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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This October, the immune engineering community meets in Lund. Join Immunity by Design (22–23 Oct 2026, Lund University) to discuss emerging approaches in immune engineering and immune cell therapy. Late registration closes 16 Oct. 🔗 www.immunitybydesign.se

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are pleased to welcome Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla for a Stem Cell Stars Seminar on 15 October, 15:00-16:00. Open to all researchers, scientists, and students at Lund University. www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/ste...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📆 Planning your autumn 2026 conferences? Join us in at @lunduniversity.bsky.social for the Immunity by Design Conference (22–23 Oct 2026), connecting academia, healthcare & industry around immune engineering & immune cell therapy. Early registration closes 15 Sep: 🔗 www.immunitybydesign.se

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚀 In vivo immune cell engineering is moving from concept to practice. Immunity by Design (22–23 Oct 2026, Lund) brings researchers together to discuss where the field is heading, and what comes next. @cellreprolab.bsky.social Abstracts due 15 Aug | Early reg 15 Sep 🔗 www.immunitybydesign.se

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📣 Registration is open for Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering (22–23 Oct 2026, Lund University, SWE). A meeting on immune engineering, #immunotherapy & translational research, supported by @lundstem.bsky.social. @cellreprolab.bsky.social #ImmunityByDesign 👉 www.immunitybydesign.se

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚨 BEYOND is a new #HorizonEU #MSCA-COFUND postdoc programme, led by Fondazione Telethon, offering 35 fully funded, 3‑year postdoc positions. It’s designed to train researchers in advanced cell & gene therapies across the full path to patient impact.

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🧬 Join the ATMP Mini-Symposium in Lund! On 19 May, researchers, clinicians & industry meet at Lund University @lunduniversity.bsky.social to discuss cell & gene therapy development. Co‑organised by CCRM Nordic & partners. #ATMPs Register by 5 May ⤵️ www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/calendar/3rd...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨 Final days to apply. RAMP-UP doctoral fellow applications close on 30 March. Apply for 21 funded PhD projects across #Europe in life sciences, bioengineering & clinical translation 🇸🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱🇪🇺 Explore projects & apply: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP/rese... #PhDPositions #ATMP #RegenerativeMedicine

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🧬 What does it take to turn a new therapy idea into a treatment? Registration is now open for the 🇸🇪 National ATMP Research School's online #PhD course @lunduniversity.bsky.social: Molecular Aspects of Cell, Tissue & Gene Therapies (11–23 May 2026). Apply by 20 April ⤵️ buff.ly/7RzLSTB

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Choose a research challenge that matches your ambition. The RAMP-UP Doctoral Programme is now accepting applications for 21 PhD projects spanning the full #ATMP value chain. #PhDPositions Applications close 30 March. Explore our projects & apply: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP/rese...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🧬 A new Lund model aims to shorten the path from lab to patient for cell & gene therapies. Researchers at @lunduniversity.bsky.social & Skåne University Hospital show how to integrate research, healthcare & innovation from day one. Read more👇 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🔬👩‍🔬 Who do you see when you imagine a scientist? Today we marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with our 3rd annual Women in Stem Cell Science event. @lundstem.bsky.social's own Ewa Sitnicka, Anna Falk & Pia Johansson shared honest reflections on their journeys in research. 🧵

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

📣 Doctoral fellow applications are now open for the RAMP-UP Doctoral Programme. 21 fully funded #PhD positions in regenerative medicine & advanced therapies across 4 leading European universities 🇪🇺 #ATMPs #HorizonEU #MSCA #EduSky Apply by 31 March 2026 👉 stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🇸🇪🇳🇱🇩🇪🇩🇰 Four universities. One doctoral programme. Europe-wide training in regenerative medicine & advanced therapies. The call for RAMP-UP doctoral fellow applications opens on 30 January and closes 31 March. Learn how to apply 👇 stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP #PhDpositions #RegenerativeMedicine

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🇪🇺 RAMP-UP is a #HorizonEU #MSCActions COFUND doctoral programme training future leaders in regenerative medicine & ATMPs. Applications for the 1st cohort of 22 fully funded PhD positions open on 30 Jan. Learn more & get ready to apply: stemcellcenter.lu.se/RAMP-UP #PhD #ResearchJobs #EuropeJobs

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🧬 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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🌌 “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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

⏰ 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🦴🩸 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🌃 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🧫 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.

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🧫 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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🚀 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🩸 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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

💖 “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.

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🌌 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🚀 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🇸🇪🧬 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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

☯️ 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🧬 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-...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🧬 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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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/...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🌍 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...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🧬 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

✈️ 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

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🧠This week’s Stem Cell Talk featured Agnete Kirkeby, who shared her journey from early #StemCell research to the STEM-PD clinical trial. Her lab is now exploring how to generate other brain cell types to treat other symptoms of #Parkinsons & other conditions. ➡️ stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-gro...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We recently welcomed SMER, the Swedish Medical Ethics Council, for a visit focused on stem cell science and advanced therapies (ATMPs). Discussions centered on how these therapies offer hope, but also raise critical questions around access, cost & #equity. Thanks SMER for visiting us in Lund! 👏

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🔬 Earlier this month, our FACS Core Facility held the Flow Cytometry: Continuation Course, giving participants hands-on training in multicolor flow cytometry — from experimental design to data analysis. 📸 Check out photos from the course for highlights! #FlowCytometry #FACS #StemCellResearch

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🩸 Yesterday, Dr. Shangqin Guo from @yale.edu Dept. of Cell Biology, joined us @lunduniversity.bsky.social as part of our #StemCellStars seminar series, sharing how linker histones guide blood stem cell fate in healthy & diseased blood development. 🙏 Thank you, Dr. Guo, for an inspiring visit!

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

💡What sparks childhood #cancer? At last week’s #StemCellTalk, Sofie Mohlin shared how her team at @lunduniversity.bsky.social uses model systems to uncover early markers, advancing diagnosis & targeted treatment. Missed it? Learn more about Sofie’s research: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/research-gro...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

🚨🇸🇪 PhD students in Sweden! Apply to join the 2025 cohort of the Swedish National ATMP Research School as an affiliated #PhD student. Gain access to expert-led courses & networking across 5 top universities in Sweden. #ATMPs Learn more & apply by Sept 22! 🔗 www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/atmp-researc...

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🎤 Join us in Uppsala June 16 for the #ATMP Mini-Symposium—a day of insight, research & collaboration in advanced therapies. Proudly co-organized with CCRM Nordic & Uppsala University, featuring our own Malin Parmar, Anna Falk & @ahleniuslab.bsky.social. 🔗 Register by June 5: shorturl.at/cGlYo

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🌍 Thanks to all who joined our "Closing the Plastic Loop" event during #SustainabilityWeekinLund!♻️ We explored how smarter procurement, better sorting & scientific thinking can help reduce our plastic footprint. Let’s keep the conversation going! What sustainable changes are you working on? Share👇

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🔬 Interested in chromatin biology, #Genomics & brain development? Join Dr. Christopher Douse's lab (chdouse.bsky.social) at Lund Stem Cell Center as a #postdoc to explore the role of "genomic dark matter" in brain development & degeneration. Apply by 09 May → www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/open-positions

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Lund Stem Cell Center @lundstem.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🧬✨ Thank you, Prof. Michele De Luca from Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, for joining us as our April #StemCellStars speaker and sparking discussions on #StemCells in tissue repair & regenerative medicine. Stay tuned for more events this spring: www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/news/events

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