7 November 2025 13:00 | Thesis defence Raquel Martínez Curiel, a doctoral student in the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Restorative Neurology led by Professor Zaal Kokaia, is set to defend her thesis on Friday, November 07th, 2025 at 13:00. Dissertation title: Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic StrokeMain supervisor: Professor Zaal KokaiaOpponent: Professor Alexei Verkhratsky, Manchester Chairman of the

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/phd-defence-raquel-martinez-curiel-subject-medical-science - 2025-09-05

12 September 2025 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Join us for a special talk by Fredrik Sterky, associate professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and a resident physician in clinical chemistry at Gothenburg University. This event takes place in conjunction with the PhD defense of Oskar Zetterdahl, supervised by Associate Professor Henrik Ahlenius. When: Friday, September 12, 2025 | 11:00–12:00

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/how-build-synapse-roles-neurexin-complex-health-and-disease-guest-talk-fredrik-sterky - 2025-09-05

- A PhD Interview with Ervin Ascic How can cancer cells be turned against themselves? Ervin Ascic, a Ph.D. student at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center, has spent his doctoral studies exploring the answer to this question. On September 3 at 15:00, he will publicly defend his thesis, which investigates a new approach to cancer immunotherapy: using gene therapy to reprogram tumor cells into im

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-school-stem-cell-biology/phd-interview-ervin-ascic - 2025-09-05

25 September 2025 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Join us for a special guest talk with Dr. Anna Czarkwiani from the Center for Regenerative Therapies at TU Dresden (CRTD) in Germany, on 25 September, 2025. When: Thursday, September 25, 2024 | 11:00 - 12:00Where: Forum Medicum, E11073Talk Title: 'From brittle stars to axolotls: biomineralization, gravity sensing and regeneration'Speaker: Dr. Anna Czarkwi

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17 November 2025 09:00 to 21 November 2025 17:00 | Other Are you new to working with human pluripotent stem cells? Our Cell and Gene Technologies Core Facility is happy to teach you how! This fall they are hosting their course containing substantial hands-on practice in the cell lab as well as seminars covering topics such as history, growth, quality controls and how they can be used in research a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/course-handling-maintenance-and-understanding-human-pluripotent-stem-cells - 2025-09-05

13 October 2025 09:00 to 17 October 2025 15:00 | Other Together with the Bioinformatics Core Facility, the Research School in Stem Cell Biology is excited to offer a new opportunity for students to develop their skills in R programming! The Basic Course in R is designed to provide participants with a solid foundation in this flexible and approachable language that is widely used in research and ca

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/basic-course-r-programming-1 - 2025-09-05

SITNICKA QUINN Group Our ResearchThe immune system is composed of myeloid and lymphoid cells that collectively protect the body from bacteria, parasites, fungi, or viruses, and from the growth of tumor cells. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are ultimately responsible for the production of all cells in the immune system. Throughout a lineage commitment process, multipotent HSCs differentiate and ge

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/sitnicka_quinn - 2025-09-05

Yuan Group Our researchOur research addresses important gaps in our knowledge of how nature and nurture shape the formation of a complex and balanced immune system with important implications in life-long health and the origin of B cell cancers.  Our lab has previously identified a critical regulator of fetal lymphopoiesis, LIN28B, that endows hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to regenerate

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/yuan - 2025-09-05

Flygare Group Our Research84% of all cells in our bodies are red blood cells. Today many anemic patients suffer from inefficient production of these essential cells. We believe safer and more effective therapies can be developed based on advances in understanding the process of red cell production.To understand the developmental process of red blood cell formation:My group became the first to demo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/flygare - 2025-09-05

The Lund Stem Cell Center Steering Group is a team of dedicated researchers who drive the strategic planning and scientific progress of the Center. The Steering Group's primary goal is to ensure that the Center's research is focused, impactful, and innovative. They are responsible for developing and implementing the Center's strategic plan, ensuring that resources are used effectively, and fosteri

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/lund-stem-cell-center/stem-cell-center-steering-group - 2025-09-05

Juliusson Group Our Research  We focus on clinical aspects of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adults. Patients with AML are diagnosed, including extensive genetic analyses with constitutional control DNA and biobanking, and treated according to research and routine protocols at Skåne University Hospital, Lund, with careful monitoring and follow-up.  Lab work includes genetics in collaboration with

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/juliusson - 2025-09-05

Jakobsson Group Our ResearchWe are interested in how gene expression is regulated in the brain and how this process influence neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric disorders and brain tumors. Our current focus is to study the role of epigenetic mechanisms and microRNAs. Our technical expertise include lentiviral vectors, transgenic mice and stem cells cultures.AimsTo understand the role of the e

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Academic staff representatives: Coordinator and Chairman: Johan Jakobsson, Professor, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University Deputy Coordinator: Johan Flygare, Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University David Bryder, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University Oommen Varghese, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Cell Biolog

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/lund-stem-cell-center/stemtherapy-board - 2025-09-05

G. Karlsson group Our ResearchThe production of blood cells, hematopoiesis, is maintained by a small number of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that have the capacity to differentiate into all hematopoietic lineages, and at the same time self-renew to maintain the HSC pool. These properties make HSCs essential for maintaining hematopoietic homeostasis and for reconstitution of patients during treat

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/gkarlsson - 2025-09-05

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is an international team of esteemed researchers in the fields of basic and translational stem cell research. Comprised of experts from top research institutions around the world, the SAB provides invaluable strategic advice and recommendations to the Lund Stem Cell Center's Steering Group and Management Team.As a key part of the Center's leadership structure, t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/lund-stem-cell-center/stemtherapy-scientific-advisory-board - 2025-09-05

S. Karlsson Group Our ResearchWe are studying the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in order to understand how signaling pathways, transcriptional mechanisms and epigenetic regulators govern stem cell behavior to determine stem cell fate options.Integrative signaling and transcriptional networks act in concert to determine whether hematopoietic stem cells remain quiescent, proliferate

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/skarlsson - 2025-09-05

Kokaia group AimBy linking together basic and clinical research, we aim to clarify cellular mechanisms of regeneration following damage to the brain and develop new therapeutic strategies to restore function in this organ (primarily in stroke and Parkinson’s disease) by transplantation of stem cells or reprogrammed cells and optimization of endogenous repair mechanisms.  Our ResearchAvailable expe

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/laboratory-stem-cells-and-restorative-neurology - 2025-09-05

Larsson Group Our researchThe focus of the research in the Larsson group is to define genes and pathways that regulate human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and to develop novel strategies for ex vivo stem cell expansion to enhance current cell therapies of hematological disorders. Over the last few years the laboratory has developed strategies to screen for modifiers of self-renewal/proliferation

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/larsson - 2025-09-05

Researchers at Lund University already have a strong international position in two major areas of somatic stem cell and cell therapy research: Neural cell replacement therapies for central nervous system (CNS) disorders Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) biology and gene therapyThe sections of Neurobiology and Restorative Neurology have an internationally leading position in CNS disease models and expe

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Artner Group Our Research Diabetes results from loss or dysfunction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Despite insulin injection treatment, diabetic patients suffer from long-term complications, such as blindness and kidney failure. Therefore, a central goal of diabetes research is to regenerate pancreatic beta cells or produce large numbers of functional beta cells for transplantati

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-groups/artner - 2025-09-05