The Wallenberg Neuroscience Center (WNC) was established in 1996 as a joint venture between Lund University and Skåne University Hospital. The WNC building was partly funded by a major grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation as the first of four new units belonging to the Lund University Biomedical Center (BMC).  

Today, the WNC represents a closely interacting research community shared by researchers from a number different research groups, housed not only at the WNC but also elsewhere at the BMC.  We are unified in our efforts to develop disease-related basic and translational research aimed to explore novel neurorestorative and neuroregenerative approaches and cell-based therapies, with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases, stroke and epilepsy. 

Agnete Kirkeby: Human Neural Development

Anders Björklund: Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology 

Angela Cenci-Nilsson: Basal Ganglia Pathology 

Cecilia Lundberg: CNS Gene Therapy 

Christine Ekdahl Clementson:  Inflammation and Stem Cell Therapy Group

Gunnar Gouras: Experimental Dementia Research

Jia-Yi Li: Neural Plasticity and Repair

Johan Jakobsson: Molecular Neurogenetics 

Karsten Ruscher: LUBIN Lab- Lund Brain Injury laboratory for Neurosurgical research

Malin Parmar: Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology 

Merab Kokaia: Experimental Epilepsy 

Maria Swanberg: Translational Neurogenetics

Niklas Marklund: Neurosurgery

Olle Lindvall: Stem Cells & Restorative Neurology

Tadeusz Wieloch: Laboratory for Experimental Brain Research 

Tomas Björklund: Molecular Neuromodulation Labs

Åsa Petersén: Translational Neuroendocrine Research Unit (TNU) 

The Wallenberg Neuroscience Center (WNC) opening ceremony (1996):