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Research network links groups working on extracellular vesicles (EVs) at Umeå University and Umeå University Hospital (Norrlands Universitetssjukhus) and acts as a node for the national Swedish Extracellular Vesicle Network (SweSEV).
Umeå has a number of supporting research infrastructures.
Connects researchers and facilitates the organization of events and participation in European grants.
Extracellular vesicles, EVs, are nanosized particles surrounded by a membrane lipid bilayer and are secreted by almost all cell types. Research into the biology of extracellular vesicles from humans, bacteria, plants, etc., and using them for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, is growing rapidly and across many fields.
The Umeå Extracellular Vesicle Network includes researchers working with EVs from a range of different cell types including microbial membrane vesicles and EVs from human cells.
Ongoing projects involve work on understanding the biogenesis of EVs and their cargos, EV signalling in cancer, regenerative biology, diagnosis of disease, etc.
