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Flow Cytometry: Introductory Course Lund University. Basic concepts of flow cytometryInstrumentation - basic principles of operationTechniques - cell handling, staining, designing of protocolData acquisition and analysisApplications of ...

📊 New to flow cytometry or want to strengthen your skills?
Our Intro Course held 2–4 Feb 2026 at @lunduniversity.bsky.social will cover core concepts, protocol design, data analysis & common applications - taught by our FACS experts.

Apply by 15 Jan 2026: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-sch...

🦴🩸 7 years of “Bone, Blood & Sweat”! At our latest Stem Cell Talk, Assoc. Prof. Paul Bourgine (@cto-bourgine.bsky.social) shared how his team builds human “mini-bones” to model bone-developing tumors & study bone formation, supporting future personalized #cancer therapies.

More: buff.ly/YnOBNpg

🔗 Explore more images from this year’s digital gallery:
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🌃 Nighttime satellite image of mini-Copenhagen?

This image from our 2025 Image Competition, by PhD student Yu-Ping Shen, looks like a glowing city at night. But those “streets” are GFP-labelled neuronal fibers extending from a cortical organoid into human brain tissue. #StemCells #Neuroscience

A big thank you for an inspiring visit and everyone who joined this engaging session! 👏

Learn more about our Stem Cell Seminars:
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🧫 Kidney organoids are helping researchers study human kidney development and disease in new ways.

At our latest Stem Cell Stars Seminar, Prof. Melissa Little showed how her team guides stem cells into kidney-like tissues used for disease modelling, drug testing & early-stage regenerative research.

🧫 Natural Killer cells are key defenders against infection and cancer.

At last month’s Stem Cell Talk, Prof. Ewa Sitnicka-Quinn shared new insights into how they develop & how this knowledge may support future NK-cell–based therapies. #NKcells

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Cancerfonden invests in next-generation cancer diagnostics and treatment research Lund University. Among this year’s awardees is Dr. Sandra Lindstedt, senior consultant in thoracic surgery at Skåne University Hospital and adjunct professor at Lund University, who has been awarded…

💜 Cancerfonden awards SEK 1B to Swedish cancer research incl. SEK 50M to 10 @lundstem.bsky.social researchers! Dr. Sandra Lindstedt will test a noninvasive breath test for lung cancer, while others study pancreatic, brain, blood & breast cancers. 👏

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Decoding the repetitive genome: Christopher Douse awarded a Consolidator Grant from SSMF Lund University. While less than 2% of our DNA codes for proteins, more than half is made up of repetitive elements or simply ‘repeats’. These are often dynamic stretches of DNA, some of which can cop...

🧬 Decoding the repetitive genome

Christopher Douse (@chdouse.bsky.social) has been awarded an SSMF Consolidator Grant to study how repetitive #DNA sequences linked to neurological diseases are controlled during nervous system development.

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Looking to build your #FACS skills this January?

Our Flow Cytometry Sorting Course (12–16 Jan 2026) offers practical, hands-on training in droplet-based cell sorting, QC, troubleshooting & safe workflows. Open to researchers, limited spots.

Apply by 15 Dec: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-sch...

🚀 The RAMP-UP Doctoral Programme has opened its first project call!

Researchers at @lunduniversity.bsky.social, LUMC, MHH & DTU can apply to host PhD fellows in regenerative medicine & #ATMPs, with co-funding up to €2,900/month for 4 years.

Apply by 30 Dec:
👉 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP/calls

Regenerative Performance and Immunogenicity of Engineered Extracellular Matrices Lund University. What have your Ph.D. studies focused on?“Bone is a highly dynamic organ central to movement, mineral homeostasis, and structural integrity, and one of the few tissues capable of scar-...

🦴🧫 How can we create safer, scalable bone grafts? PhD student Sujeethkumar Prithiviraj in @cto-bourgine.bsky.social explored how engineered extracellular matrices could be safer, customizable solutions & how immune responses influence their success.

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🩸 Why do patients with chronic myeloid leukemia respond differently to the same treatment? A new Blood review by @lundstem.bsky.social researchers shows how #SciOmics can reveal differences in leukemic, healthy & immune cells shaping therapy response & remission.

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🔗 Explore more images from this year’s digital gallery: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cele...

💖 “We found love in a hopeless plate” – Two iPSC colonies merge into a heart-shaped cluster in this image by Claudia De Guidi from our 2025 image competition. It captures patient-derived fibroblasts being reprogrammed into #iPSCs for disease modeling & research at our Cell & Gene Technologies Core.

New Swedish Research Council grants strengthen stem-cell and regenerative medicine research in Lund Lund University. The awards include seven grants to six Lund Stem Cell Center researchers, together amounting to over SEK 46 million, supporting projects that range from generating personalized models...

🌟 Six researchers @lundstem.bsky.social have been awarded SEK 46M from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social to advance stem cell & regenerative medicine research. The projects explore cell biology, disease mechanisms & ways to develop new advanced therapies.

More: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-...

The award which honors outstanding research from our scientific community was presented at our 2025 Annual Meeting, also recognizing nominees Petter Storm & Alessandro Fiorenzano in the Parmar Lab for advancing stem cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease. 👏 🧠

#StemCellResearch #RegenerativeMedicine

Turning Cancer Against Itself: Ervin Ascic awarded the 2025 Article of the Year Award Lund University. Now in its eighth year, the Article of the Year Award highlights exceptional research that advances the fields of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Since 2017, Principal…

🌟 Our 2025 Article of the Year Award goes to Ervin Ascic & @cellreprolab.bsky.social for “turning cancer against itself.” Their Science (2024) paper describes a new gene therapy approach that reprograms cancer cells into immune cells to attack tumors.

🔗 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/turn...

#EMBOMobileGenome Session 2 on transposon regulation 🧬

➡️'Epigenetic control of transcribed retroelements by the HUSH complex and associated factors' presented by Christopher Douse (Lund University, Sweden)

We love a good Q&A session as well! 🙋🏼

@chdouse.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social @embl.org

Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Stroke Lund University. What have you been working on during your time as a Ph.D. student?“What I do is stem cell therapies. In the lab, we focus on ischemic stroke which is a disease that currently has no e...

🧠🧬 What if the brain could repair itself?

For PhD student Raquel Martínez Curiel, that question has driven her research on stem cell–based therapies for #stroke. #StemCellResearch

She defends her thesis on 07 Nov. @lunduniversity.bsky.social

Read our Q&A:
www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/education/re...

Martin L Olsson receives the AABB President's Award for advancing blood transfusion medicine and safety Lund University. At the AABB General Meeting award ceremony in San Diego on October 25, 2025, Martin L. Olsson was honored as one of this year’s recipients of the AABB President’s Award. He was recogn...

🩸120M units of blood are donated each year, yet demand exceeds supply. Prof Martin Olsson's research at @lundstem.bsky.social aims to make transfusions safer & universal. He received the AABB President’s Award for his contributions to #TransfusionMedicine 👏

www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/mart...

Researchers find new clues as to why leukemia develops in infants Lund University. When we think of cancer, we usually imagine a disease that develops over many years in adults. But for one particular group of leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) – it is qu...

Why does leukemia develop so early in life?

In a new study in Leukemia, researchers in @boierslab.bsky.social found a new precursor stage of leukemia during fetal blood development, offering clues to how infant #leukemia begins. #CancerResearch

📖 Read more:
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Celebrating the art in science: Images from the 2025 Image Competition Lund University. Now in its fourth year, the Lund Stem Cell Center Annual Image Competition has become a valued platform for sharing the visual stories behind our science. It offers a glimpse into…

Check out the Lund Stem Cell Center 2025 Image Competition gallery and read more about the stories behind the images here:
👉 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cele...

Learn more about the Gopal Research Group:
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🌌 These glowing “mini galaxies” aren’t stars, they’re 3D clusters of mammary cells grown in the lab. Captured by Jasmeet Kaur Virdi, postdoc in the Gopal Research Group, this award-winning image reveals how tissues form & how they change when diseases like cancer develop. #SciArt #BioArt #Microscopy

Learn more about our Stem Cell Stars series and upcoming seminars this autumn:
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What makes some species able to regenerate organs while humans cannot? 🦎

Elly Tanaka (IMBA, ÖAW) joined us in Lund last week at our #StemCellStars Seminar to explore how regeneration works across species - and what it could teach us about repairing tissues in humans. #RegenerativeBiology

RAMP-UP unites 🇸🇪 Lund University, 🇳🇱 Leiden University Medical Center, 🇩🇰 DTU, & 🇩🇪 Hannover Medical School, plus 30+ partners, to train 55 PhD fellows driving innovation in cell, gene & tissue-based therapies across #Europe.

Submit a PhD project proposal this Nov:
👉 stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP/calls

🚀 This November the RAMP-UP #MSCA Doctoral Programme is opening its first call for cofunded PhD projects in regenerative medicine & #ATMPs!

Researchers from all faculties at LU, LUMC, DTU & MHH are invited to apply.

🗓️ Join our info webinars: 27 Oct & 3 Nov, 12–13 CET
🔗 stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP

🧬 What if cancer cells could be turned into immune defenders?

A 2024 Science study by @cellreprolab.bsky.social showed in preclinical models that tumor cells can be reprogrammed into dendritic cells that can help the body fight #cancer.

Now featured in a @science.org Perspective. Read more 👇

This image was awarded Best Scientific Contribution in our 2025 Image Competition. Check out the digital gallery and read more about the images:
👉 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cele...

More about the Stem Cells, Aging & Neurodegeneration Research Group:
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