Research at Uppsala University
Access to water – also a future issue in Sweden
24 January 2022. There is enough water on Earth. Just not everywhere – and for everyone. Now researchers at Uppsala U ...
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Strengthening societal responses to natural hazard events
18 January 2022. Our societies generally need to enhance their preparedness for extreme natural hazard events, such a ...
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Previously unknown dinosaur habitat found in Poland
13 January 2022. In summer 2021, in an opencast clay mine in Borkowice, Poland, researchers found what may be Europe’ ...
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Search for research projects
Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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An ultra-sensitive and cost-effective diagnostic to improve AML patient outcome.
Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2021-06-30
Purpose and goal: Highly sensitive and accurate assays are needed to monitor patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), receiving targeted therapies. Early signs of resistance to the therapy can be met ...
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Cellular barcoding for spatially resolved single-cell genomics
Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2017-10-01
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are the methods of choice to study molecular heterogeneity at single-cell level. However, when it comes to tissue analysis these methods are limited in spatial ...
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Biomarker test for cervical, ovarian or endometrial cancer
Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2017-07-01
Purpose and goal: The aim of the project is to perform a number of steps towards formulation and marketing of a diagnostic test for gynecological cancer (ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer and cervical ...
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Comprehensively defining cellular identity in the early neuronal differentiation
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Uncovering the molecular mechanism driving cell heterogeneity would be great helpful in the clinical diagnosis, molecular basis of drug resistance in cancer and diseases therapy in the long term. Currently ...
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Computer guided discovery and analysis of drug combination candidates by means of large-scale cell culture experiments
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The project will contribute to both personalized medicine and accelerated drug combination discovery and analysis. It will simultaneously address key scientific problems in three related research areas ...
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Development of an advanced millimeter-wave front-end for use in medical sensing
Research project from 2014-11-25 to 2015-05-29
Purpose and goal: The number of people suffering from diabetes is growing and is forecasted to exceed 500 M worldwide in 2018. A glucose test is still today not convenient, accessible or even inexpensive ...
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Non-invasive tests of endometrial dysfunction
Research project from 2011-11-01 to 2015-05-31
Currently not available ...
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FLOWLOY - nya metoder för känslig detektion av förlust av kromosom Y (LOY) i olika cell-typer i blod med flödescytometri
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Men live shorter lives compared to women. Our discoveries regarding the pathological effects from a male specific genetic risk factor, i.e. loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in blood cells, might help explain ...
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How immune complexes and associated autoantibodies determine clinical phenotypes in rheumatic diseases
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
In this four-year project we will expand, develop and refine the way autoimmune serology is used to characterize and understand the pathogenetic mechanisms leading to individual clinical phenotypes of ...
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Intelligent evolution of new generation probing technology via massive parallel DNA synthesis and sequencing
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Future medical analysis will require comprehensive and rapid analyses of broad ranges of molecular entities to better define cell states, e.g. stemness, or disease states e.g. cancer signatures. The proposed ...
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Neurochemical changes associated with Parkinson´s disease and L-Dopa induced dyskinesia studied with mass spectrometry imaging
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is an in vitro imaging technology for visualizing and quantifying the distributions of multimodal chemical species within tissue samples. The speed, sensitivity, and molecular ...
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sRCA – Ultra sensitive rare mutation detection for Liquid Biopsy
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Tumor-derived cell-free DNA, present in blood plasma, offers an invaluable means to monitor malignancy, or even to diagnose the disease in clinically healthy individuals for prompt and perhaps curative ...
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Research spotlight: The coronavirus
Blocking inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of human cells
24 November 2021. Viruses invade our cells and turn them into virus factories. Researchers at Uppsala University, toge ...
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New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
2 August 2021. The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed dru ...
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Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
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Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.