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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

New formal methods for natural language processing
Published: 2019-01-17

Computers represents the semantic meaning of a sentence by graphs. These graphs can be made more explicit.

Moon Eclipse -time!
Published: 2019-01-15

If you would like to see the moon eclipse through a telescope, come visit us at Umevatoriet Monday morning!

IDS celebrates 10-year jubilee and continues to strive upwards
Published: 2019-01-14

Umeå University’s Industrial Doctoral School (IDS) is celebrating its first decade of successful activities.

If a leaf can do it – we can do it too!
Published: 2018-12-27

Anurag Kawde shows that mimicking the leaf to harvest solar energy is possible in a cost effective way.

9 million to cancer research from the Sjöberg Foundation
Published: 2018-12-21

Researchers Per Fransson and Daniel Öhlund receive 9 million SEK from for research in pancreatic cancer.

Mistra Digital Forest is paving the way for robotics in the woods
Published: 2018-12-11

Joins forest industry with academy to create digital solutions for sustainable bioeconomy.

Drug residues make bottom-dwelling animals walking pills
Published: 2018-11-22

Annelie Lagesson shows that small bottom-dwelling organisms are the largest recipients of drug residues.

Developing molecules that disarm Listeria and Chlamydia bacteria
Published: 2018-11-22

Martina Kulén develops new types of antibiotics that do not kill bacteria, but only disarm them.

New professor with focus on ethical and societal impact of AI
Published: 2018-10-22

Virigina Dignum, Computing Science, is one of the new professors within the WASP project.

Novel strategy to analyse biomarkers in exhaled breath
Published: 2018-10-15

In his dissertation, Ramin Ghorbani presents a novel methodology for the analysis of real-time breath data.

Honorary doctor Denis Mukwege wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Published: 2018-10-05

For his efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Fernström Prize for research on bacterial cell walls
Published: 2018-09-14

Felipe Cava has been awarded the 2018 Fernström Prize at Umeå University.

SEK 24 million to research on tuberculosis and antibiotic resistance
Published: 2018-09-10

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection causes approximately nine million new cases of tuberculosis each year.

ALS disease mechanism discovered
Published: 2018-09-04

The discovery can open up for novel pharmaceutical developments in the future.

Greenhouse emissions from Siberian rivers peak as permafrost thaws
Published: 2018-09-04

Thawing permafrost makes greenhouse emissions from rivers peak, a recent study from Umeå University shows.