Keep the heritage alive — make the future happen.

Current Campaigns

Medicine and Pharmacy

Help us develop a new cancer treatment

Professor Magnus Essand at Uppsala University has during six years developed and tested a potentially new treatment against neuroendocrine tumours. The treatment consists of an oncolytic virus, which has turned out to be remarkably efficient in destroying neuroendocrine tumours in mice.

With enough funding he will be able to start the world’s first human trials with a genetically engineered virus specifically designed to target neuroendocrine tumours.

You can help the research move forward by donating to the Oncolytic Virus Fund.

Resistance to Antibiotics – A threat to global health

Resistance to antibiotics is an enormous worldwide problem. Almost all bacteria will become resistant to today’s medicine, and within just a few years we will be faced with unimaginable setbacks, medically, socially and economically. Unless we act now.

Our longterm goal is to develop a center of excellence at Uppsala University that attacks the resistance problem at all levels to achieve global and sustainable results.

Read more about how your donation can help (pdf).

Science and Technology

Spinal Injectibles

People suffering from spinal injuries and illnesses will be relieved to discover that major operations with lengthy healing periods can be avoided. Uppsala University is a leader in this field and we are determined to put the results of our research into practice.

Your support is intended to provide an endowed chair as the foundation for the program. By supporting our vital research you will be helping to bring about real change in people’s lives.

Read more about how your donation can help (pdf).

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Raoul Wallenberg Professorship
– You can help prevent future genocide

Help us endow a permanent chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University. We want to reinforce Uppsala University’s position as an international leader in research in this truly vital field. The knowledge and contacts associated with an internationally recognized professorship will benefit research, education, and public awareness. The professorship will advance the cause of human rights and with this, our ability to prevent future genocide.

Read more about how your donation can help (pdf).

Towards Lasting International Peace – Tomorrow’s strategies for conflict resolution

War between countries is very rare today, but war within countries continues to be one of humanity’s greatest tragedies. How do we build a lasting peace after a civil war? How do we prevent war in the first place?

Your donation will help us establishing a new chair in Systematic International Peace Building to provide the post-conflict conditions to secure people’s lives and dignity.

Read more about how your donation can help (pdf).

Asking the Big Questions – Human perspectives within medicine

Many of the questions within medical history and culture are of an ethical nature. For example, how should we deal with genetic data? How do medical research and healthcare operate in a media-driven world? How does an increasingly mobile global population affect people’s health?

Your donation will help us create an endowed chair in medical history.

Read more about how your donation can help (pdf).

Cracking the Runic Code

Figuring out what runic inscriptions really meant has been both a popular and a scholarly endeavor for more than a millennium. Front-line research is carried out at Uppsala University, but runic discovery is now entering a critical phase. Are you ready to get involved?

By supporting our vital research you will be helping to bring about fundamental understanding of our shared history. There is also the possibility that the endowed chair will be named after one of our donors.

Read more about how your donation can help (pdf).

How will the donations be used?

The current campaigns listed above will be in place throughout 2013. With sufficient funding for a given campaign, we will proceed as planned.

If we do not get sufficient funding, donations received per December 31 2013 will be made available for research in the relevant field. Similarly, if we receive more donations than needed, excess funds will be made available for research in the relevant field.

To find out more about how you can help us improve our world, contact American Friends of Uppsala University.