Lund Stem Cell Center joins 4.5 million euro Horizon Europe doctoral network to advance human-relevant brain models beyond animal testing Lund University. The programme, VISI-ON-BRAIN (Cutting-edge Human In Vitro and In Silico Biomedical Tools on Brain Disorders), is funded by Horizon Europe under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Do...

🧠 Better models mean better chances for new brain disorder treatments.

@lundstem.bsky.social researchers join VISI‑ON‑BRAIN, a €4.5M #HorizonEU #MSCA network training 15 PhD researchers to develop advanced models for conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & more. @ahleniuslab.bsky.social

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Lund Stem Cell Center researchers receive Blue Flame Award for contributions to open science Lund University. Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that serve as important tools in biological research. They are often used to deliver specific genes or gene-editing components, such as CRIS...

🧬 When research tools are shared, science moves faster.

In 2018, @ahleniuslab.bsky.social published a Nature Methods protocol to generate astrocytes from stem cells.

Henrik Ahlenius & Isaac Canals now receive the Blue Flame Award for sharing the plasmids via @addgene.bsky.social 👇
#HappyDepositor

🌌 “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

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

Going to #GLIA2025 ?
Check posters T21-004A and T24-013B
The team will be represented by Alicja presenting our AD modeling by direct conversion of fibroblasts to astrocytes and neurons, and Enrico will present our inducible BRAF fusion iPSC and cerebellar organoid model of pilocytic astrocytoma.

We will be at the Swedish Cancer Research Meeting. Reach out if you want to discuss iPSC, CRISPR and reprogramming based models of brain tumors. Also, don’t miss Enrico Pracucci poster on reprogramming to astrocytes as a potential therapy for glioblastoma!

#swedishcancerresearchmeeting #scrm2025

🎤 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

🚀 Lund University's Faculty of Medicine seeks candidates for 2 Assoc. Senior Lecturer roles in:

➡️ Translational research in advanced therapies:
https://buff.ly/4aAb3ci

➡️ Basic research in regenerative medicine & disease mechanisms:
https://buff.ly/3E8BKsl

Apply by 10 Feb to join us in Lund!