Developmental changes to the cellular proteome of blood progenitor cells. Image credit: Maria Jassinskaja In a recent study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center uncover developmental differences in the molecular machinery of the cells that maintain the blood system. These findings provide new insights into how the blood system develops throughout life and identify mechanisms that, if disrupted,

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-reveal-keys-molecular-machinery-governing-immune-cell-production - 2025-08-23

Sofie Mohlin and her research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center. We are very happy to announce that Sofie Mohlin - Associate Professor and head of the Molecular Physiology research group at the Divisions of Pediatrics and Translational Cancer Research – has joined Lund Stem Cell Center. Sofie Mohlin studied for a PhD in the group of Prof. Sven Påhlman at Lund University, investigating the ro

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-sofie-mohlin - 2025-08-23

Prof. Martin L Olsson. Image credit: Kennet Ruona. We are very happy to announce that Prof. Martin L Olsson and the Transfusion Medicine research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center. Martin L Olsson is Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, a Consultant at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, and M

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-martin-l-olsson-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-08-23

Sausan Moharram defends her PhD thesis on Wednesday 9th June 2021. During her PhD studies Sausan Moharram has been investigating the molecular mechanisms driving acute myeloid leukemia, shedding light on novel therapeutic approaches to treat this disease. Defending her PhD thesis on June 9th, in this interview Sausan tells us about her research within the Molecular Cancer Research group led by Pro

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-sausan-moharram - 2025-08-23

Maria Jassinskaja defends her PhD thesis Wednesday 9th June 2021. PhD student Maria Jassinskaja has been studying the molecular and functional dynamics of hematopoietic progenitor cell fate during development. Defending her PhD thesis on June 9th, in this interview Maria tells us about her research within the Proteomic Hematology research group and her time spent at Lund Stem Cell Center. What hav

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-maria-jassinskaja - 2025-08-23

Els Mansell has been awarded the EHA Young Researcher Grant. Photo credit: Valgardur Sigurdsson Lund Stem Cell Center is pleased to announce that Els Mansell has been awarded a Junior Research Grant 2021 worth €150.000,00 by the European Hematology Association (EHA) after a rigorous selection process. Dr. Mansell joins a network of over 110 distinguished researchers who have received EHA Research

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/els-mansell-awarded-prestigious-junior-research-grant - 2025-08-23

Fábio Rosa will be defending his PhD thesis on Thursday 10th June 2021. During his studies, PhD student Fábio Rosa has been developing strategies to generate dendritic cells by direct reprogramming. Merging cellular reprogramming with immunology, this research takes new steps towards the development of novel cancer immunotherapies. Defending his thesis on June 10th, in this interview Fabio tells u

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-fabio-rosa - 2025-08-23

Professor Anna Falk. We are very happy to announce that Professor Anna Falk has joined Lund Stem Cell Center. Anna and her research team are focused on understanding the mechanisms that control human brain development and how defects in these may contribute to the development of brain disorders. The Falk group are also exploring the regenerative potential of induced pluripotent stem cell derived n

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-anna-falk-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-08-23

Professors Anna Falk (left) and Malin Parmar (right) will use the funding from Vinnova to establish a collaborative innovative environment for precision medicine with their project IndiCell. (Photo Anna Falk: private, photo Malin Parmar: Kennet Ruona) Vinnova is Sweden's innovation agency with the mission to build Sweden’s innovation capacity. Earlier this year they announced a call for projects a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-scientists-awarded-5-year-grant-vinnova - 2025-08-23

The coding DNA in humans and chimpanzees are close to identical, yet we are very different. A recent study from the Jakobsson lab look into the non-coding parts of our DNA for answers. (Illustration: Marie Jönsson) Johan Jakobsson and his team tries to understand how the human brain is so different in complexity and size to the brains of other great apes, even though our coding genome is almost id

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/what-makes-human-brain-different-brain-chimpanzee - 2025-08-23

The current study opens up for the possibility to manufacture off-the-shelf cell-free grafts for tissue regeneration, illustrated by Peter Szabo. Associate senior lecturer Paul Bourgine and his team has generated a “cell-based but cell-free” biomaterial harboring the necessary signals for complete bone regeneration The field of tissue engineering for replacement therapies faces multiple challenges

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/towards-establishment-human-tissue-factory-programming-cells-building-units - 2025-08-23

(Photo by Visual Stories || Micheile on Unsplash) At 2pm on the 28th of October scientists all over Sweden were scrolling though the list of awarded grants in Medicine and health from The Swedish Research Council, in hope to find their name. The yearly awarded grants from The Swedish Research Council continues to support high quality research with their Project grants as well as enabling promising

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/scc-scientists-awarded-326-million-swedish-research-council - 2025-08-23

The virtual reality environment CellexalVR is built on gaming technology and allows single-cell data to be analysed in 3D using hand controllers, here demonstrated by the PhD student Mikael Sommarin. (Foto credit: Shamit Soneji) The Soneji lab has developed an open-source virtual reality environment enabling scientists to analyse their single-cell sequencing data in 3D. Current single cell sequenc

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/single-cell-analysis-enters-third-dimension - 2025-08-23

(Photo collage: Marie Jönsson) The Foundation supports research aiming to elucidate the mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease with the vision of improved treatments as well as prevention of the disease. This year's annual announcement of granted project proposals from The Swedish Parkinson Foundation revealed a total support of 7 million SEK, from which over a million SEK went to stem cell-based p

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-parkinson-foundation-grants-several-scc-projects - 2025-08-23

Maria performed her doctoral studies in the group of Jenny Hansson at the SCC and defended her thesis on June 9th, 2021. Maria’s doctoral studies at the SCC resulted in the thesis “Molecular and Functional Dynamics of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Fate During Ontogeny” in which she focused her work on blood development and how it affects our immune system. The assessment committee at The Swedish S

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-society-hematology-has-awarded-maria-jassinskaja-thesis-year - 2025-08-23

The cover of Taha Sen's thesis is inspired by Pink Floyd and cell sorting. He defends his thesis on the 17th of November. Taha Sen’s PhD thesis focus on the life span of red blood cells and elucidates the important role of mitochondria. He is defending his thesis on the 17th of November and in this interview he gives us an overview of his results as well as what it’s been like being a doctoral stu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-taha-sen - 2025-08-23

Martin Stenlo defends his thesis on the 12th of November. Martin Stenlo’s PhD thesis aims to improve the intensive care of lung patients as well as to increase the health status of transplantable donor lungs which will improve the success rate of lung transplantation. He is defending his thesis on the 12th of November and in this interview he tells us about his translational research and his time

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martin-stenlo - 2025-08-23

The Swedish Cancer Foundation is one of Sweden's largest funding agencies and awarded 7 of SCC's scientists with project grants this year. (Photo: Pixabay, merged with The Swedish Cancer Foundation's logo) The Swedish Cancer Foundation supports cancer research with a record sum this year: 850 million SEK divided between 230 research projects, selected based the highest chance of achieving successf

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-cancer-foundation-funds-lund-scc-scientists-232-million-sek - 2025-08-23

The cover of Martiné Wlosinska's thesis is illustrated by her sister and shows a heart shaped garlic bulb among garlic cloves. She defends her thesis on the 26th of November. (Photo: Private). Martiné Wlosinska, medical doctor and PhD student, will be defending her thesis titled “Preventing Cardiovascular Disease. Complementary precision medicine” on the 26th of November. In this interview, Martin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martine-wlosinska - 2025-08-23

The cover of Giulia Beneventi's thesis illustrates all of the different RNA types in cells. She defends his thesis on the 8th of December. Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she tells us about her research and what is it like to be a PhD student in newly established group. Giulia defends her

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2025-08-23