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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. No one can explain this strange phenomenon. The majority of type 2 diabetics who undergo metabolic surgery recover from diabetes only a few days after the procedure, long before any weight loss has occurred. Now researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre plan to find out what is happening by studying both patients

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/how-can-metabolic-surgery-cure-diabetes-so-fast - 2026-07-07

The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affect the shaping of the Storsjöodjuret. The aim of the study

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-human-ecology-thesis-storsjoodjur-cryptid-borderland-between-reality-and-imagined - 2026-07-07

On 22 September, the Swedish Chips Competence Centre (SCCC) will open in The Loop in Lund. With Lund University as the host partner, researchers, start-ups and industry partners are coming together to strengthen Sweden's and Europe's position in semiconductor technology. A shared vision for Swedish and European semiconductor technologySemiconductor technology is crucial for everything from mobile

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sccc-takes-centre-stage-national-semiconductor-centre-opens - 2026-07-08

The ground floor of the University Library will be refurbished and preparations will start in the summer. During the renovation, the public section will be emptied and the number of study places will be more than halved. If all goes according to plan, the University Library interior will be both better and more beautiful when all is complete in time for the start of the autumn semester 2024. There

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renovating-university-library-will-take-year - 2026-07-07

When the next semester starts, the students and teachers in Business Administration here at the School will have the privilege of collaborating with our very first Director of AI Integration, Burak Tunca. Burak Tunca is senior lecturer in Digital marketing and deeply interested in the AI developments in his field. As of the autumn semester 2024, he is also responsible for the integration of artifi

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/meet-first-director-ai-integration-education-business-administration - 2026-07-07

Lund University has high ambitions for integrating sustainable development into its education, research, external engagement and organisational development, and has been ranked the third most sustainable university in the world. Being an internationally recognised university is often thought to necessitate a considerable amount of air travel. To meet the goals of reducing climate emissions from tr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-work-seminar-academic-flying-may-22 - 2026-07-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has, together with Ilona Ostner, published a comparative study on parental support ‘Parenting and parenting support in Germany and Sweden: Convergence and persistent dissimilarities’, in the Journal of Family Research. The researchers' abstract:Parenting support

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-parental-support-sweden-and-germany - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. She wants to shed new light on the dark matter that has long baffled the world of research. Now, researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni is receiving 2 million euro from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, is receiving around 2 million euro to

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-grant-particle-physicist - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund’s affiliated member Pablo Villanueva Perez from Synchrotron Radiation Physics has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project Probing MHz processes in 3D with X-ray microscopy. The ERC project aims to develop a novel X-ray microscope capable of filming processes in 3D, at least 100 times faster than up

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolund - 2026-07-07

Right now, IT Security is seeing an increase in attempted fraud. Knowledge is the best way to become a safer computer user, both at work and at home. And acquiring that knowledge is a quick process. Increase in cases of so-called CEO fraud The IT Security Division has seen a recent increase in the number of CEO fraud cases. Many people have contacted LU Servicedesk to report suspicious emails. For

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protect-yourself-your-information-and-your-work-knowledge - 2026-07-07

The Central Administration must reduce its costs by SEK 20 million. The University Management therefore plans to reduce university-wide support for commissioned education. This is one of several measures to balance the Central Administration’s finances. The proposal that has now been presented entails that university-wide support will be reduced to cover a smaller node with two to three full-time

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reduced-university-wide-support-commissioned-education - 2026-07-08

By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, researchers at Lund University map what happens in the brains of stroke patients. The study published in the scientific journal Stroke expands our understanding of stroke and opens doors to new treatment strategies.
 schemic stroke, caused by a blood clot in the brain, is the leading cause of d

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2026-07-07

By analysing small microvesicles that cells release to communicate with their surroundings in the blood, researchers at Lund University map what happens in the brains of stroke patients. The study published in the scientific journal Stroke expands our understanding of stroke and opens doors to new treatment strategies.
 Ischemic stroke, caused by a blood clot in the brain, is the leading cause of

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cell-specific-biomarkers-blood-reflect-what-happens-brain-during-stroke - 2026-07-07

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyone-must-be-included-crisis-planning - 2026-07-07

Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Solar energy has great potential in Sweden. The fact that we use solar energy to a lesser extent than many other European countries is not due to lack of sun, but due to lack of knowledge”, says architect Jouri Kanters who has mapped what politicians, urban planners, builders and architects should be better at in ord

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-knowledge-explains-low-utilisation-solar-energy - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2026-07-07

Three out of Lund University’s four most cited scientists are research leaders at MultiPark, according to Clarivate’s report for this year. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that ra

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/majority-most-cited-researchers-lund-university-belong-multipark - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In May, screening for colorectal cancer will be offered in Skåne to all those born in 1961. Subsequently, Swedes aged 60 to 74 will be tested for blood in their faeces, to detect cancer at an early stage. Once all regions in Sweden have introduced the screening, at least 300 lives are expected to be saved per year. Sw

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/screening-colorectal-cancer-starts-spring - 2026-07-07

Meet some of the participants on this year's conference for students and researchers, from all around Sweden and abroad. Mariam Kirvalidze, PhD student, Karolinska institutet:– I look forward to learning about what others are doing. So I try to meet others from other universities in other parts of the country, whom I don't otherwise meet. In a workshop you are forced to do that, and that's good.Wh

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/voices-sweah-conference-2023 - 2026-07-07