about osteoarthritis? Is it a disease that only affects older people? Is exercising bad when you’re in pain? Martin Englund, professor of orthopaedics and founder of Artrosportalen, joins Studio 65 to talk about truths and myths surrounding osteoarthritis. His colleague Eva Ekvall Hansson, professor of physiotherapy, also takes part in the discussion.Babben Larsson a
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/programme-about-osteoarthritis - 2026-06-21
On Monday, 23 February, the Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (TLV) announced its decision. They have declined to subsidize Wegovy, which has quickly become one of the most discussed medications for obesity. Wegovy, which contains the now well‑known substance semaglutide, is used to help people with obesity lose weight. Novo Nordisk, the company behind the drug, had applied for it
https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/medication-wegovy-obesity-will-not-receive-reimbursement - 2026-06-21
SWEAH 2.0 is the working name of the new venture on the National Graduate School on Aging and Health. Management representatives for all higher education institutions met recently to consolidate their participation in the initiative. There will be twelve higher education institutions joining forces to finance the national graduate school on aging and health, SWEAH, after the funding from the Swedi
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/twelve-higher-education-institutions-are-investing-graduate-school-aging-and-health - 2026-06-21
SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of digital technologies are unequally distributed among older people. Groups of older people in lo
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2026-06-21
Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research, she examines the mental well-being of the elderly and the connection to the use of digital tools. Her research concerns older people in Finland and Sweden. She also examines what the health promotion work aimed at older people looks like
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2026-06-21
The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. The article explore doctoral students’ perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for practice. Written self-reports reflecting 78 students’ experiences and perceptions were analyzed
SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She has studied “biological age”; a quantification of aging-related changes in the cellular, organ-, system-, and/or organismal features. - Biological age can be useful as a source of information different from our chronological age. We explored
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2026-06-21
SWEAH welcomed everyone who works with aging and health at the partner universities to participate in the conference. The conference gave the participants the opportunity to take part in research on aging and health in many different disciplines. Current and former SWEAH-affiliated doctoral students and their supervisors told about ongoing research and also other invited researchers contributed wi
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-milestone-conference-watch-films - 2026-06-21
Linn Zulka´s study: "On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective" assessed whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- and intra-individual differences in psychological and lifestyle factors moderate the association. A secondary purpose was to evaluate whether general intelligence, as measured at age 18, and social contacts later in life may function as re
Robin Jonsson's dissertation Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives" is about the interplay between individuals and organizations ability to continue working, or retain older employees in an extended working life. The results indicate that many early retirements are often work-related and th
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/adjustments-needed-elderly-work-after-retirement - 2026-06-21
SWEAH PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several major public health issues. - Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. In order
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2026-06-21
1 How does the working method of an R&D unit differ from how it works at the university? The tasks are more varied and the collaboration between colleagues closer. Of course, the difference also depends on which research environment you come from. Research is conducted in the same way and there are several internally driven research projects. However, we accept external assignments that require
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumna-louise-sundberg-has-got-new-job-stiftelsen-aldrecentrum - 2026-06-21
Half way review for SWEAH PhD student Agata Yadav. Socio-economic vulnerability in later life, such as having a low pension or residing in a deprived neighbourhood, is associated with reduced coping abilities and increased deprivation risks. However, research on housing and health dynamics for older adults with socio-economic vulnerability is lacking. One of Agata Yadav´s studies showed that mos
Five questions to Anna Meyer, who just had her thesis defence. What is you research about? My work concerns the changing disease and mortality patterns among the old in Sweden since the 1990s. Using nationwide register data I explore how the occurrence and survival of different diseases has changed in the total population and in different groups (e.g. socioeconomic groups, men and women, or health
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/trends-population-health-era-increasing-longevity-new-sweah-dissertation - 2026-06-21
SWEAH affiliated Hanna Mac Innes is one of the organizers of a symposium with Professor Merril Silverstein, Professor Kieran Walsh and Professor Sigurveig Sigurðardóttir, March 24 in Göteborg. The symposium will also be held online, and the Zoom link will be available the day before. Hanna, can you explain the connection between these professors and SWEAH? The people attending the symposium is my
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/symposium-social-aging - 2026-06-21
