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New Swedish Research Council grants strengthen stem-cell and regenerative medicine research in Lund
Decoding the repetitive genome: Christopher Douse awarded a Consolidator Grant from SSMF
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25 Nov 2025
Cancerfonden invests in next-generation cancer diagnostics and treatment research
In its largest investment yet, Cancerfonden, the Swedish Cancer Society, has announced its 2025 funding decisions, awarding SEK 1 billion SEK to strengthen cancer research across S...
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30 Oct 2025
Turning Cancer Against Itself: Ervin Ascic awarded the 2025 Article of the Year Award
Each year, the Lund Stem Cell Center presents its Article of the Year Award to acknowledge and celebrate the groundbreaking discoveries made by its members. For 2025, the Article o...
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30 Oct 2025
Mats Paulsson Foundation Grants propel innovations in advanced therapy development
This year, the Mats Paulsson Foundation is awarding grants to eight outstanding research projects, two of which are led by researchers at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center. T...
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30 Oct 2025
Martin L Olsson receives the AABB President's Award for advancing blood transfusion medicine and safety
Martin L. Olsson, professor of Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, and head of the Transfusion Medicine and Red Cell Biology research group at Lund Stem Cell Center, has recei...
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17 Sep 2025
Celebrating the art in science: Images from the 2025 Image Competition
The Lund Stem Cell Center’s Annual Image Competition returned this year with another vibrant display of creativity, curiosity, and scientific discovery. From intricate cellular lan...
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4 Sep 2025
ERC grant awarded to explore how the immune system shapes fertility
Why do some pregnancies succeed while others do not? With support from a newly awarded ERC Starting Grant, Assistant Professor Camila Consiglio and her team at Lund University’s Lu...
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1 Sep 2025
Scientists uncover cellular “toolkit” to reprogram immune cells for cancer therapy
An international team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has identified the molecular tools needed to reprogram ordinary cells into specialised immune cells. The disco...
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28 Aug 2025
Hjelt Diabetes Foundation supports research that can pave the way for new cell therapies
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that usually requires lifelong treatment. A central goal for many diabetes researchers is to develop new cell therapies that can cure the disea...
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26 Aug 2025
Why repetitive DNA matters for human brain evolution and disease
For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as ‘junk’ and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Swede...
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15 Jul 2025
Paul Bourgine awarded ERC Proof of Concept grant
Paul Bourgine, research group leader at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant for his project CiThOss – Cellular immunoTHERapy mod...
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11 Jul 2025
Three researchers receive Barncancerfonden funding to investigate the causes of childhood leukemia
Each year, around 350 children in Sweden are diagnosed with cancer. Thanks to progress in research and treatment, six out of seven children today survive. But unlike cancer in adu...
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19 Jun 2025
A non-toxic stem cell therapy prevents age-related blood diseases in mice
Researchers at the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University have developed a stem cell-based therapy that rejuvenates the aging blood and immune systems in mice without harsh treat...
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23 May 2025
Science steps outside the lab: “Borrow a Scientist” returns to local classrooms
After a five-year pause, the Lund Stem Cell Center’s outreach initiative Taking Science to Schools – Borrow a Scientist has returned, once again bringing researchers face-to-face w...
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15 May 2025
8.3 million euros for doctoral programme in regenerative medicine and ATMP
Lund University in Sweden has been awarded an EU grant of 8.3 million euros for a new international doctoral programme in regenerative medicine and advanced therapy medicinal produ...
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28 Apr 2025
New article in The Conversation: How dramatic daily swings in oxygen shaped early animal life
In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the rise of ...
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16 Apr 2025
Lund Stem Cell Center welcomes a new leadership team
The Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomes the beginning of a new chapter with the appointment of its new leadership team. As of January 1, 2025, Professor Malin Parmar ...
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2 Apr 2025
Now Lund's ATMP infrastructures are officially open
On April 9, Lund University's Pre-GMP Facility and Skåne University Hospital's ATMP Center - a joint research and development environment where new treatments using cell and gene t...
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31 Mar 2025
Sofie Mohlin receives Cancerfonden Senior Investigator Award to advance childhood cancer research
Lund University researchers have been awarded SEK 19 million in funding from Cancerfonden as part of a national investment of SEK 114 million to advance cancer research across Swed...
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19 Mar 2025
UniStem Day 2025: A Decade of Inspiring Future Scientists in Lund
For the tenth consecutive year, Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomed high school students from across Skåne for UniStem Day 2025, a hands-on celebration of stem cell r...
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13 Mar 2025
How Leukemia Stem Cells Evade Immune Surveillance
Leukemia stem cells have a clever survival strategy, they evade the body's immune defenses, making the disease difficult to treat. In a recent study in mice published in Haematolog...