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Nine projects are included in the list of ongoing Swedish research projects with the potential to create societal benefit

Collage with photos of researchers in different situations.
Hanna Isaksson has developed a method to calculate fracture risk. Emma Hammarlund looks at hairs for early cancer diagnosis. Sang Hyun Pyo uses birch bark for make-up and other purposes. Photo: Johan Persson; Auraya Manaprasertsak and John Price

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has released its list of ongoing Swedish research projects with the potential to create societal benefit, dubbed the “100 list”. This year, nine projects from Lund University were included.

IVA's ‘100 list’ was launched in conjunction with its 100th anniversary in 2019. The selection committee consists of over 60 qualified individuals from academia, business, and the public sector.

This year, the Academy highlights a variety of research projects from Swedish universities, under the theme ‘Technology in the service of humanity - innovation through interdisciplinary science’. In total, 103 projects from 22 different universities and research institutes in Sweden were selected. Lund University had the third-highest number of projects after KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology.

“This demonstrates our continued ability to conduct research with great potential for utilisation. We are incredibly proud of Lund's extensive research capacity and our ability to transform it into concrete societal benefits and commercial opportunities,” says Niclas Nilsson, Director of Innovation at Lund University's innovation office.

All nine projects from Lund on IVA's list 2024

Prediction of osteoporotic hip fracture risk using engineering concepts – Hanna Isaksson, Lorenzo Grassi, Sami Vänäänen  

AI-enhanced forensic speech analysis - Evidence-based speaker comparison in Swedish – Susanna Whitling, Greta Öhlund Wistbacka, Andreas Jakobsson  

The Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (WBG) Pilot Line – Vanya Darakchieva, Mikael Östling, Erik Lind, Niklas Rorsman, Peter Modh, Per-Erik Hellström, Nerijus Armakavicius, Gerda Rentschler  

From hair to health - Non-invasive test for early cancer detection – Emma Hammarlund (Lund University), Kazi Uddin (Lund University), Per Malmberg (Chalmers), Kenneth Pienta (Johns Hopkins University  

Packaging Design and Development for Supply Chain Efficiency – Developing plant-based edible coating to replace plastic packaging - Vahid Sohrabpour, Arash Fayyazi, Pirjo Wiena, Lars Nilsson, Federico Gomez, Annika Olsson  

Novel ultrasound-based method to improve risk assessment of strokes and heart attacks – Tobias Erlöv, Isabel Goncalves, Magnus Cinthio  

Betensid - Biobased surfactants from birch bark - Sang Hyun Pyo, Leif Nilsson, Yoonsun Pyo  

Revolutionizing rAAV Gene Therapy – Breakthrough Technologies in Boosting Titers, Optimizing Packaging, and Scaling Purification for Market Readiness – Alex Evilevitch  

Ossigel: Bioengineering human mini-bones as a personalized therapeutic-testing platform – Dimitra Zacharaki, Alejandro Garcia Garcia, Paul Bourgine