Published 26 September 2017 Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-07-29

Published 29 September 2017 Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "tech

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-07-29

Published 6 October 2017 The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-07-29

Published 16 October 2017 Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-07-29

Published 19 October 2017 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-07-29

Published 24 October 2017 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Alter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-07-29

Published 24 October 2017 Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-07-29

Published 24 October 2017 Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-07-29

Published 14 October 2022 We are very happy to congratulate Jessica Giacomoni who on October 14th, 2022 successfully defended her thesis "Exploring Direct Conversion of Human Glia into Therapeutic Neurons". PhD interview: Turning glia into neurons inside the brain – PhD interview with Jessica Giacomoni Please click here to read the thesis.

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-giacomoni - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 20 October 2022 Läkemedelsverket godkänner klinisk fas 1- och fas2a-studie för ny stamcellsbaserad behandling av Parkinsons sjukdom An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/swedish-medical-products-agency-grants-approval-clinical-study-new-stem-cell-based-parkinsons - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 28 February 2023 Lund University: Press release On 13th of February, 2023, a transplant of stem cell-derived nerve cells was administered to a person with Parkinson’s at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. Please go to the below links to find out more about STEM PD. English: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/arti

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/first-patient-receives-milestone-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 28 April 2023 2023-04-27. We are very happy to join Fredrik Nilsson for the nailing of his thesis "Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's Disease: Evaluating the potential of autologous grafting". The defence will take place on May 10th, 2023 at 9.00 am at the Belfrage Lecture Hall (Klinikgatan 32, Lund) - yo

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-fredrik - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 10 May 2023 2023-05-10. We are very happy to announce that Fredrik Nilsson successfully defended his thesis "Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's Disease: Evaluating the potential of autologous grafting" today. Congratulations Dr. Nilsson! To read an interview with Fredrik, please go to the following articl

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-nilsson - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 5 March 2024 The prize was given in recognition of their pioneering work in researching neurodegenerative diseases and translational stem cell biology. For more information of the event, please see:https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/experts-delve-advancements-parkinsons-treatment-oon-lecture 

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-and-roger-barker-recieve-oon-award-preventative-medicine-2024 - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 6 May 2024 Positiva tidiga säkerhetsresultat har uppnåtts efter de fyra första patienterna som genomgått transplantation av dopaminproducerande stamceller inom den kliniska studien STEM-PD.För att läsa artikeln vänligen gå till: https://www.lu.se/artikel/klinisk-stamcellsbaserad-transplantationsstudie-stem-pd-m

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/klinisk-stamcellsbaserad-transplantationsstudie-stem-pd-mot-parkinsons-har-inlett-doshojning - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 8 May 2024 För att gå till artikeln, vänligen besök DNs hemsida: https://www.dn.se/sverige/nya-celler-i-hjarnan-hopp-for-patienter-med-parkinsons-sjukdom/ 

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/dagens-nyheter-nya-celler-i-hjarnan-hopp-patienter-med-parkinsons-sjukdom - 2025-07-29

Published 8 May 2024 För att se avsnittet, vänligen besök SVT Play: https://www.svtplay.se/video/jb3DV31/rapport/man-6-maj-19-30?position=1015&id=j7dJnd2Start: min. 16:59

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/svt-play-rapport-2024-05-06 - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 6 November 2024 Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The four researchers aim to develop custom-made neurons from stem cells for cell therapies to treat Parkinson’s or Hunting

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/press-release-erc-synergy-grant-awarded-development-custom-made-stem-cell-therapies - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 16 November 2018 Congratulations to Tiago Cardoso who "nailed" his thesis today! We are now very much looking forward to his defence which will take place on Nov 30th at 9.00 AM at BMC, D15, Belfrage Lecture Hall   

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-tiago-cardoso - 2025-07-29

By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 6 March 2019 Does it look different? Our new website has now been launched! We hope you will find it informative! Are you missing anything? Any mistakes? If so please contact Paulina.Pettersson@med.lu.se - we'll be thrilled to hear from you!   

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/welcome-our-new-website - 2025-07-29