UCMR promotes interdisciplinary cutting-edge microbial research and is a national Linnaeus Center of Excellence. The latest groundbreaking discovery is Emmanuelle Charpentier's work on the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, for which she was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Milestones in the history of UCMR.
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UCMR is located at Umeå University, the flagship university in Northern Sweden. It is an interdisciplinary consortium of academic research groups with outstanding track records in the fields of microbial pathogenesis, molecular and cell biology, chemistry, clinical microbiology, structural biology, immunology, epidemiology, microbial ecology, physics, mathematics, and data-driven science.
Together, with joined forces UCMR is establishing a world-leading and sustainable science environment promoting cutting-edge microbial research at Umeå University. As of today, 77 principal investigators and their research groups are affiliated to UCMR.
The recent ground-breaking discovery is Emmanuelle Charpentier’s seminal work of the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, for which she was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. When the discovery was made, Emmanuelle Charpentier was active at Umeå University. She was one of the first recruited group leaders at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) sprung from UCMR.
UCMR was a Swedish Linnaeus Centre of Excellence 2008-2018. In 2008 the consortium was awarded a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council. In 2020 the 40 different Centers of Excellence within the Linnaeus programme were evaluated by an international expert panel. UCMR was ranked among the top three in all three areas; research performance, societal relevance, and international competitiveness. The panel characterized UCMR as "the jewel in the crown".
The vision of UCMR is to develop an inspiring science environment promoting cutting-edge microbial research.
The way forward:
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.
