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LU Holding focuses on supporting researchers/teaching staff and students who have ideas that can be transformed into companies. Using this approach, ideas and/or research results can contribute to creating growth and job opportunities in the region through the start-up of new companies. The innovation organisation at the University includes a wholly-owned holding company, LU Holding. The work of h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/converting-research-results-companies-do-you-know-about-lu-holding - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Charlotte Ling, researcher at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receives this year´s Novo Nordisk Foundation Excellence Project grant, five millions Danish crowns allocated during five years. Her project is about exploring whether epigenetic factors are underlying the development of Type 2 Diabetes. - This means very m

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/large-grant-exporing-epigenetics-diabetes - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers have discovered nematodes, or worms, in the brains of lizard embryos. This is the first time they have been found in reptile eggs, and it was previously believed that egg laying prevents parasites from being transmitted in this way. The discovery was made by an international research team led by Nathalie F

https://www.science.lu.se/article/worms-discovered-brain-lizard-embryos-first-time - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding. The Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) has appointed Hampus Nilsson's master thesis from LTH and Lund University's GIS Center to be the best master thesis within hydrology in 2017. Hampus

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/master-thesis-awarded-world-water-day - 2026-07-09

Region Skåne's biobank is part of Biobank Sweden. On July 1 2023, the new biobank law came into force, and in connection with this, the procedures for how you apply to gain access to the biobank's samples were updated. If you plan to use biobank samples for your research project where Lund University is the research principal, a biobank agreement with Region Skåne's biobank is required. A biobank

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/how-make-your-biobank-application - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year’s Fernström Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University is awarded to Professor Johan Malmström. He wins the award and prize of SEK 100 000 for his world-leading work on proteomics, a field of large scale protein analysis that charts the function and structure of pro

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lunds-fernstrom-prize-research-interaction-proteins - 2026-07-09

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/significant-increase-students-need-learning-support - 2026-07-10

Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2026-07-10

Malmö Opera begav sig ut för åttonde gången på lastbilsturné med en entimmes-version av Verdis klassiska verk Falstaff. I år kom uppsättningen dessutom på besök runtom 190 äldreboenden i Skåne. Den populära lastbilsturnén besökte 18 platser runtom i Skåne och bjöd in alla åldrar till gratisföreställningen Falstaff, baserad på Giuseppe Verdis opera med samma namn. På gator, hamnar och torg slog las

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/kultur-akademi-och-teknologi-mots-i-malmo-operas-falstaff - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. She is a new ‘Hedda’ professor, but has a long career behind her. Biologist Ellen van Donk now hopes that she can serve as a role model for female students who dream of a future career in research. Biologist Ellen van Donk is a new professor in Hedda Andersson’s name. LUM meets ecology researcher Ellen van Donk on a b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-professor-wants-be-role-model-female-students - 2026-07-09

Digitalisation and AI affect us all – whether we work in research, teaching, administration or management. In order to face the future with the right tools and knowledge, we have formed an Ad hoc group to support our employees in developing their expertise in digitalisation and AI. We are launching an AI course for all staff as the semester gets underway. It is a basic course, aimed at those who a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-ad-hoc-ai-group-bolster-staff-expertise-digitalisation-and-ai - 2026-07-10

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-rapid-and-robust-covid-19-antibody-test-developed - 2026-07-09

Lund University is investing in the development of leading international environments and interdisciplinary projects focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. Now the University is advertising nine new postdoctoral positions which together are to contribute to excellence in sustainability research. “The world is not sustainable. We must change the way we consume and produce. Knowledge i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nine-new-postdoctoral-positions-within-excellence-programme-sustainable-development - 2026-07-10

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.science.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2026-07-09

Christmas is approaching and we're all starting to look forward to couch time and the Christmas spirit. But before that, here are a few tips to help you relax. It is high time to apply for annual leave for the Christmas and New Year periodIf you are planning to take annual leave days in the Christmas and New Year period, it is high time to put in your application. Bear in mind that holidays are al

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ho-ho-ho-christmas-coming-first-few-tips-ahead-break - 2026-07-10

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund researcher Mauno Vihinen has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation to develop AI methods that in the long run enable improved cancer diagnosis. One of the researchers who has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation is Mauno Vihinen, professor of medical structural biology at the Department of Experiment

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/improved-and-tailored-prediction-methods-cancer - 2026-07-09

Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm received the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research at the annual LUDC Diabetes Research Day. "This award allows me to rest in the feeling that all the work I have done is good enough, at least for a short while,” said the recipient. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg is this year’s recipient of the Leif C. Groop

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-event-highlighted-findings-may-lead-new-treatments - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2026-07-09

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinese-photography-propaganda-social-documentary-and-art - 2026-07-09