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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is the largest private financier of research in Sweden and also one of Europe’s largest. The Foundation’s aim is to benefit Sweden by supporting Swedish basic research and education, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences.

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Proof of concept funding of life science innovations

13 February 2024
With the aim to bridge the funding gap between academic research and innovation in life science, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and SciLifeLab present the 2024 opportunity to apply for...
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Multi-million grant for research at SLU on the future use and conservation of forests

6 February 2024
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation allocates SEK 272 million to a strategic research initiative on forestry research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). "Sweden is a forested country...
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New agreement gives Swedish academia and industry unique access to even larger quantum computers

24 January 2024   |   News from Chalmers University of Technology
Through funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish academia and industry will have the opportunity to learn how to run quantum algorithms in two steps. Development and optimisation can...
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SciLifeLab’s and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s program on Proof of Concept grants promote innovations in life science

21 December 2023   |   News
Ten projects in life science, with the aim to develop an academic discovery towards an innovation and a product, receive Proof of Concept funding in the first call. “The support...
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Wallenberg Academy Fellows tackle issues in future research

29 November 2023
This year, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has appointed 31 young researchers Wallenberg Academy Fellows, meaning that they will receive five years of funding and the opportunity to benefit from...
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Proof of Concept Grant Program Aims to Ignite Life Science Innovation

29 May 2023
With the aim to bridge the funding gap between academic research and innovation and commercialization in life science, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and SciLifeLab are launching a new Proof...
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Multi-million investment in infection research at Umeå University

25 May 2023   |   Press release from Umeå University
Kempestiftelserna, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Umeå University invest SEK 67.5 million in the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS). MIMS is the Swedish node within the Nordic...
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Sara Mazur new Executive Director of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

17 April 2023
Sara Mazur takes office as Executive Director of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation on January 1, 2024. “Sara has worked with us in various capacities for five years and is...
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Long-term investment in mathematics a success factor

22 March 2023
This year, seventeen mathematicians will share funding worth SEK 28 million from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s mathematics program. Their work includes mathematical studies of the pandemic, models of random...
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Wallenberg Foundations grants 2022 – SEK 2.6 billion

8 March 2023
Funding allocated to research by the Wallenberg Foundations in 2020 totaled almost SEK 2.6 billion. Most of the funding by the Foundations is awarded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation...
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