AktuelLTH in English, week 24 - 2017
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AktuelLTH is the internal newsletter at the Faculty of Engineering LTH. If you have news, suggestions or ideas you would like to share with your colleagues, let us know by emailing AktuelLTH@kansli.lth.se. If possible, please submit content in both Swedish and English.
AktuelLTH on summer break
AktuelLTH will take a break over the summer, returning on Thursday 24 August.
You can continue emailing us with tips and submissions throughout the summer - send your email to AktuelLTH@kansli.lth.se
The editorial team wishes you all a long and relaxing summer. See you again in the autumn!
3-Minute-Thesis Competition
Lund University External Relations and Lund’s Doctoral Student Union (LDK) encourage all interested doctoral students in the second half of their studies to take part in this year’s U21 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. This is an excellent opportunity to practice sharing your research findings with others and to have the chance to compete internationally and win a stipend!
Interested in taking part? Read more on how to apply
Registration deadline: 4 September
When: Saturday, 23 September at 13:00
Where: Palaestra auditorium, Lund
Welcome to the fifth Cancer Crosslinks Sweden
Cancer Crosslinks brings together researchers from healthcare providers, academia, and industry with representatives from regulatory units in a one-day meeting. We want to start an interdisciplinary discussion with the potential to result in new partnerships to develop the area of Precision Medicine and Immuno-oncology.
Online registration is now open
When: 25 October 2017
Where: Medicon Village, Lund
Infrastructure of the month – June – MoReLife
Lund University has excellent infrastructures to support research in medicine, biology and biomedicine. Every month one special infrastructure is highlighted, to increase the awareness of the available platforms.
Infrastructure of the Month in Junie is MoReLife
Molecular recognition in life (MoReLife) is a strategic network at Lund University aiming to promote development of competences and infrastructures of relevance for Life Science.
- Do you want to learn more about a specific technology?
- Do you wonder if Lund University provides access to a certain competence or technology for Life Science research?
- Do you have ideas of importance about infrastructures?
MoReLife can guide you in the infrastructure jungle, arrange workshops, meetings, seminars, retreats and help you lift your ideas to other researchers as well as to the university and faculty boards. Contact (kajsa_m.paulsson@med.lu.se eller Malin.Zackrisson@fkem1.lu.se).
Grants & scholarships
Call for proposals: Evaluation of dietary strategies on tackling obesity among children
Kostfonden offers a grant (600,000 SEK) to fund a study on prevention and treatment of children's overweight. Deadline to apply: 15 September 2017.
Scholarships and grants from the The Lars Salvius Society
The Lars Salvius Society announces grants for science and popular science writers, translators and publishers, whose works have been used, i.e. copied, at universities and other institutes of higher education.
Deadline for application: September 30, 2017
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John and Augusta Persson Foundation
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