Research in medicine, pharmacy and care

In order to highlight research findings, our research groups present their work on their department websites. On these pages you will find general and specific information about our research.

Research areas

Antibiotic resistance

Immunology, genetics and pathology

• Cancer Immunotherapy
• Cancer Precision Medicine
• Genomics and Neurobiology
• Molecular Tools and Functional Genomics
• Neuro-oncology and Neurodegeneration
• Vascular Biology

Medical biochemistry and microbiology

• Cancer
• Genetics and genomics
• Infections and defences

Medical cell biology

• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Inflammation
• Neurobiology
• Pharmacology
• Physiology

Medical sciences

• Blood and tumour diseases
• Cardiology, clinical physiology and respiration medicine
• Emergency care and internal medicine
• Infectious diseases
• Medicine, skin and rheumatology
• Neuroscience
• Occupational and environmental medicine
• Psychiatry
• Uppsala University Hospital Laboratory

Medicinal chemistry

• Analytical pharmaceutical chemistry
• Drug design and discovery
• Pharmaceutical physical chemistry
• Preparative medicinal chemistry
• Theranostics
• Translational imaging

Pharmaceutical biosciences

• Biological research on drug dependence
• Drug safety and toxicology
• Medical mass spectrometry
• Molecular neuropharmacology
• Neuropharmacology, addiction and behaviour
• Pharmaceutical bioinformatics
• Pharmaceutical cell biology and biotechnology
• Pharmaceutics
• Pharmacognosy
• Translational drug discovery and development

Pharmacy

• Biopharmaceuticals
• Clinical pharmacy and pharmacotherapy (in Swedish)
• Drug delivery
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Pharmacometrics
• Social pharmacy
• Translational pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics

Public health and caring sciences

• Caring sciences
• Clinical nutrition and metabolism
• Family medicine
• Geriatrics
• Health equity and working life (in Swedish)
• Health services research
• Lifestyle and rehabilitation in long-term illness
• Research ethics and bioethics
• Social medicine / child health and parenting
• Speech and language pathology

Surgical sciences

• Anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine 
• Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care
• Clinical cancer epidemiology
• Clinical pain research
• Colorectal surgery
• Endocrine surgery
• Experimental surgery
• Forensic medicine
• Functional pharmacology and neuroscience
• Gastrointestinal surgery
• Medical epidemiology
• Nursing research
• Odontology and maxillofacial surgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics and hand surgery
• Otorhinolaryngology and head & neck surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Radiology
• Thoracic surgery
• Transplantation surgery
• Urology
• Vascular surgery

Women’s and children’s health