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9 Feb 2026
Forum Cancer in connection with World Cancer Day
Thank you to everyone who made their way through the snowstorm and made it to Forum Cancer in connection with World Cancer Day at Forum Medicum in Lund.
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20 Jan 2026
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Cancer and Equity in Women launches
A new research center CIRCE at Lund University have been granted long-term funding from Forte and VR at the end of 2025. It is led by LUCC researchers Lao Saal and Sophia Zackrisso...
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13 Mar 2025
Kristian Pietras named Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025
The Swedish Cancer Society awards Kristian Pietras the Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025 honour. He is a professor of molecular medicine at Lund University and is being recognised...
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27 Feb 2025
SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University
The Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation is donating SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University. This is the largest donation to the university since its foundation in 1666.
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14 Feb 2025
Foam cells in brain tumours
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how ...
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12 Aug 2024
Researchers receive prestigious ERC grant
Per Augustsson at LTH and Filipe Pereira at the Faculty of Medicine have been awarded Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in the first round of 2024.
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8 Aug 2024
Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma revealed
A new study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that tattoos could be a risk factor for cancer in the lymphatic system, or lymphoma. Now, the researchers underline the need for...
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24 Apr 2024
Donation to research on early hospital-based palliative care
The Department of Clinical Sciences, Medical Oncology, in Lund, one of six departments at the Faculty of Medicine and the largest at the Lund University, has received a significant...
