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Researcher Lisa Guntram gets funding to launch a network dedicated to exploring and confronting the marginalisation of women's health. This will be the world's first research network on women's health with a focus on social sciences and humanities.

The Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics was opened on 1 October 2020. The opening celebrations centred around a dialogue on the ongoing pandemic and the significance of research within the medical humanities and bioethics.

Progress is being made in research into uterus transplantation. But to receive a transplanted uterus, it’s necessary to find a donor yourself, and recent research at LiU shows that this can create challenges.

Researchers at universities including Linköping University have studied ethical aspects of uterus transplantation. The results show that uterus transplantation with living donors is ethically just as problematic as altruistic surrogacy.