Sedan början av 2000-talet kan patienter med svår typ 1-diabetes behandlas med insulinproducerande betaceller. En utmaning med transplantation är biverkningar av immundämpande läkemedel. För att slippa detta och minska risken för celldöd prövas nu en ny metod på Akademiska sjukhuset där insulinproducerande ö-celler kapslas in och får syre genom en inbyggd syrgastank. – Vi är först i världen med at

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/kapsel-ska-bevara-insulinceller-efter-transplantation - 2025-08-27

Today Ulf Dahlstrand nailed his doctoral thesis. Ulf will defend his thesis on March 20th. 

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-doctoral-thesis - 2025-08-27

On Friday March 20th, Ulf Dahlstrand successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Diagnostic Tools for Skin and Periorbital Cancer: Exploring Photoacoustic Imaging and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy" The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the faculty opponent associate professor Marcelo Ayala, the examination committee members and the supervisors present.The disse

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/ulf-dahlstrand-have-successfully-defended-his-phd - 2025-08-27

On Friday May 22nd, Linda Thorisdottir successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Visual Screening of Amblyopia, new Techniques and Surgical Solutions for Strabismus."   The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the local examination committee members and the supervisors present. The faculty opponent Professor Olav H Haugen, from Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, No

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/linda-thorisdottir-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-08-27

On June 11th and 12th medial students Benjamin Sjögren and Yousef Hamid successfully presented their master thesis.Benjamin's thesis investigated non-invasive hyperspectral imaging in skin cancer diagnostics. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In order to improve patient survival through early diagnosis, and to minimize the risk of non-radical removal of tumors, sever

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/congratulations-benjamin-sjogren-and-yousef-hamid-who-successfully-presented-their-master-thesis - 2025-08-27

We welcome two new master thesis student this fall! Medical student Douglas Larsson Albèr will investigate spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for boarders demarkation of melanoma. Medical student Ivan Nikolic will investigate Spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for borders demarkation of non-melanoma skin cancer. The students will be supervised by Professor Malin Malmsjö and the research team.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/we-welcome-new-master-students - 2025-08-27

Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuity, colour vision (tested with Sahlgren's Saturation Test or the Ishihara colour vision test) or t

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-08-27

On September 11th 2020 Professor Malin Malmsjö presented at the 2020 symposium on Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound in Translation Research in Paris, France.The talk Clinical Applicationsof Photoacoustic Imaging Combined with Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound was included in the Future Development Session.This 12 min talk give a general overview and the latest findings in some of the research projects

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/talk-uhf-symposium - 2025-08-27

At the Photoacoustic Center we want to inspire the future generation of engineers and researchers! As a part of this, we have invited Mustafa Rajabi to do his High School Thesis within the Photoacoustic Center. Mustafa is studying his final year at the technical program and will work on developing a new analytical program and interface for our spectroscopy equipment. By combining his knowledge fro

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/inspiring-future-generation-engineers-and-researchers - 2025-08-27

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/project-update-non-invasive-skin-tumor-diagnosis - 2025-08-27

On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-08-27

Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-27

Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-08-27

Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-08-27

Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will take place on November 7 at “Forskningens dag”.Congratulations, Åsa!Read more (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-08-27

Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulations Rana!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-08-27

Hannie Lundgren, Head of Research at Region Skåne, Åsa Petersén and Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Dean at the Faculty of Medicine. Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-08-27

TNU är värd för ett råd- och stödgruppsmöte för Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom i Skåne torsdagen den 1:e juni kl 18.00 - 20.00.Program:18.00-18.10 Välkomna och introduktion av Susanne Zell, RHS18.10-18.40 Föredrag om den senaste forskningen av Åsa Petersén, Lunds Universitet18.40-19.10 Rundtur på forskningslaboratorium om Huntingtons sjukdom19.10-20.00 Fika och diskussion om anhörigförening

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-berattar-om-den-senaste-forskningen-riksforbundet-huntingtons-sjukdom-den-1e-juni-2017 - 2025-08-27

On July 31st 2008, Åsa Petersén was interviewed on Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Radio P1. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/radio-interview-asa-petersen - 2025-08-27

Gåva ger hopp om att stoppa grym sjukdom (in Swedish only)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sydvenskan-article-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-27