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Professor Kári Stefánsson tilldelas ett av Nordens mest prestigefyllda medicinpriser – Eric K. Fernströms nordiska pris vid Lunds universitet. Hans arbete har revolutionerat vår förståelse av genetisk variation och dess samband med hälsa och sjukdomar. Prismotivering: Kári Stefánsson har revolutionerat förståelsen av genetiska variationers inverkan på risken för folksjukdomar och hur dessa variati

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/eric-k-fernstroms-nordiska-pris-till-genetik-gigant - 2025-12-28

Konstvetaren, hedersdoktorn och donatorn Birgit Rausing fyller 100 år den 26 oktober. Hennes stora intresse för humaniora och dess betydelse för mellanmänskliga möten och samhällsnytta avspeglas väl i hennes relation med Lunds universitet. Hennes engagemang har haft stor betydelse för universitetet och bland annat möjliggjort språkfrämjande satsningar liksom etableringen av ett centrum för medicin

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/varma-gratulationer-till-100-arsjubilaren-birgit-rausing - 2025-12-28

Palliativ vård som inleds redan när en person diagnostiseras med en dödlig sjukdom, kan få en avgörande roll för att bibehålla eller förbättra dennes livskvalitet. Besök på akutmottagning och inläggningar på sjukhus minskar också drastiskt när palliativ vård påbörjas tidigt. Detta visar en avhandling från Lunds universitet. I Sverige är 90 procent av dem som får palliativ vård cancerpatienter. Jäm

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/battre-livskvalitet-med-tidigare-palliativ-vard - 2025-12-28

Ett forskarteam vid Lunds universitet har hittat en viss typ av celler - skumceller - hos patienter med den aggressiva hjärntumören glioblastom. Man har sett hur dessa celler påskyndar cancerns tillväxt och lyckats hämma denna med hjälp av ett läkemedel som utvecklats för åderförfettning. Glioblastom drabbar runt 500 svenskar varje år och utgör den vanligaste och mest aggressiva formen av hjärntum

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/skumma-celler-i-hjarntumorer - 2025-12-28

Diabetesforskaren Joao Duarte studerar vad som händer i hjärnan vid diabetes. I sin forskning tar han också reda på hur ändrade kostvanor kan få hjärnan att fungera bättre. Han tar emot Medeonstipendiet i samband med evenemanget Världsdiabetesdagen Skåne i Malmö den 14 november. – Jag hoppas att min forskning kan bidra till att öka medvetenheten om vilken roll hjärnan spelar för ett hälsosamt åldr

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/prisad-forskning-om-diabetes-och-demens - 2025-12-28

A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-12-28

Environmental pioneer Henrik Smith has won a major international ecology prize. He is also keen to emphasise the importance of research activity’s interaction with society – gone are the days when writing an extensive study and then leaving it to gather dust was enough. Henrik Smith, professor of animal ecology at Lund University, has been awarded the internationally renowned Marsh Awards for Ecol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/award-environmental-pioneer-has-message-academia - 2025-12-28

A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern Sweden. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have collected samples every year from hundreds of blue tits in a single population at a local breeding area outside Lund. Th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/warmer-nordic-springs-double-incidence-avian-malaria - 2025-12-28

Pregnancies do not weaken a woman’s skeleton. Breastfeeding, however, can reduce bone density considerably. These are findings from a research report produced at Lund University in Sweden. But breastfeeding women need not worry. “There is a dip, but the body is absolutely fantastic at making up the loss,” says Kristina Åkesson, professor of orthopedics. Breastfeeding and pregnancy both require lar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-how-breastfeeding-affects-skeleton-could-boost-development-drugs-against-osteoporosis - 2025-12-28

Feeling unmotivated to carve another jack-o’-lantern out of a slimy pumpkin? As luck would have it, at least you don’t have to struggle with a rock-hard turnip. The pumpkin’s status as the main symbol of Halloween is actually somewhat of an historical coincidence. Ethnologist Katarzyna Herd explains why. Two-hundred tonnes. According to SVT Nyheter, this is how much pumpkin was transported from Le

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/root-vegetable-could-have-replaced-halloween-pumpkins - 2025-12-28

Ten years have passed since the countries of the world signed the Paris Agreement. Political scientist Fariborz Zelli sums up the surprises – both positive and negative – in climate policy over the past ten years and also looks ahead. What has been the biggest success of the Paris Agreement so far?I would say the biggest success is that the UN has succeeded in keeping its central role in global cl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/decade-paris-agreement-brings-progress-and-setbacks - 2025-12-28

Current knowledge of food safety is based on traditional foods that include animal products. Corresponding knowledge of plant-based foods lags behind. “There is a naive belief that plant-based food is safer than animal-based food. Unfortunately, this is not the case,” says Jenny Schelin, a researcher on food safety at Lund University in Sweden. “Plant-based foods are just as vulnerable to the same

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researcher-challenges-myth-plant-based-food-safer - 2025-12-28

Archaeologist Peter Jordan has together with colleagues from the UK and the US received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. The research aims to shed new light on the demography of hunter-gatherer societies, potentially shifting our understanding of human history over the past 10,000 years entirely. The project FORAGER will examine why certain hunter-gatherer societies experienced both population g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-archaeologist-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2025-12-28

Alfa Laval and Lund University have formalized a new strategic partnership to strengthen collaboration, drive innovation, and address complex global challenges. At the same time, ground breaks for Alfa Lavals upcoming innovation center – a center that will drive the energy transition through, among other things, the development of heat transfer technology and fuel cells. Building on decades of suc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alfa-laval-and-lund-university-strengthen-strategic-partnership - 2025-12-28

The term of office for Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor expires at the end of 2026, and a recruitment process is already underway. This is because the process takes a little over a year. A total of 162 people. That is the number to have held the prestigious position as Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. The next term of office begins on 1 January 2027, and to say the recruitment process has begu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recruitment-vice-chancellor-underway - 2025-12-28

An international team of researchers has investigated whether oral insulin can prevent early signs of type 1 diabetes and clinical diagnosis in children with an increased risk of developing the disease. Although treatment with oral insulin could not prevent development of diabetes-related autoantibodies, oral insulin delayed the rate of disease progression in children who developed such autoantibo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oral-insulin-delayed-onset-type-1-diabetes-some-children-increased-risk-disease - 2025-12-28

Lund University has climbed to first place in the world in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. The ranking includes around 2,000 higher education institutions from about 100 countries and measures how universities contribute to a sustainable future – through research, education, and the way they operate as organisations. “Humble, proud, and inspired to continue moving forward –

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-best-world-sustainability - 2025-12-28

We tend to attribute today's zoological menagerie of dog breeds to Victorian gentlemen with a penchant for selective breeding. The truth, however, goes back much further. An international study shows that the rich morphological variety among dogs began to take off 11,000 years ago – long before nineteenth century kennel clubs. Look at the dogs of today: the dainty Chihuahua, which most resembles a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dog-diversity-thousands-years-older-we-thought - 2025-12-28

A new study shows that an AI assistant can conduct assessment conversations with patients with higher accuracy than the rating scales used in healthcare today. In the study, 303 participants were interviewed by the AI assistant Alba, who then suggested possible psychiatric diagnoses. In addition to being interviewed by an AI assistant, the participants also had to fill out standardized rating scal

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-assisted-interviews-increase-accuracy-diagnosing-mental-illness - 2025-12-28

Kompetensportalen, Lucat, Lupin, Lubas and LUCRIS. Those are the names of some of Lund University’s administrative systems. They are now also the names of five new bacteriophages that have recently been discovered in the ponds of Lund University’s Botanical Gardens. Bacteriophages – often abbreviated to phages – are viruses that attack bacteria. Phages are astonishingly effective assassins – these

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fishing-phages-lund-universitys-botanical-gardens - 2025-12-28