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UCMR - Umeå Centre for Microbial Research

UCMR brings together 73 active research groups at Umeå University. Its mission is to shape and further develop Umeå's environment for microbial research. Core values are excellence, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration. Appointed a Linnaeus Centre of Excellence 2008.

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Magnus Ölander, postdoc in the Sixtlab, sharing exciting findings from an antibiotic discovery project with labhead Barbara Sixt and colleague Aakriti Singh.
Discovery opens up for new ways to treat chlamydia

A newly discovered molecule paves the way for research into new antibiotics that kill chlamydia.

Bild på Mikael Elofsson
Collaboration with industry: Research collaboration with AstraZeneca provides insights into virus infections

Umeå professor Mikael Elofsson has collaborated with the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca since 2018.

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Bacteria's defence against viruses piece of puzzle against resistance

Resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria defend against being infected by viruses.

Emmanuelle Charpentier about her time after the Nobel Prize

What has the Nobel Prize meant and recent developments in CRISPR-Cas9. Watch an exclusive interview.

UCMR News

Discovery opens up for new ways to treat chlamydia
Published: 2025-05-08

A newly discovered molecule paves the way for research into new antibiotics that kill chlamydia.

Collaboration with industry: Research collaboration with AstraZeneca provides insights into virus infections
Published: 2025-04-07

Umeå professor Mikael Elofsson has collaborated with the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca since 2018.

Discovery of bacteria's defence against viruses becomes a piece of the puzzle against resistance
Published: 2025-04-04

Resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria defend against being infected by viruses.

ledningsgruppen UCMR: Ingrid Söderbergh, Marta Bally och Fredrik Almqvist
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