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StemTherapy Funding Initiatives

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StemTherapy (ST) supports scientific progress, collaboration, and translation through a coordinated portfolio of internal funding initiatives. Together, these initiatives provide flexible and targeted support across career stages and research phases, from publication-ready studies to long-term international collaboration and translational development.

About the funding initiatives:

The StemTherapy funding initiatives are designed to:

  • Accelerate scientific output, impact, and visibility
  • Support progression toward therapeutic and clinical application
  • Enable ambitious and innovative research directions
  • Facilitate strategic international collaboration
  • Promote adoption of advanced technologies
  • Strengthen integration of visiting expertise within ST

Each initiative is implemented through individual calls for proposals. Specific details including eligibility, budget, evaluation criteria, and timeline, are announced separately for each call.

StemTherapy Funding Initiatives:

Paper‑Boost Grants

Supports StemTherapy projects close to publication in high‑impact journals that require additional experimental work or short‑term personnel support to address reviewer comments in order to resubmit. 

Funding: up to 500,000 SEK 
Call status: Open - currently accepting applications on a rolling basis

StemTherapy Excellence Projects

Supports scientifically ambitious research with the potential to position StemTherapy and the Lund Stem Cell Center at the forefront of stem cell and regenerative medicine research internationally.

Funding: 2,000,000 SEK per year for 2 years
Call status: Upcoming (Spring 2026) 

Call details coming soon

International Collaboration Grants

Supports the establishment of new international collaborations or the formalization of existing collaborations with strategically important research environments.

Funding: >1,000,000 SEK per year for 2 years
Call status: In preparation

Guest Professor Collaboration Grants

Supports collaborative projects initiated with newly recruited guest professors or visiting senior researchers at Lund University, with the aim of rapid integration and new research directions.

Funding: >250,000 SEK
Call status: In preparation

Translational Project Grants

Supports projects with clear potential for clinical or therapeutic application and facilitates progression from discovery-stage research toward translational readiness.

Funding: >500,000 SEK per year for 2 years
Call status: In preparation

Technology Implementation Grants

Supports the incorporation of emerging or state‑of‑the‑art technologies into ongoing research projects to strengthen scientific capability and competitiveness.

Funding: >1,000,000 SEK
Call status: In preparation

Postdoctoral Catalyst Grants

Supports postdoctoral researchers in generating critical data or proof‑of‑concept results needed to apply for major independent starting grants.

Funding: >250,000 SEK
Call status: In preparation

Last updated: 29 Apr 2026 | alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se