2012
From Söderström-Königska Sjukhemmet Foundation,
Svenska Läkaresällskapet
Weili Xu, PhD
• 50 000 SEK
Development of depression among elderly people with diabetes: a population-based longitudinal study
From Gamla Tjänarinnor Foundation
Barbara Caracciolo, PhD
• 20 000 SEK
Mild cognitive impairment and brain structure changes
Hui-Xin Wang, Associated professor
• 40 000 SEK
Sleep Disturbances and risk of Dementia
Lina Keller, PhD
• 30 000 SEK
Genetisk benägenhet för vaskulära sjukdomar och dess inverkan på den kognitiva förmågan hos äldre - en longitudinell populationsstudie
Alexandra Pantzar, PhD student
• 30 000 SEK
Depression and cognitive performance in old age: Psychopharmalogical effects on brain volumes
Rui Wang, PhD student
• 20 000 SEK
The burden of vascular risk factors and vascular morbidity among Swedish older people: A population based study
Babak Hooshmand, PhD student
• 20 000 SEK
Vitamin B12 and folate in relation to dementia, cognitive performance, and structural brain changes in the elderly: the SNAC-K project
Francesca Mangialasche, PhD student
• 30 000 SEK
Mitochondrial aconitase and antioxidants in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment
Weili Xu, PhD
• 30 000 SEK
Can elderly APOE E4 carriers remain free from dementia?
2011
From the Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Ingemar "Pingo" Kåreholt, Associated professor
• 4 400 000 SEK over 3 years
Physical and psychological work conditions, socioeconomic position, and health. Have the cross sectional relations changed over time? What is the effect of earlier work and socioeconomic conditions after pension age? A longitudinal study from 1968-2010
From the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)
Chengxuan Qiu, Associated professor
• 398 000 SEK
China-Sweden Workshop: Multidisciplinary research of aging and health in a sociocultural context", which will take place in Qüfu (Hometown of Confucius), Shandong, China in year 2012.
From the Swedish Research Council (VR)
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
•5 500 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: The longitudinal Swedish national study on aging and care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K): Completion of the second and third follow-up.
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
•3 000 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: Chronic multimorbidity in the elderly population: exploring the underlying mechanisms, identifying the at-risk subjects and quantifying the impact.
Chengxuan Qiu, Associated professor
• 2 400 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: Mechanisms Linking Vascular Risk Factors to Brain Aging and Cognitive Dysfunction: A Population-Based Study
Erika Jonsson Laukka, PhD
• 1 420 000 SEK over 4 years
Title: Does associative binding explain the episodic memory deficit in aging? A population-based study of an item-associative-memory task and its neural correlates
From the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)
Mats Thorslund, Professor
•3 000 000 SEK
Title: More people are living longer – but are today’s older people healthier?
From The Foundation for Geriatric Diseases at
Karolinska Institutet
Barbara Caracciolo, PhD
• 85 000 SEK
Title: Lifestyle, habits and susceptebility genes in the development and progression of cognitive impairment.
Erika Jonsson Laukka, PhD
• 80 000 SEK
Title: The effect of vascular disease on cognitive functioning in normal aging and dementia.
Sari Karlsson, PhD
• 70 000 SEK
Title: The influence of APOE and TOMM40 on episodic and structural alterations in the aging brain.
Anna-Karin Welmer, PhD
• 40 000 SEK
Title: The associations between vascular risk factors, physical performance and dementia.
Weili Xu, PhD
• 85 000 SEK
Title: Can elderly APOE ε4 carriers remain free from dementia?
From Gun and Bertil Stohne’s Foundation
Babak Hooshmand, PhD student
• 30 000 SEK
Behnaz Shakersain, Research Assistant
• 30 000 SEK
Elisabeth Rydwik, PhD
• 20 000 SEK
Anna-Karin Welmer, PhD
• 10 000 SEK
From Karolinska Institutet Foundations
Kristina Johnell, Associated professor
• 34 000 SEK
Title: Drug therapy in the elderly population
Weili Xu, PhD
• 29 100 SEK
Title: Development and Prediction of Cognitive Dysfunction Among People with Type 2 Diabetes
From Emil och Wera Cornells Stiftelse
Lina Keller, PhD
• 175 000 SEK
Title: Genetic susceptibility for vascular disease and risk for cognitive impairment
From the Academy of Finland
Alina Solomon, PhD
• postdoc grant over 3 years.
From Stockholm County Council
Anna-Karin Welmer, PhD
• 500 000 SEK per year postdoc grant over 2 years.
Titel: Physical performance after age 60 in relation to fall-related fractures, multimorbidity and dementia.
From Stiftelsen Ragnhild och Einar Lundströms Minne
Weili Xu, PhD
• 50 000 SEK
Anna-Karin Welmer, PhD
• 50 000 SEK
From Karolinska Institutet, KID-funding
Chengxuan Qiu, Associated professor
• Funding covering half-time Phd-studies over four years for a doctoral student
From Loo och Hans Osterman Foundation
Weili Xu, PhD
• 200 000 SEK
Alessandra Marengoni, PhD
• 100 000 SEK
Kristina Johnell, Associated professor
• 75 000 SEK
Grégoria Kalpouzos, PhD
• 75 000 SEK
From The National Board of Health and Welfare
Mats Thorslund, Professor
• 1 315 000 SEK
Title: Förstudie inför en studie angående utvärdering & uppföljning av 19 försöksverksamheter & 10 samverkansnätverk kring de mest sjuka äldre
From the Bologna University
Weili Xu, PhD
• 800 000 SEK
Title: New dietary strategies addressing the specific needs of the elderly population for healthy ageing in Europe
From Karolinska Institutet
Chengxuan Qiu, PhD
• 1 000 000 SEK as Senior researcher
• 50 000 SEK, Young Scholar Awards
Weili Xu, PhD
• 1 000 000 SEK as Research assistant
• 25 000 SEK, Young Scholar Awards
Alina Solomon, PhD
• 25 000 SEK, Young Scholar Awards
From Solstickan Foundation
Debora Rizzuto, PhD student
• 80 000 SEK
From ALF-funding
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• 800 000 SEK
From Konung Gustaf V:s och Drottning Victorias Frimurarstiftelse
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• 450 000 SEK
From The Swedish Society of Medicine
Anna Rita Atti, PhD
• 250 000 SEK
Title: Late-life depression: prevalence, clinical correlates and neuroimaging findings from a population-based study
From Karolinska Institutet, KID-funding
Alexandra Pantzar, PhD student
• Funding covering half-time Phd-studies over four years
Title: Depression and cognitive functioning in an older population: Effects of genes, social support, personality and brain atrophy
From the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Sari Karlsson, PhD
• 175 000 SEK
Title: The relationship among dopamine function, cognition, and aging
From Rut och Arvid Wolffs minnesstiftelse
Kristina Johnell, Associated professor
• 60 000 SEK
Title: Sömnlöshet och sömnmedel hos den åldrande befolkningen
From Karolinska Institutet
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• Laura Fratiglion has been appointed distinguished professor
award from Karolinska Institutet.
From Stiftelsen af Jochnick Foundation
Lars Bäckman, Professor
• Lars Bäckman has been appointed af Jochnick professor in the
cognitive neuroscience of aging. The appointment is based on a
donation from the af Jochnick Foundation comprising 50 million
Swedish kronor over a period of 10 years. The research activities
planned on the basis of the donation encompass
(a) individual
differences in cognitive aging;
(b) structural and functional brain
correlates of cognition in old age;
(c) brain and cognitive
plasticity across the adult life span;
and (d) the role of dopamine functions in cognitive aging.
2010
From the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• 2 550 000 SEK over3 years.
Title: Understanding Mild Cognitive Impairment to prevent or delay dementia and other cognitive disorders.
Marti G Parker, Associated professor
• 2 200 000 SEK over 3 years.
Title: Complex health problems in the elderly population: trends in prevalence rates, predictors, care utilization, and survival.
• 202 000 SEK over 3 years.
Title: Hälsa och hälsobeteende i ett livsperspektiv, gästforskare PhD Benjamin Shaw.
Agneta Herlitz, Professor
• 2 600 000 SEK over 3 years.
Title: Does the society affect the magnitude of the cognitive gender differences?
Neda Agahi, PhD
• 1 360 000 SEK postdoc grant over 3 years.
Title: Do health behaviors still matter for survival to advanced ages? A study of how health behaviors, survival, and the associations between them have changed over time
From the Swedish Research Council (VR)
Lars Bäckman, Professor
• 2 250 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: The role of activities and genes in human cognitive aging
Lars Bäckman, Professor
• 2 100 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: Dopamine and cognitive plasticity in younger and older persons
Martin Lövdén, PhD
•1 050 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: The effects of intellectual activities on cognitive performance and brain anatomy in adulthood.
Miia Kivipelto, Associated professor
•2 700 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: Effekt av förebyggande interventioner på biomarkörer för kognitiv svikt
From Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Håkan Fischer, Associated professor
• 2 319 000 SEK over 3 years
Title: Effect of aging on processing of emotinal information
Weili Xu, PhD
• 198 000 SEK
From Gun and Bertil Stohne’s Foundation
Babak Hooshmand, PhD student
• 20 000 SEK
Francesca Mangialasche, PhD student
• 30 000 SEK
From Karolinska Institutet Foundations
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• 41400 SEK
From Loo och Hans Osterman Foundation
Alina Solomon, PhD
• 140 000 SEK
Alessandra Marengoni, PhD
• 70 000 SEK
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• 200 000 SEK
Helena Westerberg, PhD
• 100 000 SEK
Håkan Fischer, Associated professor
• 200 000 SEK
From Gun and Bertil Stohne’s Foundation
Sara Angleman, PhD
• 20 000 SEK
Anna-Karin Welmer, PhD
• 10 000 SEK
Barbara Caracciolo, PhD student
• 20 000 SEK
Francesca Mangialasche, PhD student
• 20 000 SEK
Debora Rizzuto, PhD student
• 20 000 SEK
Babak Hooshmand, PhD student
• 10 000 SEK
From Alzheimerfonden
HuiXin Wang, PhD
• 75 000 SEK
Weili Xu, PhD
• 50 000 SEK
2009
From the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)
Weili Xu, PhD
• 1 360 000 SEK postdoc grant over 2 years.
Titel: The role of early-life environments, adulthood lifestyles and vascular comorbidities in the association of diabetes with cognitive impairment and dementia.
From the Swedish Research Council
Agneta Herlitz, professor
• 400 000 SEK/year for 3 years
From Karolinska Institutet
Chengxuan Qiu, PhD
• Two-year grant as senior researcher at Karolinska Institutet, 500 000 SEK per year.
Chengxuan Qiu
From International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, IAGG
Anna Rita Atti, PhD
•Student Travel Award
Read Anna Rita Atti report, pdf
Photo from the award cermony. Photo: Laura Fratiglioni
From Karolinska Institutet, KID-funding
Ylva Haasum, PhD student
•Funding covering half-time Phd-studies over four years
From Loo och Hans Osterman Foundation
Weili Xu, PhD
The role of genes and inflammation in the association of diabetes with cognitive dysfunction
100 000 SEK
Kristina Johnell, PhD
Drug use in nursing home residents and home-dwelling elderly
100 000 SEK
Alessandra Marengoni, PhD
Multimorbidity, a new emerging syndrome in the aging populations
80 000 SEK
Sara Angleman, PhD
The role of multimorbidity in the disablement process
60 000 SEK
Sari Karlsson, PhD
Förändras förmågan att veta vad man vet med ökande ålder eller i demens
50 000 SEK
From Konung Gustaf V:s och Drottning Victorias Frimurarstiftelse
Åsa Craftman, PhD student
• 150 000 SEK
2008
From the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)
Laura Fratiglioni, professor
• 3 011 000 SEK during 3 years
Erika Jonsson Laukka, PhD
• 2 331 000 SEK during 3 years
Sara Angleman, PhD
• 1 360 000 postdoc grant during 3 years
From the Swedish Research Council
Laura Fratiglioni, professor
• 1 500 000 SEK/year for 3 years
• 1 100 000 SEK/year for 3 years
Håkan Fischer, associate professor
• 320 000 SEK/year for 3 years
From Acadamy of Finland
Miia Kivipelto, associate professor
• 1 400 000 Euro
From Gun and Bertil Stohne’s Foundation
has the following PhD students and Post docs recieved 20 000 SEK each
Sara Angleman
Barbara Caracciolo
Francesca Mangialasche
Stephanie Paillard-Borg
Alina Solomon
HuiXin Wang
Weili Xu
Professor Lars Bäckman is granted with the Humboldt Research Award
The award is granted in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights havehad a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in future are eligible to be nominated for a Humboldt Research Award.
Eligible to be nominated are eminent foreign researchers at the peak of their academic careers and in leading positions, such as full professors or directors of institutes. Award winners are invited to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues at a research institution in Germany. The stay may be divided up into blocks.
The award is valued at 60,000 EUR
To the Humboldt website
From The Swedish Society of Medicine
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor
• The role of diabetes and borderline diabetes in the development and progression of AD and pre-clinical AD.
500 000 SEK for 3 years
Laura Fratiglioni gets the Inga Sandeborgs award 2008 from The Swedish Society of Medicine.
The Swedish Society of Medicine has decided to award professor Laura Fratiglioni with the Inga Sandeborgs award. The price is given every second year and Laura Fratiglioni gets the award ”for her Alzheimer research on clinical epidemiology with special focus on the importance of preventive factors that may prevent disease"
From
FAS
(the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social research)
Marti Parker, associate professor, has received 5 000 000 SEK.
• The provision of social services and medical care to elderly women in Sweden.
Agneta Herlitz
• School grades and dementia – Is there a relationship?
1787000 SEK
Chengxuan Qiu
• Live longer than expected: Protective and risk factors of human longevity
1800000 SEK
Yvonne Brehmer and Chengxuan Qiu have received
FLARE (Future Leaders of Ageing Research in Europe) Postdoc - 2045000 SEK
Yvonne will study: Mechanisms of strategic elaboration and associative binding in episodic memory: a lifespan developmental approach
Chengxuan will study: The role of lifestyle factors in the prevention of dementia: a life course approach
From the Swedish Research Council
Kristina
Johnell - Employment as junior research fellow
• Drugs for the elderlyl: a register-based research programme
5112000 SEK
Agneta Herlitz
• Cognitive ability, education, work, and activity - what is the relation to dementia?
825000 SEK
Lars Bäckman
• Vascular risk factors, white-matter microstructure, and cognitive functioning: A population-based brain-imaging study
840000 kr
• Aging, neuromodulation, and cognition
1995000 SEK
Miia Kivipelto
• The role of diet and related vascular factors on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
2190000 SEK
Chengxuan Qiu
• Exploring the mechanisms linking diabetes mellitus to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
2058000 SEK
From Center for Gender medicine at Karolinska Institutet
Agneta Herlitz
• Factors contributing to gender differences in cognition.
250 000 SEK
Eva von Strauss
• Gender differences in disability, morbidity and survival in old ages.
250 000 SEK
From Loo och Hans Osterman Foundation
Erika Jonsson Laukka
•86 000 SEK
From Solstickan Foundation
Åsa Livner
•45 000 SEK
Tamanna Ferdous
•45 000 kr
Weili Xu
•45 000 kr
From Gamla Tjänarinnor Foundation
Anna Rieckmann
•20 000 SEK
Erika Jonsson Laukka
•20 000 SEK
From Karolinska Institutet, KID-funding
Francesca Mangialasche
•Funding covering half-time Phd-studies during four years
