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. This year 27 research projects with potential to lead to new scientific breakthroughs are awarded grants totaling SEK 770 million.
Research projects 2013
Research projects with high scientific potential
Medicine
Project: ”Maintaining Neuronal Identity – Transcriptional control of the aging brain”
Grant: SEK 40 436 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Thomas Perlmann, Karolinska Institutet
Project: ”Growth control and cancer”
Grant: SEK 38 919 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Jussi Taipale, Karolinska Institutet
Project: ”Novel treatment of advanced melanoma by targeted pro-senescence therapy combined with immunotherapy”
Grant: SEK 33 623 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Lars-Gunnar Larsson, Karolinska Institutet
Permanently stopped cell division may pave the way for new cancer therapy
Project: ”Therapy for the future, disarming bacterial phatogenes”
Grant: SEK 33 005 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Sven Bergström, Umeå University
Project: ”Metabolic disorders of the brain”
Grant: SEK 26 441 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Anna Wedell, Karolinska Institutet
Project: ”KI Cardo Vascular Initiative”
Grant: SEK 24 633 000 for a three-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Kenneth Chien, Karolinska Institutet
Project: ”Virus host cell interactions and development of inibitors”
Grant: SEK 23 781 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Niklas Arnberg, Umeå University
Project: ”Linking social behavior to the brain”
Grant: SEK 23 162 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor David Sumpter, Uppsala University
Guppies show a connection between behavior and the brain’s evolution
Project: ”Next generation of mucosal vaccines for protection against infectious diseases”
Grant: SEK 16 231 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Nils Lycke, University of Gothenburg
They want to develop new drinkable and spray vaccines for mass vaccinations
Project: ”Discovering new forms of monogenic hyperlipidemias by whole genome sequencing in families with extreme metabolic phenotypes”
Grant: SEK10 846 000 for a two-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Bo Angelin, Karolinska Institutet
Technology/physics/mathematics
Project: ”Plasma based compact ion sources”
Grant: SEK 38 515 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Tünde Fülöp, Chalmers University of Technology
Lasers will provide energetic ions for research and medicine
Project: ”Bridging the THz gap”
Grant: SEK 35 575 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Herbert Zirath, Chalmers University of Technology
New semiconductor needed for mobile communication of the future
Project: ”The new milky way”
Grant: SEK 33 970 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Sofia Feltzing, Lund University
Project: “Energy-efficient optic fiber communication”
Grant: SEK 33 894 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Peter Andrekson, Chalmers University of Technology
They are building a future model for energy-efficient data traffic
Project: ”Zwicky Transient Facility"
Grant: SEK 33 440 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Jesper Sollerman, Stockholm University
Explosive astronomer builds space camera to chase supernovae
Project: ”Functional Dirac Materials”
Grant: SEK 32 050 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Alexander Balatsky, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Project: ”Strong field physics and new states of matter”
Grant: 27 900 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Patrick Norman, Linköping University
Project: ”WOV Working on Venus”
Grant: SEK 22 927 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Mikael Östling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish electronics will overcome the extreme climate of Venus
Project: ”Seeing organ function – patient specific image data”
Grant: SEK 24 502 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University
Project: ”Advanced non-intrusive laser diagnostics of high temperature environments”
Grant: SEK 15 516 000 for a two-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Marcus Aldén, Lund University
Natural science
Project: ”Rationalizing drug design”
Grant: SEK 40 374 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Mikael Akke, Lund University
Project: ”Architecture and functional dynamics of the cellular power plant”
Grant: SEK 39 121 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Peter Brzezinski, Stockholm University
Studies of the cellular power plant using advanced physical techniques
Project: ”Molecular interactions controlling soil carbon sequestration”
Grant: SEK 35 072 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Anders Tunlid, Lund University
Project: ”Inland water ecosystems in the global carbon cycle”
Grant: 31 036 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University
They are seeking knowledge about the contributions of lakes to the Earth’s greenhouse gas balance
Continuation grants
Project: ”New markers predicting glioma drug response”
Grant: SEK 19 000 000 for a three-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Bengt Westermark, Uppsala University
Project: ”Aerotaxy: a revolutionary new way to grow semiconductor nanowires”
Grant: SEK18 000 000 for a two-year projekt
Principal Investigator: Professor Lars Samuelson, Lund University
Project: ”Isotopic Control for Ultimate Material Properties - Phase II”
Grant: SEK 18 000 000 for a two-year projekt
Principal Investigator: Professor Erik Janzén, Linköping University