16 mathematicians will receive a total of SEK 35 million in grants

The grant is awarded to mathematical research in a range of fields, including a project for improved forecasting of ice sheet melt.

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The Foundation allocates SEK 1.6 billion to life science with a focus on clinical research

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is allocating additional funds to patient oriented, clinical research. The initiative will, among other things, strengthen research at the four Wallenberg Centres for Molecular Medicine located in Gothenburg, Lund, Linköping, and Umeå, as well as at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University.

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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.

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Are we allowed to form defensive alliances even if this makes our neighbors worse off? May we install a surveillance camera on our home even if this makes a burglar more likely to break in next door? Can deterrence be a legitimate motive for war? Philosopher Helen Frowe is examining the ethical aspects of deterrence, giving us better tools to determine whether or not a given method of deterrence is acceptable.
Photo Magnus Bergström
Wallenberg Academy Fellow André Teixeira is investigating how learning control systems can defend themselves against sophisticated cyberattacks.
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Wallenberg Scholar Martin Dribe is studying demographic inequality - how the differences have shifted throughout history, and what drives them.
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Over the past thirty years, Pernilla Wittung Stafshede has revealed important knowledge about roles of proteins in human health. As a Wallenberg Scholar, Wittung Stafshede is now focused on achieving a breakthrough for one of healthcare’s greatest challenges: finding new ways to address some of the brain’s most severe diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.