Search results

Anja Meissner is looking for new treatments for cardiovascular diseases. “We are interested in understanding processes involved in disease onset and progression.” Anja Meissner 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. The WCMM at Lund University is made possible by the Knut and Al

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/meet-weeks-wallenberg-researcher-anja-meissner - 2025-12-09

Mikael Dolsten, head of research at Pfizer, who led the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, will take up the appointment of visiting professor of Pharmacology at Lund University in Sweden on 1 January 2021. “During my years as a student and researcher in Lund I had many mentors who inspired me. I want to give something back and share my experience of what drives good innovatio

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/mikael-dolsten-appointed-visiting-professor-lund-university - 2025-12-09

It has long been known that the choice of shoe, surface and type of sport can all be contributing factors when someone suffers an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now observed that genes also play a decisive role. By analysing data from the Swedish Twin Register along with data from the Swedish National Patient Register, researchers were able to see

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/genes-play-role-common-knee-injury - 2025-12-09

Researchers at Lund University have shown that a group of proteins are crucial for smooth muscle function in the gastrointestinal tract. A lack of these proteins leads to a lethal condition called intestinal pseudo obstruction in mice. The findings play a major role in our knowledge of organs that are dependent on normal smooth muscle function such as blood vessels, airways and bladder. The study

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/impaired-bowel-movement-due-lack-protein - 2025-12-09

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 a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in research. Project Manager for the study is researcher Sinem Tas, Fellow in Darcy

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2025-12-09

Lund University represents one of the most attractive locations within structural biology in entire Northern Europe, says Pontus Gourdon, who has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant 2020 from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It was the initial grant that once brought him to Lund. Wallenberg Academy Fellows is a long-term program that addresses young researchers in med

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/adopting-long-term-research-approach-thanks-prolongation-grant - 2025-12-09

Lund researcher Mauno Vihinen has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation to develop AI methods that in the long run enable improved cancer diagnosis. One of the researchers who has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation is Mauno Vihinen, professor of medical structural biology at the Department of Experimental Medical Science and leader of the research group Protein Structure and Bioinfo

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/improved-and-tailored-prediction-methods-cancer - 2025-12-09

“Relapse of the condition is more common following the new treatment method using keyhole surgery, which for one-third of patients will lead to planned bowel operations. However, far fewer patients require ostomies,” says Pamela Buchwald, associate professor at Lund University and senior physician at Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, who led the study from Malmö. The study was led by researchers f

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/keyhole-surgery-ruptured-bowels-safe-long-term-method - 2025-12-09

Low age, the number of hours spent on the internet/social media, feelings of loneliness and thoughts about seeking treatment for mental illness. All of these are associated with problem gaming over the internet. This is one of the findings of a study recently published by researchers at Lund University that includes all types of screen games. “The study shows that some of the individuals who play

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-screen-games-mental-illness-and-addiction - 2025-12-09

It’s Friday night in Lund and soon Mikael Dolsten, acclaimed head of research and visiting professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, is about to tell the incredible but true story of how, in just nine months, his company developed one of the vaccines that could save us from the pandemic. It would have taken nine years if the circumstances hadn’t been so dire. Important research issues

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/our-visiting-professor-tells-astonishing-story-vaccine-can-save-world-pandemic - 2025-12-09

In the early 1970s, Lars Edvinsson stepped through the doors of Lund University for the first time. More than 50 years later, he is awarded the world's most prominent prize in brain research, "The Brain Prize", which is awarded annually by the Lundbeck Foundation. He receives the award for his pioneering research on migraines. "This is a great honour, as it is the biggest and finest prize you can

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/migraine-pioneer-awarded-prestigious-brain-prize - 2025-12-09

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 antibody development. The discovery is published in Nature Communications. Antibody drugs are the fastest growing class of drug, and several therapeu

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-method-facilitates-development-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-12-09

Jan Sundquist, Professor at the Center for Primary Health Care Research, a collaboration between Lund University and Region Skåne, has been awarded a $3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health, NIH, USA. The grant is awarded for research of heredity and the importance of the environment regarding the opioid epidemic and other drug abuse. Together with Professor Kenneth Kendler at Virgin

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/opioid-epidemic-and-other-drug-abuse - 2025-12-09

Researchers at Lund University have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted with the help of patient cells for the first time. The 3D-printed constructs are biocompatible and support new blood vessel growth into the transplanted material. This is an important first step towards 3D-printing organs. The new study has been published in Advanced Materials. Chro

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-bioink-brings-3d-printing-human-organs-closer-reality - 2025-12-09

Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period. She replaces Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2021. Sophia Zackrisson is part of the LUCC steering group and currently one of the heads in the LUCC strategic network with focus on Imaging & nuclear medicine/radiology. In addition, Zackrisson is a senior consultant in radiology at Skåne Uni

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-coordinator-lund-univeristy-cancer-centre - 2025-12-09

The Christmas and New Year holidays did not turn out the way Caroline Nilsson intended. Instead of taking time off from her job as a research nurse in the POInT study, she had to step in and help out in a COVID-19 ward at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. For six weeks, Caroline Nilsson and two other colleagues from the Research Department at the Clinical Research Centre were on loan to one of t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-nurse-caroline-her-time-covid-19-ward - 2025-12-09

Many patients seeking treatment for chronic hip and groin pain are referred to an orthopaedic surgeon. Physiotherapist Anders Pålsson’s doctoral thesis from Lund University shows that these patients perceive a low quality of life and have low physical functioning. If their pain can be pinpointed and diagnosed at an early stage, such as upon a visit to a clinic, the patients’ long waiting times for

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/earlier-diagnosis-shortens-queues-orthopaedics - 2025-12-09

…a Lund University alumna who has taken a new position as director of the Big Data Institute in Oxford! “Thank you! I am very excited about this”, says Cecilia Lindgren. She describes the managerial role at the Big Data Institute (BDI) as a new chapter, but on something in which she is strongly rooted. Ever since she completed her PhD at Lund University, she has used Big Data in her research in va

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/congratulations-cecilia-lindgren - 2025-12-09

Collaboration between the worlds of industry and academia promotes the dissemination of knowledge and technology in society. This is why the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) is investing SEK 30 million in industrial doctoral students. The grant covers the study period for the doctoral students and must result in a doctoral degree. Doctoral student Jelena Pesic and her supervisor Len

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/industrial-doctoral-student-research-initiative-collaboration-between-industry-and-academia - 2025-12-09

Over the past year, the health service has witnessed an increasing number of patients with long-term effects of Covid-19, including chronic symptoms that suggest POTS. POTS is a condition that causes the pulse to race when you stand up. Until now, too little has been known about POTS as a complication following a Covid infection, but researchers from Lund University and Karolinska Institutet have

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/case-study-sheds-light-pots-connection-long-covid - 2025-12-09