News

May, 2012
Assoc. Prof. Malin Lindstedt was awarded 2 MSEK from VINNOVA for a project to investigate a cell based assay system for prediction of allergenicity.

November 4, 2013
Assoc. Prof Christer Wingren has been granted support (5 MSEK) by the Swedish Research Council for a project entitled "Molecular profiling of systemic lupus erythematosus for better differential diagnosis and prognosis".

March 1, 2009
The head of the Dept. of Immunotechnology, Prof. Carl Borrebaeck, was awarded the AkzoNobel Science Award Sweden 2009 for his groundbreaking translational research and its transfer into practical use.

February 9, 2010
Dr. Fredrik Levander has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at the Department of Immunotechnology.

October 15, 2015
MSc Andy Forreryd of the Dept. of Immunotechnology won 4500 sek for best free oral presentation at the SSCT-Swetox workshop with his presentation entitled Prediction of chemical respiratory sensitizers using GARD, a novel in vitro assay based on a genomic biomarker signature.

September 8, 2014
The Faculty of Technology at Lund University will fund a postdoctoral position within the area of RNA sequencing-assisted quantitative proteomics. The project will be hosted in the computational proteomics group headed by Assoc. Prof. Fredrik Levander.

May 28, 2010
Johan Malmström at the Dept. of Immunotechnology has been granted 3.4 MSEK from the Crafoord Foundation.

May 31, 2012
Dr. Anders Carlsson of the Dept. of Immunotechnology was awarded the Gina Prize for the best clinical/translational research article published during 2011 within BioCARE, a strategic cancer research program run by Lund University and University of Gothenburg. The prize was awarded for the findings reported in:Carlsson et al. (2011) Molecular serum [...]

December 12, 2010
Dr. Johan Malmström of the Dept. of Immunotechnology has been awarded 10 MSEK by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research as part of their Future Research Leaders programme for his research on virulence mechanisms in Streptococci.

June, 2006
The Divisions of Immunotechnology and Protein Technology moved into new research facities at the Biomedical Centre