Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Clinical Researcher - Martin Magnusson The focus of cardiologist Martin Magnusson’s research is epidemiological clinical heart failure as well as diabetes and cardiovascular studies. “We use large population-based and patient-based cohorts to investigate biomarkers and their association with disease. It all aims to find new drug targets for diabetes and cardiovascular

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/its-every-researchers-dream-find-new-treatments-diseases - 2025-08-25

Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Clinical Researcher - Anders Wittrup The focus of oncologist Anders Wittrup’s research is so called RNA therapeutics and how it can be developed into cancer therapies. “We have a special focus on brain cancers for which there today are very poor treatment options.” Anders Wittrup is a resident in oncology at Skåne University Hospital and a researcher at Wallenberg Cen

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/need-better-therapeutic-options-brain-cancers-very-big - 2025-08-25

Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Clinical Researcher - Elin Trägårdh The focus of senior consultant Elin Trägårdh’s research is diagnostic nuclear medicine – in particular a modality called PET/CT. It is used mainly for evaluation of patients with cancer. Today, PET/CT is reviewed manually by doctors. ”I think we don't use all the information there is in the images. What if we could use artificial in

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-believe-validated-pet-imaging-biomarkers-could-transform-future-clinical-cancer-care - 2025-08-25

Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Clinical Researcher - Kees-Jan Pronk The focus of paediatric oncologist Kees-Jan Pronk’s research is to find out what happens with the blood system in children that develop leukaemia. The other focus of his research is to reduce side effects of leukaemia treatments. “We are trying to find ways to reduce the side effects, but still keeping the treatment as effective as

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/i-would-come-point-where-we-cure-even-more-children-are-diagnosed-leukaemia - 2025-08-25

On May 19th 2022, João Vieira, PhD student at João Duarte's lab successfully passed his half-time review. His main supervisor is João Duarte and his co-supervisor is Martin Magnusson, a perfect example of the translational work carried out at WCMM Lund!  João Vieira's work was entitled “Metabolic consequences of diet-induced insulin resistance on plasma metabolites and insulin-dependent regulation

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/half-time-review-diabetes-and-brain-function-lab - 2025-08-25

Nicholas Bèchet successfully defended his thesis on June 17, 2022. This makes him the first PhD to graduate from the Lundgaard lab. Congratulations to both Dr. Bèchet and Iben Lundgaard! His thesis is entitled "Developing a Porcine Model to Study the Glymphatic System" and opponent during the dissertation was professor Per Kristian Eide from Oslo.  The glymphatic system is a brain wide waste clear

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor - 2025-08-25

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 Echegaray, aiming to uncover regulators of plasticity in cell fate decision. Pereira Lab researcher Camila Vazquez Echegaray was awarded a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Am

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/camila-vazquez-echegaray-awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship - 2025-08-25

From the left: Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre. Photo: Skånes universitetssjukhus A large number of lungs donated yearly cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University have conducted an animal study with results that give hope that more donor lungs could be used to save lives in the future. The researchers have started a pilot stu

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-treatment-can-result-access-more-donor-lungs-and-fewer-complications-after-transplantations - 2025-08-25

Agnete Kirkeby was awarded a grant from the Wallenberg Foundation of SEK 1 million for a one-year employment to support a Ukrainian researcher. Now, Viktoriia Nikulina has joined Agnete Kirkeby’s lab as a post doc! Viktoriia Nikulina holds a master degree in Microbiology (2011) and a Ph.D. in Cell biology (2015) from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. Viktoriia has previously w

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-viktoriia-nikulina - 2025-08-25

After being awarded a 1-year postdoc stipend from Blücher Foundation, Zeinab Rafiee joined Joao Duarte’s Diabetes and Brain Function lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in the end of last year. Zeinab Rafiee is an anatomist with a background in stem cell therapy and diabetes. The purpose of her project, entitled “Role of astrocytic metabolism on brain function and connectivity”, is to investigat

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-zeinab-rafiee - 2025-08-25

Zhimeng Fan started his PhD in Vinay Swaminathan's Cell mechanobiology research group this year. His project will focus on extracellular matrix stiffness and remodelling effects on breast cancer dormancy. Zhimeng Fan got his master’s degree from Tsinghua University in China. His project was about skin stem cells promoting hair follicle regeneration. After graduation, he worked as a research assist

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-zhimeng-fan - 2025-08-25

Patrizia Kühne is a master student in Paul Bourgine’s lab. She came to Lund to learn more about stem cells, tissue engineering, and how these concepts can be used in regenerative medicine. Patrizia Kühne obtained her bachelor's degree in Molecular Medicine from the University of Göttingen in Germany.  Since the summer of 2020, she is doing her master’s studies in Molecular Medicine at Uppsala Univ

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-patrizia-kuhne - 2025-08-25

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his “discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. We had the great pleasure to listen to Svante Pääbo in a fantastic presentation entitled “Archaic Genomics” at the NMMP event in Ystad in May this year. His research team develops method

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine-2022 - 2025-08-25

Pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure in the lung, is a devastating condition where no curative treatment is available. Christian Westöö, PhD student in Karin Tran Lundmark's research team, has used synchrotron-based micro-CT as a tool for increased understanding of disease distribution in 3D space, in human tissue from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Christian Westöö is curre

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/3d-visualization-vascular-lesions-and-role-versican-pulmonary-arterial-hypertension - 2025-08-25

Within 5 years after his recruitment for the Wallenberg Centre of Molecular Medicine at Lund University, which brought Principal Investigator Filipe Pereira in 2017 to Sweden, he has been appointed full Professorship in Molecular Medicine, Regeneration, Transplantation and Repair in the Hematopoietic System. The academic path of Filipe Pereira has taken him from Portugal to London, New York and fi

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-appointed-full-professor-lund-university - 2025-08-25

Shortly after the great news that Paul Bourgine, associate senior lecturer in Molecular Skeletal Biology at the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, was awarded the ERC Proof of Concept grant, two new press-releases have been published in Dagens Medicin and News Cision acknowledging the great work and novel funding of a new confocal microscope for his research.  Paul Bourgine

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/press-releases-about-bourgine-lab - 2025-08-25

Are you a fan of popular science communication? Are you interested in presenting your work in an open and casual setting outside the scientific community? Well, now you can!  The communications team proudly presents the WCMM ScienceBrew: a new series of popular science talks featuring selected popular science talks by PhD students and postdocs at at Lund university.  The WCMM ScienceBrew is a mont

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-sciencebrew - 2025-08-25

This year Prince Daniel's grant for particularly promising young researchers was awarded WCMM researcher Andreas Edsfeldt for his research on atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes. The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation wishes to foster the next generation of young researchers. One way in which it does this is by awarding grants to particularly promising young researchers. Andreas Edsfeldt, associate prof

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/prince-daniels-research-grant-andreas-edsfeldt - 2025-08-25

For those of you that maybe did not know, WCMM Lund has a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of four internationally recognized experts. Two of them know the WCMM Centre quite well by now and the other two are just newly recruited. The role of the WCMM SAB is to provide strategic guidance and direction the WCMM Centre regarding scientific aspects, strategic directions and provides recommenda

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/get-know-scientific-advisory-board - 2025-08-25

Chimezie Harrison Umeano is a new graduate student in regenerative immunology at Nicholas Leigh’s lab. He has a background in biochemistry and biomedicine and has previously been engaged as a laboratory technician at the Karolinska Institute. Chimezie is interested in how highly regenerative species like salamanders modulate their immune system to promote regeneration. As a graduate student, his p

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/welcome-chimezie-harrison-umeano - 2025-08-25