Media and News
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2025-09-17 Uppsala University News
Eric K. Fernström Swedish Prize awarded to Katja Petzold
Katja Petzold will receive the 2025 Eric K. Fernström Swedish Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers on 6 November. She has been awarded the prize for her contribution to fundamental knowledge and understanding of structural biology and the dynamics of RNA at the molecular level.
2025-03-11 Metabolism Day at CBMR (Video)
Spatial metabolomics - deciphering the chemistry of biology
Professor Ingela Lanekoff was invited to the Metabolism Day hosted and organized by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen to share how her research continues to push the boundaries of mass spectrometry, to reveal the complex chemistry of functional and dysfunctional biological systems. Watch her talk at the link above!
2024-12-17 Uppsala University News
Uppsala chemist appointed as distinguished professor
Professor of Biochemistry Sebastian Westenhoff has been awarded a Distinguished professor grant by the Swedish Research Council, totaling SEK 31 million for the years 2025–2032. “Receiving the prestigious professorship was very unexpected and surprising. It is an important recognition of my group's work over the years,” says Sebastian Westenhoff.
2024-03-18 Uppsala University News
Inauguration of a new centre of excellence for life chemistry
On 12 April 2024, the new Centre of Excellence for Chemical Mechanisms of Life will be inaugurated at Uppsala University. The aim is to create a hub where researchers with different backgrounds and expertise can transcend traditional subject boundaries and find collaborators.
2024-03-18 Uppsala University News
An important infrastructure for multiple research areas
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a crucial tool for researchers across a range of disciplines and research fields. NMR Uppsala serves as a research infrastructure acting as a competence centre for the utilisation of NMR spectroscopy.
2024-03-06 Uppsala University News
Professor to receive Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry
Sebastian Westenhoff, Professor of Biochemistry at Uppsala University, has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry “for imaging chemical and biochemical reactions at the molecular level”.
2023-11-20 Forskarpodden (Podcast)
Vad händer i kroppens celler vid sjukdom, graviditet och andra processer? I dag kan vi få en djupare förståelse av kroppens kemi, med hjälp av teknik som blir allt känsligare och snabbare. Lyssna här. (Only available in Swedish)
2023-06-22 Uppsala University News
Five centres of research excellence at Uppsala University
Five research environments at Uppsala University will receive grants as part of the Swedish Research Council’s excellence initiative. They include innovative research into the Viking Age, life chemistry, geometry and physics, extreme climate events and human prehistory.
2023-06-21 Swedish Research Council
Fifteen research environments to receive funding
The Swedish Research Council’s grant to centres of excellence will fund 15 research environments. The quality of applications was very high. At the environments that are now receiving funding in strong competition, there are great opportunities for ground-breaking research.
2023-05-16 UppTalk (Popular science video)
Vergtygen som avslöjar molekylernas framfart i celler
Möt Ingela Lanekoff i ett samtal om hur molekylära verktyg kan avslöja kemiska rubbningar i våra celler och vävnader. (Only available in Swedish)
2021 Wallenberg Foundation
Creating the therapeutics of tomorrow with the help of molecular interaction
Katja Petzold is using an advanced magnetic camera to examine at atomic level how RNA interacts in living cells. The aim is to aid the development of targeted drugs with fewer side-effects.
2020-05-27 News from Karolinska Institutet
New understanding of RNA movements can be used to treat cancer
Research led by Katja Petzold shows that an RNA molecule involved in preventing tumour formation can change its structure and thereby control protein production in the cell. The finding can have important clinical implications as it opens for new strategies to treat different types of cancer.
2018 Wallenberg Foundation
Flexible molecule regulating brain development
Katja Petzold is studying how small molecules, microRNAs, are able to adapt their structure according to their environment so they can control messenger RNA when they transfer information to the proteins to be formed. She and her collaborators are also studying how these tiny molecules can regulate brain development.
2017-04-04 Uppsala University News
She reveals the molecular advances in cells
What happens in cells when the molecular composition changes? In her research, analytical chemist Ingela Lanekoff at the Department of Chemistry-BMC, tracks the progress of small molecules or metabolites.