Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation wants to support and encourage some of the most successful researchers in Sweden and give them the best conceivable conditions for research as possible.
Research projects 2014
Research projects with high scientific potential
Medicine

Project: ”Identifying stem cell states and state transitions”
Grant: SEK 42 717 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Stefan Karlsson, Lund University

Project: ”A two-front attack on malignant melanoma”
Grant: SEK 41 941 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Martin Bergö, University of Gothenburg

Project: ”Aging and Cancer: A Developmental Perspective of Leukemia”.
Grant: SEK 41 742 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Mikael Sigvardsson, Lund University

Project: ”Master regulatory long non-coding RNA molecules in cellular differentiation”
Grant: SEK 40 846 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Chandrasekhar Kanduri, University of Gothenburg

Project: “Hitting cancer on target - Novel strategies for optimizing drug target engagement for improved brest cancer therapies”
Grant: SEK 39 628 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Jonas Bergh, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “Insulin and Immunity: when complement takes control”
Grant: SEK 29 265 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Anna Blom, Lund University

Project: “The brain microcircuits integrating information from several senses”
Grant: SEK 29 352 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Paolo Medini, Umeå University
Technolog/physics/mathematics

Project: “Interactive Physical Systems: Moduli Spaces, Inference and Control”
Grant: SEK 18 558 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Danica Kragic Jensfelt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Project: “Quantum states of photons and relativistic physics on a chip”
Grant: SEK 50 343 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology

Project: “Bottlenecks for particle growth in turbulent aerosols”
Grant: SEK 33 151 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Bernhard Mehlig, University of Gothenburg

Project: “Nanoscale superconducting devices for a closer look at brain activity”
Grant: SEK 34 397 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Dag Winkler, Chalmers University of Technology

Project: “Geometry and Physics”
Beviljat anslag: 35 131 000 kronor under fem år
Principal Investigator: Professor Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala University

Project: “IMPACT: Comets, asteroids and the habitability of planets”
Grant: SEK 22 563 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Melvyn Davies, Lund University

Project: “The tail of the sun”
Grant: SEK 33 642 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Xavier Crispin, Linköping University

Project: “Discovering Dark Matter Particles in the Laboratory”
Grant: SEK 28 883 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Jan Conrad, Stockholm University
Natural Science

Project: ”Single-particle cryo-EM studies of membrane protein biogenesis and structure”
Grant: SEK 31 000 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University

Project: “Understanding the environmental regulation of the annual growth cycle in trees”
Grant: SEK 39 763 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Rishikesh Bhalerao, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Project: “The genomics of species diversification”
Grant: SEK 42 249 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Hans Ellegren, Uppsala University

Projekt: “Anisotropic Forces in Colloid Chemistry”
Grant: SEK 42 398 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Peter Schurtenberger, Lund University

Project: “Structural dynamics and allosteric regulation of mammalian channels and transporters”
Grant: SEK 28 868 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Drew, Stockholm University

Project: “Dynamics of epigenetic memory”
Grant: SEK 27 309 000 for a five-year project
Principal Investigator: Professor Jan Larsson, Umeå University
Continuation grants

Project: ”Novel cancer targets within nucleotide metabolism”
Grant: SEK 21 330 000
Principal Investigator: Professor Thomas Helleday, Karolinska Institutet

Project: ”Coherent cytoskeleton dynamics captured with cutting Edge X-ray methods”
Grant: SEK 26 470 000 kronor
Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Neutze, University of Gothenburg

Project: ”Designed Nanoparticles by Pulsed Plasma”
Grant: SEK 23 004 000 kronor
Principal Investigator: Professor Ulf Helmersson, Linköping University
Infrastructure of national importance in Life Science
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, The future of whole genome sequencing in Sweden
Grant: SEK 2 000 000.
Stockholm University, Wallenberg Advanced Bioinformatics Infrastructure, WABI
Grant: SEK 68 000 000 in continuation grant.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Universities Metabolomics Platform
Grant: SEK 21 000 000 in continuation grant.
University of Gothenburg, NMR for life
Grant: SEK 21 000 000 in continuation grant.
Uppsala University, The Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS)
Grant: SEK 100 000 000.
Principal Investigator: Professor Lars Lind, Uppsala University