"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.

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Photo Magnus Bergström
Healthy blood vessels are fundamental to human health. Failing blood vessels can contribute to the establishment and progression of diseases. Lena Claesson-Welsh’s research is focused on how blood vessel leakage can promote cancer and how new drugs promise to strengthen the blood vessel barrier can be useful in a number of diseases.
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Photo Magnus Bergström
The experimental data the researchers are gathering is being used to design better theoretical descriptions, which can then be used in global climate models.
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Photo Johan Wingborg
As a Wallenberg Scholar Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen aims to generate new knowledge about the infancy of the universe, hoping to provide crucial answers about our origins.
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Photo Magnus Bergström
Spider silk is one of nature’s most impressive materials, and is extremely strong and stretchable. Anna Rising and her colleagues were the first to fabricate artificial spider silk using the same mechanisms that spiders do. This may pave the way for future use in sustainable clothes and medical implants.