The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Lund Stem Cell Center researchers secure grants for innovative stem cell projects

From left: Mats Paulsson, Lorenzo Grassi (LTH), Göran B Jönsson, Axel Hyrenius-Wittsten, Malin Parmar, Sandra Lindstedt, Kristina Lång, Jan Nilsson chairman MP foundations. Photo: Tove Smeds
From left: Mats Paulsson, Lorenzo Grassi (LTH), Göran B Jönsson, Axel Hyrenius-Wittsten, Malin Parmar, Sandra Lindstedt, Kristina Lång, Jan Nilsson chairman MP foundations. Photo: Tove Smeds

On October 18, 2024, two researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center were awarded funding from the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation, and Societal Development. A total of 16 million SEK was distributed to life science projects across Skåne, with a focus on advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs).

This year, the foundation, which supports research with "high innovation potential and relevance for society in the near term," awarded 3 million SEK to Malin Parmar, Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Lund University, for her project TREAT-PD, and 3 million SEK to Sandra Lindstedt, Professor of Clinical Sciences at Lund University and senior consultant in cardiothoracic surgery at Skåne University Hospital. Sandra Lindstedt's project focuses on improving lung transplants using innovative stem cell strategies.

The event held also featured presentations from leading researchers, including Anna Falk, Professor at Lund Stem Cell Center and Director of the Development Centre for Advanced Therapies at Lund University (LU-ATMP), who shared insights from her work within advanced therapy development.

The following projects at Lund Stem Cell Center were awarded funds: 


Principal applicant: Malin Parmar
Project: "TREAT-PD"
Granted funds: SEK 3 million

Profile in Lund University's research portal 

More about the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology Research Group


Principal applicant: Sandra Lindstedt 
Project: "An innovative ATMP strategy to improve lung transplants: HLA-silent stem cells"
Granted funds: SEK 3 million

Profile in Lund University's research portal 

More about the Translational Lung Transplantation and Lung Cell Therapy Research Group


Read the press release published by Medicon Village

About the Mats Paulsson Foundation:


The Mats Paulsson Foundation is the collective name for the foundations that the entrepreneur Mats Paulsson is the initiator of. This includes the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Community Building, the Mats Paulsson Foundation and the Stefan Paulsson Cancer Foundation. 

A common denominator for the foundations is to support purposes that benefit scientific research and innovations in above all medicine and Life Science. Since the creation of the first foundation in 2005, including donations decided during the year so far, a total of SEK 223 million has been donated to research.

More about the Mats Paulsson Foundation (in Swedish)