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Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine

The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) conducts research in cancer, infection biology, neuroscience and metabolic disorders including diabetes. WCMM at UmU is part of a nationwide effort to strengthen molecular life science in an initiative by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Background

WCMM is part of a national effort to strengthen excellent life science research in molecular life sciences

Leadership and organization

Organization including contact info for directors, coordinator, controller, steering committee and SAB

Research

Young WCMM group leaders conduct research in molecular medicine - from laboratory to the clinic

Features

A challenge to find the solution to pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer can resist most existing treatments and the five-year survival rate is low.

Targeting cancer cells without affecting healthy cells

Francesca Aguilos work lies at the cutting edge of biomedical research and cancer.

Glaucoma – the silent thief of sight

“Despite decades of research, we still don’t know exactly what causes the disease.”

Publications

Publications from WCMM Fellows and WCMM-associated researchers

Marta Bally
Ronnie Berntsson
Silvia Remeseiro
Gauti Jóhannesson

News

Discovery of bacteria's defence against viruses becomes a piece of the puzzle against resistance
Published: 2025-04-04

Resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria defend against being infected by viruses.

New study reveals how Omicron binds more strongly to human cells
Published: 2025-04-01

A new attachment point to the cell may affect the virus's infection, spread and disease symptoms.

New Cancer Fund millions for UMU research
Published: 2024-12-06

Ten projects at Umeå University receive a total of 30 million SEK from the Swedish Cancer Society.

ERC funding for research on ageing brain
Published: 2024-12-04

Alireza Salami, Department of Medical and Translational Biology, has received an ERC Consolidation Grant.

New microscope will reveal 3D cell structures at nanoscales
Published: 2024-11-29

The new FIB-SEM instrument was inaugurated in November 2024.

Calender

Integrated Biomedical Science seminar: Wanli Liu
Fri
25
Apr
Integrated Biomedical Science seminar: Wanli Liu
Time 14:00 - 15:00 25 April 14:00 - 15:00
Place Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L

Seminar. Wanli Liu from Tsinghua University in China gives a lecture.

Discover your sample in 3D using volume EM by FIB-SEM
Tue
29
Apr
Discover your sample in 3D using volume EM by FIB-SEM
Time 12:00 - 13:00 29 April 12:00 - 13:00
Place Glasburen, KBC, and Zoom

Seminar. SciLifeLab Site Umeå / KBC Infrastructure Seminar Series

Medchem Seminar Series - Karl Kochanowski, IRTA-CReSA, Barcelona
Tue
29
Apr
Medchem Seminar Series - Karl Kochanowski, IRTA-CReSA, Barcelona
Time 15:15 - 16:00 29 April 15:15 - 16:00
Place KB.E3.01 (Lilla hörsalen), KBC

Seminar. Title: "Mapping the in vitro metabolic interaction network of a nasal microbiota community"

May

Integrated Biomedical Science seminar: Mario Feldman
Fri
2
May
Integrated Biomedical Science seminar: Mario Feldman
Time 14:00 - 15:00 2 May 14:00 - 15:00
Place Major Groove at the Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L

Seminar. Mario Feldman from Washington University School of Medicine in the US gives a lecture.

Cryo-focused ion beam milling (cryo-FIB-SEM): Taking you where you need to go
Tue
6
May
Cryo-focused ion beam milling (cryo-FIB-SEM): Taking you where you need to go
Time 12:00 - 13:00 6 May 12:00 - 13:00
Place Glasburen, KBC, and Zoom

Seminar. SciLifeLab Site Umeå / KBC Infrastructure Seminar Series

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