Published 3 November 2022 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 directio

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Published 3 November 2022 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

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-chimezie-harrison-umeano - 2025-03-09

Published 3 November 2022 Dopamine-producing neurons that researchers from Lund University have grown in the laboratory from human embryonic stem cells (Photo: Agneta Kirkeby) 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

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/swedish-medical-products-agency-grants-approval-clinical-study-new-stem-cell-based-parkinsons - 2025-03-09

Published 3 November 2022 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

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Published 3 November 2022 Patient neuroblastoma cells (yellow) in a humanized ossicle. Picture by Dimitra Zacharaki, postdoctoral researcher 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 ossi

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-publication-science-translational-medicine - 2025-03-09

By Anders [dot] Martensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Mårtensson) - published 26 October 2018 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.

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Published 8 December 2022 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 T2

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/role-cell-death-diabetes-associated-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-03-09

Published 8 December 2022 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

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/195-msek-clinical-wcmm-researcher - 2025-03-09

Published 2 June 2020 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 ke

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Published 2 June 2020 nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf File nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf High-powered living DNA cannonWe all know that a viral infection can be developed extremely quickly, but in factit's even more dramatic than that - the process is literally explosive.The pressure inside a virus is 40 atmospheres, and it is just waiting for anopportunity to blow up

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By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 18 January 2024 Voinha, who was approaching the age of one hundred, interviewed by her grandchild Iury Salustiano Trojaborg. Image from a videotaped interview. Photo: Ulrik Trojaborg Nair Ferreira Barbosa da Costa, kindly called Voinha in the family, was married off at 14. She gave birth to thirteen children, had to le

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/exploring-voinhas-life-journey-forced-marriage-feminist-empowerment - 2025-03-09

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 February 2024 Markus Gunneflo, the new coordinator of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Kennet Rouna Markus Gunneflo has always been interested in interdisciplinarity, and working with PhD students has been the most enjoyable part of his professional life. A perfect combination for the new coordinator of the Ag

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By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 February 2024 Markus Gunneflo är sedan årsskiftet koordinator för forskarskolan Agenda 2030. Foto: Kenneth Rouna. Markus Gunneflo har alltid intresserat sig för tvärvetenskap och att få arbeta med doktorander har varit det roligaste i hans yrkesliv. En perfekt kombination för uppdraget som forskarskolan Agenda 2030:s

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Published 21 February 2024 Photo: We Animals Media Popular media discourses and heated debates on possible transitions to plant-based food systems can sometimes give the impression that veganism is a newfangled trend or that advocacy for animals is an intrinsically Western or even ‘white’ social phenomenon. However, such portrayals neglect how advocacy for Earth Others can be traced way back in th

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/advocacy-veganism-and-animal-liberation-neither-new-nor-western-phenomenon-plant-based-capitalism - 2025-03-09

Published 29 April 2024 Maria Takman and Christie Nicoson. Photo: Hilde Skar Olsen and Sara Håkansson Two new PhDs! Congratulations to the Graduate School's two new doctors, Maria Takman and Christie Nicoson. On 26 April, they successfully defended their doctoral theses at Lund University. Both scholars have made significant contributions in their respective fields. Maria Takman has written "From

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By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 10 June 2024 Tanya Andersson Nystedt has successfully defended her thesis on migrants' vulnerability to sexual violence. We are proud to announce that the Agenda 2030 Graduate School PhD student, Tanya Andersson Nystedt, successfully defended her thesis on 5 June and now has her PhD! Tanya has been an integral part of

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/thesis-successfully-defended-tanya-andersson-nystedt - 2025-03-09

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 12 June 2024 Eating according to new dietary recommendations reduces premature deaths and greenhouse gas emissions. Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff compared seven dietary indices to find a good way to measure how we eat in relation to the recommendations. The Planetary Health Diet. That's the diet that will k

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/stubbendorffs-index-paves-way-sustainable-healthy-diets - 2025-03-09

Published 18 June 2024 As the climate crisis deepens, discussions on sustainability are evolving to include the existential aspects of human life. In the autumn of 2023, Lund University's Agenda 2030 Graduate School introduced a PhD course on existential sustainability. The course ended with a student conference, where some of the papers are now being shared with a wider audience. Sustainability h

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/integrating-existential-aspects-sustainability - 2025-03-09

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 19 September 2024 'We can't build cities that are fundamentally unsustainable and expect individual behaviour change to solve the problems. Urban development must contribute to norm change by actively redistributing resources,' says Alva Zalar in her thesis. Can a new neighbourhood be a spearhead for sustainability if

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-thesis-sheds-light-hyllies-sustainable-urban-development - 2025-03-09

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 26 September 2024 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has experimented with podcast interviews, created four performance works and several video articles. Photo: Sara Håkansson PhD student Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir not only has a background as a director, writer, theologian, life coach and actor. When she started her PhD in Lund

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/how-little-does-it-take-create-artistic-experience - 2025-03-09