SEK 73 million in science and technology research funding

The Swedish Research Council has reached the decision to grant SEK 73 million (EUR8 million) in funding to 27 new research projects within the natural sciences and technology at Umeå University.

The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) annually supports research of the highest quality within all scientific disciplines. This year, there has been the opportunity to apply for grants from three specific focus areas, including Linking the molecules of life. Four researchers at Umeå University were awarded grants in this discipline, among the seven projects in all of Sweden. Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Professor at the Department of Chemistry, received the highest grant in this area of more than SEK 5.2 million over four years.

Additionally, the Council made a special effort to give grants to young researchers and seven of these were awarded to researchers at Umeå University.

The following researchers at Umeå University have received project grants from the Swedish Research Council:

Ove Axner, Department of Physics

Richard Bindler, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

Henrik Björklund, Department of Computing Science

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Department of Molecular Biology / Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)

Ellen Dorrepaal, Deparment of Ecolocy and Environmental Science

Tomas Edgren, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

Anders Eklund, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience/Department of Radiation

Maria Eriksson, Deparment of Plant Physiology

Per Gardeström, Department of Plant Physiology

Martin Gullberg, Department of Molecular Biology

Lena Gunhaga, Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine

Dan Hultmark, Department of Molecular Biology

Torgeir Hvidsten, Department of Plant Physiology

Antony Ilderton, Department of Physics

Lennart B.-Å. Johansson, Department of Chemistry

Leif Jönsson, Department of Chemistry

Jan Karlsson, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

Anna Linusson, Department of Chemistry

Ruth Palmer, Department of Molecular Biology

Madeleine Ramstedt, Department of Chemistry

Göran Samuelsson, Department of Plant Physiology

Linda Sandblad, Department of Molecular Biology

Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Department of Chemistry

Victoria Shingler, Department of Molecular Biology

Johan Trygg, Department of Chemistry

Xiao-Ru Wang, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Department of Chemistry