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MAMA Research Hub is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to advancing individualized, equitable, and evidence-based maternal maternity care and postpartum care through research, education, and clinical collaboration.

With modern intensive care technology, an increasing number of prematurely born babies survive. But how are they doing later? Ulrika Ådén wants to offer effective interventions to address increased risk of e.g. autism, ADHD and learning difficulties.

Our research aims to understand the function of DNA methylation in the biology of human CD4+ T-cells, and use this knowledge to dissect its role in disease.

Reproduction is, for its comparative strength and dynamic character, a major sentinel of the health of animals and humans. Basic discoveries in relation to sperm selection and preservation of cell integrity have been central in our research.

The Division of Children鈥檚 and Women鈥檚 Health consists of a number of different research and educational areas - obstetrics / gynecology and pediatrics.

Early hydrocortisone treatment of extremely premature babies increases their chances of survival without lung disease, according to a study led by LiU. The study also shows that the treatment is safe to give.

Researchers have identified a protein pattern that, already at birth, looks markedly different in those who later go on to develop type 1 diabetes. The findings show that a combination of several factors during pregnancy affects disease risk.

It should not matter where in the country a woman gives birth. Nor should her background. A new research centre is therefore being set up, to make the entire care chain for expectant and new mothers more equal and based on their individual needs.

Colm Nestor has been awarded the 2025 Onkel Adam Prize for outstanding research at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. One of his research areas is gender differences in susceptibility to autoimmune diseases and infections.

The aim of the N-forte trial is to explore how breast milk composition influences the development of NEC, sepsis and neurological impairment in extremely preterm infants in order to improve future treatments in this patient group.