Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation grants SEK 2.1 billion to 118 of Sweden's top researchers
Current calls
Learning about B cells to improve influenza vaccines
Influenza vaccinations are needed every year, since the protective antibodies react to a part of the virus that mutates swiftly. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Davide Angeletti wants to use better knowledge of antibody-producing B cells as a basis for more effective vaccines.
Vital signals lead the way to new drugs
For over half a century researchers have tried to understand the advanced signal system inside our proteins – called allosteric signaling – but many questions remain.
Curing brain disease with new cells
Daniella Rylander Ottosson, a Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Lund University, has found a way of creating new interneurons in the brain itself. This may lead to completely new kinds of treatment.
Historical atlas of diseases sheds light on African development
For the first time researchers are adopting a broader approach to diseases and epidemics throughout African history. Using unique archives from the colonial era, Jutta Bolt is mapping historical disease patterns and the actions taken to counter them. The atlas not only provides knowledge about the past; it can also give insights into present-day efforts to fight pandemics.