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During two well-attended days, researchers, healthcare professionals and interested members of the public gathered in Malmö and Lund to take part in the latest research in the field. Research Day 2025 with the theme "Children's minds taken seriously – About Children's and Young People's Mental Health", offered a wide-ranging program of lectures, discussions and films. Moderator Lisa Kirsebom led t

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/mental-health-children-and-young-focus-research-day - 2026-05-07

Major investments are being made in Borlänge and Falun, on Northvolt's former land, to develop one of Europe's largest data centers and an AI cluster. According to Kerstin Enflo, professor in Economic history at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), the development is far from unique from a historical perspective. She explains that a lot is at stake when making large investme

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ai-foundational-industry - 2026-05-08

For hundreds of years, people have made a living from livestock herding in rural Kenya. Today, their traditional way of life is increasingly burdened by the effects of climate change and population growth. In his doctoral thesis, Billy Jones examines why development aid projects in the region often fail – and how sustainable progress could instead be achieved with the help of local actors. Thirtee

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/research-shows-sustainable-development-requires-locally-rooted-aid - 2026-05-07

During his Ph.D. studies, Alexander Svanbergsson has established a modelling system to screen for factors affecting the aggregation of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease. On the 3rd of December, it is time for him to defend his work supervised by Prof. Jia-Yi Li. Now, Alexander tells us about his research in the research group Neural Plasticity and Repair at MultiPark. What is your research ab

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-alexander-svanbergsson - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate change, a growing population and increased urbanisation place great demands on our cities. Meeting these challenges requires collaboration to develop smart cities. But what does a smart city really mean and how do we create one?A smart city is a sustainable city. A city in which people want to live, where comp

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/collaboration-key-smart-sustainable-cities-future - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Sunda statsfinanser och en låg statsskuld. Det är Sveriges ess i rockärmen i den ekonomiska krisen som det nya coronaviruset har orsakat. Åsa Hansson är docent i nationalekonomi på Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet och hoppas att krisen blir kortvarig. ”Osäkerheten gör att krisen blir ovanligt svår att hantera”

https://www.lu.se/artikel/om-regeringens-krispaket-smaforetag-det-blir-tufft-men-kriser-foder-ocksa-kreativitet - 2026-05-08

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science I veckan kom UNESCO:s rekommendationer rörande öppen vetenskap. Man har identifierat sju "key objectives and areas of action", nämligen: Promoting a common understanding of open science, associated benefits and challenges, as well as diverse paths to open science Developing an enabling policy environment for open science Investing in open science infrastructur

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-december-januari-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-0 - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This autumn, a unique research satellite, Gaia, will be launched. The project aims to map a billion stars and involves hundreds of European astronomers. One of the originators of the initiative is Lund University’s Professor of Astronomy Lennart Lindegren. Lennart Lindegren tests a meridian circle, which was used in t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/idea-lund-behind-research-satellite - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they ga

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With a research focus on the development and application of in vitro models to study human brain evolution and disease, PhD student Daniela Grassi will be defending her thesis on Thursday 23rd of April 2020. Here, Daniela tells us about her research in the Molecular Neurogenetics group, led by Johan Jakobsson, and her

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-daniela-grassi - 2026-05-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Doctoral education in Service Studies at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies is interdisciplinary and focuses on services as an object of study. But what is it like being a doctoral student at ISM, what can a normal working week look like and what kind of research areas are our doctoral students i

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/job-lets-me-grow-many-ways - 2026-05-07

Much research on diabetes focuses on understanding what happens when the insulin-producing cells are destroyed. Researchers at Lund University have instead chosen to investigate what protects the insulin-producing cells. Their research shows that a protein of the immune system protects the insulin-producing cells from inflammation and death. The study, published in PNAS, is an example of basic res

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/protein-protects-insulin-producing-cells - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During 7-8 of May, 80 researchers within MERGE and BECC met to learn about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and how their research can be linked, and contribute, to the implementation of the goals. We are just as far from reaching the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as Burkina Faso. We just have different

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/spring-meeting-2019-merge-becc-jointly-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-05-07

Congratulations to Charlotte Ling who, together with Katarina Fagher and Alice Maguolo, has been awarded a grant of five million Danish kroner by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The funding will support clinical research in precision medicine, focusing on epigenetic analysis of blood samples from 13,000 individuals. Charlotte Ling, a professor in diabetes research with a particular focus on epigeneti

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-major-grant-clinical-diabetes-research - 2026-05-07

Lene Eriksson, finance officer, has collected many memorable nuggets during her seven years at the Faculty. "My job has both breadth and is stimulating. And I like to work in teams towards clear goals," says Lene, who also reveals her unexpected party trick. The spontaneous joy of the researchers was priceless!Hi Lene! Tell us about your professional background."I've had an exciting career journey

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/my-medfak-im-always-happy-when-we-manage-land-tricky-challenges - 2026-05-07

Teaching is to be as highly valued as research when it comes to appointments and promotions. Despite this ambition, it has rarely worked that way in practice. A recently completed project provides a new framework which will help faculty managements, as well as individual teaching staff members, to evaluate and develop educational qualifications. In the ‘Pedagogisk Meritering’ project, which concer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2026-05-08

När tvättmaskinen, matbutikens kassasystem och cykelbanas lyktstolpar förvandlas till digitala funktioner blir vår vardag smidigare. Men med fler digitala enheter som med jämna mellanrum behöver uppdateras uppstår nya möjligheter för hackare att nästla sig in. Forskare undersöker hur luckorna kan tätas. För många svenskar blev frågan om digital säkerhet främst kännbar sommaren 2021. Då tvingade en

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/ju-fler-uppkopplade-prylar-desto-storre-risk-hackerattacker - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Går det att återbilda insulinproducerande celler hos personer som haft typ 1-diabetes i mer än fem år och med låg eller obefintlig egen insulinproduktion? Det ska forskare i Uppsala studera inom ramen för en ny studie, ReGenerate-1. Rekrytering av patienter pågår till första delen av den kliniska fas I/II-studien Re

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-gar-det-att-aterbilda-insulinproducerande-celler-vid-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-05-07

I strokemodeller på möss, har forskare lyckats återställa förlorad hjärnfunktion med hjälp av små molekyler som i framtiden kan utvecklas till strokeläkemedel. ­– Efter stroke förändras kommunikationen mellan nervceller i stora delar av hjärnan och vi visar att den delvis återställs med behandlingen, säger Tadeusz Wieloch, seniorprofessor i neurobiologi vid Lunds universitet. –  Samtidigt återfår

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-forlorad-hjarnfunktion-aterstalldes-efter-stroke - 2026-05-08

Lunds universitet tar ett viktigt steg för att stärka forskningen inom totalförsvar och beredskap genom etableringen av LUPREP vid Campus Helsingborg. – Det här får inte bli ett enkelspårigt centrum där alla tycker lika. Vi ska vara en plats för kritisk dialog, säger Johan Bergström, som tillträder som föreståndare den 1 augusti. LUPREP (Lunds University Centre for Preparedness and Resilience) har

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/efterlangtat-centrum-tar-form-lupreps-forestandare-blir-johan-bergstrom - 2026-05-08