"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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Photo Magnus Bergström
Wallenberg Academy Fellow Xingqi Chen is developing an interdisciplinary toolbox. One key task is to ascertain how metastases form and thereby prevent cancer from spreading or tumors returning. This may lead to new cancer treatment strategies.
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Photo Åsa Wallin
Wallenberg Clinical Scholar Thoas Fioretos and his colleagues are looking for unique features of the cells that may lead to new diagnostics and less grueling therapies.
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Phota Magnus Bergström
Wallenberg Fellow Olaf Hartig wants to use new smart methods to virtually integrate information from different data sources and actors.
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Photo Johan Wingborg
Understanding how information flows through the brain’s neural network is a sought-after and elusive goal. Wallenberg Scholar Richard Neutze intends to take important steps toward that goal using advanced X-ray technology and his many years of research on the molecules of life.