The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation wants to support and encourage some of the most successful researchers in Sweden and give them the best conceivable conditions for research as possible. In 2012, SEK 700 million in funds were granted for 25 projects with the potential of leading to scientific breakthroughs.
Research projects 2012
Research projects with high scientific potential
Technology/physics/mathematics
Project: Stochastics for big data and big systems
Principal Investigator: Professor Holger Rootzén, Chalmers University of Technology
Grant: SEK 50 324 000 for a five-year project
Project: Plasmonic antennas shine light on the nanoworld
Principal Investigator: Professor Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology
Grant: SEK 37 131 000 for a five-year project
Project: Dynamics of the solar chromosphere
Principal Investigator: Professor Göran Scharmer, Stockholm University
Grant: SEK 26 361 000 for a five-year project
Project: Coherent cytoskeleton dynamics captured with cutting Edge X-ray methods
Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Neutze, University of Gothenburg
Grant: SEK 17 647 000 for a two-year project subject to a possibility to apply for an extension of three years
Project: Spin dynamics and magnonics
Principal Investigator: Professor Olle Eriksson, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 37 427 000
for a five-year project
Project: Characterization of the earth-sized exoplanets
Principal Investigator: Professor Nikolai Piskunov, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 23 052 000 for a five-year project
Project: Ionic liquids, lubricants Enabling Advanced Performance
Principal Investigator: Professor Sergei Glavatskih, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Grant: SEK 32 059 000 for a five-year project
Ionic liquids – creating high-performance and environmentally friendly lubricants
Project: Designed Nanoparticles by Pulsed Plasma
Principal Investigator: Professor Ulf Helmersson, Linköping University
Grant: SEK 15 336 000 for a two-year project subject to a possibility to apply for an extension of three years
Project: Studies on transient sprays
Principal Investigator: Professor Mark Linne, Chalmers University of Technology
Grant: SEK 27 034 000 for a five-year project
Natural science
Project: Early Planetary Evolution
Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Whitehouse, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Grant: SEK 13 032 000 for a five-year project
Project: Animal Functional Genomics
Principal Investigator: Professor Leif Andersson, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 30 997 000 for a five-year project
Project: ShapeSystems - Systems Biology of Plant Cell Shape
Principal Investigator: Professor Markus Grebe, Umeå University
Grant: SEK 31 277 000 for a five-year project
Project: 3D Electron Microscopy for Nanostructure Research
Principal Investigator: Professor Xiaodong Zou, Stockholm University
Grant: SEK 33 364 000 for a five-year project
Project: Epigenetic regulation of cell fate in plant
Principal Investigator: Dr. Lars Hennig, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Grant: SEK 28 814 000 for a five-year project
Project: Insect life cycle genomics and adaptation in the wild
Principal Investigator: Professor Sören Nylin, Stockholm University
Grant: SEK 30 207 000 for a five-year project
Winter-hibernating insects - an interaction between genes and environment
Medicine
Project: Spatial transcriptomics of the brain
Principal Investigator: Professor Joakim Lundeberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Grant: SEK 16 682 000 for a two-year project subject to a possibility to apply for an extension of three years
Project: Novel molecular cancer drug targets and biomarkers
Principal Investigator: Professor Marene Landström, Umeå University
Grant: SEK 36 594 000 for a five-year project
Project: Temporal Competence Changes in Neural Progenitor Cells
Grant: SEK 46 961 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Stefan Thor, Linköping University
Project: Novel cancer targets within nucleotide metabolism
Principal Investigator: Professor Thomas Helleday, Karolinska Institutet
Grant: SEK 14 220 000 for a two-year project subject to a possibility to apply for an extension of three years
Project: ALS as a Model System for Studying Degenerative Brain Diseases
Grant: SEK 35 821 000
for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Peter Andersen, Umeå University
Project: The gut metagenome as a novel target to treat childhood obesity
Principal Investigator: Professor Fredrik Bäckhed, University of Gothenburg
Grant: SEK 30 806 000 for a five-year project
The intestinal bacterial ecosystem - the key to understanding and treating childhood obesity?
Project: Prevention of beta-cell failure in Type 2 diabetes
Grant: SEK 11 792 000 for a two-year project subject to a possibility to apply for an extension of three years
Principal Investigator: Professor Helena Edlund, Umeå University
Project: The next generation cell handling in medical diagnostics
Principal Investigator: Professor Thomas Laurell, Lund University
Grant: SEK 33 538 000 for a five-year project
They are developing a new method to find tumor cells in the blood
Project: The Human Microbiome Atlas in Health and Disease
Principal Investigator: Professor Björn Andersson, Karolinska Institutet
Grant: SEK 22 340 000 for a five-year project
Project: Comprehensive analysis of the kidney glomerulus and its diseases
Principal Investigator: Professor Karl Tryggvason, Karolinska Institutet
Grant: SEK 16 715 000 for a three-year project