Borregaard Clinical Ascending Investigator

The Borregaard Clinical Ascending Investigator grant aims to promote and strengthen Danish clinical and translational research at a high international level and to stimulate the continued development of excellent clinical research leaders. The Novo Nordisk Foundation seeks to support the consolidation of accomplished clinically active doctors with ambitious and clinically relevant 5-year research projects. The overall goal is to support medical research with relevance to patients and human health. The research fields could be within, but are not limited to: patients and disease related research, translational and clinical research, research in disease mechanisms, treatment methods, disease trajectories, epidemiology, diagnostic methods, public health and family medicine, intervention studies, register-based research, proof-of-concept studies, pilot projects, initial clinical trials and clinical testing, biomedicine. The 5-year grant amounts up to DKK 11,000,000 million, with up to DKK 1.6 million per budget year allocated to direct project related expenses. Up to four Borregaard Clinical Ascending Investigator Grants will be awarded.