Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi

12/08/2026

Urban Johansson Kostenniemi, infectious disease physician and researcher at the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University: High-risk groups forgot vaccination despite it being free

10/08/2026

Professor Magnus Evander and colleagues at the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University are studying mosquitoes spreading disease.

Researchers in Umeå conduct internationally recognized research on mosquito-borne diseases in humans.

07/08/2026

Resarchers in Anders Olofssons group has been researching the "Skellefteå disease"

Oxidative stress and inflammation may contribute to disease development while also pointing to new biomarkers.

06/08/2026

Five questions to Professor Niklas Arnberg about the ebola virus:

We still lack effective antiviral drugs, which highlights the importance of basic research.

12/05/2026

Seminar on commemoration of genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994

30/03/2026

Annasara Lenman received the 2025 MIMS Investigator Award.

Annasara Lenman’s project will employ advanced 3D infection models to discover immune-related functions of human microproteins, with a particular emphasis on hantavirus infection. Her expertise combines patient-derived materials, 3D lung tissue, and transcriptomics to reveal novel virus–host mechanisms.

MIMS announces four recipients of the 2025 MIMS Investigator Award.

30/03/2026

Kristina Lejon will assume the role of deputy director for the Umeå School of Education on 1 April.

Kristina Lejon is a professor of immunology and has extensive experience as an academic leader and of work on educational strategy, including as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. The appointment as deputy director is valid until summer 2028.

19/03/2026

An unusually rapid and severe outbreak of meningitis is currently spreading in Kent, England, where around twenty people have fallen ill in just one week. Urban Johansson Kostenniemi, infectious disease physician and researcher at Umeå University, studies this type of illness in his daily work and is keeping a close eye on the situation.

Urban Johansson Kostenniemi, infectious disease physician and researcher, keeps a close eye on the situation.

29/10/2025

Anne-Marie Fors Connolly and Anders Johansson, Department of Clinical Microbiology, have each been awarded 5 million SEK for their research by Forte as part of the initiative Research for the Welfare Society of the Future.

S*x projekt vid Umeå universitet delar på nästan 30 miljoner från Fortes tilldelning om totalt 361 miljoner.

08/10/2025

Tulio Yoshinaga from Brazil is an ‘Excellence by Choice’ postdoc in UCMR PI Constantin Urban lab. His research is about saprolegnosis - a fungi disease that affect freshwater fishes and causes huge problems in aquaculture especially in salmonids.

Det är ett problem att sötvattenfiskar, särskilt laxfiskar, drabbas av svampangrepp. Forskare vid Umeå universitet hoppas nu kunna bromsa smittan med hjälp av att använda gensaxen. – Det kan orsaka stora problem för exempelvis fiskodlingar då infektionen kan döda fiskrommen, säger forska...