Stefan Swartling Peterson, Professor of Global Health at Uppsala University and UNICEF health specialist, has been awarded the 2020 Martin Henrikss...

Uppsala University has joined the Leap Health Breakthrough Network, a global group of 21 leading academic and research institutions, representing a...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common dementia disorders, but diagnosing and treating it still require a great deal of research. Scientists...

In a collaboration with Uppsala University, the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) has published new technical guidance describing why and...

An adverse upbringing often impairs people’s circumstances and health in their adult years, especially for couples who have both had similar experi...

Using whole-genome analysis, a team of scientists led from Uppsala University provides conclusive evidence that all European eels belong to a singl...

In breast cancer, tumours of different types have divergent effects on the functioning of the lymph nodes. In patients with invasive breast cancer,...

An important and still unanswered question is how new genes that cause antibiotic resistance arise. In a new study, Swedish and American researcher...

Only weeks after the coronavirus reached Sweden, blood samples were taken from more than 2,000 employees at Danderyd Hospital. Today, a selection o...

Until now, the reason why the drug levodopa (L-Dopa), which reduces the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, declines in efficacy after a few yea...

In a new dissertation, Caroline Alvebratt, PhD student at the Department of Pharmacy, presents new methods to predict the release and absorption of...

Mothers and fathers of children diagnosed with cancer are affected financially in different ways. While mothers’ incomes fall in the short term and...

A comprehensive study from Uppsala University, involving more than 250,000 women, shows that oral contraceptive use protects against ovarian and en...

An international team of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Irish scientists has used whole genome sequencing to characterise 53 herring populations fr...

The mental symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder improve following treatment with a progesterone receptor modulator, as demonstrated by SciLi...

Owners of a dog with diabetes are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than owners of a dog without diabetes. No shared risk of diabetes could be...

This year the Rudbeck Medal is awarded to Professors Olle Eriksson, Inger Sundström Poromaa and Maria Ågren, while the Linnaeus Medal is awarded to...

Uppsala is one of the regions that has been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 over recent weeks. Infectious disease specialists and researchers are...

The European Research Council (ERC) has published the results of its 2020 call for proposals for Consolidator Grants. Fourteen researchers at Swedi...

Just a minute… Alexandra Teleki, researcher in drug development, who receives 2 million euros from the European Research Council to develop a new m...