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Latest News from the Partnership
2021.01.06 | People
Nordic EMBL Partnership: Annual call for PhD students
The Nordic EMBL Partnership has opened its annual call for outstanding students seeking PhDs in molecular medicine
2020.12.15 | Research news
Novel genomic tools increase the accuracy of breast cancer risk assessment
Findings from the FinnGen study encompassing 120,000 women indicate that inherited breast cancer risk should be assessed in an increasingly comprehensive manner.
2020.12.11 | Research news
AI predicts which drug combinations kill cancer cells
A machine learning model developed in Finland, involving researchers at the Nordic EMBL Partnership's Finnish node, FIMM, can help us treat cancer more effectively.
2020.12.02 | Research news
The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative: collaborating to understand how our genes affect our response to the coronavirus
Since the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, researchers from many different disciplines have come together to try to decipher the virus’ biology and address some of the many pressing questions that its prevalence has posed.
2020.11.26 | Research news
Genetic study shows that the risk of pre-eclampsia is related to blood pressure and body mass index
A large international study involving researchers from FIMM/Helsinki University has revealed that the genetic risk of pre-eclampsia – a potentially dangerous condition in pregnancy – is related to blood pressure and body mass index.
2020.10.27 | Knowledge exchange
NCMM visit to MIMS, Umeå, to learn the A-Z of cryo-EM
Ahmad Ali Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sekulic Group at NCMM. He is currently spending time in the group of Dr. Linda Sandblad, director of the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), based at Umeå University.
2020.10.23 | People
Four questions to researcher Ellen Bushell - new Swedish Young Academy member
Dr Ellen Bushell joined MIMS as a group leader in 2018. In the autumn of 2020 it was announced that she had been elected as a new member of the Swedish Young Academy.
2020.10.07 | Research news
Former MIMS group leader, Emmanuelle Charpentier, awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Nordic EMBL Partnership congratulates Emmanuelle Charpentier, and collaborator Jennifer A. Doudna, on receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020. Here, Directors of the Nordic EMBL Partnership nodes past and present, alongside the former Director General of EMBL, recall Professor Charpentier’s appointment as one of the Partnership’s first…
2020.09.28 | Knowledge exchange
The annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting 2020: Connecting with colleagues to increase future interactions
MIMS hosts the 10th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting from Umeå, Sweden.
2020.09.18 | Research news
Meet DANDRITE
Our Danish node, DANDRITE (Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience) is hosted by Aarhus University and funded by the Lundbeck Foundation. Recently, the University featured an in-depth article about DANDRITE and its importance to the local and national research environment.
Upcoming Partnership Events
- Tue 19 Jan
- 09:00-16:35 | Helsinki & online
Complex Disease Genetics Day 2021
Hosted by FIMM
News on publications
2020.11.26 | Publication
Biological lipid nanotubes and their potential role in evolution
Research from the Gözen group at NCMM published in The European Physical Journal Special Topics.
2020.09.10 | Publication
New publication from MIMS group leader Björn O. Schröder in JBC on function of microbiota in obese mice
The paper, 'Obesity-associated microbiota contributes to mucus layer defects in genetically obese mice', has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
2020.09.10 | Publication
A high profile review article from MIMS group leader Barbara S. Sixt on host cell death modulation by the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia
The review has been published in the journal FEMS Microbiology Reviews.
2020.09.02 | Research news, Publication
Comment article: Predicting Cancer Evolution Using Cell State Dynamics
Dr Kuijjer's article, 'Predicting Evolution Using Cell State Dynamics', examines research using state transitions to model cancer development and progression.
2020.09.02 | Publication
Rapid Growth and Fusion of Protocells in Surface‐Adhered Membrane Networks
Elevated temperatures might have promoted the nucleation, growth, and replication of protocells on the early Earth.
2020.05.14 | Knowledge exchange, Publication
Joint efforts between Nabavi and Capogna group have led to the development of a novel approach named TRACE ´Tracing Retrogradely the Activated Cell Ensemble’
The neural circuitry teams at DANDRITE and PROMEMO introduce a novel approach in their latest publication, which selectively labels sensory inputs that are activated by a defined stimulus and directed to a region of interest in the brain.
2020.05.06 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Gene variants that protect against glaucoma identified, opening therapeutic possibilities
An international research collaboration led by researchers from the University of Helsinki and Stanford University has identified rare changes in a gene called ANGPTL7 that lower intraocular pressure and significantly reduce the risk of glaucoma. The results open important new therapeutic possibilities.
2020.04.24 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
New work from the Esguerra group provides novel insight into disease mechanisms of Dravet syndrome
A new article from NCMM’s chemical neuroscience group published in Epilepsia sheds light on the early mechanisms underlying seizure onset in Dravet syndrome, a severe and devastating type of epilepsy that occurs in children and infants.
2020.02.03 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Assistant professor Joseph Lyons coauthors milestone paper in Nature on lysosome function.
New article published in Nature entitled “ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export” sheds light on a defective lysosomal polyamine exporter (ATP13A2) that represents a lysosome-dependent cell death pathway that may be implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders including Kufor-Rakeb syndrome – a rare form of inherited…
2020.01.31 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, People
New publication for NCMM researchers: novel insights into cell death-inducing signals activated by ER stress
The new study, published this week in the open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling, was led by the autophagy team at NCMM.
