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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a large hall on Margaretavägen in Lund, next to LDC, the air is full of the hum of computers. The supercomputers Alarik, Erik and Platon – the most powerful in southern Sweden – are busy computing complex problems that Lund University researchers are not able to solve on their own. At the moment, a simulation of a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunarc-universitys-powerhouse - 2026-05-05

Even though awareness of climate change is growing, it is not primarily environmental concern that drives consumers to choose plant-based foods — it’s the price tag. A new literature review from AgriFood Economics Centre and the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) shows that price plays a decisive role when consumers opt for plant-based rather than animal-based products. Hea

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/despite-climate-concerns-its-price-shapes-our-food-choices - 2026-05-06

From 5–6 February, Lund conference centre The Loop will host Sweden’s most important gathering for gender equality. Lund University is co-organiser, and it is the first time a higher education institution has been involved in organising this national conference. Local hosts, besides Lund University, are the City of Lund, Region Skåne and Skåne County Administrative Board. Equality Forum is Sweden’

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-co-organiser-equality-forum-2025 - 2026-05-06

Each year, the Lund Stem Cell Center presents its Article of the Year Award to acknowledge and celebrate the groundbreaking discoveries made by its members. For 2025, the Article of the Year Award was presented to Dr. Ervin Ascic from the Pereira Research Group for his research on in vivo reprogramming of cancer cells into immune cells, offering a new strategy for cancer immunotherapy. Now in its

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/turning-cancer-against-itself-ervin-ascic-awarded-2025-article-year-award - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do you make the regional craft beer industry more sustainable? Through direct collaboration with the sector to create “hyperlocal” solutions say researchers from LUCSUS who are growing hops at a local brewery in Skåne, Sweden. The aim is to test ways to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to regional,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researchers-are-testing-new-ways-make-your-beer-more-sustainable - 2026-05-05

The information age predates the internet by a long stretch – it began with life itself. Nobel Laureate Craig C. Mello described at the Lund Spring Symposium in May how living organisms are not merely carriers of genes, but also active managers, defenders, and editors of genetic information. Craig Mello, who received the Nobel Prize in 2006 for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi), together wi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/rnai-genetic-spark-information-inferno-cell - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), during the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz is currently the Research Director of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), where he is also a research professor.  As of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mickwitz-his-new-position-director-iiiee - 2026-05-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ”Bakom varje framgångsrik man står en kvinna”, säger ett gammalt talesätt. Hur är det då med framgångsrika kvinnor? Och hur är det med par där båda är framgångsrika – hur får de familjelivet att fungera? LUM har träffat Olle Melander och Marju Orho-Melander, som är bland universitetets mest pris- och anslagsbelönade

https://www.lu.se/artikel/planering-och-o-framgangsrikt-forskarpar - 2026-05-05

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Realising the European Open Science CloudThe European Open Science Cloud hub arrangerar ett fyra dagars online event ”Realising the European Open Science Cloud” den 16-19 november.Help create a FAIR research data landscape. Discover new tools and techniques and aggregate your services to the EOSC Portal! EOSChub, FR

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-november-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-0 - 2026-05-05

Take the opportunity to attend the upcoming Zeiss and Arivis workshop taking place at BMC in Lund. Zeiss will present the most cutting-edge solutions: The ZEISS LSM 9 family with Airyscan 2 – a walk-through of an exciting new confocal experience and how it can benefit your research Trust the Analysis: AI-driven image analysis for reliable results in less time. Lund Bioimaging Center (LBIC) user st

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/image-results-without-compromises - 2026-05-05

The first two days in Uppsala included a course on machine learning in epidemiology. The third day was a conference day with presentations from the large Swedish cohorts. PhD student Josefine Andreasson participated all three days and was a bit surprised: "Machine learning is more accessible than I thought!" Josefine Andreasson is a PhD student in epidemiology and population studies (EPI@Lund), an

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/lessons-learnt-8th-swedish-cohort-meeting-uppsala - 2026-05-05

Optimise lab routines, minimise unnecessary consumption of lab consumables, recycle when possible, and improve user behaviour. That’s some of the improvements that can make the Lund Nano Lab greener, according to the project that Sarah McKibbin gets funding for, from the Lund University Sustainability Fund. Sarah McKibbin, process and tool responsible research engineer at Lund Nano Lab, receives s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sarah-mckibbin-gets-funding-greening-lund-nano-lab - 2026-05-05

In their latest study, published in Nature Communications, the Parmar Lab has established midbrain organoids using silk microfibers as scaffolds, offering a refined in vitro model of human midbrain development. They have studied their silk midbrain organoids using single cell sequencing, proteomics and functional assessment in order to shed light on the developmental trajectory, maturation and sub

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/human-midbrain-organoids-grown-silk-recapitulate-midbrain-development-and-support-functionally - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international research team have discovered a peculiar object circling a red giant star. The celestial body is invisible but still has a strong impact on the star’s orbit. With the help of data simulations carried out at Lund University, the researchers have now been able to establish that the mysterious companion

https://www.science.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-have-tracked-black-hole-near-red-giant-star - 2026-05-05

Here we outline what is going on now, and what we are doing next with the autumn student applications. If you don’t yet have housing and wish to get an offer from us, you need to join this second application period, that opens next week. Closing the first applicationWe have already sent out the last offers of the first application period that started 28 April. Make sure to double-check your housin

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/closing-first-autumn-application-and-opening-second-application-period - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the spring of 2015 Lisa Hindström and Aleksandra Goreczna wrote their bachelor thesis about sex education in Grenada, after receiving an MFS scholarship for field studies. This is the report from their travels. When we decided to apply for a Minor Field Studies scholarship from The Swedish International Development

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2026-05-05

You will recognize them by the black uni tees, the 15 young summer workers now on site at BMC (mainly) who work hard to put all in place after the intense moving carousels. On the command bridge: Joel Johansson and Zippo Prajz, both at Medservice. Sure are busy and hot summer work days for 15 hard-working extra workers at Medfak right now. – They´re doing work at HSC as well as in buildings E, F,

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/swarm-summer-workers-putting-life-medfak-order - 2026-05-06

Are you curious about or want to share experiences about the evaluation of education and get more tools and inspiration? Register for the Faculty's annual quality conference, no later than 1 November. Jenni Erlandsson, Quality Coordinator, who is involved in arranging the Faculty's annual quality conference, Forum Kvalitet, tells us more about the conference and the Faculty's quality assurance wor

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/facultys-quality-conference-wants-engage-more-people-teaching-quality - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. More than 900 students has graduated from the LUMES programme since it started in 1997. We asked some of our current students what they think about the programme, and list the top 10 best things about LUMES. Testimonials from LUMES students (2020) You learn a lot about sustainability, society, human relationships and

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/top-10-best-things-about-lumes-programme - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledge of the actual causes and the interplay between genetics

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2026-05-05