SWIMM members are eligible to apply for travel grants to attend any Immunology related conference. Different travel grants support travel to different conferences.
SWIMM members are also eligible to apply for different types of international exchange/collaboration grants.
Types of Grants
SWIMM travel grant – any conference
SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply for the SWIMM travel grant, which can be used to travel to any immunology related conference except the annual Scandinavian Society for Immunology (SSI) meeting, the European Congress of Immunology (ECI) and the International Congress of Immunology (ICI). Recipients of the SWIMM travel grant need to actively participate in the conference through poster or oral presentation. For more details see below.
EFIS travel grants – ECI meeting and more
SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply to the European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) for a travel grant to attend the European Congress of Immunology (ECI). These travel grants are usually announced through the website of the ECI meeting.
Additional EFIS travel grants may be available to support e.g. attendance of ICI or ECI meetings. If such additional travel grants become available, they will be announced on the EFIS website. SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply for all EFIS travel grants.
IUIS travel grant – ICI meeting
SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply to the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) for a travel grant to attend the International Congress of Immunology (ICI) meeting. These travel grants are usually announced through the website of the ICI meeting.
SSI travel grants – SSI meeting and more
SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply to SSI for a travel grant to attend SSI meeting. These travel grants are usually announced through the website of the SSI meeting.
Additional SSI travel grants may be available to support attendance of ICI meetings. If such additional SSI travel grants become available, they are announced through SSI and SWIMM information channels. SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply for these additional SSI grants.
SSI grants for Scandinavian Exchange
SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply to SSI for the Scandinavian Exchange grant. SSI wants to promote new collaborations between Scandinavian researchers. This is a € 1000 grant from SSI to finance exchange with a lab in another Scandinavian country.
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EFIS-IL Short Term Fellowship
SWIMM membership makes one eligible to apply to SSI for the EFIS-IL Short Term Fellowship.
EFIS and Immunology Letters (IL) award short-term fellowships for up to 3 months of support for purposes of transnational scientific collaboration or advanced training in techniques or methodologies. The EFIS-IL Short-term Fellowship allowance is € 1.925/month and is awarded directly to the fellowship holder. In addition, EFIS will reimburse travel costs up to € 500.
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SWIMM Travel Grant
SWIMM-funded grants to attend scientific conferences in immunology!
The Swedish Society for Immunology, SWIMM, offers its members the opportunity to apply here (downloadable application form) for travel grants twice a year. Grants will be given to members for active participation (poster or oral presentation) in a conference that covers any field of immunology, and with the purpose to promote Swedish Immunology worldwide. All members can apply but PhD students and post docs will be given priority. SWIMM may also grant funding to visit laboratories to learn new methodology.
Please note! SSI and ICI meetings are not sponsored by SWIMM. Travel grants for these meetings can be applied for from SSI directly.
The application for the SWIMM travel grant is made via the application form, including an abstract, and your merits in one document. Applications will be evaluated by the SWIMM board based on the scientific value of the abstract. The motivation text and previous experiences will be taken under consideration during the evaluation.
Members who receive a SWIMM travel grant are asked to acknowledge SWIMM in their meeting presentation. SWIMM will publish the name, affiliation, abstract title and scientific meeting of grantees on the SWIMM website.
SWIMM will consider applications that has been submitted between 1st of March to 1st of April and between the 1st of August and 1st of September. The applications must be for conferences not starting before the deadline of the application and take place within 9 months after the deadline of the application. You need to have paid membership for 2025 to be eligible for travel grants in 2025. Awarded travel grants will be paid to the personal bank account of the awardees.
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Previous Travel Grant Awardees
Spring 2025
Alexandra Argyriou, Karolinska Institutet.
European Congress of Rheumatology, Barcelona, Spain.
Title: Synovial immune cells exhibit a type I IFN gene signature in ACPA-negative rheumatoid arthritis.
Chiara Badami, Gothenburg University.
CRI-ENCI Ninth International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference (CICON) 2025, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Title: BAP1 deletion disrupts IFN-γ signaling and sensitizes ASXL1-mutated myeloid leukemia to NK cell cytotoxicity.
Isabella Badolati, Stockholm University.
EAACI Congress 2025, Glasgow, Scotland.
Title: Effects of oral immunotherapy on the immunological profile of peanut-allergic young children: insights from transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses.
Romain Gailleton, Gothenburg University.
EMBO Workshop: Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues, Basel, Switzerland.
Title: Investigating the Role of Memory B Cells in Nasal Mucosa for Long-Term Immunity Against Influenza A Virus.
Nimitha Rose Mathew, Gothenburg University.
EMBO Workshop: Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues, Basel, Switzerland.
Title: Nasal tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells persist after influenza A virus infection and provide heterosubtypic protection.
Fall 2024
Chiara Badami, Göteborgs universitet.
NK Cell and ILC meeting 2024, Lyon, France.
Title: BAP1 deletion disrupts IFNγ signaling and sensitizes cancer cells to NK cell cytotoxicity.
Sara Falck-Jones, Karolinska Institutet.
17th International Symposium on Dendritic cells (DC2024), Barcelona, Spain.
Title: Temporal dynamics of airway monocytes and dendritic cells in respiratory viral infections.
Viktoria Hennings, Göteborgs universitet.
ThymUS 2025, Kauai, USA.
Title: Sex differences in morphological and functional compartments of the human thymus identified by spatial multiomic studies.
Linnea Kristerson, Göteborgs universitet.
NK Cell and ILC meeting 2024, Lyon, France.
Title: Deletion of the TMEM30A gene enables leukemic cell evasion of NK cell cytotoxicity.
Annika Niehrs, Karolinska Institutet.
NK Cell and ILC meeting 2024, Lyon, France.
Title: Tissue-resident but not conventional NK cells access tissue parenchyma and recirculate via lymphatics at steady state.
Shengduo Pei, Karolinska Institutet.
International Symposium on Neutrophils 2024, Munich, Germany.
Title: Neutrophils block immunotherapy for cancer by PDL1.
Anne Wöhr, Göteborgs universitet.
International Symposium on Neutrophils 2024, Munich, Germany.
Title: Neutrophil serine proteases process IL-18 to a cytokine variant with enhanced activity.
Spring 2024
Tessa Campbell, Karolinska Institutet.
17th International Symposium on Dendritic cells (DC2024), Barcelona, Spain.
Title: Plasmacytoid dendritic cells fail to produce type I interferon in STAT2 deficiency.
Afandi Charles, Karolinska Institutet.
International Congress of Mucosal Immunology (ICMI) 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Title: SARS-CoV-2 infected airway epithelial cells regulate monocyte reprogramming and M-MDSC expansion in acute COVID-19 through cytokines.
Agnieszka Lastowska, Göteborgs universitet.
ACR Convergence 2024, Washington, DC, USA.
Title: Innate Lymphoid Cells Enhance Development of CD4+ T-cell Driven Autoimmune Arthritis.
Anders Nguyen, Göteborgs universitet.
ACR Convergence 2024, Washington, DC, USA.
Title: Role of Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells in the Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Ioana Sandu, Karolinska Institutet.
Bridging Innovation and Translation in T cell Immunotherapy, Munich, Germany.
Title: The impact of infection dose on CD8 T cell response diversity in acute viral infection.
Jinghua Wu, Karolinska Institutet.
ImmunOctoberfest 2024, Munich, Germany.
Title: Impaired pathogen-specific CD4+ T cell functionality in patients with CLL.
Xinran Zhao, Uppsala universitet.
World Allergy Congress (WAC2024), Lisbon, Portugal.
Title: Mast cell chymase suppresses functional parameters in primary human airway smooth muscle cells.
Fall 2023
Rodrigo Arcoverde Cerveira da Silva, Karolinska Institutet.
2023 International Society for Vaccines Annual Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Title: Unmodified rabies mRNA vaccine elicits high cross-neutralizing antibody titers and diverse B cell memory responses.
Danica Fae Besavilla, Göteborgs universitet.
T and B Cell Collaboration in Germinal Centers and Beyond Keystone Symposia, Whistler, BC, Canada.
Title: Pre-existing CD4 T Cell help boosts antibody responses but has limited impact on germinal center, antigen-specific B cell frequencies after influenza infection.
Nicolai Frengen, Karolinska Institutet.
Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Cell Development and Function Conference, Sacramento, CA, USA
Title: E proteins are dispensable for NK cell development.
Tobias Kammann, Karolinska Institutet.
CD1-MR1 2024, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Title: MAIT cell diversity across human barrier sites reveals tissue-specific adaptation of a trained CD56-associated effector program.
Xinxin Luo, Karolinska Institutet.
Hydra helminth conference, Athens, Greece.
Title: Liver X receptor controls Tuft cell-ILC2 circuit impairing anti-helminth immunity.
Nimitha Rose Mathew, Göteborgs universitet.
British Society for Immunology Congress 2023, Belfast, UK.
Title: Discerning the role of flu-specific CD4 tissue resident memory T cells of the upper respiratory tract.
Sara Turcinov, Karolinska Institutet.
ACR Convergence 2023, San Diego, CA, USA.
Title: The Occurrence and Phenotype of Autoreactive T Cells in the At-risk Phase of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Spring 2023
Fredrika Hellgren, Karolinska Institutet.
Keystone Symposia B cell biology in the context of infectious diseases, autoimmunity and B cell cancers, Keystone, CO, USA.
Title: Allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients develop robust B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination.
Gustavo Monasterio Oscares, Karolinska Institutet.
International Osteology Symposium 2023, Barcelona, Spain.
Title: Spatially resolved proteomic atlas of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
Elke Muntjewerff, Uppsala universitet.
19th Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress, Paris, France.
Title: Catestatin modulates nerve-immune related inflammation.
Jyoti Pokharel, Karolinska Institutet.
ENII- EFIS/EJI Summer School in advanced immunology, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy.
Title: CX3CR1 is a graded and universal differentiation marker unifying human and murine T cell differentiation.
Carolina Silva, Karolinska Institutet.
5th International Symposium on Trained Immunity, Napoli, Italy.
Title: Individuals with active and latent Tuberculosis have distinct NK cell function.
Timothy Sundell, Göteborgs universitet.
EBCnet – B cell Summer School, Lohr/Main, Germany.
Title: Single-cell RNA sequencing analyses: interference by the genes that encode the B-cell and T-cell receptors.
Manon Termote, Karolinska Institutet.
Keystone Symposia B cell biology in the context of infectious diseases, autoimmunity and B cell cancers, Keystone, CO, USA.
Title: Antigen affinity and pre-existing antibodies dictate memory B cell entry into secondary germinal centers.
Anthonie Zwijnenburg, Karolinska Institutet.
Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Systems Immunology, Woodbury, NY, USA.
Title: CD8+ T cell differentiation and activation represent distinct axes of diversification.
Fall 2022
Johanna Kabbert, Lunds universitet.
British Society for Immunology (BSI) conference 2022, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Title: The role of the GP2-IgA-microbiota interactome in intestinal homeostasis and disease.
Zaynab Mousavian, Karolinska Institutet.
British Society for Immunology (BSI) conference 2022, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Title: A protein signature associated with active tuberculosis identified by plasma profiling and network-based analysis.
Laura Reusch, Göteborgs universitet.
EMBO Workshop on Germinal centers and immune niches, Rehovot, Israel.
Title: Effect of pre-existing memory B cells and antibodies on memory responses and reshaping immunodominance patterns to influenza A virus.
Tracer Yong, Karolinska Institutet.
Cancer Core Europe (CCE) Summer School in Translational Cancer Research, Albufeira, Portugal.
Title: Revealing Survival Strategy of Germinal Centre Originated B-cell Lymphoma.
Spring 2022
Abigail Alvarado Vazquez, Uppsala univeristet.
International European Mast Cell and Basophil research network (EMBRN) conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Title: Mcpt8-driven cell depletion reduces lung mast cells in mice with allergic airway inflammation.
Rhaissa Calixto Vieira, Karolinska Institutet.
The WAS2022 Symposium, Munich, Germany.
Title: Flow Cytometry-based Drug Screening for stabilization of WASp to restore Megakaryocyte and Platelet Function.
Klara Lenart, Karolinska Institutet.
Keystone Symposia Progress in Vaccine Development, Breckenridge, CO, USA.
Title: Heterologous immunization with the Novavax nanoparticle protein vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 elicits highly cross-reactive antibody responses with increased avidity.
Sebastian Ols, Karolinska Institutet.
Keystone Symposia Progress in Vaccine Development, Breckenridge, CO, USA.
Title: Multivalent antigen display on nanoparticles elicits diverse and broad B cell responses.
Lorenz Wirth, Karolinska Institutet.
ILC4 – 4th International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells, Hawaii, USA.
Title: Eicosanoid metabolism in human innate lymphoid cells.
Anthonie Zwijnenburg, Karolinska Institutet.
Gordon Research Conference: Immunochemistry and Immunobiology, Castelldefels, Spain.
Title: CX3CR1 is a graded and universal differentiation marker unifying human and murine T cell differentiation.
Fall 2021
Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz, Uppsala University.
38th Scandinavian Congress of Rheumatology, Ålesund, Norway.
Title: An epigenetic clock for systemic lupus erythematosus.
Johanna Kabbert, Lund University.
BSI Congress 2021, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Title: High microbiota reactivity of human intestinal IgA requires somatic mutations.
Spring 2021
Marion Humbert, Karolinska Institutet.
11th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2021), Berlin, Germany (virtual event).
Title: Identification of factors affecting immune recovery during antiretroviral therapy in perinatally HIV-infected children.
Fall 2019
Alessandro Camponeschi, Gothenburg University.
TRR 130 Symposium 2019, “B cell responses in immunity and autoimmunity”, Freiburg, Germany.
Title: Switched CD21-/low B cells with an antigen-presenting phenotype in the infant thymus.
Luca Mazzurana, Karolinska Institutet.
Next Gen Immunology 2020, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Title: Suppression of Aiolos and Ikaros expression reduces human ILC3−ILC1/NK cell
transdifferentiation and enhances ILC3 function.
Julian Stark, Karolinska Institutet.
17th International Congress of Immunology, Beijing, China.
Title: Understanding the role of T helper cells during asthmatic inflammation.
Katharina Susek, Karolinska Institutet.
International Oncolytic Virus Conference 2019, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Title: Combination of herpes-simplex based oncolytic viruses (HSV-OV) with natural killer (NK) cells in multiple myeloma.
Spring 2019
Valentina Carannante, Karolinska Institutet.
Cambridge Healthtech Institute´s 7th Annual Immuno-Oncology Summit, Boston, MA, USA.
Title: Characterization of Poliovirus Receptor in 3D cultures of Renal Carcinoma cells and its role in shaping Natural Killer cell activity in the tumor microenvironment.
Jinming Han, Karolinska Institutet.
2nd Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation, Tronheim, Norway.
Title: Newly repopulated microglial-like cells following genetic microglial depletion exacerbated experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in female but not in male CX3CR1CreER/+Rosa26DTA/+ mice.
Elin Rönnberg Höckerlind, Karolinska Institutet.
EAACI 2019, Lisabon, Portugal.
Title: Deciphering human lung mast cell heterogeneity and Wnt signaling.
Marieke van der Heiden, Stockholm University.
EAACI 2019, Lisabon, Portugal.
Title: The immunological signatures of success or failure following peanut oral immunotherapy combined with individualized omalizumab treatment in peanut allergic adolescents.
Sindhu Vangeti, Karolinska Institutet.
11th International Conference on Hantaviruses, Leuven, Belgium.
Title: Depletion of peripheral nonclassical monocytes during acute Puumala virus infection is associated with increased endothelial adhesion.
Fall 2018
Stanley Cheuk, Gothenburg University.
ThymE: T cell and thymus biology conference, Rehovot, Israel.
Title: Florescent timer protein as a stop watch to time molecular events during embryonic thymic epithelial cell development.
Josefine Dunst, Karolinska Institutet.
1st Immunology and Inflammation Conference, Berlin, Germany.
Title: B-1a cell self-renewal properties are imprinted by the transcription factor Bhlhe41.
Efthymia Kokkinou, Karolinska Institutet.
AAI meeting 2019, San Diego, CA, USA.
Title: Heterogeneity in differentiation capacity among ILC precursors in human peripheral blood and tissues.
Julia Nilsson, Lund University.
EASL The International Liver Congress 2019, Vienna, Austria.
Title: The NIF mouse as a model for acute, late stage non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Kailash Singh, Uppsala University.
AAI meeting 2019, San Diego, CA, USA.
Title: IL-35 maintains regulatory T cells phenotype to suppress diabetic nephropathy.