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Anne Ljungars defends thesis in Immunotechnology
Antibody technology and phenotypic discovery
Kristina Lundberg appointed as Associate Professor in Immunotechnology (copy 1)
Dr. Kristina Lundberg was today appointed as Associate Professor in Immunotechnology by the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. Her research is focused on how to trigger the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. Currently, the team is performing studies on bladder cancer and acute myeloid leukemia. Based on analysis of immune cells [...]
Poster prize in experimental immunology awarded to researcher at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Linnea Thörnqvist of the Department of Immunotechnology was recently awarded a prize for best poster in experimental immunology at the 3rd international meeting on Stochasticity and Control in Immune Repertoire, in Haifa, Israel. The poster covered a current study on so-called public antibodies associated with allergic response to the timothy grass [...]
The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund supports lymphoma research at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Lavanya Lokhande and Sara Ek have received a 240 kSEK grant from the Royal Physiographic Society for the development of microfluidic-based methods for cultivation of lymphoma cells.
The Faculty of Engineering's Business Council visits the Dep. of Immunotechnology
The Faculty's Business Council and the Faculty's management team visited the Dept. of Immunotechnology to learn more about and discuss our infrastructures and our research foci.
FORMAS research council funds research on skin sensitization at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Assistant Professor Kathrin Zeller from the Dept. of Immunotechnology received a 3 MSEK early-career researcher grant from the Swedish Research Council FORMAS. The 3-year project “Mechanisms of “cocktail effects” in skin sensitization – investigation of rubber chemical mixtures” aims to better understand and predict how chemical mixtures lead to [...]
The Swedish Cancer Society supports lymphoma research at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Prof. Sara Ek of the Dept. of Immunotechnology has received a two-year, 600 kSEK/year, grant from The Swedish Cancer Society for immune-profiling of mantle cell lymphoma using tissue and serum-based analysis to develop methods for clinical decision making in relation to prognostication and treatment selection.
Innovators and animal-free research
On Nov 14, 2019 Prof. Malin Lindstedt of the Dept. of Immunotechnology, an award-winning innovator in the field of replacement of animal experiments, will participate in a panel discussion organised by the Swedish Fund for Research Without Animal Experiments on opportunities and challenges related to the replacement of animal experiments by other [...]
The Swedish Research Council funds allergy research at the Dept. of Immunotechnology
Prof. Mats Ohlin from the Dept. of Immunotechnology today received a grant of 2.4 MSEK from the Swedish Research Council to fund research on human antibodies in allergic disease.
Dept. of Immunotechnology research featured on the cover of the Journal of Immunology
A recent study of antibody recognition of a major mite allergen, an allergy-causing substance, was featured on the Nov 1, 2019 issue of the Journal of Immunology. In this study researchers from the Dept. of Immunotechnology, in collaboration with reasearchers from Indoor Biotechnologies, Inc., the University of South Carolina, the National [...]