Founded in 1477, Uppsala University (UU) is one of the oldest universities in Europe. It is a large university with nearly 44,000 students and 7,000 employees. UU is a complete university with research and educational programs in all scientific disciplines.

Uppsala University (UU) hosts the Uppsala node of Science for Life Laboratory, which  is a is a distributed national center for molecular biosciences funded by the Swedish government at four collaborating Swedish universities.