MIMS Alumni

Professor Bernt Eric Uhlin was the Founding Director of both MIMS and UCMR, and he steered MIMS until the autumn of 2018. On his side, Professor Anders Sjöstedt (until 2015) and Professor Maria Fällman (2015-2021) acted as Deputy Directors.

Former members of MIMS Leadership

Bernt Eric Uhlin

MIMS Founding Director (2007-2018)

Anders Sjöstedt

MIMS Deputy Director (2007-2015)

Maria Fällman

MIMS Deputy Director (2015-2021), MIMS Senior Principal Investigator since 2022

The years 2008-2009 marked the start of the first junior MIMS group leaders employed according to EMBL principles. At the same time, a number of MIMS-affiliated group leaders also began their term of office and were recruited based on a different model than EMBL.

Former MIMS Group Leaders

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Former MIMS Group Leader (2008-2013), Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 2020

Andrei Chabes

Former MIMS affiliated Group Leader (2008-2017)

Niklas Arnberg

Former MIMS affiliated Group Leader (2008-2017)

Constantin Urban

Former MIMS Group Leader (2009-2013)

Jörgen Johansson

Former MIMS Group Leader (2009-2018)

Nelson Gekara

Former MIMS Group Leader (2010-2019)

Anna Överby Wernstedt

Former MIMS Group Leader (2011-2020), MIMS Deputy Director since 2022

Richard Lundmark

Former MIMS Group Leader (2011-2015), MIMS Team Leader since 2016

Felipe Cava

Former MIMS Group Leader (2013-2019), MIMS Senior Principal Investigator since 2022

Vasili Hauryliuk

Former MIMS Group Leader (2013-2021)

Jonas Barandun

Former MIMS Group Leader (2019-2022)

To strengthen clinical research and more closely incorporate it with preclinical research, MIMS decided in 2009 to initiate a program for Clinical Research Fellows. This programme has the intention to connect existing clinical research projects with preclinical research, and offers resources corresponding to research positions for young clinicians who can contribute to a fruitful translational interaction between clinicians and MIMS research programs.
The MIMS Clinical Fellowships later evolved into a national programme, with awards going to clinicians at all major university hospitals in Sweden.

Former MIMS Clinical Research Fellows

Åsa Gylfe
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2011-2013
Topic: Strategies against antibiotic resistant bacterial infections: novel antibacterial compounds and rapid diadnosis with infection specific metabolites

Currently: Assistant professor/attending physician at Umeå University
Department of Clinical Microbiology

Alicia Edin
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2011-2013
Topic: Rapid diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia

Currently: Researcher/physician at Umeå University
Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences

Anders Johansson
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2011-2013
Topic: Molecular epidemiology and infection metabolomics

Currently: Professor/attending physician at Umeå University
Department of Clinical Microbiology

Johan Normark
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2011-2013
Topic: Malaria and bacterial concomitant infection

Currently: Associate professor/attending physician at Umeå University
Department of Clinical Microbiology

Peter Bergman
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2013-2015
Topic: Vitamin D and human immunity - experimental and clinical studies

Currently: Professor/senior physician at Karolinska Institute
Department of Laboratory Medicine

Arvid Edén
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2013-2015
Topic: Central nervous system viral "escape" and neuronal damage in HIV-1 infection

Currently: Researcher at University of Gothenburg
Department of Infectious Diseases

Josef Järhult
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2013-2015
Topic: Antimicrobial resistance in a One Health perspective

Currently: Professor at Uppsala University
Department of Medical Sciences

Fredrik Kahn
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2013-2015
Topic: Bacterial manipulation of host defence systems in sepsis

Currently: Researcher at Lund University
Infection Medicine

Sofia Nyström
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2013-2015
Topic: Immunomodulatory effects exerted by HIV-1 on dendritic cells and the induction of regulatory suppressor T cells

Currently: Adjunct associate professor, docent at Linköping University
Department of Biomedical Sciences

Lisa Påhlman
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2018-2022
Topic: Acute and chronic airway infections in cystic fibrosis

Currently: Researcher/physician/associate professor at Lund University
Infection Medicine

Piotr Nowak
MIMS Clinical Research Fellow 2018-2022
Topic: The studies of gut microbiome in HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections

Currently: Adjunct senior lecturer at Karolinska Institute
Department of Medicine

Latest update: 2023-06-22 Page editor: nora.lehotai@umu.se

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