The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) within the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
The Swedish Research Council is investing 8.5 million in a new laboratory for molecular medicine at Umeå University.
The aim of this new initiative is to strengthen Swedish research and enhance the dynamics in the field of molecular medicine, partly by promoting the career opportunities for young scientists.
The laboratory will place its emphasis on the field of molecular infection medicine as the Swedish node in the Nordic partnership for Molecular Medicine that is being formed together with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, and the new Nordic nodes for molecular medicine in Finland and Norway. MIMS is established within the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR; <www.ucmr.se>) and is affiliated with both the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science and Technology and is closely connected to the university hospital (Norrlands University Hospital).
UCMR consists of researchers active in the fields of molecular and clinical microbiology, molecular biology, chemistry, and physics and the research groups include a pronounced international profile with many guest researchers and graduate students, as well as faculty members, from other countries.
The groups work in modern laboratories with well-equipped common facilities creating a framework for a creative and highly interactive environment.
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