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Martin L. Olsson has received the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Presidential Award, the highest international honour in transfusion medicine. The award is presented every two years to a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to transfusion medicine. Martin L. Olsson is recognised for translational research on red blood cells, following 35 years of work mapping the g

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/prestigious-international-award-martin-l-olsson - 2026-06-01

Özlem Çelik is currently visiting the Pufendorf IAS as part of a new exchange programme of NordIAS´s fellows. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki and a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Research, University of Turku and Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) Collegium Fellow. You were a postdoc at Lund University in 2018-2019, welcome back to Lund! You have bee

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/welcome-back-ozlem-celik - 2026-06-01

For the first time, researchers have linked specific frequent defects in sperm to risk of pregnancy complications and negative impacts on the health of the baby. The study from Lund University in Sweden shows that high proportion of father’s spermatozoa possessing DNA strand breaks is associated with doubled risk of preeclampsia in women who have become pregnant by IVF. It also increases the risk

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/defective-sperm-doubles-risk-preeclampsia - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The goal is set high, that during the coming ten years develop new methods to prevent, cure and treat diabetes. - Ambitious, but not unrealistic, says Leif Groop, coordinator for EXODIAB, the joint research project that Lund and Uppsala now will launch with a conference in Malmö September 9-10th. Wide range and conduc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/kick-large-venture-diabetes-research - 2026-06-01

SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is the 10 February. Workshop description  Though Hindu nationalists posit the existence of a monolithic ethnoreligious majority

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2026-06-01

To address the lack of evidence regarding the links between housing, relocations, and health along the process of ageing, CASE-researchers for the first time linked comprehensive person and housing data available from population registers in Sweden. Associate Professor Giedre Gefenaite, affiliated with CASE and the profile area Proactive ageing, recently published a cohort profile paper on this, t

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-comprehensive-personal-and-housing-data-sweden - 2026-06-01

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/lundgaard-lab-attends-second-glymphatic-and-brain-clearance-symposium-oxford - 2026-06-01

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) can cause more serious liver conditions, such as liver failure. A new study, led by Lund University in Sweden, presents new data that may lead to better disease management and prevention in the future. The international research team identified an altered expression of specific genes in samples from individuals with obesity, MASLD an

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-identifies-potential-treatment-target-fatty-liver-disease - 2026-06-01

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2026-06-02

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have launched a free app to help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge of the coronavirus. “Data from the app will give us a clearer picture of the development of the disease and why some people only experience mild symptoms while others get seriously ill

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/covid-symptom-tracker-app-launched-sweden - 2026-06-01

The Pereira research group has previously shown that it is possible to reprogram human skin cells into dendritic cells that strengthen the immune system. However, the efficiency of these reprogrammed cells has been shown to be very low. New studies now indicate that there are ways to increase the efficiency of these reprogrammed cells by over 75%. These findings provide mechanistic insights into h

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-findings-indicate-ways-increase-efficiency-reprogrammed-immune-cells - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have launched a free app to help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge of the coronavirus. “Data from the app will give us a clearer picture of the development of the disease and why some people only experience mild symptoms while others get seriously ill

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/covid-symptom-tracker-app-launched-sweden - 2026-06-01

Fanny Hellgren's solo exhibition features several paintings from the artist's latest series. The astonishing canvases radiate soothing and pleasant feelings and by contemplating these non-figurative compositions one after another, one can sense a continuous rhythm. A pulsation, emanating from layers upon layers of acrylic paint, attracts us to track and understand its language and the dialogue tha

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumna-fanny-hellgren-perpetual-pulsation - 2026-06-01

Societal Transformations and Global Challenges in Central AsiaInternational Conference Organized by NORCA – Nordic Central Asian Studies Research Environment, Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University, SwedenDecember 14-16, 2026, Lund, SwedenREGISTRATION - https://registrationform.notion.site/36f97d142d0980999ccfff74d1730af8?pvs=105Conference OverviewNORCA – Nordic Central Asian Studies Rese

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/call-papers-societal-transformations-and-global-challenges-central-asia - 2026-06-01

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-new-frontiers-knowledge-awardee - 2026-06-01

Anna Stubbendorff, a recent PhD graduate from the Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded Lund University’s Agenda 2030 Award 2026. She is being recognised for research showing that when we put climate-friendly food on our plates, it benefits both the environment and our personal health. In her doctoral thesis, Anna Stubbendorff has studied the effects of the EAT-Lancet diet, a dietary pattern desig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anna-stubbendorff-receives-agenda-2030-award-her-research-sustainable-diets - 2026-06-02

Allow stories to speak and weave in memories. A multidimensional vision could make urban development less stereotypical, according to ethnologist Elisabeth Högdahl, who is the manager of the research project ‟Developing and Building Locations Through Human Memories”. ‟I hope that the site developers of tomorrow will think more broadly and allow space for people’s stories.” Can memories build place

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meaningful-memories-inspire-urban-planning - 2026-06-01

To find out why so many people have left their farms in north-eastern Syria, physical geographer Lina Eklund uses both satellite data and interviews. ‟It is important to understand what can be linked to climate change and what are societal factors, so that we can better equip ourselves for the future.” Lina Eklund has specialised in remote sensing, which enables her to determine what happens over

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/knowledge-about-climate-stress-could-counteract-conflicts - 2026-06-01

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 - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are delicious smells emanating from the kitchen at the Malmö apartment of nutrition physiologist, Louise Brunkwall. Today, she is making pasta and vegetable sauce for lunch. A clean up before the interview with LUM means she can no longer find anything in the kitchen cupboards:  “Usually there is always some kin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/help-your-body-outwit-reptile-brain - 2026-06-01