År 2025 har 12,5 miljoner kronor fördelats på 78 projekt. Totalt inkom 162 ansökningar.

Förteckning över 2025 års stipendiater
Caroline Graff. Projekt: Biomarker studies of genetic forms of neurodegeneration- autosomal dominant Frontotemporal dementia with or without ALS and Alzheimer disease. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Stefan Söderberg. Projekt: General and visceral adiposity and associated hormones (adipokines) and future risk för dementia. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Erika Boman. Projekt: The interplay of dementia and mental illness in the very old – prevalence, gender differences, and associated social and health-related factors in Sweden and Finland. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Birgitta Olofsson. Projekt: Brain Health, Long-term Temporal Trends and Associated Social and Health-related Factors in Very Old Adults: A Nordic Perspective. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Laura Corneliusson. Projekt: The association between depression, dementia, antidepressant treatment and mortality among very old men and women. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Malin Wennström. Projekt: Changes in the retina of patients with Lewy body pathology. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Jonas Kindstedt. Projekt: Drug treatment in relation to diagnosis date among people with Lewy body dementia: investigating a national cohort with focus on antidementia drugs and antipsychotics. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Urban Ekman. Projekt: Utvärdering av en nyutvecklad psykologisk behandling för personer med kognitiv svikt i tidiga skeden – fortsättningsansökan. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Sara Modig. Projekt: Preventing Drug-Related Problems: Enhancing Medication Safety for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Andrea Lessa Benedet. Projekt: Lewy body-related biomarker profiles. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Louise Stiernman. Projekt: Effects of Menopausal Hormone Therapy on Brain Structure and Function, Cognitive Performance, and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Johan Niklasson. Projekt: Morale in Very Old People with Dementia in Northern Sweden: Changes Over 25 Years, with Focus on Gender Differences, Housing, and if High Morale Delays Onset of Dementia. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Eric Westman. Projekt: Cognition and neurodegeneration in ageing and AD: Impact of vascular and Lewy body pathology and resilience mechanisms. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Ruben Smith. Projekt: Imaging disease progression in alpha-synuclein disorders. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Sara Garcia-Ptacek. Projekt: Medication repurposing to slow cognitive decline in Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Sofi Sandström. Projekt: Who gains and how? Differences between women and men in mechanisms of exercise-induced working memory change. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Javier Oltra. Projekt: Diagnostic and prognostic value of olfactory brain markers across aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Francesca Mangialasche. Projekt: Advancing innovative multidomain precision therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Federico Triolo. Projekt: Trajectories of neuropsychiatric symptoms before dementia: determinants and consequences. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Laia Montoliu-Gaya. Projekt: Why Are Brain Co-Pathologies So Common? Defining Molecular Drivers for Precision Diagnostics. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Malin Björnsdotter. Projekt: Neurobiological pathways linking chronic stress and dementia. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Anna Marseglia. Projekt: Sex differences in the link between cardiometabolic health, resilience, and cognition. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Madeleine Liljegren. Projekt: Design of Residential Care Facilities: From Perceived Environment to Recommendations Supporting Nature Contact and Outdoor Stays for Health and Well-Being. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Susanna Nordin. Projekt: Day care outdoors – exploring health and well-being in urban and farm-based dementia environments. Institution: Högskolan Dalarna
Jakob Norgren. Projekt: Tailoring dietary recommendations to APOE genotype and category of dementia pathology. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Emma Nyström. Projekt: Urininkontinens hos äldre – förekomst och associerade faktorer. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Mozhu Ding. Projekt: Caring for the Carers: Improving Health and Support Systems for Dementia Family Carers. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Anna Rennie. Projekt: What is the matter with the white matter? Correlates between advanced imaging markers and clinical phenotype in dementia with Lewy bodies. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Jessica Samuelsson. Projekt: Associations between Diet, Inflammation, and Dementia Risk – with a Focus on Sex Differences. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Hugo Lövheim. Projekt: Registry-based studies of frontotemporal dementia in Sweden. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Johan Skoog. Projekt: Cognitive aging in population-based cohorts: Neurobiological processes, cohort effects, and Alzheimer’s disease. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Maurits Johansson. Projekt: BioFINDER-Geriatric Psychiatry: Advancing Geropsychiatry with Insights from Neurocognitive Medicine. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Karin Lopatko Lindman. Projekt: Pathway-specific polygenic risk scores in Alzheimer’s disease and the interaction with HSV-1. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Gustaf Boström. Projekt: Long-term effects of treatment with immunomodulating drugs on the risk of incident dementia. Institution: Uppsala Universitet
Amit Kumar. Projekt: Novel diagnostic imaging biomarkers for Lewy body disorders. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Martina Svensson. Projekt: Physical activity as a preventive strategy for dementia: predictive factors of efficiency. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Carmen Peña-Bautista. Projekt: RT-QuIC for α-Synuclein Detection in Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Diagnostic Precision and the Role of Alzheimer’s Co-Pathologies. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Lina Rydén. Projekt: Sex differences in early cognitive markers among individuals with and without preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and with high and low cardiovascular risk. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Debora Rizzuto. Projekt: Biomarker signatures of air pollution in dementia risk. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Erika Jonsson Laukka. Projekt: Subjective cognitive decline – neuropsychological and biological correlates and associations with dementia and cognitive aging. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Joana Pereira. Projekt: Biological Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Exhaustion in Women and Their Link to Alzheimer’s Disease Risk. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Bodil Weidung. Projekt: Gatekeepers of the brain: microbiome-immune interactions in dementia. Institution: Uppsala Universitet
Ivan Nalvarte. Projekt: Identifying the interaction between APOE genotype and use of menopausal hormone therapy in relation to Alzheimer’s disease risk. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Petronella Kettunen. Projekt: How can cognitive health be maintained throughout life? Longitudinal analyses of memory clinic patients in the Gothenburg Mild Cognitive Impairment study. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Taher Darreh-Shori. Projekt: Preventing Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease by Restoring Balanced Astroglial Function. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Fernando Gonzalez-Ortiz. Projekt: The tau phosphorylation continuum in the developing and aging brain – a path to future treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies. Institution: Göteborgs universitet
Weili Xu. Projekt: Unlocking Cognitive Health: How Metformin Slows Brain Aging Through Precision Medicine. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Anna Cristina Åberg. Projekt: Long-term prediction of cognitive decline and falls using clinical motor-cognitive testing and registry data. Institution: Uppsala Universitet
Marianne Schultzberg. Projekt: Targeting pro-resolving lipid mediator mechanisms in microglia and neurons for treatment in Alzheimer’s disease. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Emily Sonestedt. Projekt: Food-specific dietary factors and dementia: the role of sugar, dairy and meat products. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Ingvar Bergdahl. Projekt: Do the general population’s cadmium and lead increase the risk for dementia?. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Silvia Maioli. Projekt: TARGETING CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM FOR PERSONALIZED ALZHEIMER’S PREVENTION AND THERAPY IN HIGH-RISK WOMEN: SEX-SPECIFIC BIOMARKERS IN A MEMORY CLINIC COHORT. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Vesna Jelic. Projekt: Ambulatory sleep EEG predicts presymptomatic Lewy body pathology in Alzheimer’s disease: implications for early treatment decisions. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Juan Reyes. Projekt: Exploiting Liver’s Role in Clearing Parkinson’s Disease Pathology for Novel Therapeutic Strategies. Institution: Linköpings universitet
Abbe Ullgren. Projekt: Sex-Specific Plasma Biomarkers for Frontotemporal Dementia: Discovery and Validation Using High-Throughput Proteomics. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Håkan Bäckman. Projekt: Older people’s health, quality of life and person-centred care in nursing homes. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Mite Mijalkov. Projekt: In-silico cognition: A computational approach to capture sex-specific trajectories in Alzheimer’s disease. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Sebastian Albinsson. Projekt: Linking Vascular Aging to Dementia: Genetic and Computational Approaches to YAP/TAZ Pathways. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Abigail Dove. Projekt: Mapping the pathways linking metabolic risk factors to dementia: An integrative project from neuroimaging to biomarkers to metabolomics. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Pontus Plavén Sigray. Projekt: Rapamycin treatment in Alzheimer’s disease assessed using biomarkers. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Nicola Spotorno. Projekt: Microstructural markers for monitoring outcomes in clinical trials. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez. Projekt: Longitudinal imaging biomarkers in genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD): in vivo-postmortem investigation. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Sakura Sakakibara. Projekt: The Role of Formal and Informal Care in Hospitalization Risk Among People with Early Cognitive Impairment. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Tanmayee Samantaray. Projekt: From Imaging to Insight: When, Where and How of Dementia with Lewy Bodies Progression. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Caroline Dartora. Projekt: Mind Her GAP: Women’s Brain Age and Sex-Specific Risk and Resilience in Alzheimer’s Disease. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Ingrid Ekström. Projekt: Smell Loss and Dementia: The Modifying Role of Appetite, Diet, and Nutrition Across Sexes. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Annegret Habich. Projekt: SHe-DLB: Sex-specific Heterogeneity in DLB biomarkers and diagnosis. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Monica Bergqvist. Projekt: Preventing Harmful Emergency Visits in Dementia Through Better Home–Primary Care Integration. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Patricia Rodriguez. Projekt: SELECTIVE NEURONAL VULNERABILITY: A NOVEL AVENUE FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE-MODIFYING THERAPIES AND EARLY BIOMARKERS. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Danielle van Westen. Projekt: Associations between atrophy, small vessel disease as well as amyloid and tau accumulation and their implications for clinical imaging in the workup of cognitive impairment. Institution: Lunds Universitet
Jenny Larsson. Projekt: Unsteady gait in older people may be a common and treatable neurological disease associated with increased mortality – damage to the glymphatic system may be the cause. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Nina Oher. Projekt: Exploring the Evidence-Based Design Process of Supportive Outdoor Environments in Healthcare. Institution: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Eva Sönnerstam. Projekt: Psychotropic drug use and drugs for secondary stroke prevention among people with major neurocognitive disorder – a registry study. Institution: Umeå Universitet
Hong Xu. Projekt: Targeting Anticholinergic Burden to Improve Outcomes in Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Massimiliano Passaretti. Projekt: Modelling distinct biological and pathological progression pathways in Lewy Body diseases. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Mariola Zapater. Projekt: Multimodal biomarker profiling of Alzheimer’s disease trajectories: Tau PET, plasma biomarkers and cognition across sporadic, autosomal dominant, and Down syndrome forms. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Robin Ziyue Zhou. Projekt: Leveraging targeted proteomics and glycomics for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease in a population-based rural cohort. Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Martina Valletta. Projekt: Blood biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and structural brain changes: a population-based study. Institution: Karolinska Institutet