By Olle [dot] Dahlback [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Olle Dahlbäck) - published 13 November 2020 Zaal Kokaia receiving Bengt Falck's award from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Erik Renström, at a distance. Photo: Olle Dahlbäck Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck P

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 18 November 2020 Prof. Sandra Lindstedt (right) in action during transplantation (left) We are very happy to announce that Sandra Lindstedt - Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Wallenberg Molecular Medicine clinical researcher - has joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Professor Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-principal-investigator-sandra-lindstedt - 2025-05-07

Published 19 November 2020 Pia Johansson, CRISPR core facility manager CRISPR is a simple yet powerful Nobel Prize winning technology that allows sequence specific editing and manipulation of DNA sequences. The CRISPR facility at Lund Stem Cell Center is here to help you with your projects using this technology. What is CRISPR and who is it for? CRISPR started as a “traditional” gene editing tool,

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-crispr-facility-here-help - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 2 December 2020 The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners of Lund Stem Cell Center Image Competition 2020. We are pleased to announce the winners of the Lund Stem Cell Center Image competition 2020 are: First place: Grasping at straws – Ludwig Schmiderer and Martin Hjort, Larsson group and Nanolund Sec

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/image-competition-2020-results - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 December 2020 Johan Jakobsson and Johan Flygare. Photo credit: Kennet Ruona The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about th

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/plans-future-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 18 December 2020 Despite the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are bringing science to schools both physically and using a digital platform. High school students across the Skåne region are learning about stem cell research in the ‘Taking science to schools – Borrow a scientist’ initiative, org

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/taking-stem-cells-high-schools-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 8 January 2021 The Regenerative Neurophysiology Research Group – (left to right) Andreas Bruzelius, Daniella Ottosson (Prinicipal Investigator), Srisaiyini Kidnapillai, Christina-Anastasia Stamouli and Efrain Cepeda-Prado. Image credit: Johan Persson A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a sp

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/restoring-neural-networks-and-understanding-brain-disorders-0 - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 19 January 2021 Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are performing ‘fast’ Covid-19 tests at Lund University Hospital. Image credit: Kennet Ruona With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-help-fight-against-covid-19 - 2025-05-07

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 19 January 2021 Sinem Tas. Photo: Agata Garpenlind The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2025-05-07

Published 25 January 2021 We are very happy to announce that Emma Hammarlund and the Evolution of Stemness Control and Multicellularity research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Emma and her team aim to understand how the rise of animals on Earth relates to the evolution of stemness control, an event we know very little about. Why animals evolved on the Earth remains poorly understood. As

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/emma-hammarlund-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 17 February 2021 Martina de Santis defends her PhD thesis Friday 19th February PhD student Martina De Santis will be defending her thesis titled ‘Next generation bioengineering of lung tissue for transplantation’ on Friday 19th February 2021. In this interview, Martina tells us about her research in the Lung Bioengin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martina-de-santis - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 1 March 2021 A high power microscopy image of a neuron (blue) in which the epigenetic silencing of ERVs are lost, resulting in abundant ERV proteins (red). Photo credit: Marie Jönsson. Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center highlight the importance of controlling viral elements that reside in the genome and how their

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/activation-ancient-viruses-during-brain-development-causes-inflammation - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 March 2021 Image of breast cancer cells expressing a stem cell marker (CD44, green signal) and sporting richly interwoven mitochondrial networks (red). Image credit Maciej Ciesla. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified a new layer of gene regulation mediated by changes in ribonucleic acid metabo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/regulation-rna-splicing-reveals-unique-clinical-features-aggressive-breast-cancers - 2025-05-07

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 9 March 2021 Shelby Shrigley defends her PhD thesis on Friday 12th March 2021. During her PhD studies Shelby Shrigley has been exploring patient-specific cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease. Defending her PhD thesis on March 12th, here Shelby tells us about her research within the Developmental and Regen

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-shelby-shrigley - 2025-05-07

By Asa [dot] Hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 10 March 2021 Image depicting the structure of an IgG antibody. In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the genetic scissors CRISPR-Cas9, that facilitates antib

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-method-developing-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-05-07

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 12 March 2021 The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 12 mars 2021 Microsofts kommer att stänga ner tjänsten Skype for Business Online till sommaren. Efter omläggningen hänvisas alla till Teams för fortsatt arbete. Alla anställda och studenter har möjlighet att kommunicera via Teams. All chatt, samtal och möten kommer att hanteras av Teams. Finns klientprogrammet Skype for Business installerat på datorn kommer det inte att plockas bort. Pr

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/skype-business-slutar-fungera-i-april-2021 - 2025-05-07

Av Emma [dot] Holm [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Holm) - publicerad 14 april 2021 Representanter från olika delar av LU samlades nyligen för att diskutera hur vi kan främja kompetensutveckling hos förändringsaktörer i Sveriges samarbetsländer och därmed bidra till uppfyllandet av Agenda 2030. Nyligen anordnade avdelningen för uppdragsutbildning (LUCE) en digital workshop om kompetensutvec

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-kan-lu-genom-kapacitetsutvecklingsprogram-bidra-till-en-hallbar-utveckling - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 3 maj 2021 Resfria/digitala möten i myndigheter REMM har information och tips om hur du optimerar dina digitala möten och hur du undviker webbmötesutmattning. Under covid-19-pandemin har behovet och användandet av digitala möten formligen exploderat. Det är glädjande att en så stor del av dessa möten har genomförts på ett strukturerat och användarvänligt sätt. Men det finns också signal

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/webbmotesutmattning-hur-undviker-vi - 2025-05-07

Av Jenny [dot] Hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - publicerad 27 maj 2021 Den 4 maj hölls den första gemensamma forskningskonferensen om hållbar utveckling vid Lunds universitet. Under dagen presenterades över 70 forskningsbidrag för forskare, studenter och internationella deltagare. Konferensen synliggjorde den stora repertoar av hållbarhetsrelaterad forskning som finns på univer

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-skapar-vi-kunskap-om-hallbar-utveckling - 2025-05-07