We spoke to virologist and stem cell biologist Meaghan Flagg who joins The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University as a new EMBL-style group leader. She is joining the MIMS with a mission to understand, and ultimately treat, the severe lung damage caused by emerging respiratory viruses.
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A new lens to lung repair with Meaghan Flagg
Reading the history of epidemics in pathogen DNA with Andrew Magee
We spoke to phylodynamicist Andrew Magee who joins The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), the Department of Molecular Biology and the Integrated Science Lab (IceLab) as a new Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) Group Leader.
A new platform strengthens proteomics in Umeå
Driven by a shared passion for proteomics and its potential to advance scientific discovery, two researchers, André Mateus and Iker Valle Aramburu, transformed their vision into reality: The Umeå Proteomics Platform (UPP).
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