Research Infrastructure

It is possible for researchers to join Biobanken norr organizationally and then choose to use other services.

Research area: Cancer

BICU is an interdisciplinary facility providing state-of-the-art imaging technology with affinity measurements

Research area: Cancer, Infection biology

Biomedical Engineering – Research and Development (R&D)

The Department of Biomedical Engineering-R&D at University Hospital of Umeå is an important partner in e.g, developing equipment or as a technical...

Research area: Ageing research, Cancer, Clinical medicine, Medical technology, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences

BioMolecular Characterization Umeå

BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules.

Research area: Biological sciences, Cancer, Chemical sciences, Infection biology, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine

Clinical Research Center

The Clinical Research Center is a joint resource for Region and University for near-patient clinical studies. The Clinical Research Center may...

Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences

Clinical Studies Sweden – Forum North

Clinical Studies Sweden – Forum North is a platform for research-supporting infrastructure with the goal of facilitating the implementation of...

Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine

EPIC - The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

EPIC was designed to study associations between diet, nutrition, lifestyle, environment, and disease.

Research area: Cancer, Public health and health care science

Epigenetic Platform Umeå

DNA methylation is the process through which a methyl group is added to DNA nucleotides, most commonly at the 5-carbon position of cytosine (5mC)....

Research area: Cancer

Flow@CliMi

Analysis of cell surface bound as well as intracellular proteins and RNA expression with flow cytometry.

Research area: Biological sciences, Cancer, Clinical medicine, Infection biology, Molecular medicine, Odontology

Kostdatabas i norra Sverige (NSDD)

NSDD contains refined dietary data based on food frequency questionnaries from Norrbotten and Västerbotten.

Research area: Ageing research, Cancer, Clinical medicine, Public health and health care science

Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study, NSHDS

NSHDS is one of Sweden’s largest population-based biobank cohort studies with almost 150 000 participants.

NorthPop

Biobank and database for children and young adults in Västerbotten.

Research area: Clinical medicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences, Public health and health care science

PREDICT

Personalised screening, risk prediction, and understanding disease trajectories for early detection of disease - An integrated cohort approach.

Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Public health and health care science

SARIF

SARIF consists of five instruments that allow advanced imaging of structures and processes.

The Biobank Research Unit

The Biobank Research Unit coordinates access to register data and samples from about 50 sample collections.

Research area: Cancer, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences

Two-photon in vivo physiology

The infrastructure offers a combination of multiphoton and imaging systems at high spatio-temporal resolution, combined with other physiological...

Research area: Biological sciences, Botany

Umeå center for functional brain imaging (UFBI)

(UFBI) is an inter-disciplinary research center where imaging techniques are used to examine brain structure and function in relation to both basic...

Research area: Ageing research, Molecular biology and genetics, Neurosciences

Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB)

Biomedical research on experimental animals at Umeå University is organized within Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB).

Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine, Infection biology, Medical technology, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences, Odontology

Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)

UCEM is a joint resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques.

Research area: Infection biology, Molecular medicine

Umeå SIMSAM Lab

Research area: Demography, Public health and health care science, Sociology, Statistics

Umeå Transgene Core Facility, UTCF

Umeå Transgenic Core Facility (UTCF) is housed within UCCB and is a fully integrated platform for generation, maintenance and DNA analysis of...