Wallenberg Clinical Scholars 2018

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is investing almost SEK 600 million over a ten-year period in the research programme Wallenberg Clinical Scholars. The programme provides funding for 25 of the country’s foremost clinical researchers.

The aim of the programme is to strengthen Swedish clinical research by means of identifying the best clinical researchers, providing them with good conditions to undertake their work, and facilitate the impact of research results in the scientific and healthcare communities.

Wallenberg Clinical Scholars is part of a ten-year initiative amounting to a total of SEK 1.7 billion, undertaken by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to strengthen medical research and the life sciences.

Wallenberg Clinical Scholars 2018

Mats Brännström, senior consultant and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg

Robots improving world-famous uterus transplant method

Thoas Fioretos, chief physician and professor at the Department of Clinical Genetics, Lund University

New leukemia therapies based on genetic insights

Oskar Hansson, chief physician and professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University

Revolutionary diagnostic blood test for Alzheimer’s

Eva Hellström-Lindberg, chief physician and professor at the Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge

New hope for leukemia sufferers