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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

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...

CRISPR enzyme scissors cutting both DNA and RNA
Published: 2016-04-29

Discoveries on the CRISPR-Cpf1 enzyme are expected to open up for new opportunities to edit genes.

Umeå University EC Jubilee Award 2015
Published: 2015-06-24

Umeå University honours Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier for her pioneering research

Aesthetic experiences in the gallery of mathematics
Published: 2014-10-23

Manya Raman-Sundström and Lars-Daniel Öhman are tackling beauty in mathematics with great enthusiasm.

Med upptäckande som drivkraft
Published: 2014-06-30

Anna Linusson Jonsson has a passion for collaboration and wants her research to make a difference.

Multimedia content to be more searchable
Published: 2013-11-22

In the future, the content of videos, pictures and audio will be searched similarly to text conte...

Selection drives functional evolution of large enzyme families
Published: 2013-09-11

The study shows how natural selection drives functional evolution of a large protein family in conifer trees.

Fish become bolder and more gluttonous from drug residue
Published: 2013-02-14

Anxiety-moderating drugs create fearless and asocial fish that eat more quickly than normal.

17 research projects receive funding from the Swedish Cancer Society
Published: 2011-11-09

The Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) has announced that will grant more than SEK 27 million ...