Human impact on wild animals, why women suffer more often from autoimmune diseases, the importance of forests and vegetation for the climate and new technology for storing and processing digital data are some examples of research that is now awarded project grants.
Research projects 2022
Research projects with high scientific potential
Medicine

Project: Immunology human organ donor programme
Grant: SEK 32,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Associate professor Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institutet

Project: Resolving the anti-tumor effects of tertiary lymphoid structures
Grant: SEK 31,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Göran Jönsson, Lund University
Immunological “factories” paving the way for better cancer therapies

Project: Metabolic control at the stem cell’s point of no return
Grant: SEK 32,000, 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Associate professor Maria Kasper, Karolinska Institutet

Project: Proprioceptive control of motor action sequences
Grant: SEK 32,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr Francois Lallemend, Karolinska Institutet
New discoveries on how muscle-to-brain sensory feedback controls body movements

Project: The Routes of Glioblastoma and their Patient-Specific Vulnerabilities
Grant: SEK 38,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Sven Nelander, Uppsala University

Project: Sex matters in autoimmune disease
Grant: SEK 39,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Karolinska Institutet
Natural sciences

Project: Decoding Dynamics and Energetics of Allosteric Signaling
Grant: SEK 36,500,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Mikael Akke, Lund University

Project: Learning the molecular component of the cell
Grant: SEK 30,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Arne Elofsson, Stockholm University

Project: A multidisciplinary assessment of human arrival on faunal biodiversity
Grant: SEK 26,700,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Anders Götherström, Stockholm University

Project: The molecular mechanism and thermodynamics of chaperone action
Grant: SEK 27,300,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Sara Linse, Lund University
Dissolving effect of auxiliary proteins point the way to therapeutics

Project: Feedbacks between a changing climate and vegetation
Grant: SEK 31,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Ilona Riipinen, Stockholm University

Project: Unravelling the legacy of historical, emerging, and future groundwater pollution
Grant: SEK 30,200, 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Isaac Santos, University of Gothenburg

Project: Decoding cell fate with positional information
Grant: SEK 32,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Stéphanie Robert, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Technology/physics/mathematics:

Project: From atom to organism: Bridging the scales in the design of ion channel drugs
Grant: SEK 27,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr Lucie Delemotte, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Project: Light-matter interaction in the ultrafast regime
Grant: SEK 25,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Delin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Project: Nanochannel Microscopy for Single Exosome Analysis
Grant: SEK 29,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Associate professor Elin Esbjörner, Chalmers University of Technology

Project: Extreme Plasma Flares
Grant: SEK 26,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Tünde Fülöp, Chalmers University of Technology
Data from space probes aiding our understanding of plasma flares

Project: Entanglement and decoherence in ultrafast electron microscopy
Grant: SEK 26,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Associate professor Mathieu Gisselbrecht, Lund University

Project: Tuning into Dark Matter
Grant: SEK 27,500,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr Jon Gudmundsson, Stockholm University

Project: Turning the Air into an AI Computer
Grant: SEK 30,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Erik G Larsson, Linköping University

Project: Stable Doping of Organic Semiconductors
Grant: SEK 27,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Christian Müller, Chalmers University of Technology

Project: Harnessing orbital angular momentum for novel orbital electronics
Grant: SEK 36,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Peter Oppeneer, Uppsala University

Project: Light strongly interacting with mechanical motion
Grant: SEK 27,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Associate professor Witlef Wieczorek, Chalmers University of Technology
New opportunities for precise measurements in the quantum world