Project Grants in Clinical &Translational Medicine (Denmark)

The research should involve patients/humans and/or clinical practice, diagnostic or therapeutic methods, but can also involve established animal models.

Areas of Support

• The overall goal is to support medical research with clear relevance to patients and human health.
• The research fields could be within, but 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 etc.

Funding Information

• A total of DKK 50 million is available for the funding of: 1, 2 and 3 year projects within the frame of DKK 300,000 – 1,000,000 per budget year.
• The total amount applied for must be within the frame of DKK 300,000 – 3,000,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The research activities applied for must be anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark.
• Principal investigators are eligible to apply. The profile of applicants may be experienced independent researchers who have already established their own line of research or researchers that are in the process of establishing themselves as independent researchers. As this grant cannot cover salary of the grantee, the applicant must be guaranteed his or her own salary for the entire applied project period.
• Applications from Master students, Ph.D. students and Postdocs will not be taken into consideration.
• The application and any additional uploads must be written in English (including the layman description).
• Note: It is not possible to have or register co-applicants for this specific call.

Ineligible

• NNF will not award funding for:
  • Own salary for principal applicants
  • Commercial activities
  • Overhead

For more information, visit Novo Nordisk Foundation.