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Research in Medical technology contributes with new knowledge in pathophysiology of diseases and new methods in diagnostics and therapy. In Umeå, there are prominent research groups in biofluid mechanics, motion analysis, image processing, radiation therapy, sensors and AI. The research is often interdisciplinary and research groups are a mix of technical and clinical researchers. Strong areas are, for example, in neuroscience, cancer, cardiovascular and imaging and functional medicine.
SciLifeLab site Umeå celebrates 16 new Group Leaders with cake and a get-together.
Pitches: AI for image processing, understanding breast cancer risk and unravelling plant genome complexity.
The pitches covered cancer and disease modeling and the role of sphingolipids in metabolic diseases.
IceLab opens its Lunch Pitch season with pitches related to aging from Verena Kohler and Mattias Forsell
Treatment of cancer can be improved with machine learning making pictures sharper, shows a new thsis.
Umeå University is well ahead in autumn's allocation in the medical field from the Swedish Research Council.
At UFBI, the brain and memory are studied through longitudinal studies using MRI and PET.
Read about the challenging journey from being a student to a researcher.