Clinical Emerging Investigator

The Clinical Emerging Investigator grant program is designed to support and strengthen the development of young and promising clinical research leaders and promote Danish clinical and translational research at a high international level. The Novo Nordisk Foundation seeks to support starting clinical research leaders with ambitions of combining their clinical work with clinically relevant research. This 5-year grant program provides substantial funding to medical doctors who are ready to start or are currently under medical specialist training, enabling them to dedicate between 20% to 60% of their time to research while maintaining their clinical practice at a Danish hospital. The overall goal is to support medical research with relevance to patients and human health, covering research fields such as 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 biomedicine. Up to four grants can be awarded, ranging from DKK 8,000,000 to DKK 12,500,000 depending on the level of commitment from the applicant to the research project.