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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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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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New Swedish quantum computer to be made available to industry

23 January 2023   |   Press release from Chalmers University of Technology
A Swedish quantum computer is to become more widely available. A copy of the quantum computer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden will be built using additional funding from...
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New Swedish research station for research on sustainable materials from the forest launched

1 November 2022   |   Press release from MAX IV
ForMAX, a new, unique research station for studies of sustainable materials from the forest using synchrotron X-ray light, is now opening for next-generation research experiments at MAX IV. There is...
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