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Published 8 August 2022 Petersén (PI) and Gabery (co-PI) received a research grant of 1.2 MSEK from the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden) for a project on novel mechanisms of disease and a potential future therapy for HD. Link to the Swedish Brain Foundation's webpage
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-grant-swedish-brain-foundation - 2025-03-01
Published 1 December 2022 Petersén (PI) received a research grant of 6 MSEK from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for 2023-2026 for a project on novel cellular and molecular mechanisms in the limbic system for psychiatric symptoms in Huntington disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/research-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-03-01
Published 9 January 2023 Åsa Petersén has been elected member of the executive committee for the European Huntington Disease Network (EHDN). The EHDN is a nonprofit research network committed to advancing research, facilitating the conduct of clinical trials, and improving clinical care in HD. Through the EHDN a platform has been created such that basic scientists, clinicians, patients and familie
Published 10 March 2023 Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has in cooperation with Åsa Petersén produced a short film about Huntington's disease and Petersén's research on HD. Petersén was awarded Wallenberg Clinical Scholar in 2020. Link to the movie "Huntington's disease - the hunt for treatment" on YouTube
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/film-about-hd-asa-petersen - 2025-03-01
Published 7 November 2023 Curious about HD research and wish to learn more? The European Huntington Association/Moving Forward Team is inviting you to a webinar in Norwegian on 22 November. Astri Arnesen, the President of the European Huntington Association, will speak about international HD research, Lasse Pihlstrøm, a Norwegian HD neurologist and researcher, will address HD studies and trials in
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hd-webinar-22-november-2023 - 2025-03-01
Published 28 November 2023 The European Huntington Association/Moving Forward Team’s webinar in now available on our site! You find it under Talks & Movies:Talks & Movies
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/watch-webinar - 2025-03-01
Published 14 December 2023 The National meeting for HD is a yearly event arranged by the patients’ organization RHS. This year, 2023, it took place in Gothenburg on 30 November. All talks at the meeting are available on RHS website; only in Swedish.You find Åsa Petersén’s research update about 13 minutes into the film. To access the video, go to RHS website:RHS website
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-update-national-meeting-hd-sweden - 2025-03-01
Published 6 February 2024 Every spring, Huntington Disease Center in Lund traditionally hosts an information night on Huntington disease. This year is no exception! The program is set for the evening:Staff from the clinical team and representatives from the patients’ organization, RHS, as well as HD researchers, will give talks about different aspects of the the disease and the current research. A
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-info-night-hd-22-april-2024 - 2025-03-01
Published 21 March 2024 Sofia Bergh, PhD student in TNU, gave two presentations on Huntington disease on 11 and 12 March 2024 during the NMT Days.This is an annual event, arranged by the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. A week of talks and demonstrations on a variety of topics show today’s research, and students in upper secondary schoo
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/bergh-presented-nmt-days - 2025-03-01
Published 21 March 2024 Åsa Petersén gave a talk about Huntington disease and her research for the patients' organization, RHS, in Stockholm on 12 March 2024, where she was invited.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gave-hd-talk-stockholm - 2025-03-01
Published 3 May 2024 Sofia Bergh's talk from the NMT days is now available online. See more on the Talks & Movies page.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/see-sofia-berghs-talk-hd - 2025-03-01
Published 31 May 2024 Sofia passed her half time review on 28 May 2024. Sofia Bergh presented her work titled "Cellular and molecular mechanisms of hypothalamic pathology in Huntington disease and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia disease spectrum" before the audience and the reviewers Niels Henning Skotte, research group leader, Department for Drug Design and Pharmacology,
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-sofia-bergh - 2025-03-01
Published 4 June 2024 For the second time, the European Huntington Association/Moving Forward initiative for the Nordic countries will be hosting a webinar on research updates. The Webinar will be held on 11th June, from 18:00 CET to 19:15 CET. You need to register beforehand to be able to join.Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdeyupz4oH9KRCnkguo_KMuS0Y6…Åsa Petersén
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/webinar-research-updates-nordic-countries - 2025-03-01
Published 4 July 2024 Oskar Simonsson har completed his Master's studies and passed with Distinction. Oskar has been with TNU since the end of October 2023 to work on his Master's thesis. In the end of May he presented his work "Effects of TDP-43 overexpression in oxytocin neurons on neuropathology and metabolism in mice". Congratulations to your Master of Science in Biomedicine, Oskar!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-oskar - 2025-03-01
Published 28 August 2024 We are honoured to announce that Åsa Petersén has received a two-year grant from Hjärnfonden, The Swedish Brain Foundation, for the project The importance of variations in the CAG repeat for Huntington disease.The awarded amount for the two years is SEK 1 600 000.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-grant-hjarnfonden - 2025-03-01
Published 30 August 2024 Mahmoud A. Pouladi, Åsa Petersén, Huu Phuc Nguyen, Jiří Klempíř and A. Nazlı Başak. Together with researchers from Germany, Canada, Turkey and the Czech Republic Åsa Petersén was awarded the JPND grant for the project Delineating the role of HTT Cis-Variants in the pathogenesis of Huntington disease. In Sweden the grant is funded by Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research C
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/jpnd-project-kickoff-istanbul - 2025-03-01
By jenny [dot] mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 16 September 2024 Åsa Petersén will participate in the HD patients' organization's national meeting later in September. The patients’ organization, RHS, is inviting you to the national meeting in Gothenburg on 26 September 2024. Åsa Petersén will give an overview of the current HD research and the day will include inform
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/rhs-national-meeting-2024 - 2025-03-01
Published 1 October 2024 Åsa Petersén is one of the lecturers at MultiPark Café in October. On Wednesday 16 October, at 17.00-19.00, MultiPark Café is hosting an evening with lectures on “Psychiatric health in neurodegenerative diseases”. Åsa Petersén will talk about “Psychiatric health in Huntington’s disease”.All talks are in Swedish.Link to the event on MultiPark’s website
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-petersens-talk-psychiatric-health-hd - 2025-03-01
Published 17 October 2024 The Swedish patients' organization RHS is arranging a weekend on Huntingon disease for young adults on 18-20 October 2024 in Karlstad. During the weekend there will be presentations on various topics, like genetic counselling, and the weekend also offers an opportunity to network with other young adults and to share experiences.Åsa Petersén will give a talk on HD research
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-will-give-talk-hd-young-adults - 2025-03-01
Published 21 October 2024 On 23 October 2024, Åsa Petersén will be moderating the webinar "Research insights: Latest updates on ongoing studies", arranged by the European Huntington Association. The webinar will give information on ongoing clinical trials in the Huntington disease field. Representatives from companies with ongoing trials, or finalized, will be participating.The European Huntington
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/webinar-hd-clinical-trials - 2025-03-01
