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.

Bok med titeln "Computational Complexity" ligger på ett bord bland andra böcker.
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Are there problems that computers cannot solve? Some current technology is based on the assumption that there are. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Susanna de Rezende is trying to find ways to answer this question with greater certainty.
Man i laboratorium arbetar vid en dator med mikroskop och prover i bakgrunden.
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Wallenberg Academy Fellow Niklas Mejhert is focusing on individual fat cells to understand the connections between them and our most common and widespread diseases.
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Wallenberg Scholar Marie Dacke in Lund is exploring the beetle’s navigation system, potentially leading to better robotics and AI.
Joan Yuan håller i modell
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B cells in our immune system remember foreign substances and can quickly produce antibodies if reinfection occurs. But only a small portion of these cells are known. There are many more variants, and researchers in Lund, Gothenburg and Stockholm want to map them. Ultimately, the result could be better vaccines.