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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A researcher who made invisible female labour visible and had her hypotheses that efficiency thinking in healthcare is neither good nor cheap confirmed when her own husband became ill. Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is a pioneer in elderly research. Photo: Gunnar Menander You could say that Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/efficiency-mindset-inappropriate-elderly-care - 2026-05-13

Read about our research, engagement and researchers at COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted by Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh. It is held between 6-18 November. Reports launched at COP27 The land Gap report  Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on inequitable and unsustainable land-based measures to capture and store carbon. This is stated in a new study, c

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-engagement-during-cop27 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new trend among food-conscious Swedes is to adopt a gluten-free diet. However, according to LU researchers studying coeliac disease (gluten intolerance), the trend is not solely a good thing as it may blur the line between illness and health. “The fact that patients with coeliac disease now have more food products t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gluten-riddle-searching-triggers-coeliac-disease - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Curiosity, openness and compassion are words to live by for Sylvia Schwaag Serger, who will become the new deputy vice-chancellor as of next year. She believes that we all have a civic duty to be proactive but must also be aware that we might, actually, be wrong. Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, new deputy vice-chancellor at Lu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leaving-her-comfort-zone-lund-university - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year’s Association of American Geographers’ conference got me thinking about maps. I’ve been to a fair few geography conferences but, funny enough, have never really come across very many maps. Or, rather, have given them very little thought. This year, wherever I turned there they were. And they were truly, deep

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-reflections-years-association-american-geographers-conference-maja-essebo - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2026-05-13

In the early 1950s, no one knew what caused Parkinson's disease. Then, Arvid Carlsson's discovery of dopamine opened the door to world-leading transplantations for Parkinson's patients. Thanks to the pioneering basic research at MultiPark, stemcell-derived neural cells can now be tested in a clinical trial for the first time. In Parkinson's disease, the nerve cells in an area of the brain that con

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/world-parkinsons-day-transplantations-parkinsons-disease-time-travel - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a new national register study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have studied the link between prostate cancer and infertility. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, includes over one million Swedish men. “Men who seek health care for infertility and assisted reproduction were shown to be at

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/link-between-assisted-reproduction-and-risk-prostate-cancer - 2026-05-13

From a rejected article to world-leading Alzheimer’s research. Kaj Blennow has made it possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 20 years before symptoms appear – an achievement that has not only transformed research but also laid the foundation for new therapies. He has now been awarded the Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize for his groundbreaking research. Professor Kaj Blennow also enjoys gettin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-world-stage-meet-fernstrom-prize-winner-kaj-blennow - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Four researchers have been awarded grants from The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. The grant consists of Euro 50 000 each and are aiming towards better treatments and prevention of type 2-diabetes. Improved life expectancy and quality of people with diabetesDiabetes affects millions of patients around the wo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/200000-euro-diabetes-research - 2026-05-13

The year 2024 was a record year for Lund University in terms of the number of articles published in The Conversation. Fifty-five articles by 50 researchers amassed a total of 1.6 million reads. Mikael Roll, a researcher at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, topped the list with an article about the brain and reading. The Conversation is an international news website that gives researc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-breaks-record-conversation-2024 - 2026-05-14

During his more than 50-year career, diabetes researcher Åke Lernmark has made several significant discoveries that have increased knowledge about type 1 diabetes. His research contributes to creating conditions for a national screening programme in Sweden. In Sweden, around 1,000 children and an equal number of adults develop type 1 diabetes each year. The disease has major consequences for the f

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/scientist-who-paving-way-screening-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-13

Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives from a close collaboration between the experimental neuroinflammation laboratory and the experimental dementia research group and how she brings together the exper

https://www.neuroinflammation.lu.se/article/neuroimmune-crosstalk-early-alzheimers-disease-phd-interview-megg-garcia-ryde - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Chair: Dr Anindita Datta and Ajay Bailey VENUE: VD-rummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundTwor sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.002. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00 1. Introductory remarks by Dr Anindita Datta 2.  Lovitoli Jimo:Staging Love or Power? Materiality of Weddings in India’s North East Reg

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-no-4-staging-marriage-and-modernity-among-middle-classes-south-asia - 2026-05-13

LONGREAD. He treats tremor with sound waves, is preparing to help paralyzed patients control a cursor with their thoughts and envisions a future where brain and machines talk to each other in both directions. Neurosurgeon and researcher Andres Lozano is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the human brain – and doing it with both precision and imagination. “We are trying to discover the b

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/fine-tuning-neural-circuits-heal-brain-segerfalk-lecturer-andres-lozano-next-gen-neurosurgery - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is it possible to conduct research on type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and hair loss at the same time? Absolutely, says Pontus Dunér who after many years of secrecy can now lift the lid on and talk about his promising results. The common denominator is a protein that Pontus Dunér and his colleagues have worked on inte

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hair-raising-research-could-lead-diabetes-treatment - 2026-05-13

"Mastery of the law gives you power. And I want to use that power to support the vulnerable" says Sofia Åkerman, doctoral student at the Department of Law with personal experience of vulnerability and self-harming behaviour. She survived, but several of her friends did not. The Lego bricks occupy a central position in the middle of the living-room floor of Sofia Åkerman's home, a terraced house in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/using-law-fight-vulnerable - 2026-05-13

Welcome to the Fourth Edition of the "WCMM Fireside Chat". An ongoing initiative aimed at showcasing the research and innovations of scientists affiliated with WCMM in Lund. In this edition, we highlight Anders Wittrup, a clinical WCMM fellow specializing in RNA therapeutics. Anders and his team focus on overcoming the key challenge in RNA-based cancer therapeutics—delivery. We met WCMM clinical r

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-anders-wittrup - 2026-05-13

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 courage, setbacks, technological leaps, and hope for the future. The 2025 edition of the symposium, held in May, was filled with highlights. Among them was the thought-provoking exchange between Mikael Dolsten, former Ch

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/science-responsibility-and-resilience-conversation-future-medicines - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A changing climate means that citizens will have to take more action to safeguard their lives and property from extreme weather events. At the same time, there are great differences in people’s capacities and resources to do so. In a new PhD dissertation from LUCSUS, researcher Ebba Brink asserts that it is about time

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/swedish-citizens-need-more-support-handle-effects-climate-change - 2026-05-13