Research projects 2015

Project: “Deciphering antigen-presenting cell subset function and regulation in chronic and acute bacterial infections – Relevance for vaccines and immune therapy”

Grant: SEK 41,460,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor William Agace, Lund University

Exploring the secret weaponry of bacteria

Project: “Towards control of formation and resolution of edema by deciphering mechanisms of vascular leak and lymphatic function”

Grant: SEK 59,985,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Christer Betsholtz, Uppsala University

Mapping the molecular mechanisms causing swelling – edema​

Project: “Cancer redox-targeting redox pathways for improved cancer therapy”

Grant: SEK 43,750,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Elias Arnér, Karolinska Institutet

On the trail of more effective cancer therapy

Project: “Cis-regulatory logic of the mouse brain transcriptome”

Grant: SEK 26,800,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Sten Linnarsson, Karolinska Institutet

Creating an atlas of the brain

Project: “Molecular mechanisms of early development”

Grant: SEK 17,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Juha Kere, Karolinska Institutet

Mapping genes controlling an embryo’s early days​

Project: “Systems precision medicine platform to optimize therapies for cancer patients: acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and beyond”

Grant: SEK 46,000,000
Principal investigator: Professor Olli Kallioniemi, Karolinska Institutet

Tailoring cancer therapies

Project: “Evolutionary transitions in humans – From nature to culture”

Grant: SEK 22,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Magnus Enquist, Stockholm University

Culture made us human​

Project: “Physiological branch-points with ecosystem consequences: carbon and water in boreal forests”

Grant: SEK 39,450,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Torgny Näsholm, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Carbon and water behind forest growth

Project: “Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of stress response that converge on mediator and chromatin structure”

Grant: SEK 39,700,000
Principal investigator: Professor Stefan Björklund, Umeå University

Factors controlling stress in plants and fungi​

Project: “Single particle catalysis in nanoreactors”

Grant: SEK 35,890,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Christoph Langhammer, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

Using a minimal reactor to learn more about catalysis​

Project: “Atomistic design of catalysts”

Grant: SEK 33,530,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Magnus Skoglundh, Chalmers University of Technology

Bespoke catalysts to save energy

Project: “Evolution of new genes and proteins”

Grant: SEK 46,770,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Dan Andersson, Uppsala University

Focus on fundamental evolutionary biology​

Project: “Characterization of new superheavy elements (lundium)”

Grant: SEK 38,260,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Dirk Rudolph, Lund University

Studying the world’s heaviest elements​

Project: “The boride frontier – Pioneering materials development of multifunctional metal diboride films by new PVD processes”

Grant: SEK 37,500,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Johanna Rosén, Associate Professor, Linköping University

Rock-hard coatings from challenging materials

Project: “Photonic quantum information”

Grant: SEK 34,250,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Mohamed Bourennane, Stockholm University

Securing confidential information

Project: “Harnessing light and spins through plasmons at the nanoscale”

Grant: SEK 37,995,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Alexander Dmitriev, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

Coupling light to magnetism at the nanoscale

Project: “Engineering the interconnected society: information, control, interaction”

Grant: SEK 25,350,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Karl-Henrik Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Theory of the interconnected society

Project: “Exact results in gauge and string theories”

Grant: SEK 33,960,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Joseph Minahan, Uppsala University

Explaining confined particles 

Project: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

Grant: SEK 18,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Björn Wittrock, Uppsala University

Project: “Advanced non-intrusive laser diagnostics of high temperature”

Grant: SEK 23,300,000
Principal investigator: Marcus Aldén, Lund University

Laser light measures without disrupting

Project: “Prevention of beta-cell failure in Type 2 diabetes”

Grant: SEK 17,600,000
Principal investigator: Professor Helena Edlund, Umeå University

Poor cleaning impacts diabetes, obesity and neurodegenerative diseases

Project: “Spatial transcriptomics of the brain”

Grant: SEK 25,000,000
Principal investigator: Professor Joakim Lundeberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

A one-of-a-kind atlas of the brain

Project: “Isotopic control for ultimate material properties – Phase III”

Grant: SEK 9,000,000
Principal investigator: Professor Erik Janzén, Linköping University

The quest for tomorrows high-performance materials

Project: “Discovering new forms of monogenic hyperlipidemias”

Grant: SEK 16,200,000
Principal investigator: Professor Bo Angelin, Karolinska Institutet

Genetic genealogy saves lives