By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 13 November 2024 The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. The meeting began with the Dean informing about the establishment of the Centre for Precision Medicine, Research Day, co-options and grants, Birgit Rausing's Centre for Medical Humanities, and updates from the Vice-Chancellor's Manage

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-13-november-2024 - 2025-04-29

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 15 November 2024 Stig Erici and Gunilla Amnér from MedCUL were involved in the planning of the conference. Photo: Sara Liedholm The Lund University Conference on Teaching and Learning took place in Forum Medicum last week. During the conference, experiences and challenges in teaching were discussed. Do you want to become

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/take-course-teaching-and-learning-higher-education-spring - 2025-04-29

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 25 November 2024 Register on the 9th of December at the latest. All employees are warmly welcome to the Faculty's joint Christmas celebration on Friday 13 December.There will be a Lucia procession and a look back at the past year. At the end of the event, there will be mingling with coffee and mulled wine. Sign up

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/christmas-celebration-entire-faculty-welcome - 2025-04-29

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 25 November 2024 All employees are welcome to join our digital Faculty Morning Meeting. At the November meeting you will meet Emilie Stroh, project manager for the Research Data Office (formerly e-infra), who will give us an update about the new infrastructure that is being put in place for research data storage an

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/faculty-morning-meeting-2811-new-infrastructure-research-data-storage-and-handling - 2025-04-29

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 28 November 2024 Deadline is January 20, 2025. Johan Flygare, Coordinator of the Swedish National ATMP Research School, explains more about the school and why you should apply in this interview from last year, made by Intramed.   What is ATMP? ATMP (Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products ) is a term used by the Europe

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/call-applications-swedish-national-atmp-research-school-202526 - 2025-04-29

By sofia_b [dot] liljedahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sofia B Liljedahl) - published 28 November 2024 Data steward Maria Johnsson points out the direction for research data at the faculty. With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with resea

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-research-data-unit-data-stewards-each-faculty - 2025-04-29

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 28 November 2024 By December 13, everyone who has a Lucat ID must change their password. This applies to all employees, students and others who work at the university. For IT security reasons, all passwords at Lund University need to be replaced as soon as possible. Therefore, everyone who has a Lucat ID, i.e. em

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/mandatory-password-change-all - 2025-04-29

By sofia_b [dot] liljedahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sofia B Liljedahl) - published 2 December 2024 Late on Friday afternoon, the Med-service board decided that the gym at BMC will be restored after the fire that devastated the premises in May 2024. If everything goes as it should with repairs to the space, the gym could hopefully be in use sometime in February. 

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/bmc-gym-will-be-restored - 2025-04-29

Published 11 November 2021 Photo: Mostphotos A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has identified a protein in the blood that could predict type 2 diabetes up to nineteen years before the onset of the disease. The study is published in Nature Communications. Type 2 diabetes is a growing global epidemic, with 6% of the world population suffering from the disease. However, the risk of devel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-biomarker-identified-predicts-type-2-diabetes-many-years-diagnosis - 2025-04-29

Published 11 November 2021 Photo: Billy Jones While many negotiators think the ongoing United Nations’ climate conference COP26 in Glasgow should already be considered successful due to global decisions having been made, Greta Thunberg and other climate activists argue that the summit is primarily a PR event which has excluded many groups from the negotiations. Doctoral student of ethnology at Lun

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cop26-climate-conference-inclusion-focus-observer - 2025-04-29

Published 22 November 2021 Researcher Emma Nilsson has analysed microRNA in fat biopsies from identical twins with and without type 2 diabetes. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Identical twins share the same DNA, but one twin can suffer from type 2 diabetes while the other twin does not develop the disease. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has now discovered that there are differences in gene activit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twin-study-finds-type-2-diabetes-clues-epigenetic-changes - 2025-04-29

Published 23 November 2021 Photo: Shamit Soneji Science has the technology to measure the activity of every gene within a single individual cell, and just one experiment can generate thousands of cells worth of data. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now revolutionised the way this data is analysed – by using 3D video gaming technology. The study is published in the journal iScience. A

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-virtual-reality-tool-be-used-fight-against-disease - 2025-04-29

Published 30 November 2021 Sida has signed a four-year agreement with Lund University regarding commissioned education courses on innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development in Africa. Photo: James Wiseman Many developing countries are making progress, whereas others are stalling or falling behind. In the latter cases, transformation capacity needs to be reinforced to ena

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/focus-sustainable-development-new-sida-course-africa-and-lund - 2025-04-29

Published 1 December 2021 (Image: OHB) Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within the Earth observation programme Copernicus, when satellites will be sent into space in the coming years. At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world ag

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-co2-emissions - 2025-04-29

By fritzliselotte [at] gmail [dot] com (Liselotte Fritz) - published 1 December 2021 After a major development work where researchers and experts in urology, communication and IT have collaborated, Region Skåne landed Organized prostate cancer testing, OPT, 2020. Photo: iStockphoto With 10,000 new cases a year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer type in Sweden. To create equal, accessible a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care - 2025-04-29

Published 6 December 2021 Niels Koning and Daniel Strand (Photo: Johan Joelsson) A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely contaminated wastewater in an abandoned mine in South Korea. The method, which took four years to develop, could pave the way for new types of drugs. The study is publis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development - 2025-04-29

Published 8 December 2021 “I completely believe that nanotechnology is one of the absolutely best tools we have to solve several of our sustainability challenges" according to Christina Isaxon researcher at LTH and NanoLund, a strategic research area. Photo: Kennet Ruona Christina Isaxon has always been interested in how small particles in the air affect our health. As society’s use of nanomateria

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/better-knowledge-needed-about-handling-nanoparticles - 2025-04-29

Published 9 December 2021 Photo: Mostphotos A large population study from Lund University in Sweden has shown that more sustainable dietary habits are linked to health benefits, such as a reduced risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. The study is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Our results indicate that dietary guidelines that are beneficial for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/environmentally-sustainable-diet-linked-health-benefits - 2025-04-29

Published 10 December 2021 Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. Photo by Kennet Ruona. Once again, we are now seeing an increase in the spread of infection, in particular in Europe; this week, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced new recommendations to avoid crowding, among other things. We are still offering on-campus education but everyone is to avoid crowding and large gatherings. We are care

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/solving-problem-vaccination-certificates-international-researchers-and-students-vice-chancellors - 2025-04-29

Published 13 December 2021 Photo: Mostphotos Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA from 85 species could be identified. This offers scope for exploring a whole new way to monitor terrestrial biodiversity. These preliminary results will be presented at Ecology Across Bord

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skys-limit-using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2025-04-29