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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sofia Hult håller föredrag med titeln "Huntingtons sjukdom - när en gen avgör" på årets Neurodag, arrangerad av Neurologiskt Handikappades Riksförbund (NHR) i Stockholm den 28:e september 2011.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hult-gives-talk-neuro-day-stockholm - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Petersén and her team were awarded a grant from Ragnar Söderberg's Foundation for their research on Huntington's disease.About the project at Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse's webpage (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/3-million-sek-ragnar-soderbergs-foundation-petersens-research - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Barbara Baldo received a PhD in Neurobiology in 2011. The PhD studies were performed at Novartis Pharma, Basel and Basel University, Switzerland, and the thesis was entitled "Innovative approaches to monitor mutant huntingtin and to facilitate its degradation in Huntington’s disease models”. It was funded through t
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-new-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-barbara-baldo - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The link between neurodegeneration and energy metabolism is the focus of not only TNU:s research but also for the international colleagues Drs Patrick Weydt, Ulm University, Germany, and Luc Dupuis, Strasbourg University, France. They have now written a letter entitled Progranulin bridges energy homeostasis and fronto
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-co-authors-letter-cell-metabolism-march-2012 - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sanaz Gabery, PhD student in TNU, was awarded the prize for best presentation at the poster session of the Neuroscience Day, May 2012, in Lund.Barbara Baldo, postdoctoral fellow in TNU, received a grant of 55 000 SEK from the Segerfalk Foundation for her work on the role of orexin neurons in Huntington's disease, whic
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We would like to welcome Natalie Adlesic back to TNU! Natalie is returning to our group on Monday June 18th on a summer stipend. She will work with us for the next eight weeks.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-back-natalie - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Petersén and Gabery has written an invited review entitled Hypothalamic and limbic system changes in Huntington's disease in the first issue of Journal of Huntington's Disease.Link to the article
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An International summer camp for young adults in families with HD visits TNU on July 27, 2012. The camp is organized by Riksförbundet Huntingtons Sjukdom and European Huntington Association (EHA) with Carina Hvalstedt in charge, and takes place at Hotel Båstad for one week.30 young adults from the ages of 15-26 from G
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Friday the 27th of July TNU and Bagadilico had visitors from the International summer camp for young adults in families with HD. The regional newspaper Skånskan Dagbladet published an article on the visit, describing the symptoms of HD and how life in a family with HD can be. Link to the article on Skånska Dagblade
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-skanska-dagbladet-visit-tnu-lab - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. TNU members attended the 7th EHDN Plenary Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16 2012. The TNU team presented posters on the development of assays to measure huntingtin and studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of depression, anxiety and metabolic changes in HD. Petersén chaired one of the sessions.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-attends-ehdn-plenary-meeting-stockholm - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Petersén begins her tenured faculty position as Senior Lecturer (universitetslektor) in medical research with specialization in Neuroscience at the Medical Faculty of Lund University in November 2012 after three years with a position as senior researcher (forskaretjänst) in psychiatry at 50% appointed by the Swedish R
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-appointed-senior-lecturer-neuroscience-lund-university - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Network of European CNS Transplantation and Restoration (NECTAR) held its annual meeting in Lund Nov 29-30 2012 with around 130 participants. Petersén was invited to give an overview of mouse models in HD, and Soylu and Sajjad were selected to present their recent research findings in the data blitz sessions.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-annual-nectar-meeting - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Congratulations to Sofia Hult Lundh who received one of the five stipends of 2012 from the Swedish Lundbeckfoundation at a ceremony at Trolleholm castle on the 17th of January 2012. The stipend will be used to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying depressive- and anxiety-like features in mice with Huntington's d
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Rachel Cheong starts a postdoctoral fellowship in TNU 1st of February 2013. Dr Cheong is from Singapore and has a PhD in Neuroscience from University of Otago, New Zealand. Her PhD thesis was entitled Effects of estradiol on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons. In Lund she will investigate the role of hypothalam
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-dr-rachel-cheong-group - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish patient organization for Huntington's disease organises a one-day meeting in Gothenburg. Petersén will speak about research as well as about early stages of the clinical disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-lectures-national-huntington-meeting-gothenburg - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The annual Neuroscience Day in Lund takes place on May 16. Rana Soylu will give a talk with the title Long-term metabolic effects of huntingtin expression in the hypothalamus.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/soylu-presents-her-research-neuroscience-day-lund-may-2013 - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maximilian Tufvesson Alm is a Bachelor student in Biomedicine at Lund University who has recently joined the lab to work with us on a research project for his bachelor thesis, supervised by Dr Barbara Baldo. After the completion of this achievement Max will continue in the group for eight more weeks for a summer resea
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-max - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A team from HDYO (Huntington's disease youth organisation) visited TNU on May 24 2013. The filming project involved touring the HD research lab in Lund, meeting researchers and seeing what they are doing in the lab. It was a great day and we are looking forward to the film that will be posted on the HDYO website in th
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hdyo-visited-tnu-film-lab-tour-about-our-hd-research - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our article entitled Hypothalamic expression of mutant huntingtin contributes to the development of depressive-like behavior in the BAC transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease with the authors Sofia Hult Lundh, Nathalie Nilsson, Rana Soylu, Deniz Kirik D and Åsa Petersén was published in Human Molecular Genetic
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/inactivation-mutant-huntingtin-hypothalamus-prevents-depression-hd-mice - 2026-06-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Barbara Baldo has received a grant of 150 000 SEK from the Blanceflor Boncompagni-Ludovisi foundation to do research about the role of orexin dysfunction in HD. Congratulations!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/baldo-receives-150-000-sek-grant-orexin-project - 2026-06-25
