About
Lundbeckfonden is a Danish foundation that supports health and biomedical research with a primary focus on brain research. The foundation distributes over 500 million DKK annually to Denmark-based health science research. Through its purpose of bringing discoveries to lives, Lundbeckfonden creates powerful ripple effects by actively investing in business and science at the frontiers of their fields. The foundation operates through strategic investments in healthcare companies, venture capital activities through Lundbeckfonden BioCapital, and research grants and prizes including The Brain Prize.
Funding Opportunities
The Lundbeck Foundation Investigator Network
The Lundbeck Foundation Investigator Network (LFIN) is an initiative designed to strengthen Danish neuroscience by connecting people and disciplines. The network consists of approximately 40 early to mid-career scientists (from postdocs to junior faculty) working in Denmark and in any field of neuroscience (from basic to clinical). The network also includes investigators working in other disciplines who are keen to apply their expertise to a neuroscience research question. The network has two main goals: to develop new areas of multidisciplinary neuroscience research in Denmark and to help young investigators realise their scientific potential. To achieve these goals, LFIN engages in initiatives that foster the development of working relationships among network members that span scientific institutions and disciplines in Denmark. LFIN members receive several benefits including opportunities to establish collaborations and relationships enabling them to tackle new neuroscience research questions requiring a multidisciplinary approach. Members are eligible to apply for dedicated seed funding to support collaborative and interdisciplinary projects within the network. They also receive training related to their scientific career, such as workshops on grant writing, giving job talks, lab leadership and management, commercialisation of ideas, non-academic career paths, public engagement, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Network membership lasts for four years, with 15 new members recruited every two years. LFIN members participate in two two-day meetings per year - one focusing on soft skills and career training, and the other taking the form of a scientific conference with a neuroscience focus. Members also arrange scientific outreach events throughout the year for the public.
Stipends for Sabbatical Leave
The purpose of this call is to support long-term research visits abroad for Danish-based senior researchers in clinical, translational and basic biomedical sciences with a focus on neuroscience or disciplines supporting neuroscience. The aim of the stipends is to ensure that research leaders are able to focus fully on their research during a continuous period of secondment at an international research institution. The Lundbeck Foundation's ambition is to make Denmark leading in neuroscience research by funding relevant biomedical, health, clinical and other sciences in Denmark. The goal is to foster world-class research at Danish universities and Danish university hospitals. International collaboration is one of the best ways to elevate the Danish research environment and strengthen the career path of the researchers involved. The sabbatical must strengthen the applicant and their Danish research group's or department's research activities. The entire grant must be managed by a Danish non-commercial research institution.
Larger Scientific Meetings & Conferences
The Lundbeck Foundation supports larger international scientific meetings and conferences held in Denmark to encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas and resources between Danish researchers and their international peers. The purpose of this grant is to help make Denmark leading in neuroscience research by fostering world-class research at Danish universities and Danish university hospitals through international collaboration and research knowledge exchange. The meetings must be organized by non-commercial Danish research institutes or scientific societies, be international in scope, and focus on topics within neuroscience or fields with potential benefit for neuroscience. The grant covers expenses related to the meeting such as venue, travel and accommodation of invited speakers from abroad, catering and other related costs. The Lundbeck Foundation believes that diversity strengthens science and encourages applications from qualified scientists of all backgrounds, including diverse gender and ethnic origins.
Visiting Professorships
The Visiting Professorships program supports Danish biomedical research groups to invite foreign guest researchers at the professor level to Denmark for 2-6 months to encourage collaboration between excellent senior scientists in Denmark and international peers. The Lundbeck Foundation's ambition is to make Denmark leading in neuroscience research by funding relevant biomedical, health, clinical and other sciences in Denmark. The goal is to foster world-class research at Danish universities and Danish university hospitals through international collaboration, which is seen as one of the best ways to elevate the Danish research environment and strengthen the career path of the researchers involved. The visit must be of mutual benefit to both the Danish research group's/department's research activities as well as the guest's research endeavors. The research should be within the field of basic or clinical neuroscience, or science with clear relevance to or potential benefit for neuroscience, used in its broadest sense including medical, technical, natural and social sciences as well as humanities.
Frontier Grants
Frontier Grants facilitate transitions from basic research to attractive prospects for biotech investors. The program provides financial and interactive support to test and develop the commercial and translational potential of a basic research finding together with the researcher, allowing for mentoring and professional development activity. The purpose of the grant is to advance mature research projects to become financeable and commercially tangible venture opportunities. Recipients receive mentoring including portfolio executives and other experts, with regular follow-ups throughout the grant period including quarterly progress report meetings and annual reporting.
Lundbeck Foundation and Novo Nordisk Foundation Body-Brain Interdisciplinary Projects
The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation have launched the Body-Brain Interdisciplinary Projects initiative to enhance mechanistic understanding of body-brain interactions in health and disease. This program supports collaborative European research projects that investigate the complex interactions between cardiometabolic diseases and nervous system disorders. The initiative aims to address critical knowledge gaps through interdisciplinary collaboration spanning neuroscientific and cardiometabolic research fields. Strong proposals will bridge different research disciplines including neuroscience, metabolism, endocrinology, physiology, neurology, psychiatry, medicine, epidemiology, immunology, and nutrition, with a unifying aim of improving mechanistic understanding of body-brain interactions. The program expects to award 5-6 grants of DKK 15-20 million each for five-year projects. Applications must involve 2-3 independent researchers with at least one anchored at a Danish institution and at least one at a non-Danish European institution.
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