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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Meet Paul Franks... ... Professor of Diabetes Research and sportsman, who raised money for diabetes research by competing in the Copenhagen Ironman* triathlon race a while ago. How have the race and the fundraising gone? “I think it’s gone well. Despite a broken toe, I finished the race in just over 10 hours. I beat m
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/running-diabetes - 2026-05-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do you talk about a horrible and life-threatening condition in such a way as to make your audience aware of its existence, but without scaring them so much that they turn a deaf ear? And how do you get money for research into something that most people have barely heard about – or only know of under an old and par
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spreading-awareness-about-sepsis-common-life-threatening-condition - 2026-05-29
Megan Andrews is in her second semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “I am originally from Canada, but moved to Sweden four years ago to live with my fiancé. In my home country, I studied psychology
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-megan-andrews - 2026-05-30
Dear Faculty,Well, where do I start? It feels overwhelming, honourable and exciting to be new at work. Right now, it could be summed up by saying that the new office is still quite empty, while the calendar is filled up. It will be an exciting year and it feels inspiring and fun to now be able to work with a new management team and get to work closely with our departments and heads of department.T
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/dear-faculty-letter-new-dean - 2026-05-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first phase was filled with creativity and collective effort. Elsa Trolle Önnerfors was surprised by how smooth the transition to distance education was. However, now the focus is more on how students are feeling and on perseverance – for how long is unknown "I used a year's worth of creativity in the first few we
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-phase-requires-stamina-and-consideration - 2026-05-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips for teaching. Igor was as
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2026-05-29
Alicia N'Guetta is a PhD student working across two LUCSUS projects, MaCoBios and DICE. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, livelihood, loss and damage, and gender in Martinique, an overseas department of France situated in the Caribbean Sea. Using a gender lens, she will explore how climate change impact on marine coastal ecosystems services affect livelihoods and how adaptation st
When the Swedish Research Council announced funding for so-called "centres of excellence" almost three years ago, a total of 15 new initiatives were approved across Sweden. Only one of them was awarded to Lund: COMMONS – Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions.A year has now passed since COMMONS was inaugurated with a ceremony at the Department of Chemistry. What has happened si
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/commons-centre-excellence-focus-common-ground - 2026-05-29
Framtiden för arbetslivet i Europa benas ut i en ny antologi som med hjälp av olika forskare tittar på framförallt tre stora omställningar som sker i arbetslivets just nu. Dessa omställningar beror på tre oundvikliga fenomen: pandemin, klimatet och digitaliseringen. Fyra lundasociologer bidrar med kapitel i boken. Aldrig i modern tid har det arbetande Europa ställts inför så grundläggande förändri
https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/pandemin-klimatet-och-digitaliseringen-arbetslivets-stora-anpassningar-just-nu - 2026-05-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Statins are a cholesterol-lowering drug that almost one million Swedes take to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease. But could perhaps statins also be used against breast cancer? Cancer researcher Signe Borgquist at least hopes so. Signe Borgquist and her colleagues found that statins had a tumour-inhibiting ef
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/common-drug-may-have-effect-breast-cancer - 2026-05-29
How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the final report – Martina Angela Caretta and Emily Boyd. For three years, approximately three hundred top resea
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-how-vulnerable-are-we-and-how-can-we-adapt - 2026-05-29
En studie som har publicerats i tidskriften The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology förutspår en stor ökning av antalet fall av typ 1-diabetes under de kommande 20 åren. Studien lyfter även fram den stora ojämlikheten inom diabetesvården. År 2021 var det omkring 8,4 miljoner människor världen över som hade typ 1-diabetes. Enligt forskarnas beräkningar kan antalet fall ha ökat till mellan 13 och 17,4 m
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forskare-forutspar-stor-okning-av-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-05-29
Det finns äldre som kan stå emot och till och med mildra utsatta situationer. Det visar en ny avhandling från Agata Yadav vid Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper och ansluten till CASE. Äldre människor som bor i utsatta områden i Sverige vill helst bo kvar. I avhandlingen belyses ”utsatta situationer” utifrån boendepreferenser och brist på prisvärda och åldersvänliga bostäder, hälsorelaterad funkti
https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/okad-ojamlikhet-och-okunskap-om-utsatta-och-ensamma - 2026-05-29
What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers with software developers and AI researchers? Hopefully, with the help of AI, they can connect a multitude of data that leads to new treatments for kidney cancer – that's at least what the researchers in the EU-project KATY envision. But first, they need to find a common language that all professional groups understand. – It's a challen
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kicking-kidney-cancer - 2026-05-29
What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers with software developers and AI researchers? Hopefully, with the help of AI, they can connect a multitude of data that leads to new treatments for kidney cancer – that's at least what the researchers in the EU-project KATY envision. But first, they need to find a common language that all professional groups understand. – It's a challen
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/kicking-kidney-cancer - 2026-05-29
The one year presidency of Simon Anderberg draws to a close and on 16 July he hands over the president’s club to Tova Mark. We had an opportunity to meet up with them both in Skånis and of course we leapt at it. Simon, how has the last year matched your expectations?I’m not sure what I expected, but we are at a good place as an organisation. We did not have any radical changes planned, instead we
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-president-another-lundaekonomerna - 2026-05-29
Evelina Hagberg has received the Centre for European studies' best thesis award 2022, for her Master’s thesis “…Thanks, but I’ll bypass: How state gatekeeping impacts regional bypassing in the EU”. The thesis analyses regional government mobilisation and participation in the EU. Evelina distinguishes between so called bypassing, when regions work directly to influence the EU level, as well as nati
https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/evelina-hagberg-receives-cfes-best-thesis-award-2022 - 2026-05-29
With a background in Marine Geology and a passion for connecting past ocean conditions to today’s environmental challenges, Professor Helena Filipsson is stepping into the role of Assistant Head of Department at MGeo. In her new position, she will focus on strengthening scientific infrastructure, supporting research, and building collaborations that help the department grow in visibility and impac
https://www.mgeo.lu.se/internal/article/meet-helena-filipsson-new-assistant-head-mgeo-focus-scientific-infrastructure - 2026-05-29
With a background in agriculture, environmental and food sciences, and a PhD in Agroecology from the University of Göttingen, Professor Yann is stepping into the role of Assistant Head of Department, Focus Research, at MGeo. In his new position, he will focus on supporting researchers in securing funding, advancing environmental research and education, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration
https://www.mgeo.lu.se/internal/article/meet-yann-clough-new-assistant-head-department-mgeo-focus-research - 2026-05-29
Even though awareness of climate change is growing, it is not primarily environmental concern that drives consumers to choose plant-based foods — it’s the price tag. A new literature review from AgriFood Economics Centre and the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) shows that price plays a decisive role when consumers opt for plant-based rather than animal-based products. Hea
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/despite-climate-concerns-its-price-shapes-our-food-choices - 2026-05-30
