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Two world-leading American researchers known respectively for their research within medical humanities, and the sensory nervous system and perception of pain and temperature have been named honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine. The honorary doctorates will be conferred on 26 May 2023. Ever since David Julius’ discovery of the temperature and pain receptor TRPV1, he has contributed crucial d

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-doctors-named-faculty-medicine - 2025-12-17

Cancer cells are the ultimate sugar addicts, gobbling up glucose to fuel their growth and spread. What if we could starve them of their favorite food? A recent study in Blood Advances by Lund University researchers describes a new method to combat leukemia by disrupting the energy-making machinery of cancer cells, cutting off their dual energy supply. Despite advancements in treatment, acute myelo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/powering-down-cancer-cells-new-way-beat-leukemia - 2025-12-17

82 years after his death, limnology superstar and the first professor in this field in Lund and the world, Einar Naumann, may have helped solve the riddle of why lakes become brown. With the help of Naumann’s and his students’ work dating back to the 1930s, senior lecturer Emma Kritzberg has created a data series that fill a gap of 50 years. Emma Kritzberg In Sweden and many other countries in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eighty-year-old-findings-help-solve-water-mystery - 2025-12-17

Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid-like, which leads to its rapid injection into the cell,” says Alex Evilevitch who led the stud

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-12-17

In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equipment at centre’s Preclinical Nuclear Medicine platform. The funds will be used to enhance the positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-26-million-sek-nuclear-medicine-imaging-equipment-upgrade - 2025-12-17

Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the thesis work, a view supported by a survey conducted by the Swedish Union of Civil Servants (ST). More than 45 percent of responses from doctoral s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2025-12-17

The climate cannot handle the amount of animals we eat. There needs to be a protein shift, according to researcher Karolina Östbring who is involved in the Sustainability Week. Her vision is to create a platform for research on vegetable proteins at LU. Karolina Östberg  Photo: Kennet Ruona. The human population is growing, while our ecological footprint needs to become much lower in order to redu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-need-protein-shift - 2025-12-17

Professor Michael Edgerton in exciting and new collaboration with ESS. Why do you collaborate with ESS and when did the collaboration start? -The collaboration began a little more than a year ago. For years I have collaborated with scientists on both artistic and research projects, and just generally been inspired by scientific ideas applied to music composition. -Before coming to Sweden, I read a

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/new-and-exciting-collaboration-between-ess-and-academy-music - 2025-12-17

Did you miss the chance in the spring to apply for funds to develop a commissioned education course at your department, or would you like to try again? Now, the University is opening another round of applications, starting on 1 September. In order to provide further support for organisations within LU in the development of new commissioned education courses, a second round of applications for stra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-opportunity-apply-funds-develop-commissioned-education-courses - 2025-12-18

The university director has decided to change the Division of External Relations into a new division, Global Engagement, which will have a more explicit focus on international matters. The decision is based on an overview of the University’s organisation and working methods carried out in 2023. With the support of the Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE) initiative, there is a desire to create conditio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/division-external-relations-become-division-global-engagement - 2025-12-18

Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancing rapidly. However, bioelectronic treatment is not without complications. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have taken another step forward by developing a refined method to create detailed and tissue-friendly bioelectronics. In a study published in Advanced Science

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/using-light-create-bioelectronics-inside-body - 2025-12-17

Work on Lund University’s establishment in Science Village has continued this year, but with a new focus. At the end of 2024, the boards of LTH and the Faculty of Science decided not to proceed with scenario 5 – a co-location of the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry in the area – due to cost considerations and the challenges of running education across two sites. The project gr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/light-and-materials-focus-lund-universitys-science-village-establishment - 2025-12-17

In 2022, Sweden became the first country in the world to allow body checking in women's ice hockey. Major hockey nations are now following Lund University's research on the consequences of tougher plays on the ice. A first study shows that almost nine out of ten players in the Swedish women's hockey league are in favour of body checking – regardless of their own size. “We found that interesting. T

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/swedish-female-ice-hockey-players-favour-body-checking - 2025-12-17

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are investigating a car fuel comprised of a liquid that is converted to hydrogen by a solid catalyst. The used liquid is then emptied from the tank and charged with hydrogen, after which it can be used again in a circular system that is free from greenhouse gas emissions. In two research articles, Lund researchers have demonstrated that the method works, an

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-catalyst-could-provide-liquid-hydrogen-fuel-future - 2025-12-17

Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-12-18

What happens if there is a power cut and the heating stops working for a long period of time? Besides the obvious consequences – that technology doesn’t work and it gets cold – how do we, as a society, prepare for such a crisis? Do we know who is supposed to do what when it happens? And who gets to decide on the crisis plans? There are many different unexpected and sudden events that can happen. A

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyone-must-be-included-crisis-planning - 2025-12-18

Om fem år ska Konstnärliga fakultetens verksamheter flytta in i Kockums gamla industrilokaler i Varvsstaden i Malmö. Inne i den gigantiska maskinhallen pågår saneringen av jordmassor. Gifter och oljor måste rensas bort innan byggarna sätter igång. – Här arbetade min pappa som plåtslagare mellan 1966 och 1975, berättar fakultetens dekan Sanimir Resic. Det är snabba ryck för Sanimir Resic. För drygt

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/konstnarlig-boost-vantar - 2025-12-17

Den dåliga nyheten om malignt melanom är att sjukdomen ökar snabbare än de flesta andra cancersjukdomar. Den goda nyheten är att den är lätt att bota, om den bara upptäcks i tid. En forskargrupp i Lund har därför startat ett projekt som förhoppningsvis ska göra det enklare att ställa rätt diagnos på en misstänkt hudprick. Kari Nielsen, till vänster, vill förenkla sättet att ställa hudcancerdiagnos

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tejp-kan-forenkla-hudcancerdiagnos - 2025-12-17

119 000 personer har på torsdagen laddat ned och använt appen COVID Symptom Tracker. Appen används i en forskningsstudie på Lunds universitet för att förstå och kartlägga covid-19 i Sverige. - Våra preliminära beräkningar är att 1,5-3,5 procent av den svenska befolkningen i åldern 18-70 år just nu har en symtombild som överensstämmer med covid-19, vilket innebär att de sannolikt skulle få diagnose

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/forsta-berakningarna-fran-forskningsstudie-om-covid-19-klara - 2025-12-17

Genom att studera vilka växtarter som borde finnas i ett lokalt ekosystem men som saknas – så kallad mörk biodiversitet – kan forskare få en tydligare bild av människans påverkan på naturen. En ny global studie visar att mänsklig aktivitet på stor geografisk skala påverkar den lokala artdiversiteten långt mer än man tidigare trott. I regioner med låg mänsklig påverkan innehåller de lokala ekosyste

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/mork-biodiversitet-avslojar-manniskans-dolda-paverkan-pa-naturen - 2025-12-17