Research projects 2022

Research projects with high scientific potential

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has awarded a total of SEK 700 million to 23 research projects in the fields of medicine, the natural sciences and technology that are considered to offer potential for future scientific breakthroughs.

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.

Medicine

Project: Immunology human organ donor programme

Grant: SEK 32,200,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Associate professor Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institutet

Answers about immune responses sought in donated organs

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

Controlling the decisions of stem cells

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

Mapping aggressive brain tumors in search of a cure

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

Vital signals lead the way to new drugs

Project: Learning the molecular component of the cell

Grant: SEK 30,000,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Arne Elofsson, Stockholm University

AI helps us to understand the molecular language of cells

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

Exploring our first meeting with mammoths

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

Mapping the unexplored impact of forest on climate

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

Revealing the mechanisms behind the fate of plant cells

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

Using laser light for the electronics of the future

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

Shedding new light on quantum phenomenon

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

Using chaos to stabilize organic semiconductors

Project: Harnessing orbital angular momentum for novel orbital electronics

Grant: SEK 36,100,000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Peter Oppeneer, Uppsala University

New research field paving the way for green electronics

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