Norway Invests in Biomedical Research

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

Projects receiving grants from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation includes new, effective, personal cancer immunotherapy and improved protection against infections and viruses.

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 […]

The Swedish non-profit PAR Foundation (The Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance) has granted funding to three different projects in Ghana, Portugal and Sweden. This is the PAR Foundation’s first international grant call and in this call the focus is on infection prevention among elderly. “We have identified infections among elderly as an important driver of […]

The Swedish-Danish type 1 diabetes project DiaUnion has received an additional EUR 1 million funding to investigate the link between type 1 diabetes and related autoimmune diseases. Type 1 diabetes causes the immune system to attack and destroy the body’s own vital insulin-producing cells. The disease is chronic and typically affects children and adolescents. In […]