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  • Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph  receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph receive the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize
    Pioneering research for advanced understanding of lignin
    The 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professors Wout Boerjan and John Ralph for their groundbreaking research leading to a fuller understanding of lignin biosynthesis and structural diversity. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prize on Monday 11

  • Paul Dupree holding a model of cellulose and xylan, the two most abundant polysaccharides in wood. (Photo: Rhys Grant)

    The award exposes important forest research to industry

    Putting science into practice is a joint ambition of the new members of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Selection Committee. The forest sector has a key role in addressing the global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss or increased demand of materials substituting fossil raw materials.

  • Professor Torgny Näsholm has developed a sustainable fertilizer which ensures a well developed root system as well as faster establishment and growth. Photo: Johan Gunséus.

    Bumpy road to breakthrough

    Professor Torgny Näsholm received the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2018 for the discovery that pine, spruce, and other plants can take up different kinds of organic nitrogen from the soil. He has also developed sustainable fertilizers. Torgny Näsholm says that the success is a result of a great teamwork but we would not have succeeded without all the mistakes along the road.