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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new hydrogel based on the body’s natural peptide defense. It has been shown to prevent and treat infections in wounds. The formulation kills multi-resistant bacteria, something that is increasing in importance with antibiotic resistance growing globally. “The ability to effectively heal wounds is key for our survival in evolutionary terms.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/next-generation-wound-gel-treats-and-prevents-infections - 2025-12-25

Different views and values within an organisation can complicate collaborations with other organisations. However, leaders who are prepared for this may be more successful in navigating their way through the storm unscathed. This is discussed in a newly published article by researcher Anna Brattström in the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. Hope and despair. These feelings characterised t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/distrust-and-hope-characterise-innovation-collaborations - 2025-12-25

Lucas Ferreia from Brazil, alumnus of the programme, now PhD candidate at the Electrical and Information Technology (EIT) department at Lund University How did you find your current position?"I found it on the LTH career webpage, and saw an advertisement at the department." What's your favourite thing about your job?"My research is in the field of processor design for autonomous drones, and the id

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-taeee/what-lucas-says-about-masters-embedded-electronics-engineering - 2025-12-25

Victoria from RussiaVictoria is a graduate of the programme and now works as an Advocacy, Campaigns and Communications Officer at Oxfam.Why did you choose this programme? "I decided to look for a Master’s programme in Asian Studies which would be more focused on topics such as human rights, gender, and international relations, but still would be general enough to allow some flexibility. After some

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-haast/what-victoria-says-about-masters-asian-studies - 2025-12-25

Cancer patients responded better to immunotherapy and had a better prognosis if their melanoma tumours contained specific clusters of B cells, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The study is published in Nature. Immunotherapy strengthens the immune system so that it can fight cancer more effectively. One type of immunotherapy is checkpoint therapy, that targets the checkpoin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/b-cells-linked-effective-cancer-immunotherapy - 2025-12-25

Omar SamirWhat is the best thing about your programme?“The best thing about our programme is that it has diversified, multidisciplinary modules that deal with different subjects such as economics, culture, language, administration, social sciences, politics and so on. The University has clearly endeavoured to make the programme successful.” Why did you choose the specialisation in Sustainable Serv

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-sasma-sasm/what-omar-says-about-masters-sustainable-service-management - 2025-12-25

Karou from Norway Why did you apply to Malmö Art Academy?"Malmö Art Academy is one of the best art schools in the world. I applied because I liked the structure here, with the studio visits. I had also heard about the great professors and teachers." What is the best thing about your programme?"There is a very good balance between the courses and the individual studio work – an arrangement that wor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-kgfko/what-karou-says-about-bachelors-fine-arts - 2025-12-25

Martine Flor from Norway“What I like most about the programme is that there is a lot of time for one’s own work, that the focus is on personal development through studio visits and that there is a very large and good range of courses to choose from. All this creates opportunities for developing freely and individually.”

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-kafko/what-martine-says-about-masters-fine-arts - 2025-12-25

Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This year’s recipient of the Jan S

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2025-12-25

An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that the rapid increase in land use in the world's tropical areas is affecting the global carbon cycle more than was previously known. By studying data from a new satellite imaging system, the researchers also found that the biomass in tropical forests is decreasing. Vegetation fills a very important function in the carbo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2025-12-25

The RISE Awards (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is a competition for students, aiming to showcase student talent in sustainability and innovation, and is organised by U21 (Universitas 21). All participating projects aim to contribute to attaining at least one of the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Students from 16 member universities competed for the RISE Awards in the three ca

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-wins-international-round-u21-rise-awards-0 - 2025-12-25

Researchers from Sweden and the USA have discovered a substance in beetroot peel that is highly effective in combatting mosquitoes. The substance, geosmin, is extremely expensive and difficult to get hold of. The new discovery changes all that. Marcus Stensmyr and Nadia Melo at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Washington and Florida International University,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/beetroots-combat-mosquitoes - 2025-12-25

Within the framework of an international study, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital have started treating patients with hemophilia with gene therapy, something that began in January this year. The hope is that the new treatment will significantly simplify everyday life for those with severe hemophilia. Hemophilia is a genetic disease where the body does not produce one of the clotting fa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hemophilia-being-treated-gene-therapy - 2025-12-25

Kunal SharmaKunal Sharma is one of the students pursuing the Master’s in Production and Materials Engineering at Lund University. After graduating high school from Kyiv International School, he accepted a place in the Mechanical Engineering programme at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada where he got a Bachelor’s degree. Now he has spent one semester in Lund and we have asked him s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-taprr/what-kunal-says-about-masters-production-and-materials-engineering - 2025-12-25

Researchers have for the first time found a connection between the immune systems of different bird species, and the various climatic conditions in which they live. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe that as the climate changes, some birds may be exposed to diseases that they are not equipped to handle. The results of the study indicate that evolution has calibrated the immune sy

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/immune-systems-not-prepared-climate-change - 2025-12-25

Using water wisely will be increasingly important in the future, particularly within agricultural production. The agricultural water management research project WATERAGRI, which is coordinated by the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded SEK 74 million from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme with the aim to improve agricultural water management and nutrient recovery fr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/agricultural-water-research-project-receives-large-eu-grant - 2025-12-25

Kees from the NetherlandsKees is a graduate of the programme, now a doctoral student at Delft University of Technology.What was the best thing about the Asian Studies programme?"It was the cosy environment. We were with around thirty students, so it wasn’t too big. We were a very tight community between both the students and the teachers. It became a really open environment that was very stimulati

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-haast/what-kees-says-about-masters-asian-studies - 2025-12-25

In their quest to find new and better methods to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment, Karin Lindkvist and her research group at Lund University in Sweden are looking into the world of molecules, using the X-rays at the MAX IV laboratory. The researchers believe that limiting the cells' access to sugar will make cancer cells more sensitive to treatment. Many of the cancer treatments use

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-believe-sugar-and-obesity-can-make-cancer-cells-more-difficult-kill - 2025-12-25

The Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research has been awarded to Niels Grarup of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. His research has shown that there is a genetic explanation for the increase in type 2 diabetes in Greenland. The prize, worth SEK 100 000, is donated by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk Scandinavia. Nie

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/award-research-increased-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2025-12-25

Psychology researchers from Lund University in Sweden, McGill University in Canada, and Royal Holloway in the UK, have found that a magic trick can lead Democrats and Republicans alike to believe that they are more open-minded towards opposing presidential candidates than they thought they were. The American voters who took part in the experiment were willing to endorse more open views with surpri

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/both-republicans-and-democrats-become-less-polarized-after-simple-magic-trick - 2025-12-25