UCMR shapes and further develops Umeå University's environment for microbial research and is a Linnaeus Centre of Excellence. In 2020, one of the centre's alumni group leaders, Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her outstanding work on CRISPR-Cas9.
Milestones in the history of UCMR.
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UCMR is located at Umeå University, the flagship university in Northern Sweden. UCMR brings together research groups at Umeå University in a wide range of fields. This includes microbial pathogenesis, molecular biology, cell biology, chemistry, clinical microbiology, structural biology, immunology, epidemiology, microbial ecology, physics, mathematics and data-driven science.
Together, UCMR establishes an inspiring and sustainable environment for microbial research at Umeå University. Today, 77 research leaders and their research groups are affiliated to UCMR.
Cutting-edge research is underway here. A groundbreaking discovery was Emmanuelle Charpentier's outstanding work on the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020. When the discovery was made, Emmanuelle Charpentier was working at Umeå University. She was one of the first group leaders recruited to the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, sprung from UCMR.
UCMR was appointed a Linnaeus Centre of Excellence in 2008 and received a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council. In 2020, the 40 different centres within the programme were evaluated by an international panel of experts. UCMR was ranked among the top three in all three areas; research results, societal relevance and international competitiveness. The panel characterised UCMR as "the jewel in the crown".
UCMR's mission is to shape and further develop Umeå University's environment for microbial research. The core values are excellence, interdisciplinarity and collaboration.
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The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, at Umeå University is the Swedish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. The centre is a close collaborator and the international branch of Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, UCMR.
77 research groups are affiliated to UCMR.
Research leaders who were previously UCMR PIs.
