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Mef Nilbert will replace Lisa Rydén as representative for Skåne University Hospital in the LUCC Executive Group, starting 1 July 2022. Vinay Swaminathan will replace Håkan Axelson as representative for education in the LUCC Executive Group, starting 1 January 2023.
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-representatives-lucc-executive-group - 2026-07-03
The LUCC Executive group met at the Old Bishop's house to discuss the future strategy for LUCC on 29 August 2022. There were fruitful discussions about funding, activities and the future Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) since the plan is to establish a common SAB with Skåne University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre (SUHCCC). Photo by Sophia Zackrisson and Pia Berntsson LUCC is an integral pa
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/lucc-strategy-day-29-august-2022 - 2026-07-03
Welcome Jana Hagman! Jana Hagman will start 1 March 2023 (20%) to support LUCC with communication in English and support to bigger events for the strategic translational networks. Jana is also Research Coordinator for the EU-funded CanFaster programmes hosted by Immunotechnology at Faculty of Engineering, Lund university. Welcome and we are looking forward to work with you, Jana!
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-administrative-support - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University Cancer Centre was officially opened on the World Cancer Day 4 February 2020. The event was opened by the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Erik Renström, who is the Chair of the Board of LUCC. The LUCC organisation and its strategic plan for 2020-2024 was presented by the LUCC Coordinator, Kristian Pietras
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/inauguration-lund-university-cancer-centre-4-february-2020 - 2026-07-03
Mats Jerkeman will take over as LUCC coordinator next year (1 March 2024) when Sophia Zackrisson's 3-year term of office as coordinator ends. It is the Dean of Faculty of Medicine that decide about the LUCC coordinator within LUCC after an internal nomination procedure.
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator-start-1-march-2024 - 2026-07-03
Pamela Buchwald (left) is new member of LUCC executive group, starting 1 January 2024. She is also new Scientific Director of Skåne University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre (SUHCCC) replacing Lisa Rydén.We have also new LUCC board members from last year - PhD student representative Juliane Albrecht (upper middle) and Carina Bernardo (right) representing Future Faculty.We also have a new cha
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-members-lucc-board-and-executive-group - 2026-07-03
The best cancer thesis of the year 2023 is Communication about serious illness as a relational process by Mattias Tranberg with the following motivation: "The work by Mattias Tranberg provides novel knowledge to improve clinical cancer care from a holistic viewpoint with focus on the relationship between health care staff and seriously ill patients". The price sum for this year's thesis is SEK 80
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/best-phd-thesis-cancer-year-2023 - 2026-07-03
New organisation in the management and new board members. We have reorganized the management within LUCC and also got new members plus a new vice coordinator since the beginning of the year. The former board and the executive group have been merged to an operational board. This will streamline the organization and adapt it to current needs.The current members of the Board and Scientific Advisory b
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/reorganisation-lucc-management - 2026-07-03
Meet the new guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC) Mary Beth Terry from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, US. Mary Beth Terry was recently employed as guest professor at Lund University Cancer Centre from March 2025 until 2028. She will be working 10% of full time and her employment is supported by LUCC and Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation.She recently visited Lund
https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/meet-new-guest-professor-cancer-epidemiology-and-prevention - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/upcoming-seminar-sheikh-mujib-icon-postcolonial-liberation - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Anindita Majumdar from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India. holds a SASNET/Gender studies lecture at Lund University on Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15.00–17.00.The seminar, is entitled ” Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World”. Venue: Room 221, Department of Gender Studies, Al
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetgender-studies-seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Chakra - Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies's Special Issue "Articulations of a Pandemic" is now available on our website. Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper re
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-special-issue-published - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Guest lecture to be held by Professor David Ludden on April 27 at University of Copenhagen David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at Un
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/david-ludden-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, was awarded a grant by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Dr. Myrvold received funding for her project "Iconic Scriptures in Colonial Punjab: Sikh Religion, Print Culture, and Politics" (project description below).
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliate-kristina-myrvold-receives-research-grant - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a w
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the third episode of SAI's "Climate Lens" podcast, Julia Wiraeus talks to three experts on South Asia's water crisis and the way forward. South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, w
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-climate-lens-podcast-episode - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researcher Orwa Ajjoub explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. In his newly published report "From Afghanistan to Syria: The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism", funded by SASNET and the Centre for Adv
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-cmes-report-jihadi-salafism - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The report was written by former SASNET intern Maliha Shir Mohammad and is a summary of her MA thesis. In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-education-women-afghanistan - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET and the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF) jointly organized a seminar on “Tibet as an (Inter)National Problem” – focusing on China’s and India’s respective roles in Tibet, on Wednesday 20 April 2016, at 19.00. The speaker was Dr. Dibyesh Anand, Associate Professor in International Relations and the H
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetupf-seminar-indias-and-chinas-roles-tibet - 2026-07-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Amrita Ghosh, currently visiting researcher at SASNET, released her report "Fuzzy Borders and Postcolonial Forgotten Zones: The Case of Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves" as part of a preliminary pilot project focusing on questions of identity and space across the complex Bengal borderlands. The full report is now availab
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-indo-bangladeshi-borderlands - 2026-07-03
