We welcome two new master thesis student this spring! Medical student William Dufvenberg will investigate hyperspectral imaging in border detection of basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma.  Medical student Josefina Frenander will investigate hyperspectral imaging in border detection of melanoma. The students will be supervised by the research team of Professor Malin Malmsjö.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/welcome-new-master-students - 2025-09-13

Johanna Berggren has received the Anna-Greta Crafoord Award for best PhD thesis at the Medical Faculty, Lund University in 2022 for her thesis Perfusion monitoring in oculoplastic recostructive surgery. Johanna received the award at the price ceremony on April 13th 2023. For more information visit the the homepage of Läkaresällskapet in Lund.  

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/johanna-berggren-awarded-best-phd-thesis - 2025-09-13

Alice Fracchia is a summer student working in the group with her expertise in machine learning implementation. Her project will focus on developing machine learning algorithms to automatically determine skin tumor borders in photoacoustic imaging data where she will get the opportunity to learn how to work in a clinical setting and applying her skills in the medical field.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/welcome-summer-student-alice-fracchia - 2025-09-13

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/malin-malmsjo-has-received-asoprs-lester-jones-anatomy-award - 2025-09-13

Kajsa Tenland, the opponent Associate professor Dyonne Hartong and the supervisor Professor Malin Malmsjö celebrating the successful defense. On Friday the November 24th, Kajsa Tenland successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Reconstruction of Large Eyelid Defects Using Tarsoconjunctival Flaps, Opportunities for Novel Surgical Techniques".The defense was held at the Medical Facult

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/kajsa-tenland-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-09-13

Our warmest congratulations to Karl Engelsberg who has received his docentur. Docent Karl Engelsberg

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/karl-engelsberg-has-received-his-docentur - 2025-09-13

On Friday October 11th, Josefine Bunke successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Bioimaging Techniques using Spectral Information for Monitoring Oxygen Saturation - Evaluated in Human Models of Skin Hypoperfusion".The defense was held at the Medical Faculty in Lund with faculty opponent, examination committee members, supervisors and audience present in the auditorium.The dis

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/josefine-bunke-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-09-13

On October 18th Jenny Hult nailed her PhD thesis "Skin tumor delineation using novel spectral imaging techniques". The thesis will be defended on November 22nd 2024. 

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-phd-thesis-0 - 2025-09-13

Morgana Fontana, medical PhD student We are pleased to introduce Morgana Fontana, a medical PhD student, whose research focuses on advancing diagnostic and monitoring techniques in Reconstructive Surgery. She is investigating the application of cutting-edge imaging technologies, hyperspectral imaging (HSI), laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and photoacousti

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/introducing-morgana-fontana - 2025-09-13

Associate Professor Aboma Merdasa, MSc, PhD We are happy to announce that Aboma Merdasa has been appointed as an Associated Professor at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University.Aboma will give a seminar to celebrate his appointment on Friday the 16th of May, at 12.30. The seminar will be given in the Conference Room, Eye Clinic (building A), Lund. The date of the seminar

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/aboma-merdasa-has-been-appointed-associated-professor - 2025-09-13

Jenny Hulth, MD during her doctoral thesis defence. On Friday the 11th of November, Jenny Hulth successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Skin tumor delineation using photoacoustic imaging and hyperspectral imaging."The defence was held at the Medical Faculty in Lund with faculty opponent, examination committee members, supervisors and audience present in the auditorium.The faculty

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/jenny-hulth-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-09-13

Participants AFSIN workshop 2024 In November we had the great pleasure to participate in the African Spectral Imaging Network (AFSIN) workshop in Kpalimé, Togo. The topic of the workshop was on "Clinical Translation of Optical Instrumentation" where we had the opportunity to bring some of our instruments with us for not only educational purposes, but do some interesting experiments. During the 10

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/african-spectral-imaging-network-workshop-kpalime-togo - 2025-09-13

Paulina Ibek did successfully defend her Master thesis entitled "Advancing Precision Diagnostics for Delineation of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Hyperspectral Images" on the 20th of January.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/master-thesis-defence-paulina-ibek - 2025-09-13

Visit from Prof. Chulhong Kim and co-workers in SKERIC collaboration We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Chulhong Kim and his students at the Lund University Photoacoustic Center where we engaged in fruitful discussions on how to implement new exciting photoacoustic technology in the clinic. In our exchange, we particularly focused on some of the most pressing challenges faced by clinicians relat

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/visit-prof-chulhong-kim-and-coworkers-skeric-collaboration - 2025-09-13

Associate professor Aboma Merdasa. Aboma Merdasa gave an appreciated seminar about his career within and outside the Academia on Friday the 16th of May, at 12.30. The seminar was part of the celebration of his appointment as an Associated Professor at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/seminar-given-newly-appointed-associate-professor-aboma-merdasa - 2025-09-13

New publication about Giant Cell Arthritis in Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology: Naumovska M, Sheikh R, Engelsberg K, Blohmé J, Hammar B, Malmsjo M: Temporal artery biopsies contract upon surgical excision, but do not shrink further during formalin fixation. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 2020;49:84-86.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publication - 2025-09-13

Photographer Magnus Hjalmarsson is digitising Swedish periodicals. With the objective of digitising Swedish printed material from the 1400s to modern times, a collaboration has been established between the National Library of Sweden and the five university libraries in Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Umeå. The undertaking lays the basis of a long-term digitisation undertaking. The materi

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/national-library-collaboration-will-digitise-swedish-printed-material - 2025-09-13

On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-09-13

Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-09-13

Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-09-13