Wallenberg Clinical Scholars prolongation grants 2025

In 2025, five Wallenberg Clinical Scholars have been granted an extended grant for another five years. In total they have received grants as Wallenberg Clinical Scholars for ten years.

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 24 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 undertaken by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to strengthen medical research and the life sciences.

Wallenberg Clinical Scholars prolongation grant 2025

Ann Hellström, chief physician and professor of pediatric ophthalmology 
University of Gothenburg

A better life for preemies

 

Markus Heilig, professor of Neuro Psychiatry
Linköping University

New therapeutics for alcohol dependence

 

Olle Kämpe, chief physician and professor in clinical endocrinology
Karolinska Institutet

Understanding autoimmune diseases – why our immune system becomes our enemy

 

Håkan Olausson, chief physician and professor in clinical neuroscience 
Linköping University

Newly discovered nerve fibers offer clues on pain relief

 

Mikael Rydén, chief physician and professor of clinical and experimental fat tissue research
Karolinska Institutet

Finding obesity-related diseases in fatty tissue