Long-term research grants awarded to 27 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Another 27 promising researchers will now receive five-year basic research grants from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This funding provides researchers in the beginning of their careers with the opportunity to contribute groundbreaking new knowledge.

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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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Semiconductor chips that are smaller, more efficient and cheaper are the goal of Vanya Darakchieva’s research. She wants to develop semiconductors with a wider bandgap, thereby enhancing the performance of the material.
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Photo Åsa Wallin
Wallenberg Clinical Scholar Oskar Hansson’s team is developing techniques for diagnosing Alzheimer’s as early and as accurately as possible, and for monitoring the disease or the impact of treatment.
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Photo Johan Gunséus
Wallenberg Scholar Oliver Billker is heading a groundbreaking research project on the malaria parasite and its complex interaction with the mosquitoes that spread it.

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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.