A total of 30 projects, in medicine, natural sciences and technology, have been evaluated after an international peer review process to have such high scientific potential that they have the possibility of leading to future scientific breakthroughs. Each project has been evaluated by at least four or five international experts in the respective field. 

“The Foundation’s evaluation process is focused on identifying projects that are at the forefront of international research and that can contribute to new knowledge,” says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Chair of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. 

Since 2011, when Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation established the project grant form, until 2024, 303 projects with a total budget of SEK 8.3 billion have been granted.

Life science grants 2024

In medicine

Project: “New chronic pain mechanisms: Spatiotemporal dynamics of dysregulated proteins in inflammatory pain”
Grant: SEK 34 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Patrik Ernfors, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “Novel Nitric Oxide Signaling Modalities for Cardiovascular Therapeutics”
Grant: SEK 31 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Jon Lundberg, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “Neoantigen discovery with cellular reprogramming”
Grant: SEK 35 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Filipe Pereira, Lund University

Project: “A Spatially Functional Atlas of the Healing Intestinal Barrier: Implications for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases”
Grant: SEK 26 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Docent Eduardo Villablanca, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “T-MAP: Translating the Functional Role of Mucosal IgA Clonal and Glycoprofiles to Effective Humoral Mucosal Protection”
Grant: SEK 25 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Docent Charlotte Thålin, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “Spatially resolving tumor and immune clonal niches in human breast cancer”
Grant: SEK 26 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr. Camilla Engblom, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “Expressing mtDNA – from basic mechanisms to pathophysiology in humans”
Grant: SEK 24 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institutet

Project: “Dissecting the unexplored dimensions of B cell memory”
Grant: SEK 26 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Docent Joan Yuan, Lund University

In natural sciences

Project: ”Context matters: How underlying DNA sequence affects genomic processes”
Grant: SEK 25 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Sebastian Deindl, Uppsala University

Project: “Dynamic Regulation of the Mitochondrial Gene Expression Network (MiGeNet)
Grant: SEK 32 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Maria Falkenberg, University of Gothenburg

Project: ”Conserved concepts and divergent details of membrane-bound viral replication organelles”
Grant: SEK 24 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Dr. Lars-Anders Carlson, Umeå University

Project: ”Next Generation Spatial Membrane Biology”
Grant : SEK 26 000 000 over five years
Principal investigator: Professor Björn Högberg, Karolinska Institutet