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Vartannat år delar Nordiska gerontologiska förbundet ut det mest prestigefyllda priset inom gerontologi, Sohlbergpriset på 10 000 euro. Priset tilldelas en forskare som är ledande inom området gerontologi, verksam i ett nordiskt land och som har haft stort inflytande på utvecklingen inom åldrandeforskningen. 2022 års pristagare är professor Susanne Iwarsson vid Lunds universitet. Priset delas ut u
Klimatkrisen är allvarlig. Lika allvarlig är utarmningen av den biologiska mångfalden i världen. Forskning och arbete sker för att lindra båda kriserna. Problemet är att åtgärderna hittills inte har samordnats. I en internationell studie pekar forskare på vikten av att ta hänsyn till båda kriserna samtidigt, både inom forskning och vad gäller konkreta åtgärder. – Klimatåtgärder kan inte bortse frå
https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/forskare-varnar-utan-samsyn-kan-varken-klimat-eller-biodiversitet-raddas - 2025-11-19
The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded grants within Medicine and health 2024. Our total grant amount for 2024-2030 is more than 1, 26 billion SEK. The Swedish Research Council has announced its grant recipients for Medicine and Health 2024. This year, the acceptance rate for project grants, which typically hovers between 20–28 percent, dropped to a challenging
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-ddls-lund-fellows-awarded-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-19
What kind of an image of yourself do you present on social media? And why? Carys Egan-Wyer, researcher in Consumer Culture, believes that in some ways leisure time has become a type of work. Showing off the perfect meals, gardens and jogging sessions also says something about us and our time. You probably know what it's like. Despite the burnt pots and sauce all over the stove: a photo of a beauti
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leisure-time-ordeal-enjoy - 2025-11-20
With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the south of Sweden, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been working at Lund University Hospital over the holiday period and into the new year, supporting Region Skåne. Johann
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-help-fight-against-covid-19 - 2025-11-20
Florencia Ravenna, from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires in Argentina, was an exchange student at LTH in the autumn semester of 2014 and spring semester of 2015. Exchange student Florencia Ravenna. Why did you choose to be an exchange student on the other side of the Atlantic? – I wanted to experience living in a different culture and society, and Scandinavian countries have interested me
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-i-felt-real-student - 2025-11-19
Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 agreement suggests that markets will play a central role, but there are significant problems with this approach. Carbon removal, also known as “negative emissions”, is the process
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2025-11-19
Realising the European Open Science CloudThe European Open Science Cloud hub arrangerar ett fyra dagars online event ”Realising the European Open Science Cloud” den 16-19 november.Help create a FAIR research data landscape. Discover new tools and techniques and aggregate your services to the EOSC Portal! EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and
https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-november-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-0 - 2025-11-19
Martiné Wlosinska, medical doctor and PhD student, will be defending her thesis titled “Preventing Cardiovascular Disease. Complementary precision medicine” on the 26th of November. In this interview, Martiné tells us about the effect of aged garlic extract on progression of cardiovascular disease and the importance of treating patients on a personalized level. Can you tell us more about your PhD
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martine-wlosinska - 2025-11-19
Antikroppar är kroppens superhjältar som känner igen och röjer undan sjukdomsframkallande ämnen. Genom att kombinera delar från antikroppar har forskare vid Lunds universitet designat en hybridantikropp som bättre stimulerar immunförsvaret mot både SARS-CoV-2-virus och streptokockbakterier. – Hybridantikroppen är betydligt bättre än kroppens egna antikroppar på att bekämpa såväl streptokocker som
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/receptet-pa-en-fantastisk-antikropp - 2025-11-20
Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perform surgery. But, of course, this is not enough. A major change is needed. Seibatu
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-11-19
Odeum’s autumn programme includes lots of exciting concerts and conversations about music. The autumn’s events begin with a European guest performance as our own ensembles welcome the German national youth choir, Bundesjugendchor, (14 September). A little later in the autumn, yet another first-class performance awaits when the distinguished S:t Jacobs Vocal Ensemble from Stockholm visit the Lund C
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experience-odeums-series-concerts-and-events-autumn - 2025-11-20
During the foetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the foetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund University demonstrate that one of these foetal programs appears to protect against acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). “We have used an experimental mouse model that always results in this type of leukaemia. The interesting thing
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-insights-foetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia - 2025-11-19
We should not be afraid to joke about one another’s ethnic background. Used with sensitivity, such jokes can instead help to challenge the stereotypical image of immigrants, according to Lund University sociologist Henriette Frees Esholdt, who has studied humour at a multi-ethnic workplace in Denmark. Henriette Frees Esholdt’s study was carried out in a large organisation in the hospitality sector
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-humour-multicultural-workplaces - 2025-11-19
A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that slows down the disease. But Huntington researcher and psychiatrist Åsa Petersén works
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-11-19
The use of technologies to support teaching was essential during the pandemic. But what can they do to support education at a campus university in ‘normal’ times? Here are four reasons why the university might want to plan strategically for the use of digital learning to enhance campus experiences. Continue reading and you will find out more in this opinion piece by Rachel Forsyth. Photo: Ben Davi
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/why-bother-blended-learning - 2025-11-19
Redan i 20-årsåldern uppträder förändringar i muskelcellernas kraftverk som minskar kapaciteten att producera energi och utsöndrar höga halter skadliga fria syreradikaler. Förändringarna kan innebära försämrade förmåga att kontrollorera blodsockret. Fynden har gjorts när forskarna jämförde unga typ 1 diabetiker med jämnåriga icke-diabetiker. Båda grupperna var lika aktiva med regelbunden fysisk tr
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/aven-fysiskt-aktiva-typ-1-diabetiker-har-muskelkomplikationer - 2025-11-20
Ambedkar University calls for papers for conference on "Northeast India and Southeast Asia: Exploring Continuities" to be held 25-26 October 2018 in New Delhi, India. Northeast India, located on India's periphery, is a region whose socio-cultural world exhibits more similarities with Southeast Asia region than with that of South Asia. Such perceptive characterisation of the Northeast region, howev
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-northeast-india-and-southeast-asia - 2025-11-19
