News
2023-03-22
Josefin et al nominated for SBUF Innovation of the Year
The project New measurement method for road quality control has been nominated for the Swedish Building Industry's Innovation of the Year award as one of three projects. Josefin Starkhammar built all software and hardware. Nils...[more]
2023-03-06
Lorenzo gets VR starting grant
Lorenzo Grassi was awarded MSEK 4 from the Swedish Research Council for his project Early quantification of hip-related abnormalities in children using statistical shape models . The grant runs for four years.[more]
2022-11-28
Per and Maria awarded MSEK 2 each
The MP Foundation has awarded Per Augustsson and Maria Antfolk MSEK 2 each for their two different projects: An ultrasound-based blood component separation method (Per), and the creation of a next generation organ-on-a-chip...[more]
2022-11-08
Per Augustsson and Thierry Baasch are awarded MSEK 4 each for their projects Understand and control acoustic streaming in microchannels and Playing the violin: A novel versatile acoustic tweezer for single cell handling based on...[more]
2022-09-06
Per Augustsson lands ERC Proof of Concept
Per Augustsson has been granted a EUR 150 000 continuation/adaptation to his existing ERC Starting Grant. More about Per's research here (Swedish):...[more]
2022-04-11
Per Augustsson was contacted by the Sound Environment Centre, which belongs to Lund University. Per and colleagues work with ultrasound, which a human ear cannot hear. After explaining the process to the artist Julia, she made an...[more]
2021-12-01
Josefin Starkhammar funded by ONR Global
ONR Global helps fund Josefin Starkhammar's project 'In vivo CT-based finite element model of echolocation beam formation' for two years.External link to more detailed...[more]
2021-11-30
Wei Qiu has been awarded MSEK 4 from the Swedish Research Council (Starting Grant).[more]
2021-11-29
György Marko-Varga: doctor honoris causa at Semmelweis
György Marko-Varga has been awarded doctor honoris causa at Semmelweis University, Budapest.[more]
2021-11-10
Göran Lind Award to Nebojsa Malesevic
Nebojsa Malesevic has received the Göran Lind Award, SEK 30 000,for his academic and commercial efforts in neurophysiology. External link to award announcement (Swedish): https://www.fysiografen.se/sv/aktuellt/arets-pristagare/[more]
2021-03-18
VINNOVA grant to Neuroengineering
Christian Antfolk and Nebojsa Malesevic from the Neuroengineering group have been awarded a three-year 2.5 MSEK grant from VINNOVA for a bi-lateral collaboration project (AFFECT) with Prof. Sivakumar Balasubramanian at the Dept....[more]
2021-03-03
Promobilia Foundation grant to Neuroengineering
Christian Antfolk, Nebojsa Malesevic and Fredrik Sebelius from the Neuroengineering group at BME have been awarded a five-year 12.1 MSEK grant from the Promobilia Foundation for the study of EMG control, sensory feedback, and...[more]
2021-02-09
Fungal foraging in chip as poem
Every week science communication researcher Sam Illingworth picks an article to write a poem about and present in his podcast “The Poetry of Science”. This week he picked the latest article from the SoilChip project, where...[more]
2021-01-27
BME commended in research quality evaluation
The outcome of the research quality evaluation at Lund University (RQ20) was positive for the BME department, commended for excellent research output, active collaboration with the medical faculty leading to new research lines,...[more]
2020-12-10
Professor Hanna Isaksson has been awarded MSEK 20 by the European Research Council, ERC, for the study of the biomechanics and mechanobiology of Achilles tendon ruptures using data from the MAX IV synchrotron and advanced...[more]
2020-05-26
Agnete Kirkeby and colleagues from Lund University and Copenhagen University, in collaboration with engineers Thomas Laurell and Marc Isaksson at LTH, built a stem cell model mimicking early phasesof human brain...[more]
2020-02-18
Per Augustsson has been awarded the Future Research Leader grant from the Swedish Foundation for Stategic Research. Per receives MSEK 12 and a leadership training program for his project on acoustic gradient focusing. Link to...[more]
2019-12-10
Thomas Laurell, Distinguished Professor
The Swedish Research Council has awarded Thomas Laurell the Distinguished Professor Grant. As one of eight awarded this year, and the only one from Lund, Laurell has been awarded MSEK 48 for the period 2019-2029....[more]
2019-11-13
Frida Sandberg has in collaboration with Mikael Wallman at Fraunhofer Chalmers research center for industrial mathematics (FCC) received a grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) funding a research...[more]
2019-11-11
Swedish Research Council Awards to BME
Congrats to Hanna Isaksson, Christian Antfolk, and Frida Sandberg who all were awarded Project Grants from the Swedish Research Council.[more]