By Anders [dot] Martensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Mårtensson) - published 29 June 2022 Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Clinical Researcher - Kees-Jan Pronk The focus of paediatric oncologist Kees-Jan Pronk’s research is to find out what happens with the blood system in children that develop leukaemia. The other focus of his research is to reduce side effects of leukaemia treatments. “We

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-would-come-point-where-we-cure-even-more-children-are-diagnosed-leukaemia - 2025-04-19

Published 20 June 2022 On May 19th 2022, João Vieira, PhD student at João Duarte's lab successfully passed his half-time review. His main supervisor is João Duarte and his co-supervisor is Martin Magnusson, a perfect example of the translational work carried out at WCMM Lund!  João Vieira's work was entitled “Metabolic consequences of diet-induced insulin resistance on plasma metabolites and insul

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/half-time-review-diabetes-and-brain-function-lab - 2025-04-19

Published 20 June 2022 Nicholas Bèchet successfully defended his thesis on June 17, 2022. This makes him the first PhD to graduate from the Lundgaard lab. Congratulations to both Dr. Bèchet and Iben Lundgaard! His thesis is entitled "Developing a Porcine Model to Study the Glymphatic System" and opponent during the dissertation was professor Per Kristian Eide from Oslo.  The glymphatic system is a

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor - 2025-04-19

Published 20 June 2022 The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fund excellent research and innovation. This March, the MSCA awarded €242m to the 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowships applicants – among them, a researcher from Lund University, Camila Vazquez Echegaray, aiming to uncover regulators of plasticity in cell fate decision. Pereira Lab researcher Camila Vazquez Echegaray was awarded a MSCA Post

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/camila-vazquez-echegaray-awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 From the left: Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre. Photo: Skånes universitetssjukhus A large number of lungs donated yearly cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University have conducted an animal study with results that give hope that more donor lungs could be used to save lives in the future. The researchers

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-treatment-can-result-access-more-donor-lungs-and-fewer-complications-after-transplantations - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 Agnete Kirkeby was awarded a grant from the Wallenberg Foundation of SEK 1 million for a one-year employment to support a Ukrainian researcher. Now, Viktoriia Nikulina has joined Agnete Kirkeby’s lab as a post doc! Viktoriia Nikulina holds a master degree in Microbiology (2011) and a Ph.D. in Cell biology (2015) from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. V

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-viktoriia-nikulina - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 After being awarded a 1-year postdoc stipend from Blücher Foundation, Zeinab Rafiee joined Joao Duarte’s Diabetes and Brain Function lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in the end of last year. Zeinab Rafiee is an anatomist with a background in stem cell therapy and diabetes. The purpose of her project, entitled “Role of astrocytic metabolism on brain function and connec

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-zeinab-rafiee - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 Zhimeng Fan started his PhD in Vinay Swaminathan's Cell mechanobiology research group this year. His project will focus on extracellular matrix stiffness and remodelling effects on breast cancer dormancy. Zhimeng Fan got his master’s degree from Tsinghua University in China. His project was about skin stem cells promoting hair follicle regeneration. After graduation, he wo

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-zhimeng-fan - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 Patrizia Kühne is a master student in Paul Bourgine’s lab. She came to Lund to learn more about stem cells, tissue engineering, and how these concepts can be used in regenerative medicine. Patrizia Kühne obtained her bachelor's degree in Molecular Medicine from the University of Göttingen in Germany.  Since the summer of 2020, she is doing her master’s studies in Molecular

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-patrizia-kuhne - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his “discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. We had the great pleasure to listen to Svante Pääbo in a fantastic presentation entitled “Archaic Genomics” at the NMMP event in Ystad in May this year. His rese

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine-2022 - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 Pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure in the lung, is a devastating condition where no curative treatment is available. Christian Westöö, PhD student in Karin Tran Lundmark's research team, has used synchrotron-based micro-CT as a tool for increased understanding of disease distribution in 3D space, in human tissue from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/3d-visualization-vascular-lesions-and-role-versican-pulmonary-arterial-hypertension - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 Within 5 years after his recruitment for the Wallenberg Centre of Molecular Medicine at Lund University, which brought Principal Investigator Filipe Pereira in 2017 to Sweden, he has been appointed full Professorship in Molecular Medicine, Regeneration, Transplantation and Repair in the Hematopoietic System. The academic path of Filipe Pereira has taken him from Portugal t

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-appointed-full-professor-lund-university - 2025-04-19

Published 3 October 2022 Shortly after the great news that Paul Bourgine, associate senior lecturer in Molecular Skeletal Biology at the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, was awarded the ERC Proof of Concept grant, two new press-releases have been published in Dagens Medicin and News Cision acknowledging the great work and novel funding of a new confocal microscope for his

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/press-releases-about-bourgine-lab - 2025-04-19

Published 4 October 2022 Are you a fan of popular science communication? Are you interested in presenting your work in an open and casual setting outside the scientific community? Well, now you can!  The communications team proudly presents the WCMM ScienceBrew: a new series of popular science talks featuring selected popular science talks by PhD students and postdocs at at Lund university.  The W

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-sciencebrew - 2025-04-19

Published 3 November 2022 This year Prince Daniel's grant for particularly promising young researchers was awarded WCMM researcher Andreas Edsfeldt for his research on atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes. The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation wishes to foster the next generation of young researchers. One way in which it does this is by awarding grants to particularly promising young researchers. Andrea

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/prince-daniels-research-grant-andreas-edsfeldt - 2025-04-19

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

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/get-know-scientific-advisory-board - 2025-04-19

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 - 2025-04-19

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 - 2025-04-19

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

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/open-position - 2025-04-19

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 - 2025-04-19