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For those of you that maybe did not know, WCMM Lund has a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of four internationally recognized experts. Two of them know the WCMM Centre quite well by now and the other two are just newly recruited. The role of the WCMM SAB is to provide strategic guidance and direction the WCMM Centre regarding scientific aspects, strategic directions and provides recommenda

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/get-know-scientific-advisory-board - 2025-11-19

Chimezie Harrison Umeano is a new graduate student in regenerative immunology at Nicholas Leigh’s lab. He has a background in biochemistry and biomedicine and has previously been engaged as a laboratory technician at the Karolinska Institute. Chimezie is interested in how highly regenerative species like salamanders modulate their immune system to promote regeneration. As a graduate student, his p

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-chimezie-harrison-umeano - 2025-11-19

An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval of the trial has already been obtained from the Swedish Ethics Review Authority, and the STEM-PD team, led from Lund University in Sweden, is thereby ready to proceed with the trial. WCMM members Agnete Kirkeby and Gesin

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/swedish-medical-products-agency-grants-approval-clinical-study-new-stem-cell-based-parkinsons - 2025-11-19

The Pereira group is seeking for 1 post-doctoral candidate for a collaborative project with the company Asgard therapeutics. The Pereira group has pioneered cell fate reprogramming approaches in immunology with induced dendritic cells (Rosa et al, Science Immunology 2018; Rosa et al, Science Immunology 2022) and has shown recently that the same combination of factors can reprogram tumor cells into

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/open-position - 2025-11-19

The Bourgine lab has published a new article in Science Translational Medicine reporting the fast and standardized generation of human mini-bones/humanized ossicles, and assess to what extent they can reflect the human bone marrow microenvironment. Human ossicles consist of fully mature bone and bone marrow structures establishing a complex human mesenchymal niche with retained stem cell propertie

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-publication-science-translational-medicine - 2025-11-19

New webpage has been created and a change of technology Due to updates in technology a brand new webpage for WCMM has now been created. We hope you find this to your liking.

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-webpage - 2025-11-19

WCMM researcher Andreas Edsfeldt has been awarded the SSMF consolatory grant, a five-year grant that gives prominent researchers the opportunity to strengthen their position as independent researchers, for his research on the role of cell death in diabetes-associated cardiovascular disease. Diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) is rapidly increasing worldwide, and people with T2D have a clearly increased

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/role-cell-death-diabetes-associated-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-11-19

Sandra Lindstedt has received 19.5 MSEK, the grant for clinical studies within therapy research from the Swedish Research Counsil, for her project entitled “Cytokine filtration at lung transplantation”. This grant aims to enable a constellation of researchers within regions and academia to work towards a common research goal. The purpose is to provide support for clinical therapy studies that are

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/195-msek-clinical-wcmm-researcher - 2025-11-19

Kære medlemmer af Dansk Virologisk Selskab (DVS), Sæt kryds i kalenderen torsdag den 27. november, hvor vi afholder Virusdagen 2025Igen i år inviterer vi til indsendelse af korte abstracts, så vi kan få sammensat et spændende program af dansk virologisk forskning. Vi opfordrer især yngre forskere til at sende abstracts. Skabelon til abstracts er vedhæftet, og skal indsendes senest 21. oktober til

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/virusdagen-2025 - 2025-11-19

Lund University, 009999 Lund University, 310000 MEDLund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/senior-lecturer-virology-0 - 2025-11-19

The HALRIC research internship programme offers Bachelor and Master students the opportunity to get insights into research done in the field of Life Science, involving Advanced Research Infrastructures, and to gain international experience. Interdisciplinary internship positions for students who want to explore infrastructures, such as MAX IV, ESS, DESY and European XFEL, as well as cutting-edge c

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/halric-research-internship-programme - 2025-11-19

Spring highlights and what’s next!In the newsletter, we highlight recent activities, ongoing initiatives, developments, and opportunities for collaboration within the network. Among other, this spring, the initiative was present at the Nordic Public Health Conference in Gothenburg, contributing to discussions on building resilient communities. We also celebrated the inauguration of the Lund Univer

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-alertness-newsletter - 2025-11-19

Congratulations to Gemma Atkinson, Roni Odai and Vasili Hauryliuk at the Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, and their collaborators, on their study “The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes” that is published in the high impact scientific journal Science Advances. This study con

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/ai-powered-viral-protein-models-advance-global-health-research - 2025-11-19

Joakim Esbjörnsson, Associate Professor in Virology, lecturer and head of the Systems Virology research group at Lund University Virus Centre (LUVC). Joakim is coordinating the Pandemics and Alertness initiative together with Professor Anette Agardh from the unit of Social Medicine and Global health. What inspired you to form the initiative Pandemics & Alertness?To me it became clear during the pa

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/building-bridges-pandemic-preparedness-interview-joakim-esbjornsson-coordinator-pandemics-alertness - 2025-11-19

Tisdag 27/11 kl 16.30-19.00Plats: Agardhsalen, CRC, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, SUS, MalmöModerator: Professor Per BjörkmanMötet vänder sig till infektionsintresserade läkare och sjuksköterskor, mikrobiologer och forskare inom Region Skånes sjukvård och Medicinska fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Konceptet är detsamma som tidigare år, dvs vi varvar korta presentationer med laboratorieinriktning med

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/2711-infektionsforum-0 - 2025-11-19

För fem år sedan var vårt samhälle lamslaget av spridningen av ett nytt virus, SARS-CoV-2, och covid-19-pandemin var ett faktum. Med utgångspunkt i Coronakommissionens synpunkter från det första pandemiåret bjuder Centrum för hälsokriser in till ett öppet symposium för att blicka tillbaka och reflektera över både goda exempel och utmaningar inför nästa hälsokris. Under en eftermiddag ser vi tillba

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/lat-inte-pandemins-lardomar-ga-till-spillo-framtidens-beredskap-formas-idag - 2025-11-19

Congratulation to Wolfgang Knecht and his collaborators, who have been awarded a grant for a LINXS theme initiative titled Pandemics and Alertness (PandA)! The theme is a “spin-off” from the Pandemics and Alertness the thematic collaboration initiative at Lund University, with a deeper focus on advancing understaning of viruses and strengthening crisis preparedness. The themes want to achieve an i

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/grant-awarded-linxs-theme-initiative-pandemics-and-alertness-panda - 2025-11-19

Major investment in virus research at Lund University - new high-risk laboratory built Storsatsning på virusforskning på Lunds universitet – nytt högrisklabb byggs - Sydsvenskan Virus center

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/creation-virus-centre-lund-university - 2025-11-19

Carolina will be joining the Systems Virology group in the spring 2020 semester and she will be working on the transcriptomics project.

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/new-students-have-joined-team - 2025-11-19

science.pdf File science.pdf Subscriber: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES | Sign In as Individual | FAQ | Access Rights | Join AAAS21 July 2003DNA Goes BallisticJust how viruses manage to get their DNA into a host cell has been a long-standing question in biology. Research now shows that they shoot their DNA in by keeping it under high pressure.DNA cannon. The Lambda virus keeps itsDNA under high

https://www.virus-biophysics.lu.se/article/dna-goes-ballistic - 2025-11-19