The Swedish Research Council (VR) awards 11 researchers at the medical research field at Umeå University

Source: https://www.umu.se/nyheter/miljoner-till-medicinsk-forskning-i-umea_9767496/

Several researchers within the MIMS/UCMR research community got funding from the Swedish Research Council: Jörgen Johansson, Anders Sjöstedt, Constantin Urban and Anna Överby Wernstedt. Congratulations to them! 

Read the article (in Swedish) for more details here. 

This year the Swedish Research Council distributed a more modest budget to support research projects at the field of medicine and health but there is high hope for next year as the government partitioned a higher bugdet for VR again. 

Visit the website of the Swedish Research Council for more information: https://www.vr.se 

NCMM visit to MIMS, Umeå, to learn the A-Z of cryo-EM

Text: Annabel Darby  Source: https://projects.au.dk/nordic-embl-partnership/show-news/artikel/ncmm-visit-to-mims-umeaa-to-learn-the-a-z-of-cryo-em/

Read the articel here about Ahmad Ali Ahmad's (postdoctoral researcher in the Sekulic Group at NCMM) visit in the group of Linda Sandblad (UCEM, Umeå University/MIMS) to learn all aspects of cryo-EM and apply this method to study centromeric chromatin. 

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests in infection medicine

Text: Lena Åminne, Source: https://www.umu.se/en/news/the-knut-and-alice-wallenberg-foundation_9723707/

The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) in Umeå has been granted SEK 170 million in operational support and another SEK 68 million for recruitments into data-driven Life Science by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WCMM Umeå will work in close collaboration with MIMS to further fortify Umeå’s already strong position in the field.

Read the full article in English here or in Swedish here. 

Four questions to researcher Ellen Bushell - new Swedish Young Academy member

Photo by Mattias Petterson

The Swedish Young Academy gives young researchers a unique voice to highlight issues that specifically affects young Swedish academics. It also offers a powerful platform to perform work within the four key areas of interest of the academy: outreach, internationalization, cross-disciplinary research and research policy. Ellen Bushell is group leader at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, at Umeå University and is a newly elected member of the Swedish Young Academy.

Read the interview with Ellen in an article published at Umeå University's homepage in English by clicking here or in Swedish by clicking  here. 

Emmanuelle Charpentier, former MIMS group leader, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020

7 September 2020, 11:45. The live sending started about the announcement of the winner(s) of the Nobel prize in Chemistry. At Umeå University, in Rotundan, about 20 people were holding their breath and watching at the screen as Prof. Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, the chairman of the committee - Prof. Claes Gustafsson, and Secretary General Göran K. Hansson at the Royal Swedish Acamdemy of Sciences opened the event.  When Secretary General Göran K. Hansson said "This year's prize is about re-writing the code of life", we knew it, everybody knew it, it is her! The official announcement  followed, saying her name clearly. Our warmest congratulations, Emmanuelle! 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the  development of a method for genome editing." 

Continue reading about Emmanuelle and CRISPR/Cas9 at Umeå University's webpage here, at The Nobel Prize webpage here or at EMBL's homepage here. 

Press photo by Hallbauer&Fioretti.