27 research projects with potential to lead to new scientific breakthroughs are awarded grants totaling SEK 770 million by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
“It's particularly pleasing that the Foundation has been able to grant funding to so many projects in physics and technology. We are pleased because this illustrates the broad range of research conducted in Swedish,” says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Vice-Chairman of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Applications for project grants are approved by the Foundation following an extensive international peer-review procedure.
“In this year's round Karolinska Institutet was awarded six project grants, which shows that KI is maintaining its dominant position in Swedish medical research,” says Göran Sandberg, Executive Director of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Grants are awarded this year to 24 new projects and three projects that have been granted continuation funding following evaluation.
The grants are shared between three main areas: technology/physics/mathematics, other natural sciences and medicine.
Through the project grants it awards, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation provides leading Swedish researchers with resources and conditions enabling them to tackle complex and difficult research problems.
Project grants awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2013
Medicine:
Project: “Maintaining Neuronal Identity – Transcriptional control of the aging brain”
Grant awarded: SEK 40 436 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Thomas Perlmann, Karolinska Institutet
Project: “Growth control and cancer”
Grant awarded: SEK 38 919 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Jussi Taipale, Karolinska Institutet
Project: “Novel treatment of advanced melanoma by targeted pro-senescence therapy combined with immunotherapy”
Grant awarded: SEK 33 623 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Lars Gunnar Larsson, Karolinska Institutet
Project: “Therapy for the future, disarming bacterial pathogens”
Grant awarded: SEK 33 005 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Sven Bergström, Umeå University
Project: “Metabolic disorders of the brain”
Grant awarded: SEK 26 441 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Anna Wedell, Karolinska Institutet
Project: “The Karolinska CardioVascular Initiative (KCVI)”
Grant awarded: SEK 24 633 000 for a three-year project
Main applicant: Professor Kenneth Chien, Karolinska Institutet
Project: “Virus host cell interactions and development of inhibitors”
Grant awarded: SEK 23 781 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Niklas Arnberg, Umeå University
Project: “Linking social behavior to the brain”
Grant awarded: SEK 23 162 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor David Sumpter, Uppsala University
Project: “Next generation of mucosal vaccines for protection against infectious diseases”
Grant awarded: SEK 16 231 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Nils Lycke, University of Gothenburg
Project: “Discovering new forms of monogenic hyperlipidemias by whole genome sequencing in families with extreme metabolic phenotypes”
Granted awarded: SEK 10 846 000 for a two-year project
Main applicant: Professor Bo Angelin, Karolinska Institutet
Technology/physics/mathematics
Project: “Plasma based compact ion sources”
Granted awarded: SEK 38 515 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Tünde Fülöp, Chalmers University of Technology
Project: “Bridging the THz gap”
Granted awarded: SEK 35 575 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Herbert Zirath, Chalmers University of Technology
Project: “The new milky way”
Grant awarded: SEK 33 970 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Sofia Feltzing, Lund University
Project: “Energy-efficient optic fiber communication”
Grant awarded: SEK 33 894 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Peter Andrekson, Chalmers University of Technology
Project: “Zwicky Transient Facility”
Gant awarded: SEK 33 440 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Jesper Sollerman, Stockholm University
Project: “Functional Dirac Materials”
Grant awarded: SEK 32 050 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Alexander Balatsky, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Project: “Strong field physics and new states of matter”
Grant awarded: SEK 27 900 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Patrick Norman, Linköping University
Project: “WOV Working on Venus”
Grant awarded: SEK 22 927 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Mikael Östling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Project: “Seeing organ function – patient specific image data”
Grant awarded: SEK 24 502 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University
Project: “Advanced non-intrusive laser diagnostics of high temperature environments”
Grant awarded: SEK 15 516 000 for a two-year project
Main applicant: Professor Marcus Aldén, Lund University
Other natural science
Project: “Rationalizing drug design”
Grant awarded: SEK 40 374 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Mikael Akke, Lund University
Project: “Architecture and functional dynamics of the cellular power plant”
Grant awarded: SEK 39 121 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Peter Brzezinski, Stockholm University
Project: “Molecular interactions controlling soil carbon sequestration”
Grant awarded: SEK 35 072 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Anders Tunlid, Lund University
Project: “Inland water ecosystems in the global carbon cycle”
Grant awarded: SEK 31 036 000 for a five-year project
Main applicant: Professor Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University
Continuation grants
Project: “New markers predicting glioma drug response”
Grant awarded: SEK 19 000 000 as a three-year continuation grant
Main applicant: Professor Bengt Westermark, Uppsala University
Project: “Aerotaxy: a revolutionary new way to grow semiconductor nanowires”
Grant awarded: SEK 18 000 000 for two years of funding
Main applicant: Professor Lars Samuelson, Lund University
Project: “Isotopic Control for Ultimate Material Properties - Phase II”
Grant awarded: SEK 18 000 000 for two years of funding
Main applicant: Professor Erik Janzén, Linköping University
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is the largest private financier of research in Sweden and in the past five years has distributed SEK 5.2 billion for the promotion of Swedish research and Swedish researchers.