Wallenberg Academy Fellows is a long-term program that addresses young researchers in medicine, natural sciences, engineering and technology, humanities and social sciences.
The program is set up in close cooperation with, among others, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In the end of the first five year period the Wallenberg Academy Fellows can be nominated for another five years of funding.
– It´s of course a great honor to receive such a prestigious award, representing a recognition of what our research group has achieved so far. I look forward to starting with the proposed research efforts.
Pontus Gourdon has been granted 1,75 MSEK per year for five years.
– The grant will primary cover personnel costs associated with the proposed research program, likely supporting two additional scientists in the group. Considerable running costs are also anticipated.
The support will permit new lines of research.
– To dissect, at molecular detail, how metal transporting membrane proteins operate and achieve specificity as well as how they are regulated and how they are linked to physiology.
– Some of the questions that we will address concern critical research gaps that have maintained in the field for a long period of time. Providing this understanding will be of significance both for basic and applied sciences.
Read more about Pontus Gourdons research in Taking close-ups of cell doors.
