By press [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl and Åsa Hansdotter) - published 31 January 2023 Filipe Pereira and Charlotte Ling. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Two innovation-driven research projects at Lund University have been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council, ERC. They relate to biomarkers for predicting who benefits from metformin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-grants-research-diabetes-and-immunotherapy - 2025-07-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 7 February 2023 Photo: iStock. For up to 40 years, nearly 800,000 people from Sweden, Norway and Austria have been tracked based on how their BMI and metabolic health – that is, their blood pressure, blood glucose levels and blood fats - affect the risk of suffering from obesity-related cancers. The study shows that th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/metabolic-health-plays-role-obesity-related-cancers - 2025-07-19

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 8 February 2023 Photo: iStock/Andy445 Certain complications during pregnancy bring an increased risk of heart disease later on. However, there is still much to learn about how arteriosclerosis develops between pregnancy and heart disease later in life. A large new study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden sho

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/complications-pregnancy-linked-increased-risk-heart-disease - 2025-07-19

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 17 February 2023 Charlotte Ling, Tina Rönn, and Karl Bacos are three of the authors of a new study that has identified an important gene that affects insulin secretion. Photo: Petra Olsson Researchers have identified 395 genes that are differently expressed in people with type 2 diabetes. One of the genes proved to be very

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/pax5-gene-strongly-associated-impaired-insulin-secretion-type-2-diabetes - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 20 February 2023 Karin Lindkvist together with Peng Huang, the first author of the study on the structure of aquaporins. Through research on the structure of proteins the research group want to understand more about how our cells work – both when we are healthy and sick. Modern imaging techniques allows researchers to map the

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/mapping-aquaporins-water-channels-cell-membranes - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 21 February 2023 Bildkälla: iStock/Pedre During the foetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the foetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund University demonstrate that one of these foetal programs appears to protect against acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-insights-foetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lund University, Faculty of Medicine) - published 28 February 2023 On 13th of February, a transplant of stem cell-derived nerve cells was administered to a person with Parkinson’s at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. The product has been developed by Lund University and it is now being tested in patients for the first time. The transplantation produ

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-patient-receives-milestone-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 7 March 2023 Is it possible to know exactly where to point a microscope in order to capture the precise moment a bacterium or a virus infects a cell? In order to take high resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you need to know exactly where to point the microscope. Researchers at Lund University in Swede

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/smart-microscopy-works-out-where-take-picture - 2025-07-19

Published 14 March 2023 Do you want to learn more about medical humanities? Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities is Lund University's youngest interdisciplinary knowledge centre. Now the centre has a new website - and a blog.  Website address: www.medical-humanities.lu.se Blog address: med-hum-en.blogg.lu.se Welcome to visit the Birgit Rausing Centre online!

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/visit-new-website-about-medical-humanities - 2025-07-19

By press [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Faculty of Medicine) - published 20 March 2023 Cristian Bellodi och Maciej Cieśla. Photo: Helena Fritz Researchers at Lund University Faculty of Medicine have determined a novel mechanism linking the metabolism of ribonucleic acids, RNA, to the development of leukemia in myelodysplastic syndrome patients, MDS. In a study published in the Molecular Cell journal

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/what-makes-blood-stem-cells-transform-regulation-rna-splicing-may-be-answer - 2025-07-19

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 3 April 2023 Oskar Hansson. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter. Three researchers at Lund University in Sweden, all with a long list of significant research credentials, have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.5 million each to further develop and advance their research projects. One of these researchers is neuroscientist O

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-alzheimers-research - 2025-07-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 19 April 2023 Researchers publish study on personality research focusing on physicians' decision-making in emergency birth situations. Image: iStock/gradyreese. Swedish obstetricians and gynecologists are noticeably more emotionally stable and conscientious compared to the majority of the Swedish population. Based on t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/obstetricians-more-emotionally-stable-most - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 20 April 2023 Illustration of the bacteria Clostridioides difficile (Image: iStock) A species of ordinary gut bacteria that we all carry flourishes when the intestinal flora is knocked out by a course of antibiotics. Since the bacteria is naturally resistant to many antibiotics, it causes problems, particularly in healthcare s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/revealed-molecular-superpower-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 20 April 2023 iStock/koto_feja Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2? In a study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, this was investigated by redesigning antibodies and combining them against the virus. The modified antibodies have been tested in human cells and with

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cocktail-modified-antibodies-provides-strong-effect-against-sars-cov-2 - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 24 April 2023 Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University of Sussex, will visit Lund University in May to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. (Image source: Anil Seth) Almost 14 million viewers have watched Anils Seth’s TED Talk “Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality”. In

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hello-there-anil-seth - 2025-07-19

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 24 April 2023 Rita Charon, pioneer in medical humanities, and David Julius, recipient of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the temperature and pain receptor TRPV1, will give an open lecture on May 24. A Nobel laureate and a pioneer have been appointed honorary doctors 2023 at our faculty. On May 24, they offer

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/understanding-sensitivities-body-and-mind-open-lecture-2023-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine - 2025-07-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 2 May 2023 Several Nobel laureates, renowned scientists, and successful biotech entrepreneurs are coming to Lund in May to participate in the Lund Spring Symposium, an international symposium on drug research. Medications are the physician's primary tool when treating their patients, and understanding how drugs work is

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/superstars-coming-lund-drug-and-pharmaceutical-symposium - 2025-07-19

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 20 June 2023 Isabel Goncalves, Jiangming Sun, and Andreas Edsfeldt studying two atherosclerotic plaques (Photo: Petra Olsson) A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers at Lund Universit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-discoveries-about-where-atherosclerotic-plaques-rupture-can-lead-preventive-treatments - 2025-07-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 20 June 2023 Håkan Axelson anresearch group is part of the large EU-funded KATY project, which focuses on the most common type of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, which is one of the ten most common types of cancer worldwide. Image: iStock. What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kicking-kidney-cancer - 2025-07-19

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 24 July 2023 Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have assisted microbiologists in Ukraine in investigating bacterial resistance among the war-wounded patients treated in hospitals. The results, which were recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reveal that many of the patients were affected by bacteria t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/alarming-antibiotic-resistance-discovered-war-torn-ukraine - 2025-07-19