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By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win in this year's Research Grand Prix. It is a competition in presentation technique for researchers, and it was held in front of an audience of almost 400 students at Helsingborg's Stadsteater on 1 October. In November,

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/he-won-regional-heat-researcher-grand-prix-now-heading-national-contest-stockholm - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the medical students who has begun working at Skåne University Hospital to strengthen Skåne's health service in the fight against Covid-19 is Hanna Djerf. For her, giving help where it’s needed is an obvious thing to do. She is also gaining valuable insight into how intensive care works. At the end of March, th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/you-want-help - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Scientists have long suspected that changes in the body’s metabolism affect the development of the incurable and fatal neurological disease ALS. Now, for the very first time, a group of researchers in Lund and Australia have identified changes in the disease in ALS patients in the brain cells that produce substances t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metabolism-and-sleep-keys-mystery-als - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Where did I put my sunglasses? Where have the car keys got to, what is the door code to Lisa’s building, and what did I do yesterday afternoon? We all know how irritating it can be when our memory doesn’t work as it should. However, it can be difficult to know what is a ‘normal’ poor memory and what is the result of d

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/multiple-explanations-memory-problems - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. High demands from industry for an online contract education course resulted in better education also on campus. This is a good example of when contract education promotes development in several different ways, according to lecturer Veronika Tarnovskaya.   Veronika Tarnovskaya and Jessica Hansson. The contracted course

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contract-education-refreshed-teaching-methods - 2026-07-05

Ann-Ki Holmén-Pålbrink, biomedical analyst, has worked at the Faculty for almost four decades. It may seem a long time, but it´s been inspiring years with lots of fun at work, she says. "I stayed put, but everything around me has moved around". My job is constantly changing; new people, new methods, it drives me forward.How did you end up at the Faculty of Medicine?"In the last year of my educatio

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/my-medfak-i-think-its-fun-go-work-every-day - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In an international collaboration led by Lund University in Sweden, researchers have used synchrotron light to study what happens to the nerves in diabetes. The technique shows the 3D-structure of nerve fibers in very high resolution. “This knowledge can be used to map mechanisms for how nerve fibers atrophy and grow

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/unique-3d-images-reveal-architecture-nerve-fibers - 2026-07-05

Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, political scientist and expert in intelligence analysis, reflects on in two highly read articles on the news platform, The Conversation. One of Tony Ingesson’s articles, on military conscription, has 26,000 reads and the other, about Morse code, has over 40,000 reads. The

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can insulin absorbed in small doses through food in early childhood get the immune system accustomed to insulin and thereby delay – or prevent – type 1 diabetes? Researchers hope to find the answer through POInT, a study starting in Skåne this autumn. Newborn babies in Skåne with a high risk of autoimmune diabetes (ty

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-babies-skane-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2026-07-05

The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowledge exchange is Oksana Chernysh, dean of the Faculty of Pedagogical Technologies and L

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2026-07-06

She grew up in oil-rich Norway, with a father who travelled the world working in the oil sector. Little did Lina Lefstad know that just two decades later she would be a researcher at the forefront of efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and tackle the climate crisis. What if we could easily capture carbon dioxide from combined heat and power plants and industrial sites, cool it to liqu

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/can-oil-industrys-know-how-help-solve-climate-crisis - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Just over ten years after Goran Basic came to Sweden as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia, he travelled back to his ethnically cleansed village. As a researcher in sociology, he wanted to try and carry out a non-judgemental study and interview survivors about forgiveness, reconciliation and the role of victim. One

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/life-goes-scars-remain - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Closed loops in the sharing city?Sharing is caring – but is it always sustainable? The sharing economy is altering the way we look at ourselves as consumers and our idea of the market, but it also raises other questions: what role should the city take in this, and how can we ensure that the result is truly sustainable

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-yuliya-voytenko - 2026-07-05

By presenting cancer research as a battle between good and evil – and himself as a hacker attacking cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win in the Researchers' Grand Prix. His win is the fifth in a row for Lund University and the second in a row for Lund Stem Cell Center - in the competition where researchers from all over the country challenge each other in presentati

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/win-fifth-time-row-luis-oliveira-wins-researchers-grand-prix - 2026-07-05

New research shows that it is possible to induce new bone formation around orthopaedic implants in osteoporotic patients. The study has been published in Acta Biomaterialia. The study, which was led from Lund University in Sweden, is a collaboration with researchers from Lithuania, Germany and China.The Nordic region has the highest incidence of osteoporosis, a disease that makes bone prone to fra

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/making-bone-alive-ceramic-material-transforming-new-bone-tissue-osteoporotic-patients - 2026-07-05

Lina Eklundh, Tomas Pugh, Anders Ahlström and Markku Rummukainen have been interviewed in different media outlets as experts in their corresponding fields.   Lina Eklund, associate senior lecturer, was recently interviewed in Göteborgs-Posten about a new report which warns that extreme heatwaves could make parts of the planet uninhabitable and cause one person in ten to be a climate refugee by 205

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ines-staff-featured-media - 2026-07-05

For the first time, researchers have shown that bird populations in Europe and the Unites States respond similarly to climate change. BECC researcher Åke Lindström is one of the authors of the study. This is the first time ever that a comparative study of this magnitude has been executed. The study is based on data that have been collected over 30 years in the US and Europe. Åke Lindström, profess

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/major-study-how-climate-change-affects-birds - 2026-07-05

CMES Director Karin Aggestam and researcher Linda Eitrem Holmgren have written an article (in Swedish) about women, peace and security in the Middle East and North Africa, published in a special issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift focusing on the Middle East. English Title "Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa" Swedish Title "Kvinnor, fred och säkerhet i Mellanöstern och

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-peace-and-security-middle-east-and-north-africa - 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

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