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The UN's annual climate summit, COP28, is just around the corner. Starting on 30 November, the world's countries will meet for two weeks to discuss global climate cooperation and how to achieve the climate goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This time the meeting will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We put five questions to Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's re

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-questions-markku-rummukainen-ahead-cop28-climate-summit - 2025-12-19

CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to five (5) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science. Note: It is the researcher who apply for this funding, not the student.The doctoral student will be employed at and have their main workplace

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science - 2025-12-19

What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if machine learning allowed surgeons to precisely remove tumour cells on the operating table? These are the areas of research that Emil Andersson has been exploring to get closer to a solution. He successfully defended his PhD in computational biology at CEC. His th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/one-step-closer-towards-improving-cancer-surgery-and-reprogramming-cells - 2025-12-19

A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done. Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-targe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-pollinators - 2025-12-19

Congratulations on the funding for the research infrastructure ICOS, Natascha Kljun, Scientific Principle Investigator of the Lund University ICOS stations! ICOS Sweden has been awarded a grant of 43.8 million SEK from VR to operate 10 stations for a period of three years. “Thank you! Yes, these are fantastic news. The grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) will allow us to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/congratulations-icos - 2025-12-19

Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara examined how nanoplastics that end up in the soil affect the microorganisms living there. The answer is clear: there is an effect on the organisms and how they behave. One could say that Micaela Mafla-Endara and her tea

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nanoplastics-influence-microbial-activity-soil - 2025-12-19

A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Botany and Zoology has been awarded every three years since 1935 to Swedish researchers whom the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund considers to be well deserving. In 2023, the prize is awarded to Henrik Smith for his research e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-henrik-smith-receives-rosen-linnaeus-prize-zoology - 2025-12-19

A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, was finalised last week. Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's contact person for the IPCC, participated digitally and comments the decisions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-deal-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-systems - 2025-12-19

Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Katarina Hedlund, professor at the Department of Biology, has been the Deputy Director of CEC for many years. She has also been Director of studies at CEC. “It will be easy to take over such a well-run organizati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/katarina-hedlund-new-director-cec - 2025-12-19

On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you do

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-12-19

With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the creation of a method capable of generating annual maps of tree diversity, his aim is to assist in forest management and decision-making regarding both climate and biodiversity strategies. Funded by the Swedish National S

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2025-12-19

A large proportion of our elite athletes are suffering psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, with more women than men reporting adverse reactions. This is demonstrated by the study Psychological Distress and Problem Gambling in Elite Athletes during COVID-19 Restrictions: A Web Survey in Top Leagues of Three Sports during the Pandemic, published in the International Journal of Envir

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/many-elite-athletes-feeling-psychological-distress-during-pandemic - 2025-12-19

Lund University researchers have developed an analytical model that can effectively detect and identify gene mutations in breast tumours. In the study, which is the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, they are now reporting results from 3,200 breast cancer patients. To assist them, they have utilised a technique known as RNA sequencing, a sensitive and precise tool that, while it is slowly

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-analytical-method-benefits-breast-cancer-patients - 2025-12-19

A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Every year, about 20 children in Sweden are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the nervous system that most frequently arises in the adrenal glands.

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2025-12-19

Agnete Kirkeby is working to repair the brain with stem cells. “The goal of our research is to understand how the human brain is formed and how it functions. And how we can repair it by generating new cells in the lab.” Agnete Kirkeby is one of the reserchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM LU). This autumn, every week, we present a fellow at the center.WCMM at

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-agnete-kirkeby - 2025-12-19

Should patients with separate variants of type 2 diabetes be treated with different types of drugs? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital will attempt to answer that question in a new study. Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world. It is estimated that over 300 million people have the disease globally.“Current treatment methods are unfor

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-personalized-type-2-diabetes-treatment-launched - 2025-12-19

Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren is searching for underlying causes for Alzheimer’s Disease. “I am motivated by the possibility that my work may make difference for patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.” Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren is one of the reserchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM LU). This autumn, every week, we present a fellow at the center.WCMM at Lund University

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-niklas-mattsson-carlgren - 2025-12-19

Nicholas Leigh is studying how other organisms have solved biological problems “The idea is that by understanding how other species are able to, for instance, regenerate a limb, we could help promote regeneration in humans.” Nicholas Leigh is one of the researchers at Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University (WCMM LU). This autumn, every week, we present a fellow at the center.

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-nicholas-leigh - 2025-12-19

In a collaborative study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center and University College London have developed a novel method of isolating ‘young’ stem cells still present in old mice. They show that activity of mitochondria, the power generators of the cell, is a stronger indicator of stem cell fitness than age and is a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of age associated disease. The

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/novel-approach-identifies-young-stem-cells-old-mice - 2025-12-19

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden studied self-grooming rats in order to better understand how the brain chooses what comes next in a sequence of actions. The study shows that when they switch from one action to the next in the grooming chain, the signalling in different parts of the brain changes. The results, published recently in Science Advances, increase understanding of which processe

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/self-grooming-rats-offered-clues-how-brain-chooses-behaviour - 2025-12-19