Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Erling-Persson Foundation contribute the majority of the funding for the new Nobel Center at Slussen

The Nobel Foundation today presents the first vision images of the Nobel Center to be built on Stadsgårdskajen at Slussen in Stockholm. 

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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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Photo Magnus Bergström
In his previous research Sten Linnarsson studied early brain development and produced a detailed cell atlas. This new knowledge about the brain now forms the basis for a new and more goal-oriented focus – to fight brain cancer, especially glioblastoma.
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Photo Magnus Bergström
As a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Lindström is examining the neurobiological och psychological threads that intertwine to enable humans to learn from each other.
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Photo Magnus Berström
Wallenberg Scholar Sara Hallin is finding out more about the unknown mechanisms that control the nitrogen cycle.
Photo Magnus Bergström
Camilla Engblom heads a research team that aims to find new ways to combat breast cancer by visualizing the genes that are active in tumors and examining how immune cells and antibodies interact and the targets they bind to.