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Lund Stem Cell Center
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A world-leading center for #stemcell #research at Lund University in Sweden. Dedicated to improving human health by making advanced cell, gene, and tissue-based therapies a reality.
🧬 Bringing a cell or gene therapy into clinical trials is complex. The National ATMP Research School in Sweden offers a 1-week online course at Uppsala University (9–13 Mar 2026) on the design, approval & implementation of #ATMP trials.

Apply by 26 Feb 👇
www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/atmp-researc...
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🌌 “Astroid City”

Looks like a galaxy, but it’s brain cells. These star-shaped astrocytes grew in 3D spheroids from reprogrammed human skin cells. Captured by postdoc Alicja Krawczun-Rygmaczewska in @ahleniuslab.bsky.social, they help model the human brain in the lab. 🧠✨ #SciArt #SciComm
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
⏰ Deadline extended: Propose a project in the RAMP-UP Doctoral Programme

Researchers at @lunduniversity.bsky.social, LUMC, DTU & Hannover Medical School can propose interdisciplinary projects spanning the #ATMP value chain.

New deadline: 5 Jan 2026, 09:00 CET
👉 stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP/calls
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🦴🩸 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
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🌃 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
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🧫 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.
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🧫 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

Read More:
👉 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-gro...
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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...
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚀 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
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🩸 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.

ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
💖 “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.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🌌 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
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚀 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
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Did you know cells from a patient’s brain tumor can be grown in the lab as 3D “organoids”?

In this image by @enricopracucci.bsky.social postdoc in @ahleniuslab.bsky.social, green glioblastoma cells are being reprogrammed into less harmful glial-like cells using an experimental gene therapy. #SciArt
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🇸🇪🧬 Are you a #PhD student in #Sweden exploring cell & gene therapies? The Swedish National ATMP Research School welcomes applications for its Intro to Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) course hosted by @umeauniversitet.bsky.social.

Apply by 07 Nov: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/atmp-researc...
October 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
☯️ Yin Yang Salamander Embryo: Balanced from the Beginning

At 8 days post-fertilization, a salamander embryo curls into a Yin Yang shape. Tissues, pigmentation & gills form in balance.

Captured by Ameneh Ghaffarinia in @niche-leigh.bsky.social Lab, it won Best Image in our 2025 Competition. #SciArt
October 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧬 Back by popular demand! Lund University’s master’s course Regenerative Medicine & Advanced Therapies (ATMPs) returns Feb 18–Mar 22, 2026.

Learn how cell, gene & tissue therapies move from lab to clinic @lunduniversity-med.bsky.social.

Register by Oct 15: www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-...
September 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🧬 What triggers childhood leukemia?

At our latest Stem Cell Talk, Assoc. Prof. Charlotta Böiers (@boierslab.bsky.social) shared how her team is modelling the origin of childhood leukemia, to inform safer, more effective treatments.

More about their work:
www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-gro...
September 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New to working with pluripotent stem cells? 🧫

Join our 5-day hands-on course, Nov 17–21, at @lunduniversity.bsky.social. Learn to handle & maintain these cells + explore their role in research & medicine.

Apply by Sept 30 to secure your spot!

More info ⤵️
www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/cellandgene/...
September 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Can cancer cells be reprogrammed to fight cancer? 🤔

That’s the question Ervin Ascic explored as a PhD student in @cellreprolab.bsky.social. On Sept 3 at 15:00, he defends his thesis on using a gene therapy to turn tumor cells into immune cells.

👉 Read more: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-sch...
September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1 month left! 🇸🇪 #PhD students in #Sweden: apply as affiliated students to Sweden’s National ATMP Research School. Train in cell, gene & tissue therapy development at 5 leading universities + connect with peers & experts in the #ATMP field.

Apply by 22 Sept 👉 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/atmp-researc...
August 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🌍 Lund University is hiring! Join top research environments like ours at Lund Stem Cell Center. Faculty roles in life sciences & biomedicine are now available. #AcademicJobs

📢 Positions across immunology, neuroscience & more:
🔗 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
🔗 www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund...
July 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🧬 Final call! Registration closes Thursday, 26 June for the Flow Cytometry Sorting Course hosted by our FACS Core Facility. Learn to plan & run your own cell sorting experiments — hands-on & in the lab.

📅 25–29 Aug
🔗 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/flo...

#FlowCytometry #FACS #ResearchTraining
June 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
✈️ We're in Hong Kong for #ISSCR2025!

Our researchers have joined stem cell scientists from around the world at the @isscr.org Annual Meeting to connect, collaborate & share discoveries.

Hear from our own Malin Parmar, Filipe Pereira, Anita Adami & Paula Martos Salvo!

Meet us there 👉 isscr2025.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM