UCMR Principal investigators get financing for two KBC Postdoctoral projects
NEWS
Decisions have now been made concerning KBC Postdoctoral fellowship projects 2023. Six postdoctoral projects will be financed for a period of two years by the Kempe Foundations, where of two projects have applicants affiliated to UCMR.
Text: Ingrid Söderbergh
"The KBC Postdoctoral Programme" is funded by the Kempe Foundations and is intended to foster interactions between KBC departments at Umeå University. The call is open for collaborative projects between at least two principal investigators employed at separate KBC-affiliated departments or research centres.
Six postdoctor stipends of 336 000 SEK/year for a period of two years are financed by the Kempe Foundations.
UCMR principal investigators in granted projects:
Project: Canonical and non-canonical roles of autophagy in positive-sense RNA virus replication Lars-Anders Carlson, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCMR Yaowen Wu, Department of Chemistry, Director of UCMR
Project: Development of multi-omics array platform based on highly sensitive nanoplasmonic chip Thomas Wågberg, Department of Physics Ulrika Westerlind, Department of Chemistry, UCMR