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I år blir Leif Salford jubeldoktor. Dessutom kan han lägga ytterligare en i det närmaste unik titel till sin lista – jubelövermarskalk. För femtio år sedan hade han nämligen ansvaret för sin egen promotion! Leif Salford, professor emeritus i neurokirurgi, har verkat inom akademin i hela sitt vuxna liv. Som forskare, lärare – och festfixare. För finns det en anledning att fira ska det firas, det är
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/dubbelt-jubel - 2026-06-20
Det nya forskningsprojektet ”Socioekonomisk segregation – betydelsen av grannskap, skolor och policy över livscykeln” ska skapa en forskningsmiljö med hälsoekonomer, utbildnings- och arbetsmarknadsekonomer, geografer och demografer. Vi pratade med projektledaren Martin Dribe, professor i ekonomisk historia på Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitetet och föreståndare vid Centrum för ekonomisk demog
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/nytt-projekt-undersoker-socioekonomisk-segregation-da-och-nu - 2026-06-20
Recently, a new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile captured its first starlight. This marks the start of a new era in astronomy, where researchers will map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument, called 4MOST (Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, it collects spectra or colour
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By preventing sugar uptake, researchers succeeded in increasing the cancer cells’ sensitivity to chemotherapeutic treatment. The studies, led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, were carried out on cancer cells in a lab environment. The results were recently published in the research journal Haematologica. Ju
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/starved-cancer-cells-became-more-sensitive-chemotherapy - 2026-06-19
All employees now have the opportunity to increase their awareness around academic freedom and influence the University’s work in the area. Invitations to discussions at faculties and divisions will be sent out during the spring.Are we overly influenced by the demands of financiers and politicians? Are we muted by self-censorship and the Overton Window? What does academic freedom really mean, and
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/take-opportunity-express-your-opinion-academic-freedom - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Ett nytt antikroppstest vid covid-19 som utvecklats av forskare vid Lunds universitet har visat hög prestanda i kliniska tester och tillämpning. Antikropparna som mäts är kopplade till det så kallade spikeproteinet (S-protein) hos SARS-CoV-2-viruset, som orsakar covid-19, och testet visar på 15 minuter om en person
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/nytt-och-sakert-snabbtest-antikroppar-mot-covid-19 - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Almost 300,000 people worldwide develop malignant melanoma each year. The disease is the most serious form of skin cancer and the number of cases reported annually is increasing, making skin cancer one of Sweden’s most common forms of cancer. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied a protein that regu
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/protein-linked-aggressive-skin-cancer - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The huge increase in data in biology and medicine creates new challenges for researchers. Extracting information from databases is the research community’s new day job. Dag Ahrén teaches database mining to biologists. He is part of a national network of bioinformaticians, BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life S
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/data-mining-research-community-coalface - 2026-06-19
On Thursday, 11 June 2015, Lund University arranged a side-event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Tobias Nielsen, BECC PhD student, was one of the speakers. The Bonn Climate Change Conference side-event "Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade" was arranged by Lund University on 11 June 2015.Chair Karin Bäckstrand, Stockholm University, introduced the event. Mag
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-carbon-footprints-effective-climate-policy-international-trade - 2026-06-19
This was the question that researchers at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics asked themselves ahead of the SCORAI conference in Lund. Tools are now available to measure this. Using the TravelCO2 tool, participants' individual carbon footprints were calculated – and the results showed that the conference's total emissions were significantly lower than average.The SCO
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-carbon-footprint-your-conference - 2026-06-20
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Scott Burnett, Lecturer and researcher at the Department started his work at the Department in January 2019. Dr Burnett is currently teaching several courses, but also passionately keeps up with his research within the discourse field of race, gender and sexuality. Meeting him over a cup of coffee makes me absolutely
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Lena Eliasson professor i experimentell diabetesforskning vid Lunds Universitet har arbetat med forskning om mikroRNA (miRNA) med koppling till diabetes i ett flertal år. År 2017 fick hon ett forskningsanslag på två miljoner för att forska vidare hur mikroRNA kan användas vid behandling och prediktion av diabetes. P
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/microrna-kopplat-till-diabetes - 2026-06-20
The Nature Medicine Commission on Data-Driven Obesity Management will bring together global experts and datasets to tackle the growing burden of obesity-related noncommunicable diseases through data-driven decision support. “Our goal is to generate evidence that supports better and more equitable care for people living with obesity worldwide,” says the Commission Chair and Professor Paul Franks at
Climate change can be stopped - with the right policy instruments. But to be effective, these policies must be accepted by both citizens and businesses. In a new research project, Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law in Gothenburg and a member of BECC, will get a better knowledge of how these policies should be designed. Policy instrumen
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/more-efficient-policy-instruments-can-save-climate - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meeting with the City of Malmö August 29 The announced meeting between Lund University and The city of Malmö took place in Lund as planned. The city of Malmö was represented by Mayor Jan-Inge Alfridh and Planning Director Christer Larsson. The meeting covered both the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts shared premise
https://www.arts.lu.se/article/new-meeting-city-malmo-regarding-issue-malmo-art-academys-premises - 2026-06-19
CMES researchers Amir Naghibi, Hossein Hashemi, Pengxiang Zhao, Sara Brogaard, Lina Eklund and Ali Mansourian have co-authored an article on dust storm source susceptibility, published in the journal Atmospheric Pollution Research. The article, "Spatiotemporal variability of dust storm source susceptibility during wet and dry periods: The Tigris-Euphrates River Basin", was also co-written by Husse
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dust-storm-source-susceptibility-tigris-euphrates-river-basin - 2026-06-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWCOMERS (New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System), an EU Horizon 2020 project, has launched Our Energy, an online platform for education, awareness-raising, and networking, focusing on new clean energy communities, energy transitions and related topics. Our Energy offers short, interactive,
The developers of a rapid IVF test and a methane detector are among those behind breakthrough technologies emerging from Lund University. They were recognised by the University and Sparbanken Skåne, along with professor Thoas Fioretos – the first recipient of the Lunds Innovatörspris (Lund Innovator Award) for his pioneering work in blood cancer research that is revolutionising diagnostics and tre
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pioneering-innovators-and-researchers-recognised-future-innovations-award-ceremony - 2026-06-20
