To Improve Worldwide Patient Safety

The Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is an independent foundation and a centre for international service and scientific research.

Our priorities are the safety of patients and the safe and effective use of medicines in every part of the world.

We meet these priorities by innovative research and development, and by providing data, reference, consultative and training resources to medicines regulatory agencies, health professionals, researchers and the pharmaceutical industry all over the world.

UMC's Vision is to improve worldwide patient safety and welfare by reducing the risk of medicines.

Message from the Director

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Marie Lindquist

Uppsala Monitoring Centre Research Conference

The 2012 Research Conference was much appreciated; read the acclaims here. Plans for the 2014 conference are ongoing and we hope to see many of you there.

News

21 May 2013

Uppsala researchers offer new way to detect harmful drug interactions

The research team at UMC has recently developed a novel and productive approach to detecting possible harm caused to patients by interacting drugs and other ...

16 May 2013

Reinforcing global patient safety, EU-funded project meets to share achievements

The Monitoring Medicines consortium, an EU supported collaboration, will meet on 20th May 2013 during the World Health Assembly in Geneva to conclude the pro...

23 April 2013

VigiBase reaches 8 million reports

The Uppsala Monitoring Centre has now entered 8 million adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports from countries contributing to the WHO Global Individual Case Saf...