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Apply for SASUF+ mobility funding for a long-term research stay at a South African partner university. Open to eligible KI doctoral students and early career researchers.

How can we strengthen the sense of community at KI? What challenges, ideas and questions would you like to share with the management? In October and November, there are two opportunities for you as a member of staff to meet KI’s management.

Karolinska Institutet, together with KTH, Stockholm University, and Region Stockholm, is undertaking a strategically important initiative in radiation therapy. Thanks to a donation of SEK 15 million from business leader Björn Savén, the establishment of a new center for medical radiation science is being strengthened. In addition, the donation will fund a project focused on precision radiation therapy.

One of the national services offered by NBIS/SciLifeLab is the Bioinformatics Peer review Support track (a.k.a. WABI), providing competences in large-scale data analysis for genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, Cryo-EM and other technologies. This support has been enabled by funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and is part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science.

Karolinska Institutet researchers can join a new AI-powered platform to connect with collaborators in Sweden and 20 African countries, explore shared research interests, and prepare for upcoming SASUF-NRF Seed Grant opportunities.

This autumn, the Communications and Public Relations Office is launching PopSci Talks – an open, English-language webinar series for researchers and staff at Karolinska Institutet who want to develop their skills in research communication. The first webinar, taking place in September, will focus on media logic and working with journalists.

Karolinska Institutet hereby announces research grants for studies on the common disease osteoporosis, funded by a donation from Ebbe and Lena Krook. A total of SEK 5 million for 2026.

Funded by a donation from Birgit Backmark, Karolinska Institutet hereby announces a call for research grants for research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A total funding allocation of SEK 9.5 million for 2026.

Karolinska Institutet hereby announces research grants from the Leif Lundblad donation for Research on Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease, with a total funding allocation of up to SEK 16.2 million for 2026.

Karolinska Institutet hereby announces research grants from the Leif Lundblad Donation for Research on Women’s Health, with a total allocation of up to SEK 8.7 million for 2026.

Karolinska Institutet awards grants from a large number of foundations and from donations. The foundations & donations award research and travel grants.

KI’s Internationalisation Board is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of competitive planning grants to support collaboration with University College London (UCL).

KI’s joint organisation for research infrastructure, RIKI, is welcoming more research infrastructures and core facilities. Staff now working within the organisation describe the transition process as smooth, but also highlight some challenges that have arisen along the way.

Karolinska Institutet is the host organisation for nine applications – and KI researchers are involved in several other additional ones – in the Swedish Research Council’s and Vinnova’s call for excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies. These clusters of excellence will combine research of the highest scientific quality with the best and most extensive innovation capabilities. Among the KI applications is a cluster for RNA-based drugs.

The KI Publications interface has been retired. Instead, you can now search for KI’s publications via the new interface Research Information Search!

Are you a promising junior researcher at KI ready to take the next step in your career? The consolidation grant at KI offers a unique opportunity to strengthen your research, develop your independence, and expand your activities.

Academic freedom is under increasing pressure worldwide. The SAR Sweden network and the CASI project invite you to a webinar.

A new search service for research information is now being launched at KI. The service is based on data from KI RIMS, which collects and organises information about researchers, research groups, publications and research grants. The aim of the new search service is to make it easy for researchers, as well as other users, to find relevant information about KI’s researchers and research.

Karolinska Institutet Innovation is now being launched, offering staff and students support in testing their ideas. The ultimate aim is to ensure research is converted into innovations that serve the public and patients’ best interests.

Do you want to stimulate young people's interest in research and innovation? Show how research is done and develop your communication skills? On 25 September, the Science Festival Forskarfredag (European Researchers' Night) will take place at Albanova and Vetenskapens hus in Stockholm.

Through KI’s participation in the South Africa Sweden University Forum (SASUF+), researchers and doctoral students at KI can take part in the virtual AIMday event.

Through the South Africa–Sweden University Forum, SASUF+, researchers at SASUF partner universities can now apply for funding to develop new or strengthen existing research collaborations between Sweden and South Africa.

Through South Africa Sweden University Forum, SASUF+, researchers at SASUF partner universities can now apply for funding to organise a local Academic Industry Meeting Day (AIMday). 

Clinical researchers Drs Hanna Brauner and Nikolas Herold appreciated collaborating as research leaders on equal terms, because it gives the best ideas the greatest room to flourish. Their project via Karolinska Institutet’s research incubator has the potential to improve the treatment of skin (cutaneous) lymphoma.

In the intersection between the two KIRI fellows Claudia Kutter’s and Erdinc Sezgin’s research fields, new knowledge emerged about a rare genetic disease. Today, the two research groups collaborate closely, and both leaders point up the important role played by postdocs.

The Karolinska Institutet Research Incubator (KIRI) is where young researchers meet each other across disciplines and in the collaborations that arise, the foundations for pioneering research breakthroughs are laid. After the four years of its existence, KIRI is now seeing its first cohort of KIRI Fellows.

Karolinska Institutet has appointed Professor Karin Dahlman-Wright as director of KI’s new research infrastructure organisation, RIKI, with effect from 1 April. RIKI provides the tools, methods, technologies and networks that researchers need in their work.

The Swedish Research Council has published national guidelines for responsible internationalisation.

Karolinska Institutet is offering collaboration awards to strengthen its long‑term partnerships with the University of Tokyo and RIKEN.

Joint seed funding is available for research collaborations between the University of Tokyo and Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University.

Karolinska Institutet has its new scientific representatives in place. They assumed their roles in February and provide support and guidance to researchers at all career stages on matters related to research ethics, good research practice, and the handling of suspected deviations.

Karolinska Institutet is now launching the Expert Pool, a new shared resource designed to strengthen research through improved access to advanced technical support. The initiative aims to meet a growing need for specialised expertise and create better conditions for collaboration and efficient use of resources within KI.

The Internationalisation Board at KI has allocated limited competitive funds for KI faculty and staff for grant applications to strengthen collaborative interactions within research and education.

During the consultation period 5–22 March, researchers and employees at KI have the opportunity to influence the first proposal for KI's local level-graded journal list (KI-JL). All publishing researchers or researchers who are peer reviewers for journals are encouraged to participate in the consultation.

Anna Stoltenberg is a statistician at the Department of Medicine, Solna, and an advisor in the Clinicum network.

The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) will be auditing KI’s quality-assurance processes in education and research over the coming two years. The audit will be based on a self-assessment, which will now commence.

On 14–15 February, KI’s system for plagiarism checking of theses, iThenticate, will (as previously announced) receive a new interface with partly new features.

Time to brush up on your search skills? What does a predator journal look like? What are the requirements for research data? We have filled the calendar with KIB Talks on topics we know and want to share.

Anna Schandl is a registered nurse and has worked in intensive care in the Stockholm Region for many years. She is an associate professor in nursing and research group leader in the research group for Perioperative Care and Intensive Care at Södersjukhuset. Anna works with data collected from regional and national cohort studies, but also with qualitative research; something she uses as an advisor within Clinicum's network.

On February 14-15, KI's system for plagiarism detection in theses, iThenticate, will get a new interface with some new features. Inactive accounts will be deleted during the transition to the new interface.

Eligible applicants are researchers with a doctoral degree who are affiliated to Karolinska Institutet, who conduct research within the area described above.

Eligible applicants are researchers with a doctoral degree who are affiliated to Karolinska Institutet, who conduct research within the area described above.

Magnus Boman is an AI professor at the Department of Medicine, Solna, at KI, and part of the AI@KI project – a strategic project initiated by KI's rector with the goal of collecting and describing all activities at KI related to artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, since 2023, Magnus has been involved in AI issues at MedTechLabs and as an advisor within Clinicum for research methodology involving machine learning.

The government has initiated an investment in new excellence clusters totalling SEK 2.5 billion. With five planning grants awarded by the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova, Karolinska Institutet (KI) is one of the institutions taking the next step towards strengthening Sweden’s position in medical research and innovation.

At the beginning of 2026, Karolinska Institutet announces research grants from the Hildegun and Mats Guldbrand research foundation for research in immune regulation and women's diseases.

The 2026 funds for the category of women's diseases refer to research in gynecological cancer.

Philip Lindner is a Clinicum advisor and Associate Professor in clinical psychology. He's also Head of the Digital Psychiatry Lab at the Centre for Psychiatry Research, and is working as a clinical psychologist at the Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders (Region Stockholm), where he’s the Head of Research and Development at the Maria Ungdom Clinic.

Are you a researcher or PhD student at Karolinska Institutet who wants to sharpen your communication skills and disseminate your research to a broad international audience? Then you are welcome to join a presentation on how to write popular science articles for The Conversation, a news platform that KI collaborates with.

Karolinska Institutet (KI) announces three positions as scientific ombudsmen (vetenskapliga ombud), starting 1 January 2026. The assignment is an important part of KI’s efforts to promote good research practice, research ethics, and responsible research conduct.

“10 minutes of your time can make both funders, and local as well as international collaborators find you – instead of them choosing someone else.”

Would you like to expand your research network and gain new experience at another top institution in Europe?