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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is the largest private financier of research in Sweden and also one of Europe’s largest. The Foundation’s aim is to benefit Sweden by supporting Swedish basic research and education, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences.

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A new hub for developing medicines of the future at the University of Gothenburg

1 March 2021

Press release from the University of Gothenburg In recent years, techniques have been developed to treat diseases with what are known as oligonucleotide drugs, based on short DNA or RNA...

The KAW-supported SciLifeLab program on COVID-19 vaccine effects now launches with ten new projects

15 February 2021

Pressrelease from SciLifeLab In December 2020, SciLifeLab and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), announced a call for a national program studying the effects of COVID-19 vaccines. Now, the...

SEK 40 million for research on covid-19 vaccine

7 December 2020

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has allocated SEK 40 million to SciLifeLab for research on the efficacy and function of covid-19 vaccines. “Covid-19 is a new, and still in many...

SEK 3.7 billion funding for life science – Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation launches a new research initiative

20 October 2020

The initiative spans basic research in fields such as new therapeutics, epidemiology and infection biology, precision medicine and diagnostics, evolution and biodiversity, as well as cell and molecular biology. These...

SEK 50 million for further Covid-19 research

7 October 2020

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted a further SEK 50 million for research related to Covid-19 at SciLifeLab. In spring this year the Foundation allocated SEK 50 million for...

LiU to build Sweden’s largest supercomputer for AI

5 October 2020

Press release from Linköping University The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has donated SEK 300 million to Linköping University and the National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) to build Sweden´s fastest supercomputer...

A total of SEK 541 million is granted to 18 research projects in Sweden

30 September 2020

Studies of the Arctic climate in a year-round perspective, alternatives to quantum computers and studies of nerve cells to understand changed emotion and cognition with autism, are what some of...

SciLifeLab launches national COVID-19 research program

6 May 2020

Pressrelease from SciLifeLab A total of 67 COVID-19 research projects – on everything from virus diagnostics and high-throughput serology, to biomarkers, drug discovery and environmental virus profiling – are part...

SciLifeLab coordinates major efforts in diagnostics and research on the Coronavirus

8 April 2020

Press release from SciLifeLab SciLifeLab now takes a holistic approach to life science efforts in the ongoing corona pandemic. In order to achieve progress rapidly, promising research projects receive expeditious...

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation donates SEK 50 million for immediate increase in Corona testing in Sweden

24 March 2020

The Wallenberg Foundations, which are the largest sources of private funding for research in the fields of life sciences and medicine, have decided to immediately allocate SEK 50 million to...