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Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine

The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) conducts research in cancer, infection biology, neuroscience and metabolic disorders including diabetes. WCMM at UmU is part of a nationwide effort to strengthen molecular life science in an initiative by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Background

WCMM is part of a national effort to strengthen excellent life science research in molecular life sciences

Leadership and organization

Organization including contact info for directors, coordinator, controller, steering committee and SAB

Research

Young WCMM group leaders conduct research in molecular medicine - from laboratory to the clinic

Features

A challenge to find the solution to pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer can resist most existing treatments and the five-year survival rate is low.

Targeting cancer cells without affecting healthy cells

Francesca Aguilos work lies at the cutting edge of biomedical research and cancer.

Glaucoma – the silent thief of sight

“Despite decades of research, we still don’t know exactly what causes the disease.”

Publications

Publications from WCMM Fellows and WCMM-associated researchers

Marta Bally
Ronnie Berntsson
Silvia Remeseiro
Gauti Jóhannesson

News

The First National WCMM Group Member Meeting
Published: 2025-11-06

Nearly 120 early-career researchers met up for the first national WCMM-group member meeting.

EU invests in Umeå research – 16 projects tackle major societal challenges
Published: 2025-10-24

What links green cheese, AI and cancer tests? They're themes in 16 projects sharing €10 million in EU funding.

Prestigious award to Umeå molecular biologist
Published: 2025-05-27

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Florman Prize to Changchun Chen.

New cells in connective tissue open up strategy against pancreatic cancer
Published: 2025-04-23

A newly discovered type of connective tissue cell may have a role in preventing pancreatic cancer.

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.

Calender

December

Medchem Seminar Series - Ute Römling, KI
Tue
2
Dec
Medchem Seminar Series - Ute Römling, KI
Time 15:15 - 16:00 2 December 15:15 - 16:00
Place KB.E3.01 (Lilla hörsalen), KBC

Seminar. Title: "Impact of biofilm formation and persistence in microbes"

Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar: Conor O'Byrne
Fri
5
Dec
Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar: Conor O'Byrne
Time 14:00 - 15:00 5 December 14:00 - 15:00
Place 5B P6 Stora hörsalen

Seminar. Title Slowly but surely wins the race: trade-offs in the evolution of Listeria monocytogenes

Practical Course at UCEM - TEM sample preparation for life science
Mon
8
Dec
Practical Course at UCEM - TEM sample preparation for life science
Time 8 December at 09:00 until 12 December at 17:00 8 December at 09:00 until 12 December at 17:00
Place KBC and EM building, Umeå University

Course. Course organised by the Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)

Medchem Seminar Series - Laurent Terradot, University of Lyon, France
Tue
9
Dec
Medchem Seminar Series - Laurent Terradot, University of Lyon, France
Time 15:15 - 16:00 9 December 15:15 - 16:00
Place KB.E3.01 (Lilla hörsalen), KBC

Seminar. Title: Shared Machinery, Unique Missions: Functional and structural diversity of bacterial Type IV secretion systems and effectors

January

Metabolomics in Life Science
Tue
27
Jan
Metabolomics in Life Science
Time 27 January at 09:00 until 28 January at 17:00 27 January at 09:00 until 28 January at 17:00
Place Vävenscenen, Umeå

Conference. The "Metabolomics in Life Science" conference will showcase the latest NMR- and MS-based metabolomics research from Sweden, the Nordics, and beyond.

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