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  • Pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome

    Pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome

    Dr. Gerald Tuskan is awarded the 2025 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome. His leadership in this project has revolutionized research in tree and forest genomics and biotechnology, paving the way for genome-based breeding of commercially important trees.
    Dr. Tuskan led the project to sequence the genome of the black cottonwood tree (

  • 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

  • Conceptual framework and pioneering research for advanced understanding of lignin

    Conceptual framework and 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. Both scientists developed and innovatively applied advanced analytical techniques in ways that greatly enhance our view of lignin biosynthesis and structure in trees. Their research provides a basi

  • Konceptuellt ramverk och banbrytande forskning för avancerad förståelse av lignin

    Konceptuellt ramverk och banbrytande forskning för avancerad förståelse av lignin

    Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2024 delas ut till Professor Wout Boerjan och Professor Johan Ralph för deras banbrytande forskning som bidrar till en mer omfattande förståelse av ligninets biosyntes och strukturella mångfald. Forskarna har utvecklat och tillämpat avancerade analytiska tekniker på ett innovativt sätt, som förändrar vår syn på biosyntesen hos lignin och vedstrukturen. Deras forskning utgör

  • Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta receives the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta receives the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize

    The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prize on Monday 11 October in Stockholm.

    The future demand for textile fibres is growing due to global population growth. Pro

  • 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.

  • The Prize is awarded for scientific achievements of importance to forestry and forest industries.

    MWP Call for nominations

    The Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and its Selection Committee invite individuals and institutions, globally, to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

  • Mikael Hannus hoppas att kännedomen om Marcus Wallenbergpriset ska omfatta mer än aktiviteterna i samband med prisceremonin.

    Vill göra priset känt i vidare kretsar

    Mikael Hannus vill sprida evenemangen över hela året och hitta nya målgrupper i både samhälle och akademi. Han hyser stor respekt för de traditioner som har skapats sedan det första Marcus Wallenbergpriset delades ut 1981, men är samtidigt öppen för förändringar som kan förena vetenskap och skogsindustri i helt nya sammanhang.

  • Mikael Hannus hopes to extend awareness of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize beyond the activities associated with the award ceremony.

    Wants to make the prize more widely known

    Mikael Hannus wants to spread the events over the whole year and identify new target groups in both society and academia. He has great respect for the traditions that have been established since the first Marcus Wallenberg Prize was awarded in 1981, but is at the same time open to changes that are able to unite science and the forest industry in completely new contexts.

  • Marcus Wallenbergpriset har fokuserat på vetenskapliga genombrott inom vitt skilda områden under Kaj Roséns tid som vetenskaplig sekreterare.

    Från upptäckter till vetenskapliga genombrott

    under sina år som vetenskaplig sekreterare för Marcus Wallenbergpriset har Kaj Rosén betonat hur viktigt det är med en hög nivå på forskningen . "Så länge som nomineringarna vilar på seriös och högkvalitativ forskning vågar vi belöna vetenskapliga genombrott som ännu inte börjat tillämpas. Vi höjer ribban hela tiden", säger Kaj Rosén.

  • The Marcus Wallenberg Prize has focused on scientific findings in a wide range of areas during Kaj Rosén’s years as Executive Secretary.

    From discoveries to scientific breakthroughs

    Kaj Rosén has emphasized the importance of high scientific standards during his years as Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize. “As long as the nominations were based on serious research, we had the courage to reward scientific breakthroughs that had not yet been applied. We were constantly raising the bar”, Kaj Rosén says.

  • Årets Marcus Wallenbergpris kommer att delas ut hösten 2021

    Marcus Wallenbergprisets utdelning flyttas till hösten 2021

    Årets Marcus Wallenbergspris skulle enligt planerna ha delats ut i Stockholm i oktober 2020. Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsens styrelse har dock beslutat att flytta fram prisutdelningen ett år på grund av en ökande osäkerhet kring reserekommendationer till följd av covid-19-pandemin.

  • Next Marcus Wallenberg Prize event will be held in autumn of 2021.

    The Marcus Wallenberg Prize postponed to autumn 2021

    The Prize event was planned for October 2020. The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has however decided to postpone the ceremony and symposium due to the COVID-19 pandemic with its increased uncertainty regarding travelling recommendations.

  • Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg och Richard H Waring tilldelas Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2020.

    Förutsäger skogstillväxt under klimatförändringar

    Tre forskare delar på Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2020 för en modell, 3PG, som förutsäger skogstillväxt i ett föränderligt klimat. Satellitbilder kan skala upp modellen för att visa hur nya miljöförhållanden påverkar världens skogar.

  • Mikael Hannus utsedd till ny vetenskaplig sekreterare för Marcus Wallenbergpriset.

    Ny vetenskaplig sekreterare i Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen

    Styrelsen för Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen har utnämnt Mikael Hannus till vetenskaplig sekreterare med ansvar för Marcus Wallenbergpriset. Samtidigt har professor Annika Nordin utsetts till ledamot i stiftelsens styrelse. Hon är professor i skoglig ekofysiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU i Umeå.

  • Mikael Hannus is the new Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

    New Executive Secretary of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

    The Board of Directors of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has appointed Mikael Hannus as the Executive Secretary, responsible for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, based in Sweden. Professor Annika Nordin has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the foundation. She is Professor in forest science at the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, SLU.

  • The MWP 2019 Laureate. Photo: Johan Gunséus

    The Prize a turning point

    Receiving the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize made Gerhard Schickhofer reflect on his career. – It is a situation to think about my work and future, he says. Last October Gerhard Schickhofer received the 2019 Marcus Wallenberg Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf. The ceremony and following banquet took place in Stockholm, Sweden, with 350 guests from forest industry and forest research worldwide.

  • Professor Gerhard Schickhofer, mottagare av 2019 års Marcus Wallenbergpris (Foto: Helmut Lunghammer @ Lunghammer - TU Graz)

    Belönas för forskning om korslimmat massivträ

    Gerhard Schickhofer mottar Marcus Wallenbergpriset måndag 7 oktober 2019. Han belönas för sin forskning och utveckling av korslimmat massivträ, CLT. CLT består av flera lager av massivt trä som har limmats ihop korsvis. Limträskivorna blir både starka och stabila och kan användas i flervåningshus. CLT är är precis som timmer ett ekologiskt hållbart och förnybart material, som lagrar koldioxid.

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