The Department of Surgical Sciences is predominantly located at the Uppsala University Hospital and consists of 20 research groups (18 clinical and two preclinical) and four research infrastructures.

Research at the Department of Surgical Sciences is conducted with surgery as a topic in the broad sense. Being a mainly clinical department, many employees divide their employment between the Department of Surgical Sciences and Uppsala University hospital.

The department’s research groups are working with different methods and with competences ranging from molecular biology and basic pathology to patient related problematic complexes within clinical health care. In many instances there is collaboration with other departments and with clinics and research groups at other hospitals and universities both within Sweden and abroad.

Several major clinical trials are conducted at the department in collaboration with the hospital. Preclinical and translational research is carried out both within purely preclinical research groups and within clinical research groups. In translational projects, clinical data are linked to genetic or molecular changes. Additionally, material research and image processing research take place, where colleagues collaborate with other scientific areas within the university, primarily in the field of natural sciences. The department’s breadth, covering both small and large clinical, preclinical, and translational research fields, is a strength that contributes to creative heterogeneity.

Read more about our research groups below through the links below.