Laboratories for Chemical Biology Umeå
Since 2006 LCBU offers open access to screening to academic research groups, research institutes, and SMEs. LCBU currently has seven fulltime employees and is located to the Department of Chemistry.
LCBU consists of two sections, one screening platform that can aid in e.g. assay development and actual screening, and one chemistry platform with expertise in e.g. organic synthesis.
Major activities in LCBU include screening for novel antimicrobial marine natural products within the program “Molecules for the Future”. LCBU is also a core platform in two large programs funded by the Swedish Research Council: Umeå Centre for Microbial Research Linnaeus Program (UCMR) and Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS). The latter is the Swedish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine.
To meet this need we have formed the Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS) together with platforms at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University. CBCS is a national infrastructure supported by the Swedish Research Council. The goal is to join Swedish resources and expertise in a coherent network that can offer open access chemical biology in Sweden and also play a key role in EU-OPENSCREEN. EU-OPENSCREEN is a distributed pan-European infrastructure built from a network of open-access infrastructures for the development of bioactive small molecules.
