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För två år sedan startade POInT-studien i Sverige som ska undersöka om oralt insulin kan förhindra ett insjuknade i typ 1-diabetes. Nu har forskarna fullt fokus på att samla in och förbereda deltagarnas prover för analys. De första resultaten väntas först om några år. – Det ska bli spännande, säger Carina Törn, docent och laboratoriesamordnare på Lunds universitet. En vanlig vecka får Wallenbergsl
https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/fullt-fokus-pa-proverna - 2025-11-17
Om små barn får mindre gröt och välling minskar risken för att utveckla glutenintolerans. Och kanske kommer man i framtiden kunna vaccinera barn mot celiaki. Det säger Daniel Agardh, som ser sig själv som en forskande barnläkare – med målet att göra sig själv arbetslös. Trots att Daniel Agardh tidigt bestämde sig för att inte gå i sina föräldrars fotspår och forska om diabetes, handlade hans avhan
https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskande-barnlakare-tror-pa-vaccin-mot-celiaki - 2025-11-18
När sociologen Alison Gerber fick 1,5 miljoner euro från EU skulle hon för första gången sätta ihop och leda en egen forskargrupp. Att gå in i rollen som forskargruppsledare har varit kul, men också en utmaning. För fyra år sedan fick Alison Gerber, docent i sociologi, det prestigefulla ERC Starting Grant på 1,5 miljoner euro för projektet ”Show and tell”. Hon ville undersöka hur vi ser på nya ty
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/en-egen-forskargrupp-roligt-och-utmanande - 2025-11-18
De flesta kvinnor kommer någon gång under sitt yrkesliv att befinna sig i klimakteriet. Hur kan en arbetsplats riggas för att underlätta för anställda i övergångsåldern? Ett pilotprojekt vid Lunds universitet undersöker frågan. Svettningar, humörsvängningar och dålig sömn. Många kvinnor lider av att vara i klimakteriet. Enligt en studie från 2021 publicerad av Socialstyrelsen har 60 procent måttli
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-kan-lu-bli-en-mer-klimakterievanlig-arbetsplats - 2025-11-18
Engagerade, nyfikna och ivriga att förändra. Studenterna som söker sig till universitetets masterutbildningar i hållbarhet drivs av att vilja förändra världen. Pionjärer och föregångare: så kan masterprogrammen EMP (masterprogrammet i miljöstrategisk styrning) och LUMES (masterprogrammet i miljö- och hållbarhetsvetenskap) beskrivas. De är några av de äldsta tvärvetenskapliga utbildningarna i både
Vid besvär av bland annat oregelbunden hjärtrytm, yrsel eller svimning kan EKG behöva registreras under flera dygn – långtids-EKG – som sedan granskas för att hitta avvikelser i hjärtrytmen. Arbetet är både tids- och resurskrävande. I en stor internationell klinisk studie har forskare därför testat om AI kan ersätta människan för analys och bedöming av långtids-EKG. Resultatet: 14 gånger färre mis
https://www.lu.se/artikel/ai-ar-battre-manniskan-pa-att-bedoma-langtids-ekg - 2025-11-18
Every chair is taken and the leaders of the workshop have had to turn participants away. Among doctoral students, there is clearly great interest in the topic – to finish your thesis on time and feel good along the way. “I think the workshop is great, it opens your mind and the techniques seem realistic to use in your work”, says Kristin Osk Ingvarsdottir who this spring will commence the final
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-survive-your-thesis - 2025-11-17
Lund researchers have every reason to be proud regarding competition for EU grants. LU is the best in Sweden in terms of total funding and in the top three with the Karolinska Institute (KI) and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) regarding the number of participations in different projects. “We have the most ERC grants in Sweden, and within the humanities and social sciences there are special ef
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-top-eu-league-best-sweden-obtaining-grants - 2025-11-17
On 1 January 2020, a new law will come into force that means that cases concerning research misconduct are to be forwarded to a new national board exclusively dedicated to this. At Lund University, this will involve two or three current cases that will not be finalised in time. "The purpose of the act is good, however, the allocation of responsibilities between the new board and ourselves is unfo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-national-board-take-over-cases-research-misconduct - 2025-11-17
The archaeology team gets up with the sun at five o’clock each morning. They then work for seven hours under the burning sun in the middle of nowhere in Egypt’s desert landscape among venomous scorpions and lizards. They only stop work for lunch and a typical Egyptian chai tea break. “The most common danger is sunstroke – you cannot get away from the sun”, says Maria Nilsson. “But also workplace a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leading-archaeological-super-team-banks-nile - 2025-11-17
In 2019, the number of flights for business travel decreased by nearly 10 per cent at the University. At the same time, train travel increased by 20 per cent. “There are many deliberate individual decisions behind this. We are on the right track!” says the head of sustainability Claes Nilén. When you look at the numbers for travel in Lund University’s environmental report, it is evident that few
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-flights-lund-university-staff-2019 - 2025-11-17
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that usually requires lifelong treatment. A central goal for many diabetes researchers is to develop new cell therapies that can cure the disease. The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation provides support to two diabetes researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre who contribute with new knowledge to this research field. Type 1 diabetes is a condition wh
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hjelt-diabetes-foundation-supports-research-can-pave-way-new-cell-therapies - 2025-11-17
A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilised information in mammograms and pinpoints with high accuracy the individual risk of metastasis in the armpit. A newly completed study shows that the model indicates that just over 40 per cent of today’s axillary surgery
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body’s immune system. By developing an antibody that blocks the mechanism, the researchers could restore the immune system’s ability to kill the cancer cells in laboratory trials and in mice. The discovery is published in Nature Cancer. In brief:Facts about the study: peer-r
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-revealed-how-leukemia-cells-trick-immune-system - 2025-11-17
It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at that time,” he says. “But now it turns out that Medicon Village is a great success and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2025-11-18
Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the crowd. Cyberattacks against higher education institutions and other public authorities, as well as against companies, have s
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2025-11-18
How long does it take to comfort someone? Does an egg need to be fried rather than boiled? LUM invited home care researchers from the School of Social Work and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) for a conversation. They are meeting for the first time; their discussions cover stress, responsibility and participation. Their common goal is better home care, but they approach the issue from different pe
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/one-persons-workplace-anothers-home - 2025-11-18
Thanks to stem cell research, we now understand much more about the earliest stages of human development and what underlies many of our diseases. In recent years, the field has been revolutionised by several discoveries that have completely changed the landscape of stem cell research. Since its establishment as a strategic research centre, the Lund Stem Cell Center has become one of the strongest
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/twenty-years-revolutionary-stem-cell-research - 2025-11-18
