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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is the largest private financier of research in Sweden and also one of Europe’s largest. The Foundation’s aim is to benefit Sweden by supporting Swedish basic research and education, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences.

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21 Swedish Cutting-edge Research Projects Receive SEK 704 Million

5 October 2016

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted a total of SEK 704 million to 21 research projects considered to be of the highest international level, and potentially leading to future...

Education and training initiatives are our contribution to reducing social exclusion

30 May 2016

Published in swedish in Dagens Nyheter May 30 2016 Sweden is a fundamentally stable country, but we face a number of challenges. One of the most critical, in both the...

Five high-level Swedish researchers to be Wallenberg Clinical Scholars

13 April 2016

The five clinical researchers study common diseases such as Parkinson’s, kidney failure, osteoporosis, dementia and cardiovascular diseases. The individual funding of SEK 15 million provides them with the opportunity to...

Millions in funding for mathematicians

7 April 2016

Fifteen prominent mathematicians will receive funding to bring Swedish mathematics research back to the international top. Since 2014, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of...

Regarding the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Macchiarini case in media

8 February 2016

The Foundation would like to clarify that Paolo Macchiarini has not - and have never had - a grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, KAW. Macchiarini has on...

Joining Forces in Research on Proteins and Biopharmaceuticals

11 December 2015

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to allocate SEK 320 million for a protein research centre – Wallenberg Centre for Protein Research. Combined with the financial commitments made...

Investing in young researchers – 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows

3 December 2015

This year’s Wallenberg Academy Fellows’ research focus on, among other things, new treatment of Leukemia, on Mathematics to make way for new quantum computers, on countries’ different approaches to migrants...

Three-quarters of a Billion Kronor Earmarked for 25 Cutting-edge Swedish Research Projects

8 October 2015

The Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation has approved grants totaling SEK 759 million for 25 research projects considered to be of the highest international class, and offering potential for future...

SEK 1.8 billion for research into autonomous systems and software development

28 May 2015

Several Swedish universities are taking part in a ten-year commitment by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to basic research in this field. Swedish industry is also involved. “It is...

Major investment in centre for molecular medicine at Linköping University

23 April 2015

The new research centre – the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Linköping University – is part of a national campaign to re-establish Sweden’s leading position in medical research. The...