Välkänt är att åldrande gör att blodkärlen blir mindre flexibla och mer sårbara. Med stelare kärl riskerar blodtrycket att öka. Påfrestningen av ett högt blodtryck kan om det vill sig illa orsaka aorta-aneurysm, bråck på pulsådern. Foto: iStock Genom att skapa ett konstgjort åldrande hos möss, har lundaforskare kunnat följa hur aneurysm – pulsåderbråck – utvecklas i blodkärlens väggar. Ett resulta

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-signalvag-skydd-mot-hogt-blodtryck-upptackt-av-lundaforskare - 2025-09-12

Vombsjön i grönska. Foto: Karin Rengefors Miljövetaren Emma Enström är CEC:s första industridoktorand och hennes forskning syftar till att skapa en mer hållbar vattenförvaltning i Sverige. Nu deltar hon i Sweden Water Research-dagen och berättar om utmaningarna när det gäller den skånska dricksvattenkällan Vombsjön. Som industridoktorand är Emma Enström anställd både av Centrum för miljö- och klim

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/industridoktorand-pa-cec-soker-hallbara-losningar-skanes-dricksvatten - 2025-09-11

Juliana Dänhardt och Anna-Karin Poussart leder arbetet med Policylabb Storkriket. Bild: Anna Maria Erling Hur kan man bäst arbeta över kommun- och sektorsgränser för att stötta klimatanpassning genom naturbaserade lösningar på landsbygden? Det är en av flera frågor som Policylabb Storkriket, ett Formasfinansierat innovationsprojekt, ska ge svar på. Initiativet kommer från LU Land vid CEC på Lunds

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/policylabb-storkriket-klimatanpassning-over-granserna-genom-naturbaserade-losningar - 2025-09-11

Åke Lernmark prisas för sin forskargärning inom diabetesforskning. Foto: Tove Smeds Åke Lernmark har lett forskargrupper i tre olika länder, handlett 33 doktorander till disputation och byggt upp TEDDY-studien som genererat mer än 150 publikationer. Han är rankad som en av världens främsta experter inom sitt fält, diabetes typ 1, med över 40 100 citeringar i vetenskapliga tidskrifter. I oktober to

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/prisad-sin-forskargarning-och-sitt-innovativa-ledarskap - 2025-09-11

Lila Lee-Morrison, Alison Gerber, ­Tobias Olofsson och Isak Engdahl ingår i forskningsprojektet ”Show and tell”. Foto: Minna Wallén-Widung När sociologen Alison Gerber fick 1,5 miljoner euro från EU skulle hon för första gången sätta ihop och leda en egen forskargrupp. Att gå in i rollen som forskargruppsledare har varit kul, men också en utmaning. Alison Gerber är ny som forskargruppledare och ef

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/en-egen-forskargrupp-roligt-och-utmanande - 2025-09-12

FOTO: MARIA_SBYTOVA/Smartphotos De flesta kvinnor kommer någon gång under sitt yrkesliv att befinna sig i klimakteriet. Hur kan en arbetsplats riggas för att underlätta för anställda i övergångsåldern? Ett pilotprojekt vid Lunds universitet undersöker frågan. Svettningar, humörsvängningar och dålig sömn. Många kvinnor lider av att vara i klimakteriet. Enligt en studie från 2021 publicerad av Socia

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-kan-lu-bli-en-mer-klimakterievanlig-arbetsplats - 2025-09-12

Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weekend (26 September to 3 October 2024). In her PhD project Steinunn has been exploring sustainable

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2025-09-11

Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg receives the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research for research on the adipose tissue. Photograph: Johan Wingborg This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some people with obes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2025-09-11

Claus-Christian Eckhardt, the Director of the School of Industrial Design is relieved. Photo: Erik Andersson A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-09-11

1.5 million Swedes and 850 million people globally suffer from migraines, a condition that Lars Edvinsson has been researching for almost forty years. Practically every day over the past year, he has received thank you letters from all over the world from patients whose lives have been transformed thanks to new medication based on his research. However, the path leading to this point has been long

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/migraine-researcher-who-bucked-trend - 2025-09-11

Christian Balkenius is not worried about robots taking over and becoming smarter than us. " Not in my lifetime, in any case", he reassures. Photo:Maria Lindh How do you get a robot to behave in an ethical and moral way? Christian Balkenius is giving this a lot of thought, as it is the topic of his research project. However, he is also thinking about ethics among robot researchers.  “It’s often sai

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/robots-not-so-smart-we-would-think - 2025-09-11

Maria Nilsson and her husband and fellow researcher John Ward looks at a find. Photo: Anders Andersson The archaeology team gets up with the sun at five o’clock each morning. They then work for seven hours under the burning sun in the middle of nowhere in Egypt’s desert landscape among venomous scorpions and lizards. They only stop work for lunch and a typical Egyptian chai tea break. “The most co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leading-archaeological-super-team-banks-nile - 2025-09-11

Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weekend (26 September to 3 October 2024).In her PhD project Steinunn has been exploring sustainable

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2025-09-11

From climate anxiety to death cafés and end-of-life care, Jamie Woodworth is honoured for research that brings care and death into the public conversation. What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing wi

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/when-care-becomes-luxury-jamie-woodworth-end-life-care-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-09-11

A locked toilet station in the Gazdar Bandh informal settlement in Mumbai. – Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS. Her research foc

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2025-09-11

What was the rear of the King’s House has become the front, with the creation of new entrance through a former window recess now opening onto University Square. Photo. Kennet Ruona The packing crates are emptied, new furniture is in place, the art is hung, and the tech is working. The Offices of the Vice-Chancellor and staff have moved into the King’s House. The new entrance opens onto the Univers

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-beginning-kings-house - 2025-09-12

Leave or renovate and expand? Kemicentrum plays a central role in two of the three alternatives for where the departments of chemistry and physics will be located in the future. Photo: Kennet Ruona Where will the chemists and the physicists be located in the future? A recent report shows that it will be much more expensive to move to Science Village than if they stay on Sölvegatan. The evaluation

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/major-cost-differences-when-comparing-science-village-options - 2025-09-12

As one of four young researchers at Lund University, Ingrid van Dijk, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History at LUSEM and researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography, receives an ERC Starting Grant. Her project is titled “Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations”. She is the first researcher ever from Lund U

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-economic-historian-ingrid-van-dijk-project-health - 2025-09-11

Petru Liuba checks Arvid's heart before the operation. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Two-year-old Arvid will soon undergo his third heart operation. This time, the procedure will be safer and quicker, due to a new simulation method that researchers have developed for children with heart disease. It is Monday afternoon in Ward 67 at Skåne University Hospital and in one of the rooms, two-year-old Arvid is h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tragic-loss-led-research-project - 2025-09-12

When Han Somsen recommended to limit the free outdoor movement of cats based on the EU’s Birds Directive and Habitats Directive it resulted in what can be described as a perfect storm. Photo: Andrzej Puchta/ Shutterstock Han Somsen has newly been appointed professor in environmental law at the Faculty of Law. He is best known for his recommendation that bird-killing cats should be kept indoors. “H

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/law-professor-who-wants-put-nature-above-law - 2025-09-12