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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.

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Major European grant to newly recruited Umeå researcher
Published: 2018-08-30

The European Research Council grants an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro to the group leade...

EU grant to young sociology researcher
Published: 2018-08-29

Researcher Anna Baranowska-Rataj has been granted EUR 1.5 million from the ERC for her frontier research.

Arcum joins the European Polar Board
Published: 2018-08-27

The organisation focuses on major European strategic priorities in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Protein interaction helps Yersinia cause disease
Published: 2018-08-23

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with an international team, have...

New book about the history of field research institutions
Published: 2018-08-15

Thirteen researchers study the history of field research institutions, from the 17th century and onward.

Good news for fishermen: “Browning” impacts fish less than expected
Published: 2018-08-15

Water color is getting darker in lakes across the planet. This phenomenon, known as “browning,” w...

Restoration project nominated for EU prize
Published: 2018-06-11

The restoration project ”Vindel River LIFE”, coordinated by Umeå University, is one of totally 28...

His dissertation is followed by the important establishment years
Published: 2018-05-29

Nils Skoglund starts to see the light at the end of the tunnel and a more stable life as a researcher.

Large grant to Umeå Institute of Design for research on how we are affected by our digital things
Published: 2018-01-29

Since we can’t exactly ‘look under the hood’ anymore on all the digital things we use in everyday...

Suna develops the language of robots
Published: 2017-11-23

Researcher Suna Bensch comes from Germany and investigates talking social robots.

MIMS hosted successful seventh National Infection Biology Network meeting
Published: 2017-10-23

The meeting was preceded by workshops on research communication and career planning for NDPIA.

Emmanuelle Charpentier wins Novozomes Prize for CRISPR-Cas9
Published: 2017-03-21

At a ceremony in Copenhagen on 17 March, Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier received the annual Novozomes Prize.

Wants to find out how plants time their flowering
Published: 2016-10-24

The onset of flowering is a central event in the life cycle of a plant and ensures reproduction....

She wants to explore the mysteries of life
Published: 2016-08-11

Natuschka Lee is looking for the for the origins of life and trying to understand how life has developed.

New drug against nerve agents in sight
Published: 2016-05-03

The nerve agent sarin causes a deadly overstimulation of the nervous system that can be stopped i...