NorthPop annual workshop 2025

A big thank you to everyone who participated in our annual NorthPop workshop yesterday, Wednesday, June 4! We met on Umeå University Campus and dedicated the whole morning up until lunchtime to presentations from many different areas of the NorthPop study.We had the pleasure of listening to incredibly interesting presentations that truly showcased the breadth […]

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ESPGHAN conference 2025

Several members of the N4 research group were in attendance at the 57th European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Annual Meeting in Helsinki, Finland, 14-17 May 2025. On the first day of the conference, post doc Iratxe Urkia Susin (pictured) presented an abstract titled ‘Prevalence and Risk Factors for Anemia and Iron […]

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Enhancing nutrition for preterm newborns – Prague meeting

Prof Magnus Domellöf was one of the invited speakers from Sweden to a meeting in Prague on 24 April 2025 entitled ‘Enhancing nutrition for preterm newborns’ hosted by the Embassy of Sweden. The meeting was deemed a big success and was very well attended. Prof Domellöf gave a presentation on the importance of nutrition in […]

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Spring meeting in Perinatology 2025

The annual National Spring meeting on Perinatology (‘Vårmötet’) took place in Umeå, Sweden on 20-21 March 2025. The meeting covered a wide variety of topics within obstetrics, maternity- and neonatal care, including the latest clinical guidelines, research study results and abstract presentations. At the conference, several members of the N4 research group were actively involved. […]

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International Conference on Nutrition and Growth 2025

The 12th International Conference on Nutrition and Growth took place in Athens, Greece on 20-22 February 2025. At the conference, three members of the N4 research group had been selected to give presentations. Ania Chmielewska was an invited speaker on the topic ‘To supplement or not: The iron dilemma in breastfed infants’ in the session […]

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The pandemic led to fewer respiratory infections in young children

Children born during the COVID-19 pandemic had fewer respiratory infections and were treated with antibiotics less frequently compared to children born before the pandemic. This is shown in the latest publication from NorthPop, which included over 3,300 families. The study is published in the scientific journal Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. You can read […]

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Research featured on Swedish Television SVT/UR

Prof Magnus Domellöf has featured in a short popular science film by Swedish Television SVT/UR discussing the team’s research into nutritional factors affecting brain development during the first years of life and how to create good conditions for all children to develop according to their own potential. You can see the film here (in Swedish)

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NorthPop awarded FORTE grant

We are very happy to announce that the NorthPop research infrastructure has received a grant of 2 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE). It was one of 12 projects that was awarded in the call ‘Project grants for new, improved and accessible research data 2024’. The grant […]

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

We wish a Merry Christmas to all our team members, collaborators, co-workers, funders and especially all the children and families participating in our research studies! The past year has included many exciting new projects, lots of publications, as well as research grants and new team members! We look forward to the new challenges and opportunities […]

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