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Dear Faculty,Well, where do I start? It feels overwhelming, honourable and exciting to be new at work. Right now, it could be summed up by saying that the new office is still quite empty, while the calendar is filled up. It will be an exciting year and it feels inspiring and fun to now be able to work with a new management team and get to work closely with our departments and heads of department.T

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/dear-faculty-letter-new-dean - 2026-07-05

Over the past academic year it has been fantastic to see how the organisation has begun to operate as a fourth generation university! The fourth generation university is based on the realisation that it is becoming increasingly crucial for the universities of the future not only to create and disseminate knowledge, but also to actively drive the search for solutions to the societal problems we fac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fourth-generation-universities-understanding-explaining-and-improving - 2026-07-06

The Faculty of Medicine has reviewed its communications activities and made some changes. They have reorganised their ways of working and have even reworked their internal website, Intramed. 2022 saw the reorganisation of the communication activities at the Faculty, taking as its starting point an analysis made from  2019-2020 of the situation as it was then, including proposals for improvements.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-internal-website-staff-faculty-medicine-has-made-difference - 2026-07-06

Earlier this month, Simon Hultmark defended his Ph.D. thesis. In pursuit of his long-standing fascination for stem cells, his research over the last several years has focused on blood stem cells and cancer. All in an effort to contribute to the development of improved clinical therapies for patients with a type of blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia. In this interview, he tells us about h

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/modeling-normal-and-malignant-hematopoiesis-vitro-phd-interview-simon-hultmark - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Better drugs, new smart materials, more jobs and increased visibility for the region. The expectations and challenges for MAX IV and ESS are manifold, but so are the opportunities. The research project Exploring Challenges with New Big Science which studied the realisation of Lund’s new research facilities from an int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-male-dominated-facilities - 2026-07-05

Jiao Dong defended her Ph.D. thesis on the 8th of February 2023. Inspired by the memory of patients she met during her time as a student studying oral surgery in China, she has spent the past four years researching a regenerative medicine strategy that can be used to repair the function of the salivary gland. In this interview, we learn more about her innovative research efforts, the inspiration b

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bioengineering-and-cell-derived-strategies-salivary-gland-regeneration-phd-interview-jiao-dong - 2026-07-05

This Regional Outlook focuses on the recent political developments in Syria and the implications for Rojava. What is currently happening in Syria?Syria is experiencing a significant escalation in violence, with the civil war reigniting in various regions. Islamist militants from the Syrian National Army (SNA) and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have made substantial territorial gains in the past week,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-fall-assad-regime-challenges-and-opportunities-rojava - 2026-07-05

On 8 April, it was time for the the annual table tennis tournament at LUSEM, and this year also marked its 11th anniversary! Finally it was that time again, time for table tennis at LUSEM. The tournament first started in 2013 but has had three breaks over the years, which is why the 10-year celebration took place last year. (See the fact box for more details on past years and winners.)This year 24

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-table-tennis-tournament-its-good-meetingpoint - 2026-07-05

Some time ago, I was asked, “What does Lund University want in terms of AI and research?” At first, I was a little surprised and thought, is the University to have an explicit position on this? But then I started thinking about the University’s other clearly-stated ambitions. We want to be a “world-class university,” we want to “understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.” S

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/are-we-use-ai-when-conducting-research - 2026-07-06

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor. För experter på coronakrisen, se vår separata expertlista: https://www.lu.se/article/expertlista-for-press-och-media-coronavirus Medicin och hälsa Bakterier, a

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2021-massor-av-experter-pa-sommarens-fragor - 2026-07-06

How do birds avoid collision when flying in dense foliage and other cramped environments with many obstacles? And what does flying in such complex environments entail for the birds? These were the questions Per Henningsson of Lund University in Sweden pondered before engaging the help of the family’s own pet budgie to get some answers. His study has now been published in Royal Society Open Science

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do you talk about a horrible and life-threatening condition in such a way as to make your audience aware of its existence, but without scaring them so much that they turn a deaf ear? And how do you get money for research into something that most people have barely heard about – or only know of under an old and par

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spreading-awareness-about-sepsis-common-life-threatening-condition - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swarming bats at mine entrance Photo:Jens Rydell During the day they are not visible. But at dusk, brown long-eared bats, pond bats and greater mouse-eared bats spread their wings and start hunting. LUM accompanied researcher and bat expert Jens Rydell to Hovdala castle for a bat inventory. The bat detector crackles a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/kings-night-take-over-hovdala-castle - 2026-07-05

Sweden has made significant strategic investments into the national infrastructure MAX IV, with world-unique instruments usable across disciplines. One emerging area is within medical sciences. MultiPark researchers now gather across research groups to facilitate the usage of these state-of-the-art techniques available just around the corner. MAXIV for high-resolution, sub-cellular X-ray measureme

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/maxiv-high-resolution-sub-cellular-x-ray-measurements-special-interest-group - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Metformin is the first-line drug that can lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. One third of patients do not respond to metformin treatment and 5 per cent experience serious side effects, which is the reason many choose to stop medicating. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now identified bi

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/metformin-type-2-diabetes-patients-or-not-researchers-now-have-answer - 2026-07-05

A novel research report maps how workers are experiencing efforts to decarbonise the steel industry in Sweden. It identifies how people’s expectation of change is marked by previous transitions, that blue- and white-collar workers view transitions differently, and how work is a source of great pride to people. "Our aim was to explore the societal impacts of change in different places. Through inte

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-workers-are-experiencing-efforts-decarbonise-steel-industry-sweden - 2026-07-05

No 59, 15 April 2026 Welcome to a new addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   Since the last edition we have added the course “AI in HPC”, which can be attended on-site in Stockholm and online.  We still take late registrations for the “Using Python in an HPC environment” event next week.   We remind on a number of events announced previously, which cover a wide range of topics.   Our new use

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-11 - 2026-07-05

The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of research-based policy briefs, including formatting and writing conventions, identifying and disseminating to an audience, and evaluating their impact. The workshop is a joint collaboration with the LU Agenda 2030 Graduate School and the Pufendorf Institute Advanced Study Group "Wildfires in the Anthropocene". Researchers are increasingly encour

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-writing-policy-briefs - 2026-07-05

On November 20, the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University hosted a highly topical seminar titled “It’s Time to Think About the Future of Palestine-Israel.” The event brought together over 50 participants and featured two distinguished speakers: Professor Haim Yacobi and Dr Rami Nasrallah, from University College London. “We are living in very challenging times, but t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-seminar-explores-shared-homeland-paradigm-palestine-israel - 2026-07-05

Lund University moves forward with the development project at Campus Helsingborg. In the next step, the pre-design phase, architects will present a sketch of a new layout of the University's premises. The architects do their work in dialogue with the University's project group. The plan is to forward a sketch for consideration to relevant actors within the University in the autumn of 2025."The pre

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/pre-design-phase-campus-helsingborg - 2026-07-05