Published: 11-11-2025 12:28 | Updated: 11-11-2025 13:45

SEK 42 million in research funding awarded to OnkPat researchers by the Swedish Research Council

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The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has awarded a total of approximately SEK 42 million in research funding to seven researchers at the Department of Oncology-Pathology. The grants span a period of three to six years.

Project grants

Marianne Farnebo has been awarded a project grant of SEK 5,400,000 over four years for the project "Investigating how RNA participates in DNA repair and its potential as cancer therapy".

Felix Haglund de Flon has been awarded a project grant of SEK 3,000,000 over three years for the project "The secrets of the sarcoma genome".

Thomas Helleday has been awarded a project grant of SEK 5,400,000 over four years for the project "Precision medicine treatment using uracil-induced replication stress".

Ola Larsson has been awarded a project grant of SEK 5,400,000 over four years for the project "Evaluation of translation elongation as a target in cancer".

Brinton Seashore-Ludlow has been awarded a project grant of SEK 5,400,000 over four years for the project "Decoding and therapeutic exploitation of the dynamic plasticity landscape in ovarian cancer".

Grant for research time

Alexios Matikas has been awarded a research time grant of SEK 11,100,000 over six years for the project "Integrated multi-omics analysis for predicting treatment response to antibody-drug conjugates".

Establishment grant

Krzysztof Szkop has been awarded an establishment grant of SEK 6,000,000 over four years for the project "Spatial regulation of isoform-level translation: a key factor in ASD brain pathology".