Twenty-two Excellent Researchers Chosen to be Wallenberg Scholars
The researchers – among the foremost in their field in Sweden – receive SEK 18 million each from the Wallenberg Foundations in the form of a five-year grant for free research.Jumping genes, antibiotics resistance, new therapies for infections, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, secure technology for wireless communication, self-repairing batteries, a better understanding of climate change, and searching for Earth-like planets are examples of the research that will be conducted by some of the twenty-two Wallenberg Scholars. “Free research is what it sounds like. The researchers’ own