Published 1 September 2020 Johan Jakobsson and Johan Flygare. Photo credit: Kennet Ruona Prof. Johan Jakobsson has been appointed as coordinator and Assoc. Prof. Johan Flygare as deputy coordinator of StemTherapy and Lund Stem Cell Center.Together they will continue to manage StemTherapy and Lund Stem Cell Center towards scientific and educational excellence, whilst strengthening the direction of

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-leadership-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-04-19

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 3 September 2020 Dr. Yuriy Pomeshchik (left) and Dr. Laurent Roybon, lead and senior authors of the study. Photo: Agata Garpenlind Neuroscientists and stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a research model that allows studying human hippocampal neurons, the brain cells primarily affected

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-research-paves-way-developing-therapies-could-slow-down-alzheimers - 2025-04-19

Published 4 September 2020 Minaturized human bone organs, called “human ossicles”. Image credit: Laboratory for Cell, Tissue and Organ Engineering. Congratulations to Lund Stem Cell Center PI and Wallenberg Fellow Paul Bourgine, who has been awarded European Research Council funding. His research group, the Laboratory for Cell, Tissue and Organ Engineering, are using engineered miniaturized human

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-awarded-prestigious-european-research-council-grant - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 16 September 2020 Immunofluorescence image of human neurons derived from stem cells. Image credit: Agnete Kirkeby Prof. Johan Jakobsson and Assoc. Prof. Agnete Kirkeby from Lund Stem Cell Center and University of Copenhagen, along with co-applicants Prof. Roger Barker from Cambridge, UK and Assoc. Prof. Molly Hammell

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-investigate-role-transposable-elements-neuroinflammation-and-parkinsons-disease - 2025-04-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 17 September 2020 Histopathology of rescued bone. Femur of an osteopetrotic mouse (left) and rescued bone phenotype in femur following lentiviral mediated gene therapy. Image credit: Johan Richter & Ilana Moscatelli Johan Richter's research has resulted in the successful development of gene therapy for the hereditary d

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/successful-biotech-collaboration-brings-gene-therapy-project-clinic - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 21 September 2020 Nicola Guzzi defends his PhD thesis Thursday 24th September PhD student Nicola Guzzi will be defending his thesis titled “Post-transcriptional control of stem and cancer cell fate - new roles for an old RNA modification” on Thursday 24th of September 2020. In this interview, Nicola tells us about hi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-nicola-guzzi - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 30 September 2020 Marcella Birtele defends her PhD thesis Friday 2nd October Marcella Birtele will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” on Friday 2nd October. Researching within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group led by Prof. Mali

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-marcella-birtele - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 15 October 2020 Researcher Christopher Douse. Image credit SSMF. With two articles published in quick succession from his time as a research fellow at Cambridge University, UK, Christopher Douse has moved to Lund Stem Cell Center to develop a research programme on newly-discovered guardians of the human genome. More

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/hush-and-morc2-new-players-transposon-regulation-during-human-development - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 19 October 2020 Immunofluorescence image of reprogrammed astrocytes stained with GFAP (green), actin (red) and Hoechst for the nucleus (blue). Image credit: Isaac Canals Every year the Swedish Society for Medical Research awards funding to promising young medical researchers. Grant recipients are funded for four year

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researcher-awarded-ssmf-large-grant - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 20 October 2020 Researcher Els Mansell, first author of the article published in Cell Stem Cell. In a collaborative study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center and University College London have developed a novel method of isolating ‘young’ stem cells still present in old mice. They show that activity of mitochondr

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/novel-approach-identifies-young-stem-cells-old-mice - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 2 November 2020 Thank you to all who submitted their entries to Lund Stem Cell Center image competition 2020. Now it’s time to choose a winner! Over the past six months, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been submitting images of their research and work environment to the image competition. Now it's time to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-scc-image-competition-time-cast-your-vote-0 - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 4 November 2020 Nicholas Leigh (top left), Karolina Pircs (top right), Isabella Artner (bottom left) and Zaal Kokaia (bottom right) were all awarded funding from Vetenskapsrådet. Congratulations to Lund Stem Cell Center researchers Nicholas Leigh, Karolina Pircs, Isabella Artner and Zaal Kokaia on being awarded fundi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/vetenskapsradet-awards-lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-over-23-million-sek - 2025-04-19

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 5 November 2020 Prof. Stefan Karlsson Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Stefan Karlsson has been active as a researcher at Lund University for 25 years and during that time has received many major grants and awards. However, never a gold medal. - It feels like a very great honor because the medal is only awarded every nine years f

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-stefan-karlsson-awarded-gold-medal-research-efforts - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 12 November 2020 Researchers awarded funding from Cancerfonden.Top row (left to right): Henrik Ahlenius, Tariq Enver, Mattias Magnusson. Middle: Björn Nilsson, Filipe Pereira, Stefan Scheding. Bottom: Mikael Sigvardsson, Niels-Bjarne Woods, Joan Yuan. Nine researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded a to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-awarded-funding-cancerfonden - 2025-04-19

By Olle [dot] Dahlback [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Olle Dahlbäck) - published 13 November 2020 Zaal Kokaia receiving Bengt Falck's award from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Erik Renström, at a distance. Photo: Olle Dahlbäck Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck P

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 18 November 2020 Prof. Sandra Lindstedt (right) in action during transplantation (left) We are very happy to announce that Sandra Lindstedt - Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Wallenberg Molecular Medicine clinical researcher - has joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Professor Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-principal-investigator-sandra-lindstedt - 2025-04-19

Published 19 November 2020 Pia Johansson, CRISPR core facility manager CRISPR is a simple yet powerful Nobel Prize winning technology that allows sequence specific editing and manipulation of DNA sequences. The CRISPR facility at Lund Stem Cell Center is here to help you with your projects using this technology. What is CRISPR and who is it for? CRISPR started as a “traditional” gene editing tool,

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-crispr-facility-here-help - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 2 December 2020 The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners of Lund Stem Cell Center Image Competition 2020. We are pleased to announce the winners of the Lund Stem Cell Center Image competition 2020 are: First place: Grasping at straws – Ludwig Schmiderer and Martin Hjort, Larsson group and Nanolund Sec

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/image-competition-2020-results - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 December 2020 Johan Jakobsson and Johan Flygare. Photo credit: Kennet Ruona The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about th

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/plans-future-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-04-19

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 18 December 2020 Despite the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are bringing science to schools both physically and using a digital platform. High school students across the Skåne region are learning about stem cell research in the ‘Taking science to schools – Borrow a scientist’ initiative, org

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/taking-stem-cells-high-schools-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2025-04-19