740 MSEK to SciLifeLab's program for Data-Driven Life Science

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SciLifeLab & Wallenberg's National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), receives continued funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for an additional two years, with 740 million SEK.

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18 mathematicians receive research funding

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Funding worth SEK 29 million from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s mathematics program will be granted 18 mathematicians for their research. 

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"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 Johan Gunséus
A better understanding of plant development is needed for scientific progress in many fields, but much remains unknown about the complicated processes that govern the fate of plant cells. With the help of curiosity, thorough knowledge and ground-breaking methods, Stéphanie Robert and her colleagues intend to explore how the intricate interplay between plant cells determines their identity.
Photo Magnus Bergström
Wallenberg Academy Fellow Magdalena Zych is rising to the challenge using a new mathematical framework in which time is the link between the theories.
Photo Johan Wingborg
For several years now, Mora-Márquez, who researches in philosophy and is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, has been conducting an in-depth study of medieval analyses of one of Aristotle’s works on argumentation theory.
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It is well known that when a blood transfusion is given, the donor and the recipient must have compatible blood groups. Less well known is that the ABO system is only the first categorization. There are several hundred blood groups, and new ones are still being discovered. One of the scientists involved is Martin L. Olsson in Lund.