Departments and specialised centres

Most of the links on this web page will forward you to other websites.

Departments

• Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund
• Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö
• Department of Experimental Medical Science
• Department of Health Sciences
• Department of Laboratory Medicine
• Department of Translational Medicine

Strategic research areas

In 2009, Lund University received strategic research funding of SEK 715 million from the Swedish Government in order to lead and develop world-leading research in nine different areas.

• EpiHealth (Epidemiology) Coordinator: Sölve Elmståhl (in Swedish)
• EXODIAB (Diabetes) Coordinator: Allan Vaag
• MultiPark (Neuroscience) Coordinator: Angela Cenci Nilsson
• The Nanometer Structure Consortium (Nanoscience and nanotechnology) Coordinator: Anders Mikkelsen (the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University) with participants including the Faculty of Medicine
• Stem Therapy (Stem cells and regenerative medicine) Coordinator: Johan Jakobsson
• BioCARE (Cancer) (2010-2019)

Specialised centres and research environments

• The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities
• BrainGain Sweden
• CASE – Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environment
• Centre for Economic Demography 
• Centre for Evidence-based Psychosocial Interventions (CEPI) – Swedish National Centre (in Swedish)
• CoPARLU - Centre of Physical Activity Research at Lund University
• LUCC – Lund Univesity Cancer Centre
• LUDC – Lund University Diabetes Centre
• Lund Laser Centre – LLC (incl. Medical Laser Centre)
• Lund Stem Cell Center
• Malmö Cancer Centre (MCC) (in Swedish)
• Neuronanoscience Research Centre (NRC) (no website)
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgery and Public Health (no website)

Specialised centres with university hospital healthcare in Region Skåne

• The Centre for Primary Health Care Research (CPF)
• Centre of Excellence in Biological and Medical Mass Spectrometry (CEBMMS) (no website)
• The Institute for Palliative Care (in Swedish)
• Medicon Bridge (regional hub in the national innovation programme for medical engineering, Medtech4Health)
• The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University

Joint centres aiming to bind together the research and healthcare chains (Lund University Faculty of Medicine and Region Skåne)

• Diabetes – Molecular Metabolism Researcher in charge: Hindrik Mulder (no website)
• Huntington Centre (Huntington’s disease) Researcher in charge: Åsa Petersen (in Swedish)
• NeuroLund (Neurodegenerative diseases, e.g. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases) Researcher in charge: Oskar Hansson (no website)
• Neuronano Medicine (Neurological diseases) Researcher in charge: Jens Schouenborg (in Swedish)
• StrokeSyd (Stroke) Researcher in charge: Tadeusz Wieloch (in Swedish)
• UroCan-LU (Prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer) Researcher in charge: Fredrik Liedberg (in Swedish)

Thematic collaboration initiatives

Lund University has launched thematic collaboration initiatives through competitive calls for funding. These bring researchers together from several faculties and external partners. Focus is on future challenges.

The Faculty of Medicine participates in the following initiatives (links go to the collaboration initiatives' own websites, if nothing else is written):