The Strategic Research Area Neuroscience (StratNeuro)
The strategic research area neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, Umeå University and KTH has the mission to integrate clinical and basic research and to foster a new generation of leaders and scientists in translational neuroscience.
Funding
StratNeuro announces the awardees of the 2025 New Technologies Grant
StratNeuro is pleased to announce the recipients of the StratNeuro New Technologies Grant 2025
Seven Projects Awarded the StratNeuro Collaborative Neuroscience Grant 2025
Each project has been awarded 3 million SEK over a two-year period.
StratNeuro awards three bridging grants at the consolidator level (2025)
The Bridging Grant is a funding initiative through which StratNeuro provides support to promising researchers with outstanding scientific merits, offering them the opportunity to further consolidate and strengthen their research.
NeurotechEU Collaborative Award 2025 for PhDs and Postdocs
NeurotechEU is offering up to 10 travel awards for PhD students and Postdocs. Apply now!
StratNeuro funding for postdoctoral researchers 2024
StratNeuro awards 800,000 SEK to 11 postdoctoral researchers
Six projects receive StratNeuro Start-up Grants (2024)
StratNeuro awards a total of SEK 6,000,000 to support new faculty at KI and promote strategic and groundbreaking research in the field of neuroscience.
Research funding
StratNeuro aims to support researchers in the Neuroscience area, and provides funding via a number of initiatives.
Events in Neuroscience
Photo: n/aInternational Forum - StratNeuro Seminar
Seminar Title: "From molecules to people: blood biomarkers reshaping Alzheimer's disease detection"
Speaker: Marc Suarez-Calvet
When: 19 February 2026, 10.00 AM
Where: Inghesalen, Widerström building - Solna Campus
Marc Suárez-Calvet, MD, PhD, is a neurologist and Group Leader at the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center and the Neurology Department of Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain. An ERC Starting Grant awardee, his research focuses on blood-based biomarkers of neurodegeneration and brain aging, with work published in leading journals including Nature Medicine, JAMA Neurology, and Neurology. He trained clinically and scientifically across Europe, with research appointments in Munich, London, and Gothenburg. In recognition of his contributions to Alzheimer’s research, he received the Alzheimer Prize 2021 from the Spanish Society for Neurology.