15 April 2020

A pandemic is sweeping around the globe and our lives have been turned upside down. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has not only changed our way of working, studying and spending time together: it has brought death to many. We will not see for many years the complete and long-term effects – human, social and economic – of the pandemic as it continues to spread around the world.

Read how researchers at Linköping University are taking on one of our greatest contemporary challenges.

Lennart Svensson, Professor, virology.
Lennart Svensson, professor of molecular virology at Linköping University, has his eye set on testing the method on the new coronavirus. Photographer: Ulrik Svedin - LiU

LiU research on COVID-19 and its effects

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31 January 2024

Post-COVID syndrome made researchers combine different perspectives

In a large research project, researchers are working across disciplines to understand post-COVID from several different aspects. At the same time, they are researching the interdisciplinary process itself.

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27 June 2023

“We’re beginning to understand post-COVID better now”

The understanding of why some people experience lingering symptoms following COVID-19 has increased rapidly. Swedish researchers have now published an overview of research findings on breathing and heart function problems in post-COVID condition.

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28 February 2023

Post-COVID syndrome visible in DNA

A reprogramming of which genes are active, and which are not, is visible in post-COVID sufferers. In a study on a small group of individuals, genes associated with taste and smell, as well as cell metabolism, were affected.

Female researcher studies a cell plate in a laboratory.

19 January 2023

Long-term effects on the immune system following COVID-19

The more severe the COVID-19 infection, the slower the recovery of immune cells which are necessary for the activation of the immune system. Six months after severe COVID-19, a negative impact on several types of immune cells can still be seen.

Eleonore von Castelmur in the lab.

03 June 2021

Coronavirus spurred research across disciplines

As the corona pandemic swept across the world, virologists and protein chemists rapidly joined forces and started to collaborate. Together they were able to develop ways to test the immune response after infection, and help the healthcare system.

Fredrik Gustafsson and Toomas Timpka looks into the camera.

28 December 2020

Researchers critical to flawed Covid-19-models

Reports from Imperial College regarding the spread and the effects of Covid-19 had considerable policy impacts in several European countries. But the models that informed the reports have considerable flaws, according to LiU-researchers.

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LiU and Siemens Energy enter into strategic partnership

In order to find long-term solutions to future challenges in the energy field, Linköping University and Siemens Energy AB sign a strategic partnership agreement.

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Alumni driving electrification in Kenya

Almost seven years ago, they left LiU to start a company in Nairobi. Today, Roam produces several hundred self-built electric motorcycles a month. And the journey has only just begun.

The entrepreneur who shaped his idea at LiU

Niclas Söör really got the most out of his student life at LiU. That’s what shaped his career. It was here that he got the idea for Dospace, a kind of office hotel with close to 1,400 members at eleven locations in Sweden.