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Refugee influx calls for a new university roleHow can Lund University respond to the call for action with regard to the ongoing refugee influx? Tareq Emtairah, back at the IIIEE after three years working on renewable energy in the Arab region, suggests a programme facilitating for refugee students and academics to contribute to post-conflict sustainability in their home regions. When we meet in hi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-tareq-emtairah - 2026-01-09

Every year, the Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation awards three diabetes researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) each a project grant of 47,500 euro. One of the researchers awarded a grant this year studies atherosclerotic plaques in patients with type 2 diabetes. These patients are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease due to plaque rupture compared to people without t

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/type-2-diabetes-researchers-receive-support-hjelt-diabetes-foundation - 2026-01-09

MultiPark’s new special interest groups (SIGs) address essential scientific and technological needs and provide opportunities for professional development and network formation to our young scientists. One of them focus on molecular signaling. Lautaro Belfiori is the convening person. He shares with us how they plan to work with questions related to molecular signaling. Can you shortly describe th

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/molecular-signaling-neurodegenerative-disorders-special-interest-group - 2026-01-09

Just a month after the UN climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world meet again, at COP15 in Montreal, to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. Torsten Krause is a senior lecturer in Sustainability Studies at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. His research focuses on, among other things, Amazon deforestation and policy issues relating to bi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-un-conference-cop15 - 2026-01-09

LU Business Track has been designed to speed up the development of growth companies born out of Lund University's research. Innovation is a driving force for the transition to a more sustainable society - and Skåne is one of the world's most innovative regions. At Lund University we see research results that can turn into knowledge-intensive innovations and technologies, which in turn can be the s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/launching-lu-business-track-new-way-commercialize-research - 2026-01-10

Migrant farm workers are some of the most vulnerable people within the global agricultural system. Now climate change is increasingly affecting their health and wellbeing, as well as agricultural production, exacerbating poverty and inequality for people making their living on farm labour. Ongoing research at LUCSUS is studying how climate change, both extreme events such as droughts, floods and f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-climate-change-affecting-lives-farm-workers-case-turkey-and-colombia - 2026-01-09

Water is essential to all human life on earth. Today, over two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress – risking both health and food security. As populations and the demand for water grow, this situation is likely to worsen.  Emma Johansson’s research focuses on water, agriculture and participatory practices. To mark World Water Day 2020, she highlights some key research a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-water-day-2020-perspectives-water-agriculture-consumption-and-climate-change - 2026-01-10

Changes in oxygenation and climate had a fundamental impact on marine environments and ecosystems during one of the most transformative times of the development of life on Earth. This according to a new study in which researchers have analysed iodine and calcium in limestone samples from Sweden, Estonia and Russia. There has long been speculation about major links between biodiversity and access t

https://www.science.lu.se/article/colder-climate-and-oxygen-rich-ocean-currents-laid-foundations-modern-marine-ecosystems - 2026-01-09

Over 40 billion euro is given annually to European agriculture as direct payments under the Common Agricultural Policy. Yet, the policy fails to deliver on what EU citizens are promised. This is a key message from new research by AgriFood Economics Centre and Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University. Direct payments are area-based income support under the Common Agricultura

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-payments-farmers-fail-deliver-competitiveness-and-sustainability - 2026-01-09

Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease make up the world’s most common diseases. A new biobank at Lund University in Sweden - the largest of its kind - with stem cells from both those affected and healthy individuals, will contribute to an increased understanding of how these diseases arise. “The goal is for researchers to be able to develop new treatments that can p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/worlds-largest-stem-cell-biobank-launched - 2026-01-09

High above us, the atmosphere is teeming with life. Birds, bats and insects share the airspace, but divide it into different lanes of traffic. New research from Lund University in Sweden reveals how the atmosphere is an ecosystem, with complex ecological processes that affect how animals move between different altitude levels. We often consider the air as simply a void – but it is in fact alive an

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/hidden-highways-sky-mapped - 2026-01-09

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an algorithm that combines data from a simple blood test and brief memory tests, to predict with great accuracy who will develop Alzheimer's disease in the future. The findings are published in Nature Medicine. Approximately 20–30% of patients with Alzheimer's disease are wrongly diagnosed within specialist healthcare, and diagnostic work-up

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/simple-diagnostic-tool-predicts-individual-risk-alzheimers - 2026-01-09

Forskare vid Lunds universitet har upptäckt att mängden av ett mikroRNA är förhöjt vid typ 2-diabetes och påverkar utsöndringen av insulin negativt. Deras försök på mänskliga insulinproducerade celler i bukspottskörteln visar även att det går att öka insulinutsöndringen genom att minska mängden av detta mikroRNA. Målsättningen är att forskningen ska leda till nya behandlingar för personer med sjuk

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nyupptackt-lakemedelskandidat-okar-utsondringen-av-insulin-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-01-10

In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition must be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from PhD Emma Johansson. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by large-scale land acquisition, also referred to as land grabbing, mainly in Tanzania. The lan

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/large-scale-land-acquisition-affects-farmers-ability-produce-their-own-food-africa - 2026-01-09

Rain – both its presence and more particularly its absence – controls most things in the Sahel. Despite the fact that the belt of land south of the Sahara has become greener, the outlook is gloomy when it comes to making resources stretch to a growing population in the face of climate change. Now researchers want investments in agriculture, education and family planning to help resources go around

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2026-01-09

A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and simultaneously presented at

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-01-09

A few sharp minds working together for almost an entire summer. The task: to tackle the problem that a couple of days of work generates so much data, that it would take months to analyse. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction is a technique that allows us to obtain precise and detailed structural information of materials and their properties, and to fundamentally understand physical processes at the atomi

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2026-01-09

In a large hall on Margaretavägen in Lund, next to LDC, the air is full of the hum of computers. The supercomputers Alarik, Erik and Platon – the most powerful in southern Sweden – are busy computing complex problems that Lund University researchers are not able to solve on their own. At the moment, a simulation of a future MAX IV beamline is underway, alongside calculations in astrophysics and da

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunarc-universitys-powerhouse - 2026-01-09

A few sharp minds working together for almost an entire summer. The task: to tackle the problem that a couple of days of work generates so much data, that it would take months to analyse. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction is a technique that allows us to obtain precise and detailed structural information of materials and their properties, and to fundamentally understand physical processes at the atomi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2026-01-09

Bishop Peder Winstrup died in 1679, and is one of the most well-preserved human bodies from the 1600s. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden may now have solved the mystery of why a foetus was hidden in his coffin in Lund Cathedral. DNA from the bishop and the foetus, along with kinship analyses, has shown that the child was probably the bishop's own grandson. Something is protruding between Bi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/foetus-bishops-coffin-was-probably-his-grandson - 2026-01-09