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Today, on the 17 of June, the board of the Pufendorf IAS decided to accept three applications to form three new Advanced Study Groups - all starting in September 2024! These ASGs will pursue interdisciplinary research ideas within Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future;Neobiogenesis: The Inevitability of Life; Next Generation Healthscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Care Facilities of th

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/three-new-advanced-study-groups-and-five-new-themes-2024-2025 - 2026-07-05

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has released its list of ongoing Swedish research projects with the potential to create societal benefit, dubbed the “100 list”. This year, nine projects from Lund University were included. IVA's ‘100 list’ was launched in conjunction with its 100th anniversary in 2019. The selection committee consists of over 60 qualified individuals from ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nine-projects-are-included-list-ongoing-swedish-research-projects-potential-create-societal-benefit - 2026-07-06

DIABETES. After more than a decade of stagnation, there is a major surge in kidney research effort. New drugs and biomarkers make it possible to detect and slow the progression of the disease earlier – something that long seemed unattainable. This will impact people with diabetes, for whom kidney damage is a serious long-term complication. “We are entering a new era. What is happening now is simil

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hope-kidney-care - 2026-07-05

(DIABETES) After more than a decade of stagnation, there is a major surge in kidney research effort. New drugs and biomarkers make it possible to detect and slow the progression of the disease earlier – something that long seemed unattainable. This will impact people with diabetes, for whom kidney damage is a serious long-term complication. “We are entering a new era. What is happening now is simi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hope-kidney-care - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Last year, the Centre for European Studies launched Viewpoint Europe, a new publication where researchers write policy-oriented reports. The first report was on the Swedish government's lack of consultation with interest organisations on EU-related matters. Recently, the second report was published, detailing how the

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/write-viewpoint-europe - 2026-07-05

The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail. KELT-9 b is the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, orbiting its distant star about 670 light years from Earth. The celestial body, with an average temperature of a sta

https://www.science.lu.se/article/scientists-discover-rare-element-exoplanets-atmosphere - 2026-07-05

Future Faculty has awarded the 2024 Minerva Award to Laura Wisse, Associate Professor. Congrats to the Minerva Leadership Award, Laura Wisse, Associate Professor and PI!"Thank you, I feel very honored to receive the award as a relatively young PI and will try my best to live up to this prize in the future,  to honor good academic leadership."What do you think is a good leader?"In my opinion, a goo

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/2024-minerva-leadership-award-good-academic-leadership-will-increase-future-success - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Graduate School together with CMES offers courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Persian, which are open to all Graduate School students. The courses are not credit bearing but you do receive a certificate at the end of each voluntary course.Courses in Modern Standard ArabicArabic is a sematic language and it is one of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/language-courses-arabic-and-persian - 2026-07-05

Aerosol researchers Malin Alsved and Jakob Löndahl are awarded the Levi Prize 2025 from the Engineers of Sweden. They receive the prize for their research on how covid-19 can spread via small airborne particles. Malin Alsved and Jakob Löndahl have conducted groundbreaking research in recent years, which was quickly adapted during the covid-19 pandemic to study the coronavirus. The research has res

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/work-environment-prize-malin-alsved-and-jakob-londahl - 2026-07-05

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-johan-jonsson - 2026-07-05

Future Faculty has awarded the 2024 Minerva Award to Laura Wisse, Associate Professor. Congrats to the Minerva Leadership Award, Laura Wisse, Associate Professor and PI!"Thank you, I feel very honored to receive the award as a relatively young PI and will try my best to live up to this prize in the future,  to honor good academic leadership."What do you think is a good leader?"In my opinion, a goo

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/2024-minerva-leadership-award-good-academic-leadership-will-increase-future-success - 2026-07-05

There is now an opportunity for research leaders and other coworkers at the Faculty to participate in seminars on leadership. The series adresses issues that are facing research leaders in their daily work. The Faculty of Medicine has developed a seminar series for research leaders at the Faculty. The seminar series will address issues that are part of the daily working life of research leaders."I

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/open-seminars-leadership-faculty - 2026-07-05

Is all the material you have in the freezer actively used in your research? If not, it should be classified as biobank material and instead stored in Region Skåne's Biobank. On 9 April, a digital seminar will be held (in Swedish) on freezer storage options and news in the new Biobank Act. There is a shortage of freezers and space for new freezers in the faculty's premises. Roger Lindskog is an exp

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/mission-more-space-freezers-and-room-more-freezers - 2026-07-05

The Swedish Research Council has announced the first funding decisions under its Strategic Recruitment of Associate Senior Lecturers programme. Two of the grants have been awarded to the Faculty of Science through the recruitment of Jennifer Graham at the Department of Physics and Adela YiYu Zhang at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.The Swedish Research Council has announced the first funding

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-success-faculty-science-swedish-research-council-call - 2026-07-05

The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail. KELT-9 b is the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, orbiting its distant star about 670 light years from Earth. The celestial body, with an average temperature of a sta

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-discover-rare-element-exoplanets-atmosphere - 2026-07-05

"It is important that mistakes are neither punished nor swept under the rug, but rather integrated into the group's learning," says Pernilla Stenström, medical doctor and lecturer. On April 3rd, she will give a talk in Lund University's Leadership Forum. Pernilla Stenström shares her best tips for leaders who want to promote psychological safety:Listen with an open mind. Never assume that you know

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/psychological-safety-groups-and-workplaces-ups-efficiency - 2026-07-05

Dear students and colleagues, Lund University is a place for objectivity, open conversation and the gratifying quest for knowledge. We are an organisation with a unique task – to produce, discuss and communicate knowledge. We are an organisation of, and for, experts. I myself am an expert on insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. To be frank, that is pretty niche and nerdy. Yet here, at Lun

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seasons-greetings - 2026-07-05

Emily Sonestedt investigates how food affects the health and the risk to develop type 2 diabetes. This knowledge is of importance to society when developing food-based dietary guidelines. It can be hard to make healthy food choices. The bread rolls behind the counter in the café at Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö have a dark color, but it does not have to mean that they are a healthy choic

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/healthy-eating-reduce-risk-type-2-diabetes - 2026-07-05

Special issue stemming from workshop held at CMES. Cowritten by CMES Board Member Sarah Anne Rennick and CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Read full article here.AbstractThe 2019 uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq, often framed as a ‘Second Wave’ of the Arab uprisings, present a critical puzzle: why did mass mobilization re-emerge nearly a decade after the 2011 revolutions, despite thei

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/edge-theorizing-role-post-conflict-dynamics-mobilization - 2026-07-05

In a study led by Lund University and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyse aggregates of tau pathology in more than 12,000 people from all over the world. The study – the largest ever of its kind – examines the connection between genetic predisposition, gender and age in relation to tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The study is published in Nature Neuroscie

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/largest-ever-taupet-study-alzheimers-deepens-understanding-disease - 2026-07-05