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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

Proteomics – a powerful discovery tool
Published: 2024-04-09

André Mateus had a seminar on everything you ever wanted to know about proteomics, but never dared to ask.

Pär Byström new director of Climate Impacts Research Centre
Published: 2024-04-10

Pär Byström wants to develop one of the world's leading centers for climate research in the Arctic.

Quench your thirst for knowledge with a Pint of science
Published: 2023-05-09

Virus and other exciting things at popular science Pint of Science 22-24 May. Umeå Postdoc Society arranges.

RAI thinks strategically about AI
Published: 2021-02-08

Pro-Vice-Chancellor Katrine Riklund is chair of RAI that strengthens the development of AI at the university.

Rare animals and plants organize in ghettos to survive
Published: 2019-12-17

The unexpected ecological pattern is the conclusion of a study about biodiversity in competitive environments.

Re-imagining design beyond materialism
Published: 2022-11-01

Can design respond differently to issues of social and ecological well-being in the future?

Receives SEK 15 million: Will create degradable plastic – from algae
Published: 2024-09-20

Biomass from algae is converted into plastic used in lamps and packaging.

Recent infection research at MIMS and Baltic collaborations in focus
Published: 2022-11-17

The symposium brought the community of infection researchers and microbiologists together locally.

Record number of doctoral theses at the Department of Computing Science
Published: 2025-05-22

"A remarkable evidence of our thriving research environment", says Frank Drewes, Head of the Department.

Recreated UK river inspires in Sweden
Published: 2024-10-29

Scientists made wildlife flourish by creating new wetlands.

Reduced climate impact by better insight in life cycle assessment
Published: 2022-10-04

The right tools are key to ensure investment decisions that reduce global emissions, new thesis shows.

Repeated doses of covid-19 vaccine
Published: 2023-09-20

Four to six vaccine doses protect the elderly against COVID-19, shows a study led by two researchers in Umeå.

Research breakthrough can save lives after nerve gas poisoning
Published: 2020-11-05

FOI Industrial Doctoral School researchers solve a riddle that has eluded researchers for over 50 years.

Research breakthrough opens the door to more studies of protein movements
Published: 2024-06-18

Breakthrough in research enables more experiments than ever before on vital processes inside cells.

Research improves efficiency of small-scale cloud datacentres
Published: 2021-02-15

Chanh Nguyen has developed methods to improve the efficiency of so-called Mobile Edge Clouds..