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The Swedish Heart Lung Foundation has awarded 30 million to research projects at The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. These grants will support a variety of projects aimed at heart, vascular, and lung diseases.

Children who develop asthma or allergies have an altered immune response to intestinal bacteria in the mucous membranes even as infants. This has been shown by a new study at Linköping University in Sweden.

A Japanese tv team spent three days at LiU, filming parts of a series about the human body. Their focus: Maria Jenmalm’s research why children born by Caesarean section develop a poorer gut flora and are more often affected by allergy.

Did the bacteria in your guts when you were a baby impact your risk of future disease? We have talked to researcher studying whether diseases such as type 1 diabetes and allergy could be prevented by promoting the right bacteria early in life.

The immune system of a pregnant woman is altered during pregnancy, but not in the way previously believed. A study from LiU shows that the thymus plays an important role in the immune response during a normal pregnancy.

The Joanna Cocozza Foundation has announced the recipients of research grants for 2020. Funding has been awarded in the form of establishment and consolidation grants, support for visiting researchers, and a further seven project grants.