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In 2025, children within the TEDDY study will submit their final samples at research clinics in Sweden, Finland, Germany and the United States. The international study has provided a lot of new knowledge about type 1 diabetes and how the disease develops. Analysis of the samples will continue with the aim of preventing the disease. Sweden and Finland are the two top countries for incidence rates o

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-type-1-diabetes-large-scale-teddy-study-will-soon-be-completed - 2025-11-21

Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor. Alger, algblomning
Karin Rengefors, limnolog och specialist på alger och algblomning i sötvatten, 046-222 84 27
Karin.Rengefors(at)limnol.lu.sePer Carlsson (saltvatten), universitetslektor i akvatisk ekologi, tel 046-222 84 35 Per.Carlsson(at

https://www.lu.se/artikel/experter-fran-lunds-universiet-sommarens-abc - 2025-11-22

Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she tells us about her research and what is it like to be a PhD student in newly established group. Giulia defends her thesis on the 8th of December.   What have you been working with during your PhD studies? The main aim of my PhD project was to unravel pos

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2025-11-21

The date for the annual salary review is 1 October, and the new salary applies from this date. You will receive it retroactively when the University starts paying the new salaries. Discussions are ongoing between Saco-S and the University about the implementation of the new salaries. Lund University and Saco-S are in negotiations regarding the process for this year's salary review. The new salarie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/years-salary-review-imminent-there-disagreement-between-saco-s-and-employer-about-arrangements-it - 2025-11-22

Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the chances of preventing blood clots. In Sweden, almost half of all cases of venous thrombosis have a genetic explanation. A team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden has now discovered three gene variants that increase the risk of blood clots in the leg by up to 180 perce

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-gene-variants-significantly-increase-risk-blood-clots - 2025-11-21

The University’s contract education needs to grow in order to match the skills needed among companies and public authorities in the region. A new report proposes to give the departments the main responsibility for the development of contract education. Employees who work as consultants on the side are to become more involved in the University’s own contract education which is to be integrated into

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/put-departments-charge-contract-education - 2025-11-21

An examination of the travel policy in Malmö municipality, flood management solutions in local neighborhoods, lobbying and regulation in Denmark, and biodiversity policies for universities. These were some of 2018 Knowledge to Action Projects – the course where LUMES students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. Chad Boda and David O’Byrne, teachers at LUMES, say that for many stud

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/knowledge-action-projects-2018-travel-policies-overfishing-flood-management-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-11-21

Adapting cities is key for increasing the resilience of citizens, communities, organisations and wider systems to deal with the effects of climate change. For more than 20 years Professor Christine Wamsler has collaborated with national authorities, municipalities and citizens to implement sustainable climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and long-term sustainability projects to supp

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-sustainable-climate-change-adaptation-and-disaster-risk-reduction-local-national-and - 2025-11-22

The aggregation of the protein Amyloid-beta (Abeta) into plaques outside the nerve cells has been recognized in patients with Alzheimer’s disease since 1905. But eliminating the plaques has not helped patients so far. Still, Tomas Roos was recently recruited as a postdoc in our lab. He thinks that Abeta matters, but we may need to focus on the aggregates elsewhere. Earlier this spring, he defended

https://www.neuroinflammation.lu.se/article/does-alzheimers-disease-start-inside-neurons-interview-tomas-roos-recently-recruited-our-lab - 2025-11-21

Vad finns det för samband mellan åderförfettning och bakterier i tarm och mun? Forskarna bakom en ny stor studie har funnit flera nya kopplingar. På lång sikt kan kunskapen hjälpa personer med typ 2-diabetes, en grupp som är i riskzonen att utveckla åderförfettning. Åderförfettning, även kallat åderförkalkning, innebär att fett och kalk under lång tid har samlats på insidan av blodkärlen. Då blir

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/analyser-av-bakterier-i-tarm-och-mun-ger-nya-ledtradar-om-aderforfettning - 2025-11-22

Varför började man fira 1 maj? När var demonstrationstågen som störst? Och hur ser firandet ut idag? Arbetarhistorikern Roger Johansson intervjuas om förstamajfirandets dåtid, glanstid och nutid. Hur blev 1 maj arbetarnas dag?– Om man frågar folk var firandet av 1 maj startade dyker bilder av Ryssland, Röda torget och parader upp för många. Men det började inte alls där utan i USA. Kravet på en ko

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sju-fragor-om-forstamajfirandet - 2025-11-22

Nyligen lämnade socialtjänsten i Malmö på polisens begäran ut sekretessbelagda uppgifter om papperslösa familjer. Denna begäran var en del av polisens intensifierade arbete med att söka efter och avvisa personer som lever i papperslöshet. Således agerade Malmös socialtjänst som polisens förlängda arm.Från Socialhögskolans sida vill vi lyfta fram vikten av ett professionsetiskt perspektiv, vilket i

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/uttalande-med-anledning-av-polisens-begaran-av-sekretessbelagda-uppgifter-av-socialtjansten-i-malmo - 2025-11-21

Vissa ämnen skrivs det särskilt ofta i media om under sommaren. Här finns en lista över forskare vid Lunds universitet som kan svara på vanliga sommarfrågor. Medicin, mat och hälsaAktivt och hälsosamt åldrande
Det finns många viktiga forskningsfrågor på området aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande t ex boendefrågor, äldres delaktighet i samhället, teknikutvecklingen, att åldras med funktionshinder, och å

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-sommarlista-2017-massor-av-experter-pa-sommarens-fragor - 2025-11-21

Fyra forskare från Lunds universitet får ERC Starting Grant. Dessa är Filip Lenrick, forskare i industriell produktion, Colin Olito, forskare i evolutionär ekologi, Milda Pucetaite, forskare i mikrobiologisk ekologi samt Daria Davitti, forskare i folkrätt. Den sistnämnda är den första som fått ett ERC Grant på en juridisk institution i Sverige. ERC Starting Grant riktar sig till forskare i början

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fyra-forskare-far-erc-starting-grants - 2025-11-22

En hög blå dag i Västra Hamnens gränder. Virrvarr av svartvita svansar, nosar och skall gör vaktplikt i radhusdörren. Husse, professor i immunologi Tomas Leanderson, hyssjar, förmanar, välkomnar till köksbordet, kaffe. Om bara några dagar blir denne fullmaktsprofessor, en av de sista vid Medicinska fakulteten, en fri man, efter en livslång kärleksaffär med immunologin. Två stunder på dagen är gyll

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/en-av-de-sista-ut-av-den-gamla-stammens-professorer - 2025-11-21

Som styrelseordförande i Crafoordska stiftelsen har Ebba Fischer bland annat medverkat till inrättandet av en professur i ämnet mänskliga rättigheter och stöttat flera initiativ med inriktning på konst, musik och historia. 2014 utnämndes hon till hedersdoktor vid Lunds universitets humanistiska fakultet. Som en av grundarna av Lunds universitets stipendiestiftelse (LUSS) får hon möjlighet att hjäl

https://www.lu.se/artikel/filantrop-med-oga-studenternas-basta - 2025-11-21

An observational study from Lund University in Sweden examining sugar consumption has attracted considerable international attention. The study shows that sweetened beverages have a greater negative impact on health than other sources of sugar. They significantly increased the risk of ischaemic stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Of the 70,000 Swedes who took

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/questions-and-answers-lund-university-sugar-study - 2025-11-21

Eight researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University have been awarded 41.4 million SEK in the latest announcements from the Swedish Research Council. This funding will support biomedical research on aging, health, disease, and bioengineering over the next several years. Stem cells are the building blocks of modern medicine and hold the key to tackling some of the most complex diseases

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stem-cell-research-aging-health-and-disease-gets-funding-boost-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-21

Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many funding bodies require faculties and departments to co-fund research projects, something that is becoming a major financial challenge for the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and others. “Of course there is a limit to what we can do,” says Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences. Re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/co-funding-increasingly-difficult-challenge - 2025-11-22

From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past three years,with inputs

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2025-11-22