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The First and second cycle programmes board (GUN) held a meeting on 27 March. Topics discussed included the Ladok function for adapted classroom exams, confidentiality regarding exam questions, ESU, the new allocation model, GU premises, digital exams and reading lists. Read more in the minutes of the meeting (In Swedish; new tab; PDF; 256 kB).
https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/minutes-guns-meeting-273-26 - 2026-05-19
The First and second cycle programmes board will meet on 8 May at 1.15 pm in Tanken (E-D143) in the Ecology Building. The following items are on the agenda:Opening of the meetingAppointment of a minute-takerAdoption of the agendaMinutes of the previous meeting (In Swedish; new tab; pdf; 256 kB)External announcements – the faculty:GAI for course evaluation and course analysis – opportunity to trial
https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/agenda-gun-meeting-85-26 - 2026-05-19
Deadline is January 20, 2025. Johan Flygare, Coordinator of the Swedish National ATMP Research School, explains more about the school and why you should apply in this interview from last year, made by Intramed. What is ATMP? ATMP (Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products ) is a term used by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for medicines that are based on genes, tissues or cells. ATMPs represent a
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/call-applications-swedish-national-atmp-research-school-202526 - 2026-05-19
The Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) invites all teachers and educational staff at Lund University to a new Educational Inspiration Day. The day will be packed with exciting lectures, engaging workshops, and practical tips that you can apply directly to your teaching. It’s also a great opportunity to connect with colleagues and share experiences across faculty boundaries.More inform
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/join-us-inspiring-day-26-may-2025 - 2026-05-20
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When David Gisselsson Nord, a cancer researcher at Lund University in Sweden, read a history book last summer, he was struck by the similarities between how cancer and insurgencies evolve over time. Could military strategy be used as inspiration for cancer treatment? He teamed up with Robert Egnell at the Swedish Defe
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-what-cancer-research-can-learn-military-strategy - 2026-05-19
Clay is a material that has been used since ancient times for protecting, building and carrying things. If we learn more about how to change various properties of clays, such as through the addition of certain molecules or salts, we can use them for new and sustainable products in the fields of medicine, architecture and building materials. The strategic research area eSSENCE supports a new collab
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/clay-ancient-material-great-future - 2026-05-19
Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2? In a study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, this was investigated by redesigning antibodies and combining them against the virus. The modified antibodies have been tested in human cells and with mice. Many antibodies used to treat covid infection during the pandemic have been so-called neutralizin
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cocktail-modified-antibodies-provides-strong-effect-against-sars-cov-2 - 2026-05-19
Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available. Fish lizards, or ichthyosaurs, were a very successful group of animals that, much like today's whales, migrated f
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2026-05-19
We should not be afraid to joke about one another’s ethnic background. Used with sensitivity, such jokes can instead help to challenge the stereotypical image of immigrants, according to Lund University sociologist Henriette Frees Esholdt, who has studied humour at a multi-ethnic workplace in Denmark. Henriette Frees Esholdt’s study was carried out in a large organisation in the hospitality sector
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-humour-multicultural-workplaces - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A chance meeting in a Yokohama pub led Lund University researcher Andreas Johansson straight to the heart of the Japanese Yakuza mafia. For two weeks, he was “embedded” with a well-known Yakuza clan, enabling him to document their tattoos through photography. He is now releasing his book of photos ”Yakuza Tattoo”. In
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-glimpse-world-japanese-mafia-tattoos - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University is once again the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 74,620 students who applied to autumn 2017 Master’s degree programmes at Swed
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-choice-sweden-international-applicants - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a water purification plant that provides clean water far beyond the reach of the electrical grid – thanks to solar cells. With the help of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, these small and portable solar cell stations have now been placed across rural B
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-solar-cells-help-purify-water-remote-areas - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In their quest to find new and better methods to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment, Karin Lindkvist and her research group at Lund University in Sweden are looking into the world of molecules, using the X-rays at the MAX IV laboratory. The researchers believe that limiting the cells' access to sugar will
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A group of engineering students at Lund University in Sweden noticed that there were no vegan cake mixes available on the Swedish market. They set to work and came up with a dry mix that only requires the addition of oil and water. The final product contained no eggs or wheat flour, making it vegan as well as gluten-f
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-develop-vegan-gluten-free-mud-cake-mix - 2026-05-19
Three researchers from Lund University in Sweden have been awarded grants by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation totalling SEK 87 million for research on the semiconductors for the future, our immunological memory and next-generation immunotherapies. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has awarded SEK 835 million in grants to 30 projects in medicine, the natural sciences and engineering
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-awarded-knut-and-alice-wallenberg-foundation-grants - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in the US, have investigated one such alternative. “We were able to show that a tai
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2026-05-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2026-05-19
