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Postdoktor Yu-Cheng Qian och gästforskare Abdullah Azmi arbetar i vibrationslabbet.
How vibrations induced by snoring may contribute to sleep apnea

Umeå researchers show vibrations weaken upper airway muscles, making them collapse during sleep.

Oliver Billker
Professor vid Institutionen för molekylärbiologi
Enhet: Grupp Oliver Billker
Anknuten som forskare till Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS)
Roll: Föreståndare
Oliver Billker awarded the Torgny och Lena Stigbrand Prize

Receives the award for his pioneering work in malaria research.

Sun Nyunt Wai, professor i medicinsk mikrobiell patogenes, bedriver forskning om sjukdomsframkallande bakteriers egenskaper på molekylär nivå.  <br/>Professor vid Institutionen för molekylärbiologi Enhet: Grupp Sun Nyunt Wai
Sun Nyunt Wai awarded for outstanding bacterial research

Professor Sun Nyunt Wai is awarded the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Prize in 2026.

Biträdande universitetslektor vid Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi Enhet: Avdelningen för virologi
2025 MIMS Investigator Award Announcement

MIMS announces four recipients of the 2025 MIMS Investigator Award.

Bild för Wendy Wu projekt
Discovery on how aggressive breast cancer controls protein production

A mechanism that increases our understanding of how breast tumours grow and adapt has been discovered.

Exciting findings from an antibiotic discovery project with labhead Barbara Sixt and colleague Aakriti Singh and Magnus Ölander, postdoc in the Sixtlab,
Barbara Sixt awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC provides funding for five years to Barbara Sixt's research on chlamydia.

Features

Stephan Wenkel och Iker Valle Aramburu forskar båda om mikroproteiner, Stephan i växter och Iker inom immunförsvar och samspel mellan värdar och mikroorganismer. Tillsammans arrangerade de Nobelsymposiet om mikroproteiner vid Umeå universitet i september 2026.
Tiny proteins are proving hard to ignore

Once overlooked, tiny proteins are revealing surprising roles in biology – and new possibilities for research.

Illustration gensax
CRISPR-Cas9 – the gene-editing tool that changed the world

A breakthrough in Umeå laid the foundation for CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary tool.

Elin Chorell, forskare vid Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin, avdelningen för medicin.
Aiming to detect and halt type 2 diabetes

Her goal is to make it possible to detect and slow the progression of type 2 diabetes at an early stage.

Mateus lab
Gut bacteria can provide clues to curing diseases

André Mateus researches how drugs and the microbiome in the human gut work together.

Nasim Sabouri
Four-stranded DNA in a new type of cancer therapy

Nasim Sabouris research findings are forming the basis for efforts to develop new cancer therapeutics.

Biträdande universitetslektor Francesca Aguilo vid Institutionen för medicinsk biovetenskap i labbet med kollegor.
Targeting cancer cells without affecting healthy cells

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

Research infrastructures

Biomedical Engineering – Research and Development (MT-R&D)
MT-R&D’s development and research support is a research infrastructure that offers extensive technical competence and equipment to researchers and hea
BioMolecular Characterization Umeå
BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules.
C-Trap Facility
C-Trap enables real-time manipulation and visualization of biomolecules in relevant conditions.
Clinical Research Center
The Clinical Research Center is a joint resource for Region and University for near-patient clinical studies. The Clinical Research Center may provide
Flow@CliMi
Analysis of cell surface bound as well as intracellular proteins and RNA expression with flow cytometry.
National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community.
NorthPop
Biobank and database for children and young adults in Västerbotten.
PREDICT
Personalised screening, risk prediction, and understanding disease trajectories for early detection of disease - An integrated cohort approach.
The Section of Biobank and Registry Support
Section of Biobank and Registry Support coordinates access to register data and sample collections.
Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB)
Biomedical research on experimental animals at Umeå University is organized within Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB).
Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)
UCEM is a joint resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques.
Umeå Proteomics Platform
Umeå Proteomics offers MS proteomics for identifying, quantifying, characterizing proteins in complex samples

Research groups

Andreas Hörnblad lab
Gene regulatory mechanisms in obesity-associated liver cancer and development
Research area: Cancer, Molecular medicine
Andreas Kohler Lab
Mitochondrial protein quality control in health, ageing and disease
Backman Lab
Lab of Associate Professor Ludvig Backman and Professor Patrik Danielson and co-workers.
Björn Schröder Lab
Gut microbiota and intestinal mucosal barrier function.
Changchun Chen Lab
We are investigating acute and chronic oxygen sensation in the nematode C. elegans.
Chorell Research Lab
Focuses on obesity-related morbidity and its association with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Research area: Molecular medicine
Gemma Atkinson group
Functional evolution of stress response proteins as well as translation and antibiotic resistance factors.
Research area: Molecular medicine
Helena Edlund
Type 2 diabetes and β-cell function
Research area: Molecular medicine
Iker Aramburu Lab
We are studying the role that microproteins and disordered proteins play in innate immune processes.
Jan Oscarsson Lab
Our group studies mechanisms of the bacterium A. actinomycetemcomitans and periodontal diseases.
Jonas von Hofsten
Muscle development and regeneration. During embryonic development, cells become committed to the myogenic fate through the activation of myogenic regu
Research area: Cancer, Molecular medicine
Jose Davila-Velderrain Lab
Our lab combines physiology, genome-scale data analysis, computation and experiments to study biology.
Kristoffer Sahlholm
Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellow: Neuroscience Dopamine receptor pharmacology and function.
Research area: Molecular medicine
Laboratory of Neurodegeneration and Repair
Parkinson’s disease - etiology, neuroprotection and symptomatology
Leif Carlsson
The role of the LIM-homeobox gene Lhx2 in stem cell function, organ development and disease
Research area: Molecular medicine

Research projects

High-speed mid-infrared photothermal imaging of fatty acids and lipid droplets in living cells
Duration 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
Development of a new tularemia vaccine
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Prostate cancer therapy for COVID-19
Duration 8 June 2020 until 31 May 2022
Type of project Research project
Artificial intelligence in oncology: European REVERT
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Mosquito-borne zoonosis in animals and humans
Research area: Molecular medicine
Duration 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2017
Type of project Research project
Neuromuscular injuries in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Duration 10 October 2013
Type of project Research project
CD47 and signal regulatory protein a (SIRP a) modulates innate immune and autoimmune responses
Research area: Molecular medicine
Duration 28 October 2011 until 31 December 2013
Type of project Research project