Published 16 November 2021 The cover of Taha Sen's thesis is inspired by Pink Floyd and cell sorting. He defends his thesis on the 17th of November. Taha Sen’s PhD thesis focus on the life span of red blood cells and elucidates the important role of mitochondria. He is defending his thesis on the 17th of November and in this interview he gives us an overview of his results as well as what it’s bee

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-taha-sen - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 11 November 2021 Martin Stenlo defends his thesis on the 12th of November. Martin Stenlo’s PhD thesis aims to improve the intensive care of lung patients as well as to increase the health status of transplantable donor lungs which will improve the success rate of lung transplantation. He is defending his thesis on the 12

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martin-stenlo - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 23 November 2021 The Swedish Cancer Foundation is one of Sweden's largest funding agencies and awarded 7 of SCC's scientists with project grants this year. (Photo: Pixabay, merged with The Swedish Cancer Foundation's logo) The Swedish Cancer Foundation supports cancer research with a record sum this year: 850 million SEK

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/swedish-cancer-foundation-funds-lund-scc-scientists-232-million-sek - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 25 November 2021 The cover of Martiné Wlosinska's thesis is illustrated by her sister and shows a heart shaped garlic bulb among garlic cloves. She defends her thesis on the 26th of November. (Photo: Private). Martiné Wlosinska, medical doctor and PhD student, will be defending her thesis titled “Prev

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martine-wlosinska - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 6 December 2021 The cover of Giulia Beneventi's thesis illustrates all of the different RNA types in cells. She defends his thesis on the 8th of December. Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 2 December 2021 The Distinguished Professor programme was created by the Swedish Research Council to allow the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, ground-breaking research which has great potential for achieving scientific breakthroughs. The Distinguished Professor programme is awarded to at least 2 scientis

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-awarded-distinguished-professorship-swedish-research-council - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson) - published 8 December 2021 The career program Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the largest private investment in young researchers in Sweden. It provides the most promising young researchers with long-term resources, giving them excellent opportunities to establish themselves and build up their research groups. Wallenberg Academy Fell

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/daniella-rylander-ottosson-has-been-admitted-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 15 December 2021 The cover of Mikael's thesis is an artistic take on hematopoetic stem cell biology, combining the old and new view of hematopoietic differentiation, with the hematopoietic stem cell highlighted in the centre. Mikael has been investigating the influence of cellular heterogeneity in ont

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-mikael-sommarin-0 - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Alessandro Fiorenzano) - published 17 December 2021 A human midbrain organoid visualised by staining for proteins important during the maturation of dopaminergic neurons. (photo: Alessandro Fiorenzano) In their latest study, published in Nature Communications, the Parmar Lab has established midbrain organoids using silk microfibe

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/human-midbrain-organoids-grown-silk-recapitulate-midbrain-development-and-support-functionally - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Leal Oburoglu) - published 13 January 2022 An optimised iPSC-differentiation protocol allowed the authors to study endothelial cells (purple), transitioning cells (pink), and hematopoietic stem-like cells (blue) using scRNA-seq. A UMAP visualise the cells in the shape of a butterfly. In a recent study from the SCC group of Niels-

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/metabolic-switch-during-embryonic-hematopoiesis-major-regulator-lineage-commitment - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Magdalena Madej and Marie Jönsson) - published 20 January 2022 Ludwig Schmiderer has studied how to overcome delivery challenges in stem cell biology with nanotechnology. In this interview, he tells us about his research and generative art. What have you been working with during your PhD studies? At the beginning of my PhD, I was trying to reengin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-ludwig-schmiderer - 2025-03-13

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Björn Nilsson) - published 27 January 2022 The Nilsson lab performed a genome-wide association study on 13,167 individuals, 18-78 years old, and identified previously unknown regulators of blood HSPC levels. Stem cell transplantation is a cornerstone in the treatment of blood malignancies. In order to succeed, stem cells need to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/large-scale-genome-wide-association-study-reveals-new-potential-drug-target-blood-stem-cell - 2025-03-13

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Faculty of Medicine) - published 14 March 2022 Principal Investigator, Filipe Pereira. Photo: Kennet Ruona The Pereira research group has previously shown that it is possible to reprogram human skin cells into dendritic cells that strengthen the immune system. However, the efficiency of these reprogrammed cells has been shown to be very low. New

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-findings-indicate-ways-increase-efficiency-reprogrammed-immune-cells - 2025-03-13

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 15 March 2022 Charlotta Böiers, head of StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research infrastructure, and Mikael Sommarin, research engineer, discuss the results of a 22-colour analysis made on the new FACS device Symphony S6. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. Anna Fossum, Project Manager at the StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-addition-lund-stem-cell-center-facs-facility - 2025-03-13

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 29 March 2022 Photo of Dr. Cristian Bellodi and Dr. Sowndarya Muthukumar Researchers from Lund University, building on previous studies, have been working to understand why stem cells are transforming into cancer. Previously they revealed that small RNA molecules, long considered “junk” or degradation byproducts of RNA

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/what-makes-stem-cells-transform-cancer-answer-may-lie-our-rna - 2025-03-13

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 11 April 2022 Photo of Svetlana Soboleva (right) and an image of her PhD thesis cover (left). Svetlana Soboleva is set to defend her Ph.D. thesis on 13 April, 2022. For the past few years her world has revolved around red blood cells, as she has worked to establish methods that allow for the generation of enucleated ce

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/blood-lab-phd-defence-interview-svetlana-soboleva - 2025-03-13

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 13 April 2022 One of the Electrophysiology Core Facilities' rigs in use during an experiment. Photo credit: Johan Persson. This year Lund Stem Cell Center and MultiPark, two strategic research areas based at Lund University, are happy to launch a new joint technical platform in an effort to ensure easy access to high q

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-scc-and-multipark-join-forces-ensure-researchers-have-high-quality-electrophysiology-facilities - 2025-03-13

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 19 April 2022 The MSCA Logo (left) and a photo of Camila Vazquez Echegaray (right). 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 Echegar

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-awarded-camila-vazquez-echegaray - 2025-03-13

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 27 April 2022 Cancerfonden distributed SEK 37 million to 8 researchers at Lund University in 2022. Included in this group is, Dr. Sowndarya Muthukumar (left). Cancerfonden continues to fund the foremost cancer research in Sweden – investing in cancer research that makes a difference. Last month, Cancerfonden distribute

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cancerfonden-awards-sowndarya-muthukumar-postdoctoral-fellowship - 2025-03-13

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 21 April 2022 Cancer is a genetic disease, caused by a change in the genes which make up our DNA. Normally one change or mutation is not enough to trigger the development of cancer, instead cancer is typically comprised of a combination of genetic mutations. Researchers at Lund University have now revealed a novel soma

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-findings-reveal-what-may-be-triggering-disease-progression-acute-myeloid-leukemia - 2025-03-13