By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 23 May 2019 Today we congratulate Daniella Ottosson on her prize from the Harald och Greta Jeansson Foundation! The prize ceremony took place in Stockholm on May 21st, 2019 and Daniella was awarded a personal prize for "a successful effort as a young researcher and group leader".For more information please go t

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-daniella - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 27 January 2020 Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neurons with the aim developing cell replacement ther

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-sara-nolbrant - 2025-08-05

Published 31 January 2020 Congratulations to Sara Nolbrant who has succefully defended her thesis entitled "Directing and Dissecting the Fate of Dopaminergic Neurons" today (Jan 31st, 2020)! To read an article about Sara's thesis, please click here.

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-nolbrant - 2025-08-05

Published 30 September 2020 Marcella Birtele will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” on Friday 2nd October. Researching within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group led by Prof. Malin Parmar, here Marcella tells us about her PhD studies at Lund Stem Cell Center.For full article please click on teh follwing link:

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-marcella-birtele - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 October 2020 Congratulations to Marcella Birtele who has succefully defended her thesis entitled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” (October 2nd, 2020). For an interview with Marcella please click on the following link: https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/t

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-birtele - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 23 February 2021 Congratulations to Shelby Shrigley on nailing her thesis "Exploring Patient-Specific Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's disease". The nailing took place on Friday, Feb 19th, 2021 and the defence will take place on Friday, March 12th, 2021.

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/nailing-shelby-shrigleys-thesis-successful - 2025-08-05

Published 19 March 2021 Congratulations to Prof. Malin Parmar, who has been elected as one of three new members of the Board of Directors at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). For full article please click here:  https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-elected-isscr-board-directors  

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-elected-isscr-board-directors - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 19 March 2021 During her PhD studies Shelby Shrigley has been exploring patient-specific cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease. Defending her PhD thesis on March 12th, here Shelby tells us about her research within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology research group led by Prof. Malin Parm

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-shelby-shrigley-0 - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 19 March 2021 We are very happy to congratulate Shelby Shrigley who on March 12th, 2021 successfully defended her thesis "Exploring Patient-Specific Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's Disease"! To read Shelby's thesis "Exploring Patient-Specific Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's Disease" OPEN ACCES

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-shrigley - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 14 October 2021 Vinnova is Sweden's innovation agency with the mission to build Sweden’s innovation capacity. Earlier this year they announced a call for projects aiming to establish “Innovative environments for precision medicine” and last week they announced that the Lund-based project IndiCell is one of the

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-anna-falk-awarded-5-year-grant-vinnova - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 30 November 2021 We are very happy and proud to announce that Malin Parmar has been awarded a 10-year Distinguished professor grant from the Swedish Research Council! The aim of the distinguished professor programme is to create conditions for the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, ground-breaking

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-awarded-distinguished-professor-grant-within-medicine-and-health - 2025-08-05

Published 15 August 2022 Läs här om ett samarbete mellan lundaforskarna Johan Jakobsson och Malin Parmar som har lett till en ny metod för att studera åldersrelaterade hjärnsjukdomar. https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom  

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-08-05

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 19 September 2022 Nya ledamöter studerar Parkinsons sjukdom / New members of the class for medical sciences. For more inforamtion please click on the below links: På Svenska: https://www.kva.se/nyheter/nya-ledamoter-studerar-parkinsons-sjukdom/ Lunds universitet: https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/lundaprofessor

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-becomes-new-member-royal-swedish-academy-sciences - 2025-08-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 December 2018 On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The paus

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-08-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 November 2018 Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-08-05

Published 9 November 2018 Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-08-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 7 November 2018 Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-08-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 18 September 2018 Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will t

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-08-05

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 8 January 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulat

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-08-05

Published 19 December 2017 Hannie Lundgren, Head of Research at Region Skåne, Åsa Petersén and Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Dean at the Faculty of Medicine. Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-08-05