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TNU published a new paper on early changes in the limbic system in Huntington disease together with international collaborators in Acta Neuropathologica, August 26, 2021. Link to article (opens in a new window): Early white matter pathology in the fornix of the limbic system in Huntington disease Link to Lund University webpage for news article on the the results (in Swedish): Känslohjärnan – en n
Petersén and Gabery give talks about research at the National Huntington Meeting October 13, 2021. It is a digital meeting where you can see the talks at the home page of the Swedish patient organisation RHS: https://huntington.se/13-oktober-valkomna-pa-nationellt-mote-kring-huntingtons-sjukdom/ (Opens a new window)
Petersén gives talks about research and clinical care for Huntington disease to young adults in HD families at a conference in Gothenburg October 21-24, 2021. See homepage of the patient organization Swedish Huntington Association (Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom) for more information: Link to Swedish Huntington Association's webpage (opens in a new window)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talks-conference-young-people-hd - 2025-12-19
On 11-12 November 2021 the SWEMODIS annual meeting on Parkinson’s disease and other Movement Disorders took place in Stockholm, where Åsa Petersén gave a talk on Huntington's disease. SWEMODIS webpage (opens in a new window)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gave-talk-annual-swemodis-meeting - 2025-12-19
Huntington disease is the topic of today’s episode of the radio program Kropp & Själ, Body & Mind, on the Swedish public service radio. The dilemma of genetic testing is one of the aspects of the disease discussed in the program, where Åsa Petersén is a guest. You can access today’s episode on Sveriges Radio’s website: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/huntingtons-sjukdom-den-felande-genen (in Swed
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/about-huntington-disease-swedish-radio - 2025-12-19
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 - 2025-12-19
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 - 2025-12-19
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 families can collaborate on acad
UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. It recognises the Ravensbrück Archive as an example of a cultural heritage of great value to humanity. The University Library manages this documentary heritage and keeps the archive protected and digitally accessible to all. On 10 April, UNESCO decided to add the Ravensbrück
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/ravensbruck-archive-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-12-19
The building that houses the University Library has been named the most beautiful in Lund and Sweden several times. After the renovation, we hope you feel that the inside of the building harmonises with the outside. See a glimpse of how it turned out here. The University Library boasts a stunning exterior. But the inside may not have been as impressive as the outside. We addressed this in the reno
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/renovated-library-awaits-you-autumn - 2025-12-19
The University Library is releasing a new search system for digitised card catalogues. Are you looking for royal decrees, occasional poetry, school books, or older newspapers? Then the search system will help you find them. We will digitise more card catalogues and add them as soon as we are ready. You can now use the Digitised card catalogues search system to find and request material. Feel free
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/new-search-system-card-catalogues - 2025-12-19
The libraries at Lund University are launching a new search system, making searching easier. LUBcat and LUBsearch will close on 1 October, and the new search tool Finn will replace them. With the shift to a single search system, the libraries aim to make it easier for students, staff, and other users.Finn helps you find all the books, journals, articles, and databases at Lund University. You can m
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/searching-becomes-easier-finn - 2025-12-19
Through its extensive digitisation of older card catalogues, Lund University Library has made an unexpected discovery: a copy of astronomer Copernicus' famous work from the 16th century, which presents the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The discovery was made possible thanks to the new full-text search in Catalogue-1957, which makes the library's older material much more accessible
https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/digitisation-card-catalogues-led-unexpected-discovery-university-library - 2025-12-19
An international research project led from Lund University is now awarded 33 million SEK by the European Innovation Council, EIC Pathfinder. The idea behind the project is to use drugs to reprogram cancer cells into immune cells, in order to increase the body's natural anti-tumor response and fight cancer. And it is small molecules that will do the work. The research project that has received fund
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/enemy-friend-33-million-reprogramming-cancer-cells - 2025-12-19
Cancer researcher Harald Stenmark, professor at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, is the recipient of this year’s prize. Harald Stenmark is being recognised for his groundbreaking research in cell biology, in which he has elucidated in detail the functions of proteins essential for the regulation of endosomes and cell division of significance to cancer. Harald Stenmark’s researc
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstrom-nordic-prize-2023-awarded-cancer-researcher - 2025-12-19
How do heritability and the fetal environment affect the risk for the child to develop type 2 diabetes? This is a question that Rashmi Prasad studies in her research projects that that may lead to individualised prevention measures. She will be awarded this year’s recipient Medeon stipend on the World Diabetes Day Skåne event on November 14. Diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad at Lund University Dia
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-inherited-type-2-diabetes-awarded - 2025-12-19
David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with the help of methods from espionage and intelligence analysis. Tony Ingesson finds it fairly easy to show a bit of attitude in front of the camera. David Gissel
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-12-19
Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2025-12-19
Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment", says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor at Lund University who led
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2025-12-19
Intensive efforts are being made in medical research to discover the genomic causes of undiagnosed hereditary diseases. Persistent work and new technology are providing answers to several previously unsolved, enigmatic neurological disorders. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 was one of these, but now a research team in Lund, Sweden, have identified the gene that is responsible. Almost half a million
