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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...
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12 Mar 2025
Innovative cancer cell therapy project lands €2.5 million EIC funding
Asgard Therapeutics, in partnership with Lund University and Herlev Hospital, has been awarded €2.5 million for an EIC Transition project from the European Innovation Council.
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27 Nov 2024
Win for the fifth time in a row: Luís Oliveira wins the Researchers' Grand Prix
By presenting cancer research as a battle between good and evil – and himself as a hacker attacking cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win in the Rese...
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21 Nov 2024
On IVA's 100 list: Hair analysis to find cancer at an early stage
Researcher Emma Hammarlund realized that geological measurement methods can also be used for medical purposes. With a simple hair sample, she hopes to find cancer at an early stage...
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20 Nov 2024
All energies on fighting pediatric cancer
Outside the different examining rooms at paediatric oncology unit 64 hang laminated name signs with rainbows, unicorns and tractors that the young patients have made themselves. Ea...
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19 Nov 2024
From Science to Start Up: Developing a Gene Therapy for a Rare Blood Disorder
After 20 years of research on gene therapy and the rare blood disease, Diamond–Blackfan Anemia, DBA, researcher Johan Flygare had reached a point where he and his colleagues had do...
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14 Nov 2024
Jenny Hansson awarded 11 million SEK by the Swedish Society for Medical Research
Jenny Hansson, associate professor at Lund University, has been awarded an 11 million SEK grant from the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF). This five-year SSMF Consolidat...
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12 Nov 2024
Lund Stem Cell Center relaunches Professional Development Program for PhD success
The Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University has relaunched its Professional Development Program (PDP), which provides PhD students support beyond research, equipping them with the...
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7 Nov 2024
New findings reveal why some Chronic Myeloid Leukemia patients respond better to treatment
Researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have made new strides in understanding why some patients with chronic myeloid leukemia respond better to treatment than other...
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5 Nov 2024
ERC Synergy Grant awarded for the development of custom-made stem cell therapies
Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The fo...
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25 Oct 2024
Lund Stem Cell Center researchers secure grants for innovative stem cell projects
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 o...
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23 Oct 2024
New research gives insights into the human genome’s defence mechanisms
Researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have made a new discovery about how the human genome protects itself from disruption during critical stages of life. Their st...
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23 Oct 2024
The Eric K. Fernström award for young successful researchers goes to Joan Yuan
Joan Yuan, researcher and associate professor in immunology, receives the Eric K. Fernström prize for younger, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University ...
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18 Oct 2024
Yuan and Pereira receive grants from the Wallenberg Foundation
Two researchers at Lund Stem Cell Center receive grants, 61 million, for research into immunological long-term memory and reprogramming of tumor cells. The research should lead to ...
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17 Oct 2024
Lund Stem Cell Center's 2024 Article of the Year Goes to Olga Zimmermannova
Olga Zimmermannova from the Pereira Research Group has been awarded the 2024 Article of the Year Award. She received the award for her research on reprogramming cancer cells into d...