Research infrastructure

AI for Medicine in Northern Sweden, AIM North, offers support with technical methods regarding machine learning and AI in clinical research projects.

Biobank Sweden is a national infrastructure for cooperation between Swedish regions and universities with a medical faculty on biobank related issues. The infrastructure also includes representatives from patient organisations and from industry associations.

Biobanken norr is part of Laboratory Medicine within Region Västerbotten. Biobanken norr consists partly of an organizational unit registered with the Health and Social Care Inspectorate (IVO) with registration number 472, and partly of an operational unit.

BICU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art imaging technology together with affinity measurements. The facility allows advanced live cell imaging studies and measurement of interactions of proteins with other proteins, RNA, lipids and carbohydrates. Together with UCEM, BICU forms a node in the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI), Sweden for Correlative imaging.

MT-R&D’s development and research support is a research infrastructure that offers extensive technical competence and equipment to researchers and healthcare professionals. By doing so, the infrastructure supports the implementation of research and development projects.

BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules. The facility allows measurements of affinity using different technologies, together with molecular weight analysis, folding and overall structure.

The Clinical Research Center is a joint resource for Region and University for near-patient clinical studies. The Clinical Research Center may provide support to researchers from an idea to a completed study: anything from research facilities, equipment and GCP (Good Clinical Practice)-trained nurses to regulatory and administrative support in planning of a new clinical trial, management and end reports. At the Center both academic and corporate-sponsored studies are conducted.

Clinical Studies Sweden – Forum North is a platform for research-supporting infrastructure with the goal of facilitating the implementation of studies and increasing the availability of study participants throughout the northern healthcare region. Forum North is based on collaboration between Region Norrbotten, Region Jämtland Härjedalen, Region Västerbotten, Region Västernorrland, and Umeå University.

The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is one of the world's largest cohort studies and includes more than half a million (521 000) participants from ten European countries. EPIC was designed to study the association between diet, nutrition status, lifestyle, environmental factors, and the occurrence of cancer and other chronic diseases.

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). Methylation modifications play a crucial role in regulating gene expression by influencing the accessibility of the DNA. Changes in DNA methylation patterns can impact various cellular functions and are implicated in development, aging, and disease.

Euro-BioImaging is a European research infrastructure that provides world-class biological and biomedical imaging services to life science researchers across Europe.

Clinical Genomics Umeå is a joint venture between Umeå University and the clinical laboratories at Umeå University Hospital. It operates in a tight collaboration with Genomic Medicine Center North and is an integrated part of the Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University.

High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) is a national center for Scientific and Parallel Computing.

The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden, NAISS, is an infrastructure organisation for high-performance computing (HPC), storage, and data services for academic users in Sweden.

NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community. We offer a broad spectrum of services, including advanced bioinformatics analysis, bioimage informatics, data management, imaging AI support, systems and tools development, and support to national compute resources.

The Swedish national research infrastructure for microscopy in life sciences NMI provides open access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise in microscopy, and coordinates the participation in international microscopy infrastructures (EuroBioImaging).

Biobank and database for children and young adults in Västerbotten.

Register Centre North is a unit at Region Västerbotten aiming for high quality regarding register data, knowledge management and clinical research. Register Centre North develops and operates existing and new quality registers. We perform clinical improvement work, statistical analysis and reports and offer IT technical solutions. Our statisticians and epidemiologists have broad expertise and experience in many different types of clinical studies.

Small Animal Research Imaging Facility (SARIF) is an infrastructure that consists of five instruments that allow advanced imaging of structures and processes that take place inside the experimental animal. These instruments enable the same animal to be analyzed on several occasions and over a long period.

SwedNMR is a national research infrastructure that provides access to state-of-the-art NMR instrumentation as well as expert support in all fields of NMR spectroscopy.

The Northern Sweden Diet Database (NSDD) contains refined dietary data from the counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten.

The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS) is one of Sweden’s largest population-based cohort studies with biobank samples and includes approximately 150 000 unique participants. NSHDS has a very long follow-up period and documented high sample quality. For around 65 000 individuals, there are repeated blood samples from different sampling occasions, often taken before the individual fell ill.

The MONICA Study was initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an international survey to measure trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease. The MONICA registries for stroke, heart attack and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest monitor trends in the incidence of these cardiovascular diseases in the counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten.

The Section of Biobank and Registry Support support researchers within the entire Faculty of Medicine with questions related to biobank and registry studies, and coordinate access to biobank samples and data from a number of sample collections and registers.

The national research infrastructure The Swedish Twin Registry contains is the largest of its kind and an invaluable resource for medical research.

The infrastructure offers a combination of multiphoton and imaging systems at high spatio-temporal resolution, combined with other physiological equipment for electrophysiology and imaging, in the living organism (mammals, zebrafish, etc), but also in vitro experiments.

(UFBI) is an inter-disciplinary research center where imaging techniques are used to examine brain structure and function in relation to both basic and clinical questions. To date, more than 100 UmU researchers and more than 50 external researchers have been involved in UFBI-projects as co-authors on publications based on data collected at UFBI.

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

Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) is a university and national resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques.

A facility for performing experiments under hypoxic conditions has been created at the Molecular Biology Department at Umeå University.

A research infrastructure giving access to health and socio-economic individual data on the whole Swedish population. Main research themes include “Childhood living conditions in connection with lifelong health and welfare”, as well as “Health and socio-economic inequalities in a lifecourse perspective.”

Umeå Transgenic Core Facility (UTCF) is housed within UCCB and is a fully integrated platform for generation, maintenance and DNA analysis of genetically modified animals. The transgenic facility performs pronuclear injections, blastocyst injections, embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, and sperm cryopreservation.

Flow cytometry enables simultaneously analysis of cell surface bound as well as intracellular proteins and RNA expression on a single cell basis. In addition, secreted proteins can be analyzed using a bead based systems.

Umeå Zebrafish Facility (UZF) is the Umeå University facility for Zebrafish research.

UMeHealth is a regional competence centre for research, education and collaboration on intelligent, person-tailored eHealth interventions, behaviour change systems and decision support. UMeHealth strives to be a cross-disciplinary meeting point that transcends knowledge domains and engages citizens in developing their future digital tools for improving health and wellbeing.