Grants from the Parkinson Foundation to 14 KI projects
Stockholm continues to be an important center for Swedish Parkinson's research. For 2025, the Parkinson's Foundation has decided to provide funding for more than 40 new projects that can help Swedes with Parkinson's disease, of which 14 research projects are conducted at Karolinska Institutet.
KTH, Region Stockholm, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet will together receive SEK 5.3 million. The largest sum goes to Karolinska Institutet with grants totaling SEK 4 million for 14 research projects.
“This is extremely gratifying, both for me and for colleagues in other projects. Now my team can delve deeper into the connection between specific genes and how Parkinson's disease develops,” says Per Svenningsson, chief physician and professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet.
“If our project succeeds, there is a real chance of developing more targeted treatments that can both slow down the disease and improve patients' quality of life. This type of research depends on support from the fund,” he says.