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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/assessing-40-years-reform-and-opening-china-conference - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hospitals should design premises and adapt their infection control routines to a society that no longer has effective antibiotics, and that is vulnerable to fast-spreading global pandemics. This is argued in a new dissertation from Lund University in Sweden. “Many hospitals in Sweden and the world are becoming old and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hospital-design-and-innovative-cleaning-can-protect-patients-resistant-bacteria - 2026-05-07

A new interactive guide identifies the most effective actions you can take for the climate. The interest has been so great that the server hosting the guide crashed temporarily. In 2017, Kimberly Nicholas, professor of sustainability studies at Lund University, attracted considerable international attention with a research study that listed the four lifestyle choices that most effectively reduce a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-guide-making-biggest-climate-difference - 2026-05-07

Investigation of a metre-long front flipper, uniquely preserved with fossilized soft tissues, has revealed that the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus was equipped with flow control devices that likely served to suppress self-generated noise when foraging in dimly lit pelagic environments about 183 million years ago. Thus, this visually guided megapredator relied on underwater stealth—or ‘silent s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ancient-giant-marine-reptile-relied-stealth-while-hunting-darkness - 2026-05-07

Five Lund University students have been declared to be some of the world's brightest business minds, landing a top six position in the prestigious Hult Prize competition in London. Five university friends from different backgrounds, nationalities and study programmes came together in a cold December to crack a fairly hard nut – solving one of the planet's biggest challenges in early childhood educ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-students-make-top-six-hult-prize-competition - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. DPP-4 inhibitors are a group of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes that lower high blood sugar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that DPP-4 inhibitors are also effective against low blood sugar levels. The study, which was carried out on

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An astrophysicist who has developed new knowledge about cardiac function, a cardiovascular expert who stimulated research in general medicine, an internationally leading researcher in autoimmune diseases, and a neuroscientist who is deeply engaged in society: these are the new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medici

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine-2018 - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carbon offsetting can be strongly questioned as an environmental strategy, due to major challenges in reconciling climate benefits with local needs, participation and development. This is the view taken by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, who studied a tree-planting project in Uganda, through which a number

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/planting-trees-africa-dubious-environmental-strategy-study - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2026-05-07

How do birds avoid collision when flying in dense foliage and other cramped environments with many obstacles? And what does flying in such complex environments entail for the birds? These were the questions Per Henningsson of Lund University in Sweden pondered before engaging the help of the family’s own pet budgie to get some answers. His study has now been published in Royal Society Open Science

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Four promising young top researchers from the Faculty of Science at Lund University get over 1 million Euro each in so-called "Starting Grants" from the European Research Council, ERC. These are the biologists Jessica Abbott and Helena Westerdahl, the physicist Caterina Doglioni and the mathematician Erik Wahlén. Read

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-young-researchers-receive-european-research-council-grants - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered that our drinking water is to a large extent purified by millions of “good bacteria” found in water pipes and purification plants. So far, the knowledge about them has been practically non-existent, but this new research is about to change that. Watch video A

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-our-water-pipes-crawl-millions-bacteria - 2026-05-07

Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. "When the temperature rises, the virus's genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid-like, which leads to its rapid injection into the cell," says Alex Evilevitch who led the stud

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2026-05-07

Swedish old-growth forests store 83 percent more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is mainly due to large carbon stocks in the soil. The study, published in the scientific journal Science, is the most comprehensive mapping of how much carbon is stored in Swedish old-growth forests to date.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/old-growth-forests-store-lot-more-carbon-managed-forests - 2026-05-07

For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals – small oxygen molecules that are sometimes needed, but that can also damage our cells. The study is published in Nature Communications and was led from Lund University. For our cells to function, they need to maintain a careful balance between beneficial and harmful oxygen molecules known as free ra

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/capturing-moment-cell-shuts-door-free-radicals - 2026-05-07

Can the arts and culture affect your wellbeing? The link between culture and health is an area attracting more and more interest. Max Liljefors, professor of art history at Lund University, was tasked by Region Skåne with identifying ways in which their extensive art collection can be put to better use. “There has been a shift in perspective when it comes to how we can give patients access to cult

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-displaying-right-art-healthcare-settings - 2026-05-07

When war is over it is crucial to make the right infrastructure decisions to avoid future conflicts and social tensions. At MECW the research project “Infrastructure choices in post-conflict situations: Opportunities for sustainability and resilience?” looks into the rebuilding process in the Middle East and investigates how to make informed choices for energy, water, transport systems and agricul

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/learning-past-looking-towards-future-mending-societies-after-fighting-stops - 2026-05-07

Lund University has received SEK 56 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to finance two research projects. One will aim to find innovative ways of repairing an injured brain, and the other will investigate the crucial effect silicon has on the climate. Malin Parmar, professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Lund University, will lead a five-year project, which has now been granted alm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-grants-awarded-research-brain-repair-and-diatoms - 2026-05-07

Stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new research model of the early embryonic brain. The aim of the model is to study the very earliest stages of brain to understand how different regions in the brain are formed during embryonic development. With this new insight, researchers hope to be able to produce different types of neural cells for the treatment of neurologica

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-provides-unique-insight-development-human-brain - 2026-05-07

Today, Times Higher Education (THE) published their latest ranking and Lund University has been ranked 95. This is an improvement of 11 places compared to last year. This means that Lund University has made strong progress in all three major rankings this year. “It’s easy to criticise rankings, but they aim to make sense of the complexity of what a university does and how we are working together t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-100-ranking - 2026-05-07