Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

(IN BRIEF) Eviden, part of the Atos Group, has secured a multi-million euro, four-year contract to enhance the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University, Sweden. The upgrade will add 512 PetaFlops of FP8 AI performance through the integration of 16 NVIDIA … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, in collaboration with SciLifeLab, have introduced the 2024 Proof of Concept Grant in Life Science, aiming to bridge the funding gap between academic research and innovation. This grant offers researchers the chance to … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) A study published in the European Heart Journal – Open has found that excessive salt intake is associated with clogged arteries of the heart and neck, which is linked with increased risks of heart attack and stroke. Atherosclerosis, … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s mathematics program will award SEK 28m to 17 mathematicians working on mathematical studies of the pandemic, models of random events, and theories for extreme values. The foundation’s support of Institut Mittag-Leffler has … Read the full press release →

STOCKHOLM, 26-Oct-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — MAX IV Laboratory has received 100 million SEK from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for the investment in a new beamline, ForMAX, designed to serve both academia and industry. ForMAX is part of Treesearch, a national … Read the full press release →

STOCKHOLM, 16-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — For nearly two decades researchers have sought a way to target an estrogen receptor in the hope they could improve breast cancer survival, but an article published today in Nature Communications contends that the effort … Read the full press release →

Umeå, Sweden, 10-Oct-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted over SEK 94 million to three research projects in medicine and natural sciences at Umeå University. The projects are led by researchers Maria Fällman, Jan Karlsson and … Read the full press release →

STOCKHOLM, 31-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Mathematics Research at KTH will get a hefty injection of stimulating international exchanges, made possible by six grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation mathematics programs. “You can say that this is an acknowledgment … Read the full press release →

Karolinska Institutet has appointed Professor Bo Angelin to lead the Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre (ICMC), a joint initiative with AstraZeneca. Now it is a matter of recruiting scientists to the centre. Stockholm, Sweden, 21-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Bo Angelin is a Professor … Read the full press release →

Stockholm, 20-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Thanks to a generous donation, most of the financing has been secured for construction of the Nobel Center on the Blasieholmen peninsula in central Stockholm.  The donors are the Erling-Persson Family Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Together … Read the full press release →

Brussels, 20-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to verify whether a public support measure granted in 2012 by Sweden and Denmark to Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is in line with EU state aid rules. The Commission has … Read the full press release →

5-12-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that the cells that produce glucagon are stimulated by the hormone itself. A previous study by the same group demonstrated that this principle also applies to insulin. This means that a … Read the full press release →