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Discovery may open new way to attack prostate cancer

Activating instead of blocking a special protein can open a new way to fight some forms of prostate cancer.

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Nanoplastics can impair the effect of antibiotics

Minuscule plastic particles can reduce effect of antibiotics and risk causing resistance, according to study.

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Proteins are key when antibiotic resistance spreads

New thesis shows that special proteins are used when resistance to antibiotics spreads between bacteria,

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New findings on stem cells and development of cancer

A discovery of how stem cells becomes specialised cells provides new understanding of how cancer develops.

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Study unveals a novel protective mechanism in bacterial cell wall

A crosslinking mode in the bacteria's cell wall inhibits degrading enzyms and thus protects the bacteria.

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Degradation of cell wall key in the spread of resistance

New study shows how an enzyme breaks down the bacteria's cell wall to transfer resistance to antibiotics.

Features

Gut bacteria can provide clues to curing diseases

André Mateus researches how drugs and the microbiome in the human gut work together.

Four-stranded DNA in a new type of cancer therapy

Nasim Sabouris research findings are forming the basis for efforts to develop new cancer therapeutics.

Targeting cancer cells without affecting healthy cells

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

Charpentier: "I really miss the atmosphere at Umeå University"

Words of praise, memories and laughter. Celebrating Umeå's first Nobel laureate via a live web link.

Successful exchange of Ph.D. students, teachers and projects

There are many positive and colourful outcomes of an Erasmus+ financed exchange program.

The aim is to develop new antibiotics

Felipe Cava wants to learn more about the small and complex microbes.

Research infrastructures

Biomedical Engineering – Research and Development (MT-R&D)
MT-R&D’s development and research support is a research infrastructure that offers extensive technical competence and equipment to researchers and...
BioMolecular Characterization Umeå
BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules.
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...
Flow@CliMi
Analysis of cell surface bound as well as intracellular proteins and RNA expression with flow cytometry.
National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community.
NorthPop
Biobank and database for children and young adults in Västerbotten.
PREDICT
Personalised screening, risk prediction, and understanding disease trajectories for early detection of disease - An integrated cohort approach.
The Section of Biobank and Registry Support
Section of Biobank and Registry Support coordinates access to register data and sample collections.
Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB)
Biomedical research on experimental animals at Umeå University is organized within Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB).
Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)
UCEM is a joint resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques.

Research groups

Andreas Hörnblad lab
Gene regulatory mechanisms in obesity-associated liver cancer and development
Research area: Cancer, Molecular medicine
Andreas Kohler Lab
Mitochondrial protein quality control in health, ageing and disease
Björn Schröder lab
Gut microbiota and intestinal mucosal barrier function.
Changchun Chen lab
We are investigating acute and chronic oxygen sensation in the nematode C. elegans.
Danielson/Backman Laboratory
Lab of Professor Patrik Danielson and Associate Professor Ludvig Backman and co-workers.
Gemma Atkinson group
Functional evolution of stress response proteins as well as translation and antibiotic resistance factors.
Research area: Molecular medicine
Helena Edlund
Type 2 diabetes and β-cell function
Research area: Molecular medicine
Iker Aramburu lab
We are studying the role that microproteins and disordered proteins play in innate immune processes.
Jan Oscarsson Lab
Our group studies mechanisms of the bacterium A. actinomycetemcomitans and periodontal diseases.
Jonas von Hofsten lab
Muscle development and regeneration. During embryonic development, cells become committed to the myogenic fate through the activation of myogenic...
Research area: Cancer, Molecular medicine
Kristoffer Sahlholm-research group
Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow: Neuroscience Dopamine receptor pharmacology and function.
Research area: Molecular medicine
Laboratory of Neurodegeneration and Repair
Parkinson’s disease - etiology, neuroprotection and symptomatology
Leif Carlsson
The role of the LIM-homeobox gene Lhx2 in stem cell function, organ development and disease
Research area: Molecular medicine
Lena Gunhaga
Early development of the nervous system
Linda Sandblad lab
Electron microscopy methods to study bacteria cytoskeleton structure, assembly and spatial organization.

Research projects

High-speed mid-infrared photothermal imaging of fatty acids and lipid droplets in living cells
Duration 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
Development of a new tularemia vaccine
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Prostate cancer therapy for COVID-19
Duration 8 June 2020 until 31 May 2022
Type of project Research project
Artificial intelligence in oncology: European REVERT
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Mosquito-borne zoonosis in animals and humans
Research area: Molecular medicine
Duration 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2017
Type of project Research project
Neuromuscular injuries in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Duration 10 October 2013
Type of project Research project
CD47 and signal regulatory protein a (SIRP a) modulates innate immune and autoimmune responses
Research area: Molecular medicine
Duration 28 October 2011 until 31 December 2013
Type of project Research project