Anders Forslid has witnessed a shift in animal health and animal experiments during his 30 years as a veterinarian at Lund University. Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2025-08-22

Future Facultys Saema Ansar, Anders Rasmussen och Nicole van Der Burg. Foto: Agata Garpenlind. Tre medlemmar delar sina lärdomar från engagemang i organisationen som arbetar för att föra fram unga forskares och lärares röst vid fakulteten. Anmäl dig till jubileet den 2 maj senast den 20 april. Anders Rasmussen, 40, docent i neurovetenskap, forskargruppsledare, ordförande i Future Faculty:Hur, när

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/20-arsjubileum-future-faculty-har-lart-mig-hur-man-navigerar-i-akademin - 2025-08-21

Photo:Louise Larsson From internal training courses for university lecturers in which the participants take a deep dive into case method teaching, to dedicated conferences and competitions. The alternatives to traditional classroom teaching are increasing and one of them is known as case method teaching, with assignments based on real situations which students must solve in collaboration. April wa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-case-method-teaching-spreads-one-lecturer-another - 2025-08-21

Stephen Woroniecki blogs on the issues highlighted in Director Emily Boyd's article in NatureRecently our Director, Professor Emily Boyd, published an article in Nature, Climate Adaptation - Holistic Thinking Beyond Technology, exploring issues emerging in global attempts at climate change adaptation. A central theme of the article was how local implementation of adaptation relates to global actor

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/comment-issues-highlighted-director-emily-boyds-article-nature - 2025-08-21

Right now, everything is focused on managing the coronavirus. However, even before COVID-19, viral pandemics around the world were increasing and the ’ordinary’ influenza virus and common cold virus cost society enormous amounts of money each year. Swedish virus researchers say they could improve the world with the help of increased resources and knowledge. A new virus centre is opening in Lund. V

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/virus-war - 2025-08-21

The dog Kevin is both a family member and a research object. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg-Bärg Giving up research has never been an option for Ronald Kröger, professor in biology with a specialisation in fish lenses and dog noses. “I conduct research with all of my heart!” He is, however, at least as dependent on his brain – and it has really suffered. It is nearly five years since the Saturday morni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nose-noses - 2025-08-21

Trion Anabella Aguilera, Wojciech Potrzebowski, Sophie Hellstrand koordinerar aktiviteterna på SciLifeLab i Lund. Foto: Ingemar Hultquist När SciLifeLab växer blir effektiva samarbeten avgörande för att hålla ihop och utveckla verksamheten. De tre koordinatorerna Anabella, Wojtek och Sophie har en central roll i detta arbete. Vi träffar Anabella, Sophie och Wojtek – de tre nya koordinatorerna vid

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/scilifelab-vaxer-nya-koordinatorer-i-lund-tar-over-rodret - 2025-08-21

“We have not fallen behind, as our staff have continued to deliver – although we miss each other as people and want to meet in the office. I am impressed with the transition”, Lhinn Holmbergh says. It is still unclear how much students and staff will be on campus in the autumn, but a gradual return is being planned. Discussions are also being held as to whether technical and administrative staff w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-are-we-work-autumn - 2025-08-21

The trio Anabella Aguilera, Wojciech Potrzebowski, Sophie Hellstrand coordinate SciLifeLab in Lund. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist As SciLifeLab continues to grow as a hub for cutting-edge life science research, collaboration and coordination are more important than ever. At SciLifeLab Lund, the coordinators play a vital role in connecting researchers, infrastructure units, and strategic initiatives acr

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/enhancing-research-and-partnerships-new-coordinators-step-scilifelab-lund - 2025-08-21

A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and simultaneously presented at

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-08-21

Erik Wengström wishes faculties would have a source of money that could be readily available for certain research. Photo: Håkan Röjder Covid-19 turned parts of the ordinary research process upside down. Economist Erik Wengström is among those who have studied Swedes’ behaviour during the pandemic from the centre of events. But the current funding system risks putting a spanner in the works. His wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-speedy-action-finance-highly-topical-research - 2025-08-21

Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she sees how that industry's digital settings has moved to encompass us all. The bookshelves in Saon

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-08-21

Philip Warkander is Sweden's first ever PhD graduate in fashion studies. Photo: Kennet Ruona Workhorse Philip Warkander became Sweden’s first PhD graduate in Fashion Studies. He describes research in a new subject as continuously doubting – an approach he also applies to the academic community’s focus on hard work. Moving around as a researcher, he noticed one day that he had fallen into the class

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doubting-fashion-pioneer - 2025-08-21

Rasmus Eltén at his first road accident on the E6 north of Helsingborg. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter “Suicide threat. Young woman with self-harming behaviour who has taken an overdose of pills”. This is one of the emergency calls that come in during Rasmus Eltén’s ten-hour shift at the ambulance station in Helsingborg. He is in his first week of internship on the specialist nursing programme in pre-hospi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emergency-call - 2025-08-21

LUnchtime international style! Darcy Wagner in a green T-shirt and than follows clockwise: Hani Alsafadi, Maria Öhlin, Qianren Jin, Srisayini Kidnapilla, Nika Gvazava and Deniz Bölükbas. Eighteen nationalities come together during lunch on level B10 at Biomedical Centre (BMC). There is a hotchpotch of dishes and languages. Lunch becomes an opportunity to meet colleagues across borders and to learn

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-meets-lunch - 2025-08-21

Forskarna såg såg en tydlig association mellan östrogenbehandling och alla tre hudcancerformerna – melanom, skivepitelcancer och basalcellscancer. Foto: iStock Forskare vid Lunds universitet har i en ny studie funnit ett tydligt samband mellan östrogenbehandling och de tre vanligaste typerna av hudcancer. Att effektivt kunna behandla klimakteriebesvär är viktigt för många kvinnors mående. Men, kon

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tydligt-samband-mellan-ostrogenbehandling-och-hudcancer - 2025-08-21

Future Faculty´s Saema Ansar, Anders Rasmussen and Nicole van Der Burg. Photo: Agata Garpenlind. Three members share their take-aways from getting involved in an organization committed to bringing forward the voice of young researchers and teachers at the Faculty. Register for the anniversary on May 2, no later than April 20. Anders Rasmussen, 40, Associate Professor in Neuroscience & PI, Future F

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/celebrating-20-years-future-faculty-has-taught-me-how-navigate-academia - 2025-08-21

Children taking part in the TEDDY study in Sweden have an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes and are screened for the disease. Research nurse Jessica Melin takes a blood sample from one of the participants. Photograph: Kennet Ruona Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question. Diabet

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-08-21

Farshid Jalalvand researches how to develop safe vaccines to prevent respiratory tract infections that cause ear and eye inflammation. Photo: Mahendar Kadari Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-08-21

Sofia Åkerman received thousands of emails from sufferers and their relatives after The Zebra Girl was published, which prompted her to remain committed. Photo:Kennet Ruona "Mastery of the law gives you power. And I want to use that power to support the vulnerable" says Sofia Åkerman, doctoral student at the Department of Law with personal experience of vulnerability and self-harming behaviour. Sh

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/using-law-fight-vulnerable - 2025-08-21