The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is awarding SEK 255 million to life sciences, with a focus on clinical research, to be shared between the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University.
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The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden
MIMS is the Swedish partner in the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
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MIMS Clinical Research Fellowships - 2026 Call
MIMS Clinical Research Fellowships provide early-career clinicians with an opportunity to develop a research project in the broad area of infection medicine in collaboration with a basic researcher.
Application period closes: 16 January 2026. Find full description and apply here.
Multi-million grant to MIMS and WCMM
2025 MIMS Investigator Award Announcement
The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) announces four recipients of the 2025 MIMS Investigator Award, recognizing early-career group leaders with a strong track record. The award aims to foster interactions between Swedish scientists and the EMBL network.
The ERC awards Consolidator Grant to Barbara Sixt
The European Research Council (ERC) provides funding for five years with the Consolidator Grant to Barbara Sixt's research on chalmydia at Umeå University. Barbara Sixt is a group leader at MIMS and affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology.
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Reading the code of life – data-driven life science
Watch this video to join the researchers within the DDLS program in their quest for new knowledge.
Breakthrough: Pathway of TBE virus entry into the body discovered
Scientific article: LRP8 is a receptor for tick-borne encephalitis virus. Nature (2025)
Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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