During September and October, schoolchildren, seniors and other interested parties are examining the obstacles that exist in Swedish housing. Their tools in this work are a ruler and a mobile app. Photo: Martin Bergman/VA (Public & Science) During September and October, schoolchildren, seniors and other interested parties are examining the obstacles that exist in Swedish housing. Their tools in th

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The international Alzheimer day takes place on 21 September. About 100 000 people in Sweden suffer from Alzheimer, a disease which also affect many family members and relatives. At the same time promising research brings new hope, with many of the international recognized findings originating from Lund University. Since the beginning of 2021 the strategic research area MultPark has presented new a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/bigger-picture-alzheimers-disease - 2025-09-05

Photo: Tove Smeds Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovative research in the field of medical chemistry. How does it feel to receive this prestigious award? – It’s a great honour for me to be awarded the Berzelius Medal and for our research to receive such no

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Peter Bentzer, Professor of Anaesthesiology at Lund University and an anaesthesiologist at Helsingborg Hospital, is being honoured by the Swedish Society of Medicine for initiatives that reduce climate impact. You are being awarded the prize for the best possible care with the least possible environmental impact – what was the key to your success? – As doctors, we have the opportunity to identify

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Johan Malmström. Foto: Tove Smeds. On behalf of the Swedish Government, SciLifeLab develops and provides advanced technologies, instruments and expertise to researchers in academia, industry and healthcare throughout Sweden. Johan Malmström has served as Scientific Director of Integrated Structural Biology (ISB), one of the platforms within SciLifeLabs, since 1 June of this year. What is the platf

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Thoas Fioretos. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter. Since 1 June of this year, Thoas Fioretos, Professor of Clinical Genetics at Lund University and Senior Physician in Clinical Genetics and Pathology, Region Skåne, is leading the work of the national research infrastructure Clinical Genomics within SciLifeLab. SciLifeLab is a national infrastructure within the field of life science and offers cutting-edge tech

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Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. Photo: Göran Ekeberg. Christer Betsholtz, professor at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet, has been awarded the major Nordic Prize for 2021 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. This is one of Scandinavia’s largest research pr

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/prize-worth-millions-awarded-leading-blood-vessel-researcher - 2025-09-05

Karl Bacos, a researcher in diabetes and epigenetics, receives a generous grant from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Photo: Petra Olsson Three researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) receive generous grants from the Hjelt Diabetes Foundation in 2021. Ola Hansson, Karl Bacos and Malin Fex have been awarded 45 000 euros each for their research projects. A common aim is to develop a bett

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Anna Falk. Photo: Stefan Zimmerman. In healthcare, treatments developed for broad patient groups are often used. This is not always an effective approach. Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova has therefore distributed research grants to eleven Swedish innovation environments whose research aims to develop more individually adapted healthcare for patients. The stem cell researchers at the IndiCell in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sek-40-million-innovation-environment-customised-stem-cell-treatments - 2025-09-05

Jesper Sundewall and Björn Ekman. Photo: Tove Gilvad and Li Fernstedt Hello there, Björn Ekman and Jesper Sundewall! You’re both researchers in social medicine and global health at Lund University, and now you’ve been granted SEK 600,000 from the Expert Group for Aid Studies to study the effects of global health development aid. What are you going to do within the context of your research project?

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The Lund University research portal has been upgraded. The Lund University research portal has been upgraded. Welcome to explore old and new features. Lund University research portal gathers information and publications. In the portal you will find both thousands of individual researchers and a large number of research projects. Thanks to the use of a database (LUCRIS) there is excellent search po

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Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and Girls in China Series pu

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Mina Roces Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

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Monica Lindberg Falk has published the monograph Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand: Socio-cultural responses. Routledge Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia. This book addresses culture as an underpinning issue in post-disaster recovery,it uses original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to provide in-depth ethnography of Thailand’s recovery. With a foc

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We congratulate Asian studies alumna Montserrat López Jerez who will defend her doctoral dissertation "Deltas Apart : Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam" at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. The public defence takes place on December 19, 10:15 in EC3: 207.AbstractThis study provides an explanation of the different pathways

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Marina Svensson has been promoted to Professor of Modern China Studies. Marina has been with the Centre since 2004 and is currently engaged in several research projects. She is project leader for a project on the Chinese digital society, as well as engaged in research on cultural heritage issues and on the role of documentary film in China.Read more about Marina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/marina-svensson-has-been-promoted-full-professor - 2025-09-05

photo of Ann Kull from Sydsvenskan 2015-02-25 Article with Ann Kull in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish) Read the full article hereAnn is is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre and for more information about Ann’s research see here

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Dr. Ming-Chee Ang Dr. Ming-Chee Ang (better known to the students as Ming), the centre’s post-doctoral fellow (2013-2015) and currently a research fellow, has published her doctoral dissertation-turn-monograph, Institutions and Social Mobilization: The Chinese Education Movement in Malaysia, 1951-2011, in December 2014. According to Associate Professor Goh Beng Lan (Department of Southeast Asian S

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Tallyn Gray (UK), alumnus of the Master’s in Asian Studies A late congratulation to alumnus Tallyn Gray who received his PhD at the University of Westminsiter last summer!His dissertation “Justice and Transition in Cambodia, 1979-2014: Process, Meaning, and Narrative” has been shortlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2015.Read more about Tallyn’s research her

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/alumnus-tallyn-grays-dissertation-shortlisted-icas-book-prize - 2025-09-05

Ming’s new article on “Chinese Education for Malaysians” is now published by three influential Chinese education movement organisations in Malaysia: Merdeka University Berhad, LLG Cultural Development Centre,Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies. This article, presented during the 2014 Malaysia Chinese Education Conference, has critically analysed the issues and challenges faced by the six decades

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-dr-ming-chee-ang - 2025-09-05