Published 18 June 2018 See what our researcher Dr. Paul O’Shea has to say about the recent developments Two articles on this issue have recently been published, one on the Lund Univeristy website, you can find the article here (in Swedish) and one in the Sydsvenskan newspaper here (also in Swedish). For an English translation of the text in Sydsvenskan, please see here (PDF).For more information a

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Published 20 June 2018 Seo-Young Cho will be a visiting scholar at the Centre between 26 November and 20 December 2018. Seo-Young Cho is assistant professor of economics at Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. Her research focuses on economic analysis of human trafficking, female migration, social capital, cyber activities, gender differences in education and behaviors, and genderbased viole

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Published 25 June 2018 Astrid Norén-Nilsson On 21 May, Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson presented on “Cambodia; Towards 2018 elections and beyond” at the London School of Economics and Political Science Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). The SEAF is an annual event organised by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC), a cross-disciplinary, regionally-focused academic centre within the Institute of Global

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Published 27 June 2018 On 14-15 June, Marina Svensson attended a meeting of the European Alliance for Asian Studies in Turin. The focus was on collaboration and promoting Asian studies in Europe. At the next International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden on 15-19 July 2019 the Alliance will run some joint panels on the future of Asian studies as well as co-organise other events.The Alliance h

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Published 24 September 2018 On 17th of September Dr. Paul O'Shea participated in the 79th Stockholm Seminar 'Japan-Russia Relations: The Islands Dispute and Geopolitical Culture'. Four islands – which are controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – are the subject of a disagreement stretching back more than two generations. As a result, Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty to end World

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Published 15 October 2018 Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on Chinese migration and gold mining in the journal International Migration. This article examines irregular Southİ\South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the informal smallİ\

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Published 30 October 2018 Sweden is lagging behind other European countries and it is necessary to also educate the next generation of China experts in Sweden On October 18th, Marina Svensson, the director of the Centre, presented a background paper entitled Challenges for China Research and State of the Field in Europe: Lessons for Sweden at a seminar in Stockholm. It was written for a study on r

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Published 1 November 2018 Article in Arctic Yearbook 2018 – Chinese Mining in Greenland: Arctic Access or Access to Minerals? Alumnus Patrik Andersson, who studied at the center from 2014 to 2016, has published an article in the 2018 edition of the Arctic Yearbook together with co-authors Jesper Zeuthen and Per Kalvig. The article, titled “Chinese Mining in Greenland: Arctic Access or Access to Mi

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Published 21 April 2017 Six researchers from Lund University Diabetes Centre have recieved prestigous grants from the European Research Council (ERC). In order to celebrate the success we invited the public to an open seminar. Some of the talks can be reviewed here (in Swedish). Forskning för bättre folkhälsa:Framsteg inom typ 2-diabetes, fetma och hjärtsjukdomar   Föredrag av professor Olle Melan

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Published 24 May 2017 They govern everything we think and do, they give us the ability to feel pain and to secrete insulin: they are the ion channels that are present in every one of our cells and that control the electrical impulses in our nerve and muscle cells. “For me, they are the very spark of life”, says Dame Frances Ashcroft, professor at the University of Oxford, who is also now to be an

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Published 29 May 2017 Four researchers have been awarded grants from The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. The grant consists of Euro 50 000 each and are aiming towards better treatments and prevention of type 2-diabetes. Improved life expectancy and quality of people with diabetesDiabetes affects millions of patients around the world. The two main types of the disease, type 1 and type 2,

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Published 15 June 2017 There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A -- until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing β-cell´s function.The researchers initially discovered that insulin-producing beta-cells contain a large quantity of a cell surface receptor for vitamin A. "There are no unnecessary surface receptors in human cells. They all serve a p

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Published 3 July 2017 Research from King’s College in London, UK, and Lund University in Sweden could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked in animal experiments are not equally successful in humans. The researchers discovered differences – but also unknown similarities – in the function of insulin-producing beta cells. The team have mapped a category of receptors, known as G protein-couple

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By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 14 September 2017 Taking advantage of a novel sub-classification of diabetes LUDC-IRC, a newly launched collaboration between academia, the health care system and industry, aims at delivering precision medicine in diabetes. LUDC-IRC consolidation meeting  - We have set the bar high. We very specifically aim at making a d

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Published 17 November 2017 Can insulin taken as an infant in small doses together with food render the immune system used to insulin and thus prevent type 1 diabetes? Can a gluten-free diet and probiotics prevent celiac disease (so called gluten intolerance)? These questions will be asked by two separate studies that are being planned at Lund University in Sweden. A new comprehensive screening of

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Published 17 November 2017 Food researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that consuming small amounts of chromium mixed with certain amino acids before eating is healthy. Why? Well, this mixture diluted in water suppresses the blood sugar spike that occurs when we eat. Now, they are hoping that the drink – which tastes like ordinary mineral water – will be able to compete with soft

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Published 17 November 2017 There has been a fear that the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, would increase the risk of autoimmune diseases other than narcolepsy. However, a new study of children from Sweden and Finland shows that the vaccine increased neither the risk of developing autoantibodies against insulin-producing beta cells nor the occurrence of type 1 diabetes. Helena Elding Larsson “On the

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Published 14 December 2017 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found that the presence of death receptors in the blood can be used to directly measure the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. “We see that people with known risk factors such as high blood sugar and high blood fats also have heightened death receptor levels”, says Professor Jan Nilsson who led th

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Published 14 December 2017 December 4-5, nordic researchers gathered in Malmö to discuss future challenges in precision medicine, a research field where diagnosis and treatment are based on the individual´s genetic and biological conditions. Focus is on our common and increasing diseases diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and psychiatric diagnosis. "The goal of the meeting is to bring togeth

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Published 2 March 2018 A completely new classification of diabetes which also predicts the risk of serious complications and provides treatment suggestions. We are now seeing the first results of ANDIS – a study covering all newly diagnosed diabetics in southern Sweden — published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The major difference from today’s classification is that type 2 diabetes actua

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