"We will discover things we didn't even know we were looking for"

 

For over hundred years Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has given long term support for basic research in Sweden. For recent years, every year, more than two billion Swedish crowns – for building new knowledge for a brighter future.

Photo Magnus Bergström
Researchers have long believed that only the adaptive immune system has a “memory” capable of regulating allergic reactions. But Itziar Martinez Gonzalez, a Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Karolinska Institutet, has discovered a memory function in cells in the innate immune system. They may explain the occurrence of multiple allergies that are otherwise unrelated.
Photo Thor Balkhed
It is possible that future electronics will be composed entirely of organic materials that can conduct electricity. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Simone Fabiano has stumbled upon a completely novel approach – more or less by chance.
Photo Magnus Bergström
Wallenberg Academy Fellow Maria Tenje wants to take a technological leap in the field of organs-on-a-chip.
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Photo Magnus Bergström
Marie Carlén says that she became a brain researcher by chance. She studies the cellular underpinnings of cognition and the biology underlying impaired cognition and behavior in neuropsychiatric disorders.