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Should patients with separate variants of type 2 diabetes be treated with different types of drugs? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital will attempt to answer that question in a new study.   Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world. It is estimated that over 300 million people have the disease globally. “Current treatment methods are un

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-personalized-type-2-diabetes-treatment-launched - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Should patients with separate variants of type 2 diabetes be treated with different types of drugs? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital will attempt to answer that question in a new study. Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world. It is estimated that over

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-personalized-type-2-diabetes-treatment-launched - 2026-06-29

Ville Maisi, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and researcher at NanoLund, has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant worth SEK 28 million for the QPHOTON project. The research will focus on building microwave detectors over a five-year period. Most people associate microwaves with the small ovens found in many kitch

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/measurement-microwave-photons-could-reveal-mysteries-universe - 2026-06-29

On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the 59th PhD student to complete doctoral studies at the Sociology of Law Department. Serrano Cardona's dissertation aims to better understand the constraints and possibilities of mun

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Deadline June 11 Joint MERGE and BECC funding instrument for Short Projects MERGE Short Projects MERGE workshops MERGE welcomes proposals for 1. short research projects for the years 2021-22 with the MERGE Research Strategy 2020-2025 as a point of departure. 2. MERGE workshops during 2021 3. MERGE-BECC joint short pro

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/3-merge-calls-open - 2026-06-29

Now that most people are back from their holidays, activities resume where they left off before the summer. Over the autumn, the Workplace of the Future project will focus on remote working among technical and administrative staff. The annual follow-up on secondary employment has come in and shows that we have become better at reporting, but there is still room for improvement. The Workplace of th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-semester-continued-development-and-improvements - 2026-06-29

Beneath our feet, there is a bustling world of life that is crucial to both food and climate. Yet we often take this hidden ecosystem for granted. With new technology, research and culture, soil ecologist Edith Hammer and her colleagues, together with artist duo (p)Art of the Biomass, are opening a whole new window to the underground and a world few of us have seen. Edith Hammer is a soil ecologis

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/window-underground-where-soil-science-meets-culture - 2026-06-29

Beneath our feet, there is a bustling world of life that is crucial to both food and climate. Yet we often take this hidden ecosystem for granted. With new technology, research and culture, soil ecologist Edith Hammer and her colleagues, together with artist duo (p)Art of the Biomass, are opening a whole new window to the underground and a world few of us have seen. Edith Hammer is a soil ecologis

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/window-underground-where-soil-science-meets-culture - 2026-06-29

The donation means an opportunity to think more long-term and with greater ambitions. "Our hope is that we will be able to accelerate the development of new treatments for cancer patients," says Kristian Pietras, one of the researchers responsible for the donation. Cancer researchers at Lund University have been awarded a record donation of SEK 420 million from the Mrs. Berta Kamprad Foundation. K

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/420-million-donation-we-are-very-grateful-and-excited-coming-years - 2026-06-29

The international conference EuroNanoForum 2023, funded by the EU and Vinnova, and organized by us at NanoLund together with Chalmers, brought together leading scientists, innovators, and policymakers from Europe, USA, and China to discuss groundbreaking research and foster collaboration. It gathered almost 400 participants, including the Swedish Minister of Education Mats Persson, the Director Ge

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/listen-learn-and-then-act - 2026-06-29

Education is often compared to a journey – throughout your life, you continue to fill up your store of knowledge through training and experience from various sources. From the Vice-Chancellor's blog: The doctoral graduates have completed just such a journey – they have presented their doctoral theses, hopefully full of the new knowledge and insights they have acquired on their path through life an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/salve-time-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-here-again - 2026-06-29

Lund University is strengthening its position as one of Europe's leading universities and ranks the highest among the Nordic universities in the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2026. ”At Lund University we conduct research and education that truly makes a difference. That we are now ranked as the leading university in the Nordic region and as number one in the world for sustainability, is bot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-number-one-nordic-region - 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After climate change, biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world today. The loss of plant and animal species also means a loss of the resources that humans obtain from well-functioning ecosystems. At Lund University, a project is underway in which researchers are studying how work to cou

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/green-infrastructure-planning-and-designing-functioning-nature - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For a mathematician, the waves of the sea are related to differential equations, and particularly complex ones at that. Mathematical research can help to improve understanding of how waves form and move – which could be useful, for example, in the work to predict dangerous monster waves. The sunlight glistens on the r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/monster-waves-mathematical-challenge - 2026-06-29

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is once again hosting a cohort of students from the University of Virginia as part of the UVA in Sweden: Global Sustainability Consulting program, now in its 11th edition. The Institute is the students' base for the duration of the program, welcoming the group to Lund. Modeled after the long-running UVA i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/uva-global-sustainability-consulting-students-return-iiiee-programs-11th-edition - 2026-06-29

Lund University is announcing new funding for thematic collaborative initiatives, TSI, for the period 2023-2025. Up to four initiatives will receive funding of SEK 1 million per year over three years Applications must be multi-disciplinary and include at least three faculties as well as at least one external partner, preferably more. New for this call is that it will also welcome applications that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/information-meeting-1-june-new-call-funding-thematic-cooperation-initiatives - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first phase was filled with creativity and collective effort. Elsa Trolle Önnerfors was surprised by how smooth the transition to distance education was. However, now the focus is more on how students are feeling and on perseverance – for how long is unknown "I used a year's worth of creativity in the first few we

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-phase-requires-stamina-and-consideration - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS has established new cooperation in the context of the Inner Green Deal Initiative. The aim is to research and support personal qualities and methods that can enable the activation of sustainable climate action. The initiative is a collaboration between LUCSUS and the training company Awaris. The initiative seek

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-addresses-human-dimension-climate-action - 2026-06-29

The history of Swedish day-care is examined in a new study that provides insight into Sweden's day-care system during the early 20th century. Together with Luciana Quaranta, Annika Elwert has looked at which factors influenced enrolment in day-care centres in southern Sweden for children born between 1900 and 1935. The study shows that at the beginning of the 20th century it was unusual for childr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/who-was-swedish-day-care-meant - 2026-06-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2026-06-29