Research projects 2020

Project: ”Anger Management: Neuronal Network Organization, Plasticity and Sex-Specificity in Aggression and other Social Behaviours”

Grant: SEK 20,400,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Christian Broberger, Stockholm University

Where does aggression come from?

Project: ”Adipose tissue senescence and metabolic disease in man”

Grant: SEK 31,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr Kirsty Spalding, Karolinska Institutet

Obesity and diabetes linked to prematurely ageing cells

Project: ”Vascular organotypicity in health and disease”

Grant: SEK 38,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Lena Claesson-Welsh, Uppsala University

An atlas of the body’s blood vessels

Project: ”Brain circuits in decision-making”

Grant: SEK 32,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Docent Marie Carlén, Karolinska Institutet

Revealing the biology of the brain controlling our behavior

Project: ”Developmental trajectories for human B-cells”

Grant: SEK 39,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Karolinska Institutet

The origin and development of B cells

Project: ”Multilevel efficiency of bird flight: Generating vortices to travel the world”

Grant: SEK 22,900,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Anders Hedenström, Lund University

Holistic approach to optimal bird migration

Project: ”Year-round climate feedbacks of winter phenological (mis)matches of plants and microbes across the Arctic”

Grant: SEK 28,900,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Docent Ellen Dorrepaal, Umeå University

Winter studies in the Arctic yield new insights on greenhouse gas emissions

Project: ”Decoding cell fate with lineage-tracing in utero transduction”

Grant: SEK 40,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr Emma Andersson, Karolinska Institutet

Scientists reveal how stem cells decide to develop

Project: ”Decoding bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems: from high-throughput discovery to molecular mechanisms and biotechnology”

Grant: SEK 29,600,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr Gemma Atkinson, Umeå University

Bacteria’s emergency stop buttons

Project: ”Development of new therapeutic strategies based on the discovery of ZC3H11A - a stress-induced protein required for efficient virus growth”

Grant: SEK 25,000,000 over three years
Principal investigator: Professor Leif Andersson, Uppsala University

Unexplored gene may be key to new virus and cancer therapies

Project: PlantEra: ”Biomolecular and structural comparisons of ancient and modern plants– tools for tracing phylogeny and survival strategies during mass extinctions”

Grant: SEK 28,600,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Vivi Vajda, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Ancient plant survival strategies

Project: ”Creation of heavy elements in neutron-star mergers”

Grant: SEK 29,600,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Docent Andreas Heinz, Chalmers University of Technology

How are heavy elements formed in neutron star collisions?

Project: ”The 2D-Materials Frontier”

Grant: SEK 29,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Johanna Rosén, Linköping University

Seeking a formula for ultrathin materials

Project: ”Metasurface-Emitting Lasers: Tomorrows Light Sources for Applied Photonics”

Grant: SEK 38,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology

Project: ”Type Theory for Mathematics and Computer Science”

Grant: SEK 34,700,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Thierry Coquand, University of Gothenburg

Software that checks proof

Project: ”The Origin and Fate of Dust in our Universe”

Grant: SEK 27,700,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen, Chalmers University of Technology

Cosmic dust shedding light on the origins of life

Project: ”Combining intense extreme ultraviolet and relativistic electron pulses”  

Grant: SEK 25,600,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Per Johnsson, Lund University

Ultrashort light and electron pulses revealing changes in material properties

Project: ”Galactic Time Machine”

Grant: SEK 20,400,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Sofia Feltzing, Lund University