Major investments have been made in the hospital campuses in Malmö and Lund in recent decades. Investments that the hospitals have made together with the universities of Lund and Malmö.
These investments have created obvious meeting places for research scientists, students and care personnel. Questions and experience from meetings with patients at the clinic are brought into the laboratory. The research results are then fed back to the patients in the form of new improved methods of diagnosis and treatment, new drugs and new techniques.
The amalgamation of the hospitals is intended to create even better foundations for research. Among other things, the amalgamation means greater opportunities for research into more specialised and unusual diseases.
The intention is also for Skåne University Hospital, together with the medical faculty at Lund University, to implement strategic integration leading to the formation of the University Medical Centre Skåne (UMCS). A new form of collaboration which is going to put Skåne's clinical research on the world map and promote better conditions for researchers.
The recently formed centre is not intended to be a physical function but is intended to be developed into a structured collaborative venture between Region Skåne and the Medical Faculty at Lund University.
Important years for research
1948 Signing of the agreement with the Swedish government to allow Malmö General Hospital to carry out clinical teaching.
1989 Inauguration of the MFC, the Medical Research Centre, (Lund University), donated by Gunnar Sandberg, on the hospital campus in Lund
1994 Completion of the Wallenberg Laboratory in Malmö. Research teams within different areas at the hospital were given new opportunities to carry out clinical research.
2001 Inauguration of the BMC, the Biomedical Centre (Lund University) adjacent to the hospital in Lund, gathering highly specialised research, training and healthcare under one roof.
2002 Inauguration of Region Skåne's Competence Centre for Research (RSKC) in Lund.
2003 The move of Malmö University's Faculty for Health and Society into a new building on the hospital campus in Malmö.
2004 Inauguration of the Diagnostic Centre – at the time of its opening, one of the most modern diagnostic imaging clinics in the world.
2004 Introduction of the world's most
advanced patient simulator at the Simulator Centre in Malmö. The training activities cover all categories of medical care staff and students.
2005 Inauguration of Practicum – the Lund Clinical Skills Centre, with basic, specialist and advanced training courses for all professional categories within healthcare and medical treatment.
2006 Inauguration of CRC, the Clinical Research Centre (Lund University) in Malmö. A new meeting place for highly specialised research, training and medical treatment, gathered together under one and the same roof.
2008 The opening of the doors of Region Skåne's Competence Centre for Research (RSKC), creating new opportunities for advanced research on the basis of one central biobank department.