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An online version of the NCMM Annual Report 2020 is now available

The NCMM Network Meeting 2021 saw NCMM group leaders, researchers and Associate Investigators gather online

Following a successful evaluation by NCMM’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), the NCMM Board has decided to extend the groups of Irep Gözen, Nikolina Sekulic, and Anthony Mathelier

How lethal hyperinflammation emerges from a novel gene defect: An international research team has discovered a novel subtype of a genetic immune deficiency disease

Plamena Markova, Head of International Relations at EMBL, shares some insight into her role and how politics goes hand in hand with enabling scientific research.

Researchers in Finland and Norway have discovered a gene defect that causes a novel inherited immune deficiency

Earth’s first protocells could have spontaneously formed their own “bubble-like” compartments. This may give us an idea of how cell division evolved.

The Centre warmly welcomes the three new researchers who have joined NCMM in recent months

The EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Council helps to guide EMBL's operations, administratively and scientifically.

The JASPAR and UniBind databases will be promoted by ELIXIR Norway as part of a growing resource of tools and services offered to the Norwegian research community

Whilst there has been good progress in treating many types of childhood cancer, some remain incurable. New precision medicine approach offers hope for young patients diagnosed with a rare and incurable brain tumour.

Dr. Gözen becomes the first ambassador from the Nordic countries for the prestigious international scientific society

Group Leader, Dr. Marieke Kuijjer, awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet)

SNSF Sinergia grant awarded to research groups in Switzerland and Norway to identify novel treatment strategies for children with aggressive brain tumours.

Study initiated by the Morth Group at NCMM, and completed at DTU Bioengineering, has enabled researchers to map how coliform bacteria attach to the intestinal wall giving hope for development of new treatments.

26 new NCMM Associate Investigators appointed after a fifth call, extending the network to include 47 scientists from all over Norway

A warm welcome to the three new researchers who joined NCMM in October and November 2020.

Research into evolutionary origins and primitive cell division published

Funding will enable further investigation of sarcoma samples drawn from the NoSarC biobank

NCMM welcomed two new staff members in October: Harold Gutch, Senior Engineer, IT and Pavel Kopcil, PhD student, Haapaniemi Group

Ahmad Ali Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sekulic Group at NCMM. He is currently spending time in the group of Dr. Linda Sandblad, director of the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), based at Umeå University.

Professor Charpentier was one of the first young group leaders recruited to NCMM’s Swedish sister centre, the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) in 2009. 

After being corona-delayed by six months, it was time to celebrate the first graduates from the innovation program SPARK Norway. The graduation of a total of nine projects was marked with the presentation of diplomas and presentations given by all project managers, also called SPARKees.

NCMM is pleased to announce that Judith Zaugg, EMBL Heidelberg, has been appointed as a member of NCMM's SAB (Scientific Advisory Board)

Article 'CENP-A nucleosome—a chromatin-embedded pedestal for the centromere: lessons learned from structural biology' published in the journal Essays in Biochemistry