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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marcella Birtele will be defending her PhD thesis titled “Functional and Transcriptional Studies of Human Dopaminergic Neurons” on Friday 2nd October. Researching within the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology group led by Prof. Malin Parmar, here Marcella tells us about her PhD studies at Lund Stem Cell Cente

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-marcella-birtele - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With two articles published in quick succession from his time as a research fellow at Cambridge University, UK, Christopher Douse has moved to Lund Stem Cell Center to develop a research programme on newly-discovered guardians of the human genome. More than half of the human genome consists of transposons, DNA sequenc

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/hush-and-morc2-new-players-transposon-regulation-during-human-development - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every year the Swedish Society for Medical Research awards funding to promising young medical researchers. Grant recipients are funded for four years of full- or part-time research, with the aim of establishing an independent scientific career. At this year's call, 203 applications were assessed, of which eight were a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researcher-awarded-ssmf-large-grant - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a collaborative study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center and University College London have developed a novel method of isolating ‘young’ stem cells still present in old mice. They show that activity of mitochondria, the power generators of the cell, is a stronger indicator of stem cell fitness than age and is

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/novel-approach-identifies-young-stem-cells-old-mice - 2026-04-15

Thank you to all who submitted their entries to Lund Stem Cell Center image competition 2020. Now it’s time to choose a winner! Over the past six months, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been submitting images of their research and work environment to the image competition.Now it's time to pick a winner and, due to the current coronavirus restrictions, we will be deciding on the winning

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-scc-image-competition-time-cast-your-vote-0 - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Congratulations to Lund Stem Cell Center researchers Nicholas Leigh, Karolina Pircs, Isabella Artner and Zaal Kokaia on being awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council – Vetenskapsrådet. Wallenberg research fellow Nicholas Leigh has been awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Vetenskapsrådet starting g

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/vetenskapsradet-awards-lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-over-23-million-sek - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stefan Karlsson has been active as a researcher at Lund University for 25 years and during that time has received many major grants and awards. However, never a gold medal. - It feels like a very great honor because the medal is only awarded every nine years for medical research efforts, says Stefan Karlsson The Royal

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-stefan-karlsson-awarded-gold-medal-research-efforts - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nine researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been awarded a total of over 29 million SEK in project grants and continued support from the Swedish Cancer Society, Cancerfonden. Congratulations to all researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center awarded support from Cancerfonden! Researchers awarded project grants include

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-researchers-awarded-funding-cancerfonden - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Zaal Kokaia, professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund and former chairman of Lund Stem Cell Center, is this year's winner of the Bengt Falck Prize in Neuroscience. He receives the award for his many years of research on stroke, presented to him by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Erik

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/stroke-researcher-receives-bengt-falcks-award - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Sandra Lindstedt - Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Wallenberg Molecular Medicine clinical researcher - has joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Professor Sandra Lindstedt is a senior consultant in thoracic surgery specializing in heart and lung transplantation, with a long-standing

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-principal-investigator-sandra-lindstedt - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CRISPR is a simple yet powerful Nobel Prize winning technology that allows sequence specific editing and manipulation of DNA sequences. The CRISPR facility at Lund Stem Cell Center is here to help you with your projects using this technology. What is CRISPR and who is it for? CRISPR started as a “traditional” gene edi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-crispr-facility-here-help - 2026-04-15

The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners of Lund Stem Cell Center Image Competition 2020. We are pleased to announce the winners of the Lund Stem Cell Center Image competition 2020 are:First place: Grasping at straws – Ludwig Schmiderer and Martin Hjort, Larsson group and NanolundSecond place: Floating – Maciej Ciesla, Bellodi groupThird place: Million dollars worth of antibodies –

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/image-competition-2020-results - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about their future plans for this center of research excellence. What have been your fi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/plans-future-lund-stem-cell-center - 2026-04-15

Despite the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are bringing science to schools both physically and using a digital platform. High school students across the Skåne region are learning about stem cell research in the ‘Taking science to schools – Borrow a scientist’ initiative, organized by the Research School in Stem Cell Biology.In this outreach project – planned for spring 20

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/taking-stem-cells-high-schools-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a specific type of neuron that could underlie several brain disorders including schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism, and are developing exciting new strategies to treat them. For the brain to function properly, signaling – be it excitatory or inhibitory – m

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/restoring-neural-networks-and-understanding-brain-disorders-0 - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the south of Sweden, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been working at Lund University Hospit

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/researchers-help-fight-against-covid-19 - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Emma Hammarlund and the Evolution of Stemness Control and Multicellularity research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Emma and her team aim to understand how the rise of animals on Earth relates to the evolution of stemness control, an event we know very little about. Why anim

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/emma-hammarlund-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD student Martina De Santis will be defending her thesis titled ‘Next generation bioengineering of lung tissue for transplantation’ on Friday 19th February 2021. In this interview, Martina tells us about her research in the Lung Bioengineering and Regeneration group and time spent at Lund Stem Cell Center. Can you t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martina-de-santis - 2026-04-15

Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center highlight the importance of controlling viral elements that reside in the genome and how their activation during development may contribute to brain disorders later in life. Around 10% of the human genome is composed of DNA sequences originating from viruses that infected our ancestors throughout the millions of years of our evolution. Under normal conditions

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/activation-ancient-viruses-during-brain-development-causes-inflammation - 2026-04-15