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Project Grants in Clinical and Translational Medicine

The objective of this call is to broadly promote Danish clinical or translational research of high international level. The research should involve patients/humans and/or clinical practice, diagnostic or therapeutic methods, but can also involve established animal models. The Foundation provides grants to support research activities that must be anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark. A total of up to DKK 76 million is available for projects lasting from 1-3 years, with individual grants of up to DKK 4,400,000 million and a yearly maximum budget of DKK 1,480,000 million. DKK 11 million are specifically earmarked for projects within the strategic focused theme 'Interactions between infectious diseases and cardiometabolic diseases', aimed at improving understanding of the dual-burden and interactions between infectious diseases and cardiometabolic diseases.

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.

Clinical Distinguished Investigator

The Clinical Distinguished Investigator grant supports medical doctors and clinical professors conducting patient-relevant medical research over a 5-year period. The program aims to support medical research with relevance to patients and human health, including translational and clinical research, disease mechanisms, treatment methods, epidemiology, diagnostic methods, public health, intervention studies, register-based research, and clinical trials. Applicants must maintain clinical responsibilities throughout the grant period, spending 20-50% of their time in clinical work while dedicating 50-80% to research. The grant provides up to DKK 11 million total over 5 years (approximately DKK 2.2 million per year) for project-related expenses. The project must be anchored at a Danish university, hospital, or other non-profit research institution. Up to two Clinical Distinguished Investigator Grants will be awarded in each cycle. This is an individual grant at the disposal of the applicant, requiring institutional support from both clinical and research department heads.

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.

LF Collaborative Projects

The Lundbeck Foundation Collaborative Projects programme is designed to foster excellent interdisciplinary research within brain-related topics through integrated and collaborative efforts. The programme aims to create synergies between neuroscience and other research fields or between different disciplines of neuroscience, with the ambition to foster collaborations that will significantly impact neuroscience and have potential implications for human health. European researchers are invited to apply as Principal Investigator together with at least one Danish co-PI. The grants are intended to add significant value to existing research environments and support hypothesis-driven, cutting-edge research that can only be answered by combining different disciplines. The interdisciplinary research should relate to basic neuroscience, translational neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, or science with clear relevance to neuroscience, with priority given to approaches bridging basic science and clinical research.