Published 4 October 2023 Alice Fracchia is a summer student working in the group with her expertise in machine learning implementation. Her project will focus on developing machine learning algorithms to automatically determine skin tumor borders in photoacoustic imaging data where she will get the opportunity to learn how to work in a clinical setting and applying her skills in the medical field.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/welcome-summer-student-alice-fracchia - 2025-04-25

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 15 December 2023

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/malin-malmsjo-has-received-asoprs-lester-jones-anatomy-award - 2025-04-25

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 15 December 2023 Kajsa Tenland, the opponent Associate professor Dyonne Hartong and the supervisor Professor Malin Malmsjö celebrating the successful defense. On Friday the November 24th, Kajsa Tenland successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Reconstruction of Large Eyelid Defects Using Tarsoconjunctiv

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/kajsa-tenland-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-04-25

Published 11 June 2024 Our warmest congratulations to Karl Engelsberg who has received his docentur. Docent Karl Engelsberg

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/karl-engelsberg-has-received-his-docentur - 2025-04-25

Published 18 October 2024 On Friday October 11th, Josefine Bunke successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Bioimaging Techniques using Spectral Information for Monitoring Oxygen Saturation - Evaluated in Human Models of Skin Hypoperfusion".The defense was held at the Medical Faculty in Lund with faculty opponent, examination committee members, supervisors and audience present

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/josefine-bunke-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-04-25

Published 18 October 2024 On October 18th Jenny Hult nailed her PhD thesis "Skin tumor delineation using novel spectral imaging techniques". The thesis will be defended on November 22nd 2024. 

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-phd-thesis-0 - 2025-04-25

By john [dot] albinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (John Albinsson) - published 3 February 2025 Morgana Fontana, medical PhD student We are pleased to introduce Morgana Fontana, a medical PhD student, whose research focuses on advancing diagnostic and monitoring techniques in Reconstructive Surgery. She is investigating the application of cutting-edge imaging technologies, hyperspectral imaging (H

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/introducing-morgana-fontana - 2025-04-25

By john [dot] albinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (John Albinsson) - published 3 February 2025 Associate Professor Aboma Merdasa, MSc, PhD We are happy to announce that Aboma Merdasa has been appointed as an Associated Professor at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University.Aboma will give a seminar to celebrate his appointment on Friday the 16th of May, at 12.30. The semin

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/aboma-merdasa-has-been-appointed-associated-professor - 2025-04-25

By john [dot] albinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (John Albinsson) - published 3 February 2025 Jenny Hulth, MD during her doctoral thesis defence. On Friday the 11th of November, Jenny Hulth successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Skin tumor delineation using photoacoustic imaging and hyperspectral imaging."The defence was held at the Medical Faculty in Lund with faculty opponen

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/jenny-hulth-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-04-25

By john [dot] albinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (John Albinsson) - published 3 February 2025 Participants AFSIN workshop 2024 In November we had the great pleasure to participate in the African Spectral Imaging Network (AFSIN) workshop in Kpalimé, Togo. The topic of the workshop was on "Clinical Translation of Optical Instrumentation" where we had the opportunity to bring some of our instrument

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/african-spectral-imaging-network-workshop-kpalime-togo - 2025-04-25

By john [dot] albinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (John Albinsson) - published 3 February 2025 Paulina Ibek did successfully defend her Master thesis entitled "Advancing Precision Diagnostics for Delineation of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Hyperspectral Images" on the 20th of January.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/master-thesis-defence-paulina-ibek - 2025-04-25

By john [dot] albinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (John Albinsson) - published 11 February 2025 Visit from Prof. Chulhong Kim and co-workers in SKERIC collaboration We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Chulhong Kim and his students at the Lund University Photoacoustic Center where we engaged in fruitful discussions on how to implement new exciting photoacoustic technology in the clinic. In our ex

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/visit-prof-chulhong-kim-and-coworkers-skeric-collaboration - 2025-04-25

Published 21 January 2020 New publication about Giant Cell Arthritis in Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology: Naumovska M, Sheikh R, Engelsberg K, Blohmé J, Hammar B, Malmsjo M: Temporal artery biopsies contract upon surgical excision, but do not shrink further during formalin fixation. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 2020;49:84-86.

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publication - 2025-04-25

Published 13 November 2020 One clear change meant minimising the number of patient visits to the clinic – instead, physicians, nurses and patients met via telephone or video call. A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, cancer patients were identified as an at-risk g

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2025-04-25

Published 23 November 2020 Predrag Bakic (Photo: Tove Gilad) In October, Predrag Bakic received a research grant from the Swedish Breast Cancer Association for 600 000 SEK. His research focuses on the evaluation of a novel clinical imaging system for early breast cancer screening, which combines X-ray and mechanical imaging of the breast.   Predrag Bakic (Photo: Tove Gilvad) Predrag Bakic is a vis

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/grants-swedish-breast-cancer-association-breast-cancer-imaging-research - 2025-04-25

Published 20 January 2021 Harmful variants in cellular networks divided by different forms of cancer Lund researcher Mauno Vihinen has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation to develop AI methods that in the long run enable improved cancer diagnosis. One of the researchers who has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation is Mauno Vihinen, professor of medical structural biology at the Depa

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/improved-and-tailored-prediction-methods-cancer - 2025-04-25

Published 9 February 2021 Cecilia Jädert and Kristian Pietras during Focus on Cancer Collaboration digital meeting on February 4th 2021 The seventh meeting Focus on Cancer Collaboration was arranged as a digital event by Medicon Village in collaboration with Lund university Cancer centre (LUCC), Create Health at Lund University and Lund University Innovation. At the international world cancer day

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/focus-cancer-collaboration - 2025-04-25

Published 12 March 2021 In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the genetic scissors CRISPR-Cas9, that facilitates antibody development. The discovery is published in Nature Communications. Antibody drugs are the fastest growing class of dr

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/new-method-facilitates-development-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-04-25

By pia [dot] berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 23 March 2021 Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period and she will replace Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2021. Nomination of coordinator candidates took place during December 2020 until the end of February 2021 and the Dean of Faculty of Medicine app

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/new-lucc-coordinator - 2025-04-25

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 25 March 2021 Cancer in the colon and rectum is the third most common form of cancer after prostate and breast cancer. This screening will help healthcare providers to detect colorectal cancer at an early stage In May, screening for colorectal cancer will be offered in Skåne to all those born in 1961. Subsequently, S

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/screening-colorectal-cancer-starts-spring - 2025-04-25