By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Bento Luis) - published 13 March 2025 In a recent study in mice, researchers at Lund University identified a gene that helps leukemia stem cells avoid detection by natural killer (NK) cells. Photo: Alexis Bento Luis. Leukemia stem cells have a clever survival strategy, they evade the body's immune defenses, making the disease difficult

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-leukemia-stem-cells-evade-immune-surveillance - 2025-04-05

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 31 March 2025 Sofie Mohlin, a cancer researcher at Lund University, has been awarded a Cancerfonden Senior Investigator Award to support her research into how early genetic changes drive neuroblastoma development. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. Lund University researchers have been awarded SEK 19 million in funding from Cancer

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/sofie-mohlin-receives-cancerfonden-senior-investigator-award-advance-childhood-cancer-research - 2025-04-05

By anna [dot] hellgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Hellgren) - published 2 April 2025 Anna Falk, director of LU-ATMP, and Gisela Helenius, head of the ATMP center at Skåne University Hospital, want to develop the ATMP environment in Lund together with innovation players. Photo: Tove Smeds On April 9, Lund University's Pre-GMP Facility and Skåne University Hospital's ATMP Center - a joint rese

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/now-lunds-atmp-infrastructures-are-officially-open - 2025-04-05

Published 21 February 2023 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-04-05

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 22 February 2023 Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2025-04-05

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 16 March 2023 Professor Ian Manners, who is also due to be inaugurated as a professor tomorrow, teaches alongside Joel Abdelmoez on the course Political Cinéma. – Why Cinéma and not Cinema? –  The course is called political cinéma to remind us that ‘cinéma’ is both the production and projection of films. In 1895 the Lumière b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ian-manners-lets-hear-little-about-new-course-political-cinema - 2025-04-05

Published 22 March 2023 The report published by EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance, and Democracy, argues that European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-achieving-european-communion-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-04-05

Published 24 March 2023 This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. Sara Kalm, associate professor in political science. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and inves

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2025-04-05

Published 28 March 2023 Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonathan-polk-and-co-authors-examine-positions-european-interest-groups-and-political-parties-two - 2025-04-05

Published 14 April 2023 Professor Ian Manners presents on ‘The External Dimensions of the European Union’s Autocracy Crisis’ to the Swedish EU Presidency Conference on 'The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions', Stockholm, 17 April. The conference is co-organized by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies; the Centre for European Res

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-presents-external-dimensions-european-unions-autocracy-crisis-swedish-eu - 2025-04-05

Published 20 April 2023 Plastics and other petrochemicals are rapidly expanding. Academic and political attention has focused on the consumption of plastics, but in a new Open Access article with the journal Global Environmental Change, Jakob Skovgaard and his co-authors explore the financing of petrochemical production. Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard A key finding is that public finance play

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-co-authors-explore-financing-petrochemical-production - 2025-04-05

Published 21 April 2023 In their just published book, ‘Coalition Agreements as Control Devices - Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe’, Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck, and Svenja Krauss provide the first comprehensive content analysis of coalition agreements across a range of parliamentary democracies in Western and Eastern Europe. They show that coalition parties systematically use coalit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kluver-back-krauss-new-book-coalition-agreements-control-devices - 2025-04-05

Published 27 April 2023 In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. Hyeyoon Park, Postdoctoral Fellow. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green tran

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2025-04-05

Published 28 April 2023 Professor Karin Aggestam. Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2025-04-05

Published 5 May 2023 Catarina Kinnvall and co-author Pasko Kisić-Merino have recently published their article ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’ in Theory & Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Professor Catarina Kinnvall. Photo: Björn Frostner. Pasko Kisić-Merino, PhD Candidate, Karlstad University. Abstract This article is concerned with the psychological dimensions of de

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-kisic-merino-deglobalization-and-political-psychology-white-supremacy - 2025-04-05

Published 9 May 2023 Professor Anders Uhlin. Anders Uhlin has together with Soetkin Verhaegen written the article “Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations” published in Global Studies Quarterly. Using unique survey data, the authors analyze how political and societal elites contribute to the legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. Link to the a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-elites-legitimation-and-delegitimation-international-organizations - 2025-04-05

Published 16 May 2023 Professor Anders Uhlin. Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society and elites – this book sheds new light on how certain individuals emerge as members of a civil society elite and traces interactions with elite groups from party politics, the state, and the business sector. This edited volume analyses how such processes are influenced by reliance on fo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-and-colleagues-civil-society-elites-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2025-04-05

Published 22 May 2023 Visit to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) office in Tunis. Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2025-04-05

Published 26 May 2023 Daniel Gustafsson and external reviewer Professor Mónica Brito Vieira, University of York. Photo: Björn Frostner. Daniel Gustafsson has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'The Present People'. Congratulations! Professor Catarina Kinnvall congratulates Doctor Daniel Gustafsson! Abstract In modern political thought, one of the most recalcitrant, and increasingly pressing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/daniel-gustafsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-04-05

Published 25 May 2023 In the interview The Local Sweden journalist Richard Orange set out how the far-right Sweden Democrats have tried to fire up the long-dormant debate over Sweden's membership of the European Union. Lund University professor Ian Manners spoke about what it means and what to do about it. Professor Ian Manners, Lund University. In tweets, interviews, one article in the Aftonblade

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/manners-how-best-respond-sweden-democrats-swexit-gamble - 2025-04-05