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Have you been thinking about a research problem perfect for an interdisciplinary research group to explore? Perhaps you think that it needs to be more mature in order to pursue funding? Look no further - here's your chance. Pufendorf IAS launches the yearly call for applications to start a Theme here at Lund University's beautiful incubator for new interdisciplinary research. Welcome to Pufendorf

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/launch-call-applications-start-theme-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies-8-september - 2026-04-23

Gender studies is not something to engage in. This is a common statement in eastern Europe, where there is major resistance and study programmes are under constant threat of closure. Now the Department of Sociology and the Department of Gender Studies in Lund are joining forces to support colleagues and programmes in the region. Particular focus is being placed on war-torn Ukraine. “It’s not just

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/supporting-controversial-studies-eastern-europe - 2026-04-24

Would you like to contribute to making Lund University more sustainable? Now is your chance to bring your idea to life through the Sustainability Fund’s testbed grant. Lund University is deeply committed to its sustainability strategy and sustainability plan, aiming for remarkable achievements in this area. We know that change requires new ideas. That's why the Lund University is now opening the o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-workplace-idea-reality - 2026-04-24

Lund University can nominate up to three candidates for participation in the application round for STINT Teaching Sabbatical 2025. The STINT Teaching Sabbatical is a programme that offers researchers and teachers the opportunity to spend the autumn semester at one of STINT’s thirteen partner institutions in Botswana, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and the USA.The programme aims to develop both indiv

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-stint-teaching-sabbatical-2025 - 2026-04-24

2020-11-25 CoVid-restrictions Dear tenants, Yesterday new restrictions started to apply in Sweden and Skåne in regards to the CoVid-19 pandemic. The new restrictions are not recommendations but musts, and will apply for 4 weeks from now.   The following information is crucial and LU Accommodation requires all tenants to read and follow the decisions made by the Swedish Government and the Swedish H

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2020 - 2026-04-23

In a research system where publishing success can shape scientific careers, targeted support can make a decisive difference. Sofie Mohlin, Associate Professor at Lund University and a research group leader at the Lund Stem Cell Center has received a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Award from the Life Science Editors Foundation. Today’s publish-or-perish research culture means that

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/may-publishing-be-you-sofie-mohlin-receives-international-jedi-award - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It was just before Christmas when the only Swedish-led archaeological project in Egypt, run by Maria Nilsson from Lund University, made the unique discovery. The research group found six statues dating back 3,400 years in two shrines by the sandstone quarry of Gebel el Silsila. The team was able to excavate two shrine

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/archaeological-project-discovers-3400-year-old-family-made-out-sandstone-egypt - 2026-04-23

A new study from Lund University and Region Skåne in Sweden indicates that potency-enhancing PDE5 inhibitor drugs have an anti-cancer potential with the ability to improve the prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. PDE5 inhibitors include a few approved drugs in which sildenafil (Viagra) is the most well-known. The article is published in Nature Communications. “Available preclinical eviden

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/potency-enhancing-drugs-linked-decreased-risks-men-colorectal-cancer - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johan Richter's research has resulted in the successful development of gene therapy for the hereditary disease malignant infantile osteopetrosis. For the past few years, the research group has established a collaboration with an American biotech company and all the permits needed to start a clinical trial have now bee

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/successful-biotech-collaboration-brings-gene-therapy-project-clinic - 2026-04-23

Europe's largest respiratory society, ERS, has awarded its winners for 2021. By doing so the society wishes to recognise the achievements of leaders in the field of respiratory medicine. The Mid-Career Gold Medal in Asthma for 2021 went to EMV´s own Lena Uller, Professor in Immunology. It´s a very prestigious award! Warm congrats, Lena! ­– Thank you so much, I feel overwhelmed. Especially now afte

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-gold-medal-respiratory-medicine-awarded-professor-lund - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-04-23

This spring, LU is launching a joint faculty initiative to further train already established research supervisors. They constitute a hitherto forgotten group when it comes to professional development according to Maria Stanfors, vice chair of the Research Programmes Board (Swedish abbreviation FUN) and the person leading the project. “Over the years, there has been a lot of focus on doctoral stude

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overlooked-supervisors-receive-further-training - 2026-04-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A – until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing β-cell´s function. The researchers initially discovered that insulin-producing beta-cells contain a large quantity of a cell surface receptor for vitamin A.“There are no unneces

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-vitamin-diabetes - 2026-04-23

Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease can be difficult, as several other conditions can cause similar symptoms. Now a new brain imaging method can show the spread of specific tau protein depositions, which are unique to cases with Alzheimer's. ‟The method works very well. I believe it will be applied clinically all over the world in only a few years”, says Oskar Hansson. Hansson is a professor of clinica

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-enables-accurate-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swarming bats at mine entrance Photo:Jens Rydell During the day they are not visible. But at dusk, brown long-eared bats, pond bats and greater mouse-eared bats spread their wings and start hunting. LUM accompanied researcher and bat expert Jens Rydell to Hovdala castle for a bat inventory. The bat detector crackles a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/kings-night-take-over-hovdala-castle - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Each year, the analysis company Clarivate Analytics identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. The list includes three names from Lund University, and Sara Linse, principal investigator at NanoLund, is one of them. The H

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-among-worlds-most-cited-researchers - 2026-04-23

During the year 2022, SASNET organizes a digital lecture series on Indian religions in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) at Lund University and the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) in Delhi. The digital lecture series is one of the projects funded by External Relations at Lund University as a part of the university’s strategic Asia Action Plan which aims to support

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-lectures-indian-religions - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Actic expeditions - very expensive as well as time consuming and sometimes dangerous. Researchers Hakim Abdi and Daniel Metcalfe about unevenly distributed research. The Arctic is a remote and hard to reach area, which affects where research expeditions go and where climate scientists set up their field experiments. "

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/what-we-do-not-know-about-arctic - 2026-04-23

At the end of September, Karl Dahlstrand visited Iceland to present at the international conference "Recognising Sexual Violence: Developing Pathways to Survivor-Centred Justice", organised by the University of Iceland. Karl Dahlstrand has studied crime victim compensation for over a decade. At the conference organised by the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference (RIKK) at the University o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karl-dahlstrand-presented-icelandic-conference-recognising-sexual-violence - 2026-04-23

MERGE is one of the partners in CLIMB-FOREST - a new Horizon Europe project that will investigate how the climate is affected by different ways of managing the forest. There is a lot of expertise in each individual country, but there is no coordinated overview of Europe’s forests and forest health. A major new EU project, CLIMB-FOREST, will create an overview of European forests and forestry over

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/how-climate-affected-forest-management-new-project-help-guide-european-forestry - 2026-04-23