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Emma Frans has a passion for spreading facts and punching holes in media myths – in books, newspaper articles, social media and on television. Her ...

Uppsala University is investing in a new environment within cardiovascular research based on data from large scale population registries and bioban...

Thanks to a donation from the Ålandic businessman Anders Wiklöf, Uppsala University can invest in a new cardiac research environment based on data ...

The Ångström Laboratory is getting a new attraction. Students, teachers, researchers and others will soon be able to marvel at a special device in ...

Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a common and serious problem globally. In a new article, researchers from Uppsala University describe how tube...

A conferment ceremony is a degree conferment celebration for those who have received PhDs during the year. On 31 January, degrees will be conferred...

At a time when illiberal forces are challenging the rule of law and more and more people have no one to safeguard their individual freedoms and rig...

After more than 1,000 years, one of the greatest mysteries of the early Viking Age, the Rök runestone which bears the world’s longest runic inscrip...

Uppsala University is taking a leading role in COMBINE, a multinational collaboration where 11 partners from academia and the private sector are wo...

The Augsburg Art Cabinet is the most precious art object in Uppsala University’s possession. It arrived in Sweden in 1633, and is unique of its kin...

Uppsala University has a long-standing tradition of inviting new Nobel laureates to visit Uppsala in conjunction with the Nobel Prize ceremonies. O...

The Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize is Uppsala University’s foremost award for contributions to the promotion of human rights and liberty. This ye...

Six years have passed since Thomas Schön arrived in Uppsala with two doctoral students and a professorship of automatic control. Now he is a leadin...

This year’s Uppsala Student of the Year is in his seventh semester of the Master’s Programme in Sociotechnical Systems Engineering. Alongside his s...

Hello Magnus Essand, professor of gene therapy and recipient of SEK 13.5 million from the Swedish Cancer Society, to develop new immunotherapies fo...

Fundraising organisation Bissen Brainwalk is distributing SEK 750,000 to brain research into epilepsy, strokes and autism. The projects in question...

Diabetes is one of our major health scourges. The disease is increasing in prevalence worldwide and an estimated 640 million people will be affecte...

Uppsala University Archives holds a large collection of hand-drawn seventeenth century maps on parchment. These maps are of significant historical ...

Uppsala University has been named Erasmus+ Actor of the Year for its systematic and successful efforts to promote student mobility through Erasmus+...

On 15 November more than 20 new professors will be inaugurated at Uppsala University at a formal ceremony in the Grand Auditorium. Each will descri...