About the Center
by the way, the name of the center is an anagram of the names of two cities – SUMY and UMEA.
Ukrainian-Swedish Research Center SUMEYA
The idea of the Ukrainian-Swedish Center belongs to Prof. Thomas Borén (Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University) and Dr. Roman Moskalenko (Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, SumDU, Deputy Director of International Cooperation).
Their productive collaboration began in 2015 during the preparation of the article “Adaptation of Helicobacter pylori to Chronic Infection and Gastric Disease by pH-Responsive BabA Mediated Adherence”, published in the Cell Host & Microbe in 2017. This idea was realized after a successful grant application by prof. T. Borén and R. Moskalenko (as a co-applicant) for the grant “Sweet Interactions” in Translational Medicine as Applied to Passive Immunotherapy against Gastric Cancer from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation, which finance research in medicine with ambitions for entrepreneurship and translational potential. The successful implementation of this large-scale project required closer cooperation and coordination of experimental part. This has accelerated the planning, preparation and organization of the SUMEYA Research Center.
Mission of the Center
SUMEYA Center supports common biomedical scientific research of the SumDU and Umeå University scientists, implementation of international and interdisciplinary dissertations, implementation of local and international grant programs, research for external customers. This will contribute to the transformation of the Medical Institute into a research and educational unit of a university. The center can provide services to educational institutions and scientists.
IN THE CENTER
Main tasks of the Center:
01. Highly effective cooperation
effective collaboration of scientists of the Medical Institute of SumDU and Umeå University in biomedical research;
02. Scientific results
obtaining of new scientific results and publications in Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection journals;
03. State target programs
implementation of state scientific and scientific-technical programs and projects, in particular, which are financed from the general fund of the state budget;
04. Scientific interdepartmental groups
organization of interdepartmental scientific groups for new topical issues of biomedical areas;
05. International research projects
ensuring a high scientific and methodological level for the implementation of scientific projects, attracting foreign scientists to bilateral and international scientific grants;
06. Training of scientific personnel
improvement of students, master and PhD students and young scientists knowledge in modern biomedical research methods by curricula and courses, involvement in research work, international academic mobility programs;
07. Partnership
transfer of new knowledge between the university and industry or healthcare institutions, their commercialization through the production licenses, the provision of scientific services for external commercial customers.