Published 12 September 2019 Principal Investigators Daniella Ottosson and Charlotta Böiers have been accepted to join Lund Stem Cell Center.A warm welcome to the Ottosson and Böiers groups. To learn more about their research, the following Stem Cell Talks have been scheduled: Wednesday 25th September: Principal Investigator Daniella Ottosson. Details here.Wednesday 23rd October: Principal Investig

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Published 5 December 2019 Rebecca Warvinge receives award for CML research. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a slowly progressing form of blood cancer that attacks the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. The condition requires lifelong treatment that can cause severe side effects. Rebecca Warfvinge maps stem cells in patients in the hope of identifying predictive marker

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Published 17 February 2020 Cristian Bellodi awarded 12 million SEK by Cancerfonden. Photo: Alexander Doyle. The Swedish Cancer Foundation, Cancerfonden, has announced the researchers it will be supporting in its most recent round of funding and Lund Stem Cell Center was especially successful, with seven scientists awarded a total of almost 30 million SEK. Cristian Bellodi, a research team leader f

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Published 10 December 2019 Filipe Pereira awarded the 2019 ERC Consolidator Grant. Today the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition and Filipe Pereira, group leader in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, was one of the researchers awarded this highly competitive grant. One of 89 researchers selected from a total of 707 applicants in th

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Published 11 December 2019 Joan Yuan, research team leader at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Directly after birth, the immune system completes production of a subtype of antibody-producing immune cells, B-1, that are to last for a lifetime. No more B1-cells are formed after that point. However, these cells are self-reactive – they produce not only antibodies against f

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Published 16 December 2019 By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published on 23 August 2018“We must understand the ageing process itself in order to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to possibly enable us to prevent these diseases from arising”, says Henrik Ahlenius of the Stem Cell Centre at Lund University. His aim is to develop an experim

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Published 14 October 2015 Daniel Görtz defended his dissertation in sociology " Ethnified police practices. How ethnicity is done in police work" on 29th of September at 10:00 in Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Lund University, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Liv Finstad, UiOSupervisors: David Wästerfors and Malin Åkerström, the Department of Sociology, Lund University.Examining committee:Vesa Le

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Published 16 October 2015 Susanne Boethius defended her dissertation in sociology "Men, violence and moral work. Reports from help-seeking men at treatment centrers working with violence in close relationships" on 2nd October at 14:00 in the auditorium of Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Tove Pettersson, Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Malin Åkerström and Christof

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Published 26 October 2015 Our researchers Goran Basic, Sophia Yakhlef and Malin Åkerström have published two new reports on their Project Turnstone. Turnstone is a study of the cooperation between the border police and coastguards in the Baltic Sea area.Based on empirical material (interviews and field observations), the purpose is to map and analyse how the staff of the different organizations ex

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Published 11 November 2015 Anders Kjellberg has been awarded 75 000 sek from The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds (Arbetslöshetskassornas Samorganisation, SO) today. The ceremony took place at Juricium, Lund University. The Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds awards a prize every two years to highlight research on unemployment insurance.Anders Kjellberg's personal

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Published 24 November 2015 Ola Stjärnhagen defended his dissertation in sociology "Ekonomisk tillväxt i välfärdskapitalismen. En jämförande studie av BNP per capita-tillväxten i rika OECD-länder 1970-2000" on 24th November at 10:15 in auditorium 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Kenneth Nelson, Institutet för social forskning, Stockholm University.Supervisors: Antoinette Het

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Published 30 November 2015 Goran Basic has published a new article (in Bosnian) linked to the project War Sociology: ”Pomirenje i nepomirljivost u pričama preživjelih poslije rata u Bosni i Hercegovini” (Reconciliation and implacability in narratives of survivors after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina). The article is published in the journal Kriminalističke teme. Časopis za kriminalistiku, krimi

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Published 3 December 2015 Anders Hylmö has published a chapter on social class, political trust and protests in times of economic crisis in the book Austerity and Protest. The book Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis asks what the relationship is between economic crises and protest behaviour. Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defi

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Published 7 December 2015 Abdulhadi Khalaf is one of three editors of the newly released book ”Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf”. Abdulhadi Khalaf has also contributed with the chapter The Politics of Migration.AbstractThe states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour

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Published 5 February 2016 Simon Ceder defended his dissertation in Education "Cutting Through Water: Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality" today, 5th of February at 13:15, in the Palaestra lower auditory, Lund University, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Sharon Todd, Maynooth University, Education Department, Ireland.Supervisors: Bosse Bergstedt and Barbara Schulte, the Depart

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Published 8 December 2015 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has interviewed Antoinette Hetzler about her research project Threats and Violence in School – Are Teachers Without Legal Rights? (Hot och våld I skolan – är lärare rättslösa?) The project will try to answer question like Can teachers and other school personnel use their rights to gain a safer work environment? How much do conditions vary regardi

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Published 18 December 2015 Lisa Eklund has just published an article on "Son Preference Reconfigured? A Qualitative Study of Migration and Social Change in Four Chinese Villages” in The China Quarterly. More information on journals.cambridge.orgLisa Eklund's personal page Abstract:Drawing from ethnographic data from 48 households in four villages in rural Anhui, this study explores how two practic

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Published 30 January 2016 Shai Mulinari has, together with Andreas Vilhelmsson and Courtney Davis, published the article "Pharmaceutical Industry Off-label Promotion and Self-regulation: A Document Analysis of Off-label Promotion Rulings by the United Kingdom Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority 2003–2012" in PLOS Medicine. Learn more at PLOS MedicineShai Mulinari has also published t

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Published 1 February 2016 Sara Eldén has reviewed the book “Couple Relationships in the 21st Century”. "Scholars who study love run the risk of being accused of demystifying and simplifying one of the most beautiful things there is in life. When scientific analysis labels, categorizes and separates that which is experienced simultaneously and often strongly at so many levels – emotional, sensory,

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Published 1 February 2016 Magnus Ring has co-authored the chapter “How different countries allocate long-term care resources to older users: a comparative snapshot” in Long-term care reforms in OECD countries (ed. Cristiano Gori, Jose-Luis Fernandez and Raphael Wittenberg, Policy Press, 2016). Learn more at Policy PressMagnus Ring’s personal page

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