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Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests in infection medicine

The financial support is included in a national investment into Life Science.

Research news

Action to save bees and other insects in Northern Sweden!
Published: 2019-07-23

The University draws attention to the crisis situation and starts research on insects in Northern Sweden.

Miniaturized version of ribosome found in microsporidia
Published: 2019-07-22

Near atomic details of the smallest known eukaryotic cytoplasmic protein synthesis machine provided.

Changing Things - Designing for Transparency in a Digital World
Published: 2019-07-19

In Changing Things: Future of Objects in a Digital World, design of digital products are analysed .

Gaining new experience through a doctoral student exchange in South Korea
Published: 2019-06-24

Helena, PhD at IDS, experiences life in South Korea through an exchange with Hanyang University.

Testing designed carbon materials to purify wastewater
Published: 2019-06-24

Mirva shows that the capacity of the tested carbon materials to separate organic water pollution was low.

American PhD students study global climate problems at Umeå University
Published: 2019-06-11

US PhD students visit CIRC this summer to research the role of arctic lakes and rivers in the carbon cycle.

Biological processes influence how Arctic rivers emit carbon dioxide
Published: 2019-06-09

Arctic waters contributes largely to global carbon dioxide emissions and we need to better understand how.

Umeå University to lead prestigious AI program
Published: 2019-06-04

Umeå University will host a SEK 660 million initiative by the Wallenberg Foundations for research in AI.

Explaining the shape of a leaf with the help of systems biology
Published: 2019-06-03

Barbara Terebieniec has in her thesis identified genes that control the leaf shape of the European aspen.

Arctic lakes and rivers can lose the diversity of freshwater species
Published: 2019-05-22

Climate change threatens the Arctic freshwater ecosystems according to a new report published in May.

The Kempe Foundation issues major funding for integrated structural biology
Published: 2019-05-17

A large grant from Kempe initiates a postdoctoral programme to stimulate bold structural biology research.

PhD students with a focus on cloud computing
Published: 2019-05-10

PhD students attended a two-day course in cloud computing.

New strategy may improve tuberculosis treatment
Published: 2019-05-09

An American-Umeå team shows in PNAS a molecule that prevents resistance to antibiotic treating tuberculosis.

Skytteanska samfundet prize to Nils Skoglund
Published: 2019-04-18

Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet has chosen to give Nils Skoglund the organisation’s prize of SEK 40,000.

High Greenhouse gas emissions from Western Siberian lakes
Published: 2019-04-11

A study by CIRC in Nature Communications shows that CO2-emissions from Western Siberia lakes are high.