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6 Dec 2024
52 Million SEK goes to uncovering genetic drivers of Parkinson’s Disease
A team of international researchers led by Professor Johan Jakobsson at Lund University has secured a 52 million SEK grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initi...
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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...
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3 Oct 2024
Research on the reprogramming of cancer cells won the presentation competition Research Grand Prix
By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the wi...
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6 Sep 2024
Researchers reprogram tumor cells into cancer-fighting immune cells in living beings
Researchers at Lund University are developing a new type of gene therapy that reprograms cancer cells within tumors into immune cells that can help the immune system fight cancer. ...
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26 Aug 2024
What fuels a lifetime of scientific discovery? Olle Lindvall reflects on his journey in neuroscience
Dr. Olle Lindvall, recently awarded a jubilee doctorate from Lund University, has spent more than fifty years studying the brain and how to repair it. His work has turned ideas tha...
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6 Aug 2024
The gene that controls the prognosis in neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma is a tumor disease that primarily affects young children. The survival rate is the lowest of all childhood cancers. Now, a research team at Lund University has discov...
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11 Jul 2024
Professor Filipe Pereira awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant
Filipe Pereira and his research team have discovered a recipe on how to reprogram cancer cells into antigen-presenting dendritic cells, essential for initiating and enhancing anti-...
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11 Jul 2024
Where Science Meets Art: Inside Lund Stem Cell Center's 2024 Image Competition
There comes a point in every researcher's work when the data goes beyond numbers and charts, transforming into something visually captivating. The annual Image Competition held by ...