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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor Anthony Hannan runs a research group on Huntington's disease at the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He will give a talk Monday July 12 at 12.00 in the seminar room at D11 with the title: Molecular mediators and environmental modulators of behavioural endophenotypes in Huntington's
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We would like to welcome Nathalie Nilsson! She has a Bachelor degree in Biomedical science from Lund University and has just finished her first year at the Master program in Biomedical science at Lund University. She has received a stipend from the Medical Faculty and will do a research project in TNU during the summe
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/summer-student - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Stephan von Hörsten, Professor for Experimental Biomedicine at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, visits TNU and TRAINS September 7. He will give a talk on the title "Very early onset and intervention in a pre-HD-syndrome in transgenic mouse and rat models of Huntington´s disease" 12.00
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-stephan-von-horsten-germany-visits-tnu-and-trains - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. TNU members Sofia Hult, Rana Soylu, Sanaz Gabery and co-member Niclas Hagen presented their research as posters at the European HD Network (EHDN) meeting in Prague, September 3-5, 2010. Åsa Petersén was elected a member of the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee (SBAC) in the EHDN.
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Forskningens dag (the Research day) is arranged every year by the Medical Faculty at Lund University and Region Skåne. The theme for 2010 is depression and mania. The audience is the general public. Petersen presents her research on hypothalamic changes and depression in HD. The titel is: The hypothalamus - the thermo
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-presents-research-day-2-311-2010-lund-and-malmo - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A FENS-IBRO Partially Supported School on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases will take place July 20 - 26 2011 in Reisensburg/Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizers and the faculty. The school is designed to attract PhD students and postdocs in neurosciences, medicine, metabolism and related fi
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. TNU-members Sofia Hult, Rana Soylu and Åsa Petersén will attend the SfN Meeting in San Diego Nov 13-17, 2010. Posters will be presented by Hult and Soylu.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-hult-and-soylu-present-posters-sfn-san-diego - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Umar M Sajjad starts a postdoctoral fellowship and Sanaz Gabery continues as a PhD student in TNU in February 2011. fjsjfsjDr Umar M. Sajjad has done a PhD on Huntington's disease with Dr Andreas Wyttenbach at the University of Southampton, UK., and now joins TNU as a postdoctoral fellow. Sanaz Gabery has performed
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-post-doc-former-masters-student-becomes-phd-student - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The book "Vi som skulle bli gamla tillsammans" ("We were meant to grow old together") has recently been published by Natur & Kultur. Its main author Petra Lilja Andersson, Lecturer at the Medical Faculty in Lund, has followed a young couple before and after the woman takes a pre-symptomatic genetic test for HD. The bo
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Huntingtons sjukdom är ärftlig och obotlig. Hjärnan skadas gradvis vad gäller både motorik och psyke. Mest märkbara symtom är ofrivilliga rörelser – därför kallas sjukdomen också ”danssjukan”. Åsa Petersén är expert på vad som orsakar de psykiatriska problemen vid Huntingtons sjukdom. Hon intervjuades nyligen i SvD.Lä
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-i-svenska-dagbladet - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The paper entitled Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits from TNU with Rana Soylu and Sofia Hult as shared first authors was published in the April Issue of the prestigious Cell Metabolism. The news got widespread attention both in the Swedish media such as the Swedis
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-publishes-cell-metabolism - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The paper Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits by Hult S, Soylu R, Björklund T, Belgardt BF, Mauer J, Brüning JC, Kirik D and Petersén A, published in Cell Metabolism 13(4) 428-439, 2011, was selected Article of the Month at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University.L
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-paper-selected-article-month-may-2011-medical-faculty - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This week, Sanaz Gabery and Sofia Hult, PhD students in TNU, give talks about their research at an educational camp for HD families in Sweden held June 27-July 1 in Grebbestad on the Swedish west coast. They also present their latest studies on hypothalamic changes in HD as posters at the 2011 Björntorp symposium in G
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. TNU members Gabery, Hult, Sajjad and Soylu participate in a FENS-IBRO partially supported school on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases on July 20 - 26 2011 at the Reisensburg castle in Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizing committee but could not travel due to pregnancy.
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The paper entitled Early changes in the hypothalamic region in prodromal Huntington disease revealed by MRI analysis from TNU, published in Neurobiology of Disease, was selected article of the month in the Newsletter from the European HD Network (EHDN).Read the Newsletter here: ehdn_news_july_2011.pdf Link to the res
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sanaz Gabery, Sofia Hult and Rana Soylu present their latest research findings as posters at the World Congress of Huntington's Disease (WCHD) in Melbourne, Australia September 11-14. The travels have been funded by travel stipends from the Maggie Stephen's Foundation, the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, the Medi
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Journal of Huntington's Disease is a new international multidisciplinary journal that aims to facilitate progress in understanding the genetics, molecular correlates, pathogenesis, pharmacology, diagnosis and treatment of Huntington's disease and related disorders. Editors-in-Chief are Blair R. Leavitt and Leslie
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-editorial-board-new-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sofia Hult håller föredrag med titeln "Huntingtons sjukdom - när en gen avgör" på årets Neurodag, arrangerad av Neurologiskt Handikappades Riksförbund (NHR) i Stockholm den 28:e september 2011.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hult-gives-talk-neuro-day-stockholm - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Petersén and her team were awarded a grant from Ragnar Söderberg's Foundation for their research on Huntington's disease.About the project at Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse's webpage (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/3-million-sek-ragnar-soderbergs-foundation-petersens-research - 2026-06-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Barbara Baldo received a PhD in Neurobiology in 2011. The PhD studies were performed at Novartis Pharma, Basel and Basel University, Switzerland, and the thesis was entitled "Innovative approaches to monitor mutant huntingtin and to facilitate its degradation in Huntington’s disease models”. It was funded through t
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-new-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-barbara-baldo - 2026-06-03
