Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-11-01 till 2016-11-30

The 21th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure & Function.Tällberg, June 16-19, 2016Structural biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology are strong areas in Swedish research. The Swedish ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2021-12-31

This joint proposal envisages to develop an islet encapsulated bioengineered construct through an innovative design philosophy for transplantation purposes in type 1 diabetes. Pancreatic islets will firstly ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Stroke is a major cause of mortality and severe disability in the aging population. About 1/3 of strokes are caused by atrial fibrillation (AF) affecting 300,000 patients in Sweden. Oral anticoagulation ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2024-12-31

While substantial and persistent immigrant-native disparities in labor market performance and socioeconomic status is a primary concern in the scientific as well as in the policy debate, little attention ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-11-01 till 2016-11-30

Name of the conference: Current Trends in Multifunctional Dirac Materials, an International Workshop. In Swedish: Aktuella trender i  multifunktionella Dirac materialer, en internationel workshop.The ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Background: Annually, 10 000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) occur in Sweden. Acute Myocardial infarction is the most common cause of OHCA. One third of OHCA patients have ST-elevation on their ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Uppsala university has excelled in ribosome research over decades and already has a strong environment in the area of bacterial protein synthesis. We aim here at creating a novel type of ribosome research ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-06-01 till 2016-06-30

The Frontiers in Antibiotic Drug Discovery (FiADD) symposium will be held at the Conference Center of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 -15 September, ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2018-12-31

With an ever-increasing world population, the challenge remains to increase crop production in a sustainable way, so as not to exhaust the land of its potency for future uses. In this context, plant disease ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-11-01 till 2021-10-31

Syftet med projektet är att syntetisera internationell, vetenskaplig och empirisk baserad kunskap om arbetsvillkor för äldreomsorgspersonal och att identifiera forskningsbehov. Ett högt antal av Covid- ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-12-01 till 2023-12-31

Why are some people more highly educated, healthier and, in general, happier than others? Understanding the origins of social and economic inequalities in life course outcomes between individuals is fundamental ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The overall purpose of this project is to critically examine and better understand how powerful carbon-intensive imaginaries can be disempowered – either realigned or dismantled - to accelerate low-carbon ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Dengue and Zika are arboviral viruses that affect a significant portion of the world population causing many deaths. While there is no direct correlation between the income level and the possibility of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Nanocomposite materials formed by zero dimensional (0D) nanoclusters supported on two dimensional (2D) materials provide new opportunities for fabricating superior photocatalyst for water splitting. The ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Sponges (phylum Porifera) are unquestionably the most promising source of new marine compounds and yet, they are quite often neglected in the field of natural products research because of the extreme difficulty ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2025-12-31

Over the past 10-15 years, vascular biology has transformed from a mainly medical discipline concerned with thrombosis, hypertension and atherosclerosis into a multifaceted biological science spanning ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2021-12-31

This project will establish multidisciplinary and collaborative research on the management of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa. A network of expertise on these issues will be formed with two partners ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

The aim of the network Comparative Didactics and Professional Development is to continue and strengthen an ongoing collaboration between four research groups on comparative didactics and professional development ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-11-01 till 2016-11-30

The conference "Critical dietetics: Food and eating beyond calories" will be organised by the Department of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics of the Uppsala University, on 25th of April 2017, to introduce ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-11-01 till 2016-11-30

Giant stars represent the final evolutionary stage for the majority of stars, including our Sun, and has been an important topic for Swedish astronomical research for decades. For the first time we can ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Thousands of encrypted manuscripts are found in archives all over Europe, documents that are not yet available for historical research. Examples of such materials are diplomatic and military correspondence ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2027-12-31

The aim is to explore the relationship between genetic variation and biodiversity by combining genetic screens in non-model organisms (e.g. Atlantic herring and Darwin’s finches) with functional follow ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The research question: Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a global problem. Poverty and related socio-economic factors in Nepal have caused a huge increase in the multidrug resistant Escherichia coli ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Global food demand is increasing, especially with regard to animal products, therefore global livestock production has to rely on extensively on antimicrobial use (AMU) to comply with rising consumer demands ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Hip fractures annually affect almost 20,000 patients in Sweden. In about 2,000 patients with displaced femoral neck fractures insertion of a total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the best available treatment ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-12-01 till 2024-12-31

Background, Population and Aim: To increase the cure rate from colorectal cancer, more effective treatments for metastatic disease are needed. Metastases to the peritoneum is a common and difficult clinical ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Background and aimFemoral neck fractures (FNFs) are a great challenge for today´s healthcare and they are associated with high mortality and morbidity in the elderly. The treatment of displaced FNF has ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-06-01 till 2016-06-30

Uppsala Health Summit is an international high-level summit on how science and innovation can meet global health challenges. Obesity and connected disease like type 2 diabetes pose a major threat to global ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The purpose of this 3-year project is to initiate a collaborative Indo-Pacific Seagrass research Network (IPSN), aimed to build capacity and perform standardized, coupled social-ecological surveys of seagrass ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-07-01 till 2021-06-30

This proposal shall initialize a long term collaboration between the Swedish and Brazilian groups, around battery technologies and materials science.  We aim to develop a theoretical platform based on ...