News from Uppsala University

Researchers at Uppsala University have described the presence, throughout the human body, of the enzyme ACE2. This is thought to be the key protein...

In a new study, a research group at Uppsala University explain their outstanding success in harvesting “hot electron holes”. The results of their w...

Therapies for treating glioblastoma brain cancer can be delivered with greater precision and existing drugs can be used in new ways. These are the ...

The Enlight consortium, of which Uppsala University is a member, will be one of 24 new European university partnerships to receive funding from the...

The evolution of our teeth began among ancient armoured fishes more than 400 million years ago. In the scientific journal Science, an international...

Characteristics of palm trees differ from those of other tropical trees in many ways. In a major new study led by scientists at Uppsala University,...

A new mathematical model for predicting variations in solar irradiance has been developed at Uppsala University. It may help to promote more effici...

Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have pr...

Life depends on an intricate game of hide-and-seek taking place inside the cell. New research, which is now published in the journal Nature, sheds ...

Many pharmaceuticals work by targeting what are known as “G-protein-coupled receptors”. In a new study, scientists from Uppsala University describe...

Many international students have suffered financially during the coronavirus pandemic. Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson yesterday approved coronavirus-r...

This year, the Uppsala University Innovation Prize for outstanding transfer of knowledge – the Hjärnäpple* –goes to Sara Mangsbo, Assistant Profess...

Uppsala University’s current vice-rectors and deputy vice-rectors reach the end of their term of office on 30 June. The Vice-Chancellor has now dec...

Uppsala University contributes to the growth of knowledge and to solutions to the major challenges facing society through top quality research and ...

On 17 June the University Board decided to propose Anders Hagfeldt, Professor of Physical Chemistry, as new Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University f...

Hello there, Jonas Bergquist, Professor of Neurochemistry at the Department of Chemistry (BMC), who has started a collaboration with the neurointen...

The International Science Programme (ISP) at Uppsala University and Sida have signed an agreement on the continued operation of the ISP Core progra...

In a time in which new guidelines and decisions are changing on a daily basis, how does one go about advising students? Study counsellor Liselott D...

New data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University, shows that the number of fatalities in organised violence continues to ...

The police violence in Minneapolis that resulted in the death of George Floyd has once again thrust relations between black and white Americans ont...