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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In our course Contemporary South Asian Societies we have the pleasure of having one of our former students, Emilija Zabiliute, as a lecturer. Emilija was a student on our masters programme between 2008-2010 and received her PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2016.  Could you please tell us a bit about yourself?I

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumna-emilija-zabiliute - 2026-07-23

An international research team led from Lund University, has identified epigenetic biomarkers that can predict which people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease. The study is now published in Cell Reports Medicine. People with type 2 diabetes are up to four times more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, anginas and other coronary heart diseases than healthy people. Therefo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/biomarkers-reveal-risk-cardiovascular-disease-type-2-diabetes - 2026-07-23

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.ludc.lu.se/article/capturing-moment-cell-shuts-door-free-radicals - 2026-07-23

LUSEM Career Services offers a skills development programme - hear from two students who participated in the workshop. In order to deal with our increasingly complex environment and drive sustainable change we need to develop professional skills that will enable us to connect to ourselves and others. LUSEM Career Services offers a skills development programme, consisting of two collaborative works

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/professional-skills-development-workshop - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2026-07-23

All researchers at Lund University now have the opportunity to share their research through the international news platform, The Conversation. The Conversation is a politically independent news site where researchers from member universities write popular science news articles, analyses, and opinion pieces in English within their areas of expertise, with the support of an editor. Lund University h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-conversation-autumn-and-reach-international-audience - 2026-07-24

From the vice-chancellor blog: Intensive work is being carried out on how we can open doors for Ukraine at the EU and national levels and at Lund University. Here, we are looking at all possibilities to enable us to take in students, academics and researchers who need to leave their country or will need to study or conduct research in their homeland in the future. We are working according to short

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/war-ukraine-affects-and-concerns-us-all-working-free-academia-and-democracy-more-important-ever - 2026-07-23

I and many others are ambivalent when it comes to the ranking of the world’s universities. But Lund University has made the ranking lists and that does have an impact, at the very least for international marketing purposes. We must be active, rather than passive, in relation to the ranking bodies. Small margins can make a university climb or tumble down the lists, so there is a need to be modest w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-moving-forward-grants-innovations-and-top-ranking - 2026-07-23

A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2026-07-23

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.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/old-growth-forests-store-lot-more-carbon-managed-forests - 2026-07-23

After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, but the feeling is that most people experienced it as a successful event. To take the pulse during the symposium itself, we did a couple of short interviews with some of those who were there. Satisfied organisers Josefin

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/voices-swedish-climate-symposium - 2026-07-23

A sudden bang. The hand grenade has caused me severe shrapnel injuries: a punctured lung, my liver is bleeding and the wound on my leg is causing rapid blood loss. The medics decide that this requires an intervention from the trauma squad. I am loaded onto a stretcher and driven to the surgery tent. It is Monday morning, and the Aurora 23 military exercise is in full swing in southern Sweden. I am

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-doctor-both-war-and-peace - 2026-07-24

Forskare vid Lunds universitet har i en ny studie funnit ett tydligt samband mellan östrogenbehandling och de tre vanligaste typerna av hudcancer. Att effektivt kunna behandla klimakteriebesvär är viktigt för många kvinnors mående. Men, konstaterar forskarna: läkarna bör informera sina patienter om att solskydd är extra viktigt vid östrogenbehandling. Antalet personer som varje år diagnosticeras m

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tydligt-samband-mellan-ostrogenbehandling-och-hudcancer - 2026-07-24

For the last three years, middle-school classrooms in Lund and Staffanstorp have been getting a special visit during the autumn: scientists walk in with stories about their favorite research topic and what it is like to work in a lab. This is the Science to Schools program, an initiative that began as an idea from PhD student Abigail Altman and has now grown into a collaboration involving Lund Ste

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bringing-science-classroom-taking-science-middle-schools-lund - 2026-07-23

The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at LUCSUS, explains the significance of the report’s findings, which was released today, 6th May 201

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mine-islar-comments-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a young journalist, Tomas Sniegon had fantastic material – more than one hundred hours of interviews with the former KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny. It was intended for a memoir, but time moved on and the market was suddenly saturated with Soviet confessions. Twenty years later, the winds have changed. There is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/investigating-doctored-memories-old-soviet-communist - 2026-07-23

Det har gått ett decennium sedan världens länder skrev under Parisavtalet. Statsvetaren Fariborz Zelli summerar vad som överraskat – både positivt och negativt – i klimatpolitiken under de senaste tio åren och blickar även framåt. Vilken har varit den största framgången med Parisavtalet hittills?Jag skulle nog säga att den största framgången är att FN lyckats behålla sin centrala roll i det global

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/vantat-och-ovantat-tio-ar-efter-parisavtalet - 2026-07-23

Hur sårbar är mänskligheten inför klimatförändringarna? Och hur har de redan idag påverkat människor runt om på jorden? Det är några av de frågor som besvaras av FN:s klimatpanel den 28:e februari. I slutrapporten deltar tre forskare från Sverige varav två – Martina Angela Caretta och Emily Boyd – kommer från Lunds universitet. Under tre års tid har cirka trehundra toppforskare från hela världen g

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/fns-klimatrapport-28-februari-hur-sarbara-ar-vi-och-hur-kan-vi-anpassa-oss - 2026-07-23

Hur kan vi sköta våra skogar så att de tar upp mer koldioxid från luften och lagrar kolet i trä och mark? Detta är en viktig fråga för samhället och för skogsägare när det gäller att begränsa klimatförändringen. Men mycket forskning kvarstår innan vi får en fullständig förståelse för skogens roll när det gäller att lagra kol. Som ett hjälpmedel i denna forskning har Natascha Kljun utvecklat en ”fo

https://www.lu.se/artikel/skogen-hjalper-oss-na-klimatmalen - 2026-07-23

Hur sårbar är mänskligheten inför klimatförändringarna? Och hur har de redan idag påverkat människor runt om på jorden? Det är några av de frågor som besvaras av FN:s klimatpanel den 28:e februari. I slutrapporten deltar tre forskare från Sverige varav två – Martina Angela Caretta och Emily Boyd – kommer från Lunds universitet. Under tre års tid har cirka trehundra toppforskare från hela världen g

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fns-klimatrapport-28-februari-hur-sarbara-ar-vi-och-hur-kan-vi-anpassa-oss - 2026-07-24