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Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question.Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of studi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-01

Meet the new guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) Mary Beth Terry from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, US. Mary Beth Terry was recently employed as guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre from March 2025 until 2028. She will be working 10% of full time and her employment is supported by LUCC and Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation.She recently visited Lund

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/meet-new-guest-professor-cancer-epidemiology-and-prevention - 2026-05-01

Kerstin Enflo is a professor of economic history at Lund University School of Economics and Management. For the past year, she has been a member of The Economic Sciences Prize Committee. We catch up with her just after Claudia Goldin, professor of economic history at Harvard University, was announced as this year’s winner. Hi there, Kerstin Enflo! You are an economic historian and in your first ye

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/kerstin-enflo-her-first-year-economics-prize-committee - 2026-05-01

As part of the work with Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE), Lund University is announcing calls for funding to stimulate collaboration and activities that strengthen our international impact in research, education, innovation and cooperation.  The purpose of the seed funds is to pave the way for new collaborations with leading international universities and create exchanges of experience that furthe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-funding-international-collaborations-and-activities-2026 - 2026-04-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden. The language has been given the name Jedek. “Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture”, says Joanne Yager, doct

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/listen-unknown-language-discovered-southeast-asia - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. … Professor of Functional Zoology and Cancer Cell Biology, who is helping to develop a world-class cell culture laboratory in Bolivia. It is part of a SIDA-funded project to study how medicinal plants can influence cancer cells. What is your collaboration with Bolivia like? “This is the third in a line of SIDA-funded

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-stina-oredssonabout-collaboration-bolivia - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sustainability in education should be an issue for the University leadership, as well as researchers and teachers, according to Anne Jerneck and Kim Nicholas, both researchers at LUCSUS.Reflecting on Wednesday’s event for students and staff, on the theme “sustainability in education”, organised by Sustainability Forum

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainability-education-should-be-issue-university-leadership-say-lucsus-researchers - 2026-05-01

Father and son collected soda cans, begged and froze in a tent. Now they both work in our restaurant kitchen. Marian Hristov is 26 and tries hard not to think about what it was like back then. When he collected soda cans, begged and lived in a tent."It wasn't good," he says in fine Swedish when we meet in the warmth of Stamstället in Forum Medicum, after the lunch session."I'm quite shy, it was ha

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/stamstallet-life-bright-side-now-father-and-son - 2026-05-01

LTH, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and Volvo Cars have signed an agreement to strengthen existing research collaborations and identify new areas for mutual benefit and development – and in this way contribute to solutions for sustainability. The partnership focuses on five areas: electrification, wireless communications, security-critical software, circular materials, and machine learn

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2022/new-collaboration-between-lth-and-volvo-cars-ambition-sustainable-growth-innovation-attractiveness - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong projec

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2026-05-01

The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and Volvo Cars have signed an agreement to strengthen existing research collaborations and identify new areas for mutual benefit and development – and in this way contribute to solutions for sustainability. The partnership focuses on five areas: electrification, wireless communications, security-critical software, circular materials, and machine learni

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-lund-university-and-volvo-cars - 2026-05-01

2018-08-21 The post-Arrival Day waiting list Housing applicants present at our Housing lottery on Arrival day, that did not receive a housing offer, have been placed on the post-Arrival day waiting list. This new waiting list follows the order established through the Housing lottery process. This list is now considered as the new LU Accommodation waiting list for the Autumn 2018 academic term. If

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2018 - 2026-05-01

The year is 2072, and the worst storm in two hundred years is about to hit Scania, in the south of Sweden. In Skanör-Falsterbo, a family is celebrating Christmas when the storm alarm sounds. The waves draw closer to the house, and the family dash towards the nearby church. What happens next is the result of many decades of decisions: did we work together, or did the lines of conflict become even d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/soundwalk-imagines-climate-future - 2026-05-01

On Friday the 4 March, the university's anniversary was celebrated. Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström began with a speech on the current world situation: Honoured emeriti vice-chancellors, honoured deans, students, colleagues and guests, In the foreword to the annual academic ceremony programme, you will see a summary of what this speech was intended to be about. Today, after a dark week that will cha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/speech-annual-academic-ceremony-4-march-2022 - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease is often difficult, as several other conditions can cause similar symptoms. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered a blood marker that can accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s in the early stages of the disease. ‟This is a major breakthrough. I believe this blood test ca

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/blood-test-enables-early-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University Board has appointed Lena Eskilsson as deputy vice-chancellor of Lund University 2021-2026. Eskilsson is a senior lecturer in human geography and has many years’ experience in education and leadership issues at Lund University. Since 2018, she has been the pro dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. “It

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lena-eskilsson-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2026-05-01

The 24th of October we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Marthe Nehl nailed her doctors thesis ”Infrastructuring independent cultural production: Empirical and conceptual explorations”. Nehl is defending her thesis during a defence the 19th of November. "This thesis, which is in the interdisciplinary realm of service studies, addresses current debates in

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/marthe-nehl-nailed-her-dissertation - 2026-05-01

Join us and make connections, discover and celebrate innovation during an inspiring lunch event on September 10th that celebrates research-driven solutions that can shape the future, at the Future Innovations Awards 2025. During the event, the finalists will give short inspiring pitches of their innovations, giving you an overview of exciting innovation projects at Lund University.  Trend analyst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/come-and-celebrate-finalists-future-innovations-award-during-inspiring-lunch-event - 2026-05-02

In recent years, Lund University has invested heavily in emphasising the role of culture and the arts in education, research and innovation. To support teaching practitioners in this work, money for seed funding was announced last autumn – a chance to support new projects that will bring culture into the teaching practitioners work in creative ways. In total, 18 exciting applications were received

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-projects-receive-seed-funding-integrate-arts-and-culture-education-and-research - 2026-05-02

Five questions to Anna Meyer, who just had her thesis defence. What is you research about? My work concerns the changing disease and mortality patterns among the old in Sweden since the 1990s. Using nationwide register data I explore how the occurrence and survival of different diseases has changed in the total population and in different groups (e.g. socioeconomic groups, men and women, or health

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/trends-population-health-era-increasing-longevity-new-sweah-dissertation - 2026-05-01