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 2011, SEK 752 million in funds were granted for 26 projects with the potential of leading to scientific breakthroughs.
Research projects 2011
Research projects with high scientific potential
Project: Autoimune Diseases
Principal Investigator: Professor Tomas Olsson, Karolinska Institutet
Grant: SEK 57 232 000
They hope to dispel the mysteries surrounding MS and rheumatoid arthritis
Project: New markers predicting glioma
Principal Investigator: Professor Bengt Westermark, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 12 672 000
Project: The mucus layer and microbita
Principal Investigator: Professor Gunnar C. Hansson, University of Gothenburg
Grant: SEK 28 178 000
Mucus research enhances knowledge of major public health diseases
Project: Swedish Arctic Ocean
Principal Investigator: Professor Örjan Gustafsson, Stockholm University
Grant: SEK 45 859 000
Methane from the Arctic hard-to-judge force in climate change
Project: Clinical epigenetics of acute leukemia
Principal Investigator: Professor Karl Ekwall, Karolinska Institutet
Grant: SEK 41 860 000
Epigenetics provides hope for more effective treatment of acute leukemia
Project: New anti effective therapies
Principal Investigator: Professor Artur Schmidtchen, Lund University
Grant: SEK 42 348 000
Project: Catalysis in selective organic synthesis
Principal Investigator: Professor Jan-Erling Bäckvall, Stockholm University
Grant: SEK 44 043 000
Project: Bacterial modulation of early clearing
Principal Investigator: Professor Birgitta Henriques Normark, Karolinska Institutet
Grant: SEK 25 835 000
Project: The search for colon cancer genes
Principal Investigator: Professor Erik Johansson, Umeå University
Grant: SEK 30 070 000
Project: Power Papers
Principal Investigator: Professor Magnus Berggren, Linköping University
Grant: SEK 35 386 000
Project: The artificial leaf: light-driven
Principal Investigator: Professor Johannes Messinger, Umeå university
Grant: SEK 40 376 000
An artificial leaf – a solution to part of our energy problems?
Project: Anti obesity therapy
Principal Investigator: Professor Sven Enerbäck, University of Gothenburg
Grant: SEK 42 643 000
Project: Ultimate Vision
Principal Investigator: Professor Dan E. Nilsson, Lund University
Grant: SEK 34 908 000
Project: Molecular solar energy science
Principal Investigator: Professor Anders Hagfeldt, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 48 071 000
Project: Genes to function, autoimmune diseases
Principal Investigator: Professor Ann-Christine Syvänen, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 23 786 000
Genetic discovery at Uppsala may explain serious women’s disease
Project: Photon science and x-ray lasers
Principal Investigator: Professor Janos Hajdu, Uppsala University
Grant: SEK 36 550 000
Project: The Swedish graphene initiative
Principal Investigator: Professor Mikael Fogelström, Chalmers University of Technology
Grant: SEK 40 844 000
Project: Isotopic control material properties
Principal Investigator: Professor Erik Janzén, Linköping University
Grant: SEK 18 105 000
Project: Aerotaxy, to grow nanowire
Principal Investigator: Professor Lars Samuelson, Lund University
Grant: SEK 18 889 000
Project: Controlling quantum coherence
Principal Investigator: Professor Tönu Pullerits, Lund University
Grant: SEK 37 652 000
Energy flow in plants can pave the way for superfast computers
Project: Droplet, microfluids, nanovires
Principal Investigator: Professor Jan Linnros, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Grant: SEK 33 008 000
Nanowires that detect cancer cells – future diagnostic tool?
Project: The SGC project, Karolinska Institutet
Final grant: SEK 3 000 000