nmC@LU is an interdisciplinary research environment in nanoscience. One focus of the multi-disciplinary Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University (http://nano.lth.se) is on materials science and synthesis. Viveka Alfredsson, Tommy Nylander, Ulf Olsson are associated with this program. Multipark is a translational program that ranges from pre-clinical research to studies on the life situation of patients with Parkinson’s disease (www.med.lu.se/multipark). Emma Sparr is associated partner in this program, participating in subproject dealing with biophysical studies of protein-membrane interactions.