Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation donates SEK 50 million for immediate increase in Corona testing in Sweden
2020-03-31 09:00
Investor's largest owner, The Wallenberg Foundations, which are the largest sources of private funding for research in the fields of life sciences and medicine, have decided to immediately allocate SEK 50 million to academic laboratories at Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Uppsala University to fund a scaling up of Covid-19 testing in the Swedish health care system.
A close dialog with the scientific community and health care professionals in Sweden has revealed an urgent need for increased capacity for testing for the corona virus. This donation will enable a number of research laboratories to help to achieve that increase.
“In the face of this crisis we want to help so that health care professionals can carry out the tests that are needed. The Foundation is now making SEK 50 million available, and are prepared to allocate further resources if necessary,” says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Chair of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
