NLS Funding

Three researchers at Umeå University and one at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) have been granted funding through Umeå Biotech Incubator’s (UBI) call “Pre‑Incubator Funding for Critical Experiments in Life Science.”

The Promobilia Foundation has donated SEK 30 million to Linköping University for an interdisciplinary research project where organic electronics will be used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms. Stiftelsen för Parkinsonsforskning at LiU has also donated SEK 5 million to the purpose, and LiU is adding SEK 10 million.

NordForsk has decided to fund six Nordic research networks that will apply for EU calls in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Emma Lundberg, Professor in Cell Biology Proteomics at KTH, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology at Stanford University, and Head of the Subcellular Section of the Human Protein Atlas, has been awarded the Göran Gustafsson prize in molecular biology. Emma Lundberg receives the prize for “pioneering work to develop technologies and analysis tools for large-scale […]

Foundations behind Medicon Village has decided to award almost 25 million SEK to nine research projects in Malmö and Lund. Mats Paulsson’s foundation for research, innovation and community building has decided to award 13,600,000 SEK for purposes that promote research within medicine and life sciences. The goal is to benefit healthcare, development, innovation and community […]

Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Umeå University will receive a grant of 11 million USD from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The aim of the research project is to find new ways of treating bacteria infections without antibiotics and to study a potential new class […]