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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

Honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science and Technology
Published: 2019-07-23

Professor John Anderson and designer Anne Asensio are honorary doctors at Faculty of Science and Technology.

How antibiotic-resistant bacteria gain their ability to adhere
Published: 2022-07-28

Infection researchers show in Nature structure and mechanism of bacterium A. baumannii attaching pilis.

How can competitors collaborate for sustainability?
Published: 2021-12-06

What results are achieved when competing companies work together to achieve sustainability goals?

How do Swedish industry respond to improved energy efficiency?
Published: 2020-11-24

New thesis studies how energy efficiency and environmental regulation affect the Swedish industrial sector.

How plants protect themselves from strong light
Published: 2022-09-14

A new study uncovers a new mechanism for how plants protect themselves from strong illumination.

How to combine economic growth with climate sustainability
Published: 2020-12-17

New project searches for policies that will reduce emissions without harming the economy.

How to maintain gender equality through the sex chromosomes
Published: 2021-12-08

Marie-Line Faucillion's research can be useful to better understand how sex chromosomes are regulated

How youth fiction can raise awareness of the climate crisis
Published: 2024-01-30

Irene Bordignon, visiting PhD student, is interested in climate change with a particular focus on the Arctic.

IceLab and the Medical Faculty launch AI Hackathon Pitch
Published: 2021-10-06

Collaboration between researchers in Life science and in AI and machine learning can lead to progress.

IceLab opens the 2024 Lunch Pitches
Published: 2024-02-15

IceLab opens its Lunch Pitch season with pitches related to aging from Verena Kohler and Mattias Forsell

IceLab receives large grant for interdisciplinary research
Published: 2023-06-27

The Swedish Research Council investigates millions in ground-breaking research environments.

IceLab relaunches the Lunch Pitches after a two year gap
Published: 2022-02-22

On Tuesday March 1st Merve Yesilbas and Signe Lundqvist pitch about water on Mars and molecule motion.

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.

Important award to one of Scandinavia’s most prominent plant science researchers
Published: 2023-05-29

Stefan Jansson is celebrated with the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Award.