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The Friends of Karolinska Institutet is a US nonprofit organization, actively supporting the Swedish medical university of Karolinska Institutet in building its major gifts program - "Breakthroughs for Life" - in the United States.
News
March 15, 2011
US venture capitalist donates USD 2 million to KI
[PRESS RELEASE March 15, 2011] The Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet has received a donation of USD 2 million from the Foundation of US venture capitalist William K. Bowes, Jr. for the establishment of an Accelerator Fund for Young Talented Scientists. With prestigious Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCSF previously setting up accelerator funds supported by the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, Karolinska Institutet is now invited as the first university outside the US.
Read more >>August 27, 2010
SEK 100 million for Karolinska Institutet's medical research
[PRESS RELEASE 2010-08-27] Karolinska Institutet has received a donation of SEK 100 million from the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations. The donation will make it possible to create four professorships in strategically important fields of medical research.
Read more >>June 22, 2010
SEK 100 million for research into regenerative medicine
[PRESS RELEASE, 22 June 2010] Karolinska Institutet has received a grant of SEK 100 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for a regenerative medicine research centre - the Wallenberg Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WIRM). This funding will give Karolinska Institutet a unique opportunity to concentrate on new and pioneering research, with a special focus on the blood system.
Breakthroughs for life – Donors
The Bernard Osher Foundation and the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
Donation: 50 million Swedish crowns (6.8 MUSD as of April, 29 2010)
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Read more »»
Märit and Hans Rausing
Karolinska Institutet has received a donation of SEK 50 million from Märit and Hans Rausing for a large-scale research project on breast cancer. Read more »»
Jochnick Foundation
Donation: 50 million Swedish crowns (5.6 MUSD)
The aging of the healthy brain Read more »»
Friends & Associates
SWEA International
SWEA, Swedish Women's Educational Association Inc, is a global network with about 8000 Swedish women in 77 chapters and 34 countries. Read more »»