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Article of the Year Award

Each year, Lund Stem Cell Center presents its prestigious 'Article of the Year Award' to acknowledge and celebrate the novel discoveries made by its members.

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Since 2017, Principal Investigators from across the Center have been invited every year to nominate publications written by researchers within their group. Following an external evaluation process the results are announced at the annual retreat, and the prize (50 000 SEK) is awarded to the research group of the winner.

The Lund Stem Cell Center Article of the Year Award (2024) ceremony will take place on Tuesday, 01 October 2024 during the Center's 2024 Annual Retreat.


Article of the Year Award 2024

This year's top three nominees include:

Elina Fredlund 

Mohlin Research Group

"MOXD1 is a lineage-specific gene and a tumor suppressor in neuroblastoma", Science Advances, 2024.

Olga Zimmermannova 

Pereira Research Group

"Restoring tumor immunogenicity with dendritic cell reprogramming", Science Immunology, 2023.

Raquel Garza 

Jakobsson Research Group

"LINE-1 retrotransposons drive human neuronal transcriptome complexity and functional diversification", Science Advances, 2023.

Article of the Year Awardees:


2023 | Ani Grigoryan, Bourgine lab: "Engineering human mini-bones for the standardized modeling of healthy hematopoiesis, leukemia, and solid tumor metastasis", Science Translation Medicine, 2022.


2022 | Oscar Legetth & Johan Rodhe, Soneji lab: "CellexalVR: A virtual reality platform to visualize and analyze single-cell omics data", iScience, 2021.


2021: Marie Jönsson (Jakobsson group): "Activation of endogenous retroviruses during brain development causes an inflammatory response", EMBO Journal, 2021).


2020: Marie Jönsson (Jakobsson group): "Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elements upon global DNA demethylation in human neural progenitors", Nature Communications, 2020).


2019: Karolina Pircs (Jakobsson group) " Huntingtin aggregation impairs autophagy, leading to argonaute-2 accumulation and global microRNA dysregulation" (Cell Reports, 2019).


2018: Nicola Guzzi (Bellodi group) "Pseudouridylation of tRNA - Derived Fragments Steers Translational Control in Stem Cells" (Cell 2018).


2017: Per Ludvik Brattås (Jakobsson group) "TRIM28 Controls a Gene Regulatory Network Based on Endogenous Retroviruses in Human Neural Progenitor Cells" (Cell 2017).