Deadline: 25-Aug-25
The Project Grants in Clinical and Translational Medicine 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.
Areas of Support
- The overall goal is to support innovative 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, testing and implementation of clinical solutions etc.
- Projects within the field of endocrinology and metabolism, relating to cellular energy homeostasis, and hormonal disorders of the endocrine system, must be applied for within ‘Project Grants in Endocrinology and Metabolism – Nordic Region’.
- Projects of a fundamental research character within biomedicine with no direct clinical relevance must be applied for in the call ‘Project Grants in Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine’.
Strategic Focused Theme
- In this application round there will be a special emphasis on research projects focused on or related to novel clinical and translational research aimed at improving the understanding of the dual-burden and interactions between infectious diseases and cardiometabolic diseases.
- DKK 11 million are earmarked for projects within the strategic focused theme ‘Interactions between infectious diseases and cardiometabolic diseases.
- Infectious diseases (ID) and cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) are two major global health challenges that affect millions of people every year. While these are distinct types of disease, there is growing evidence that they interact in complex ways, and that these interactions influence the risk, severity, and prognosis of both types of disease.
Funding Information
- A total of up to DKK 76 million is available for projects lasting from 1-3 years.
- Projects of up to DKK 4,400,000 million can be applied for with an annual maximum budget of DKK 1,480,000 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- The research activities applied for must be anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark.
- Only principal investigators are eligible to apply.
- Applications from Master students, Ph.D. students and postdocs will not be taken into consideration.
- Seniority
- Applicants must be experienced independent researchers, who have already established their own line of research or are in the process of establishing themselves as independent researchers. The applicant must be the clear driver of the project.
- Salary of the grantee cannot be covered by this grant. The applicant must be guaranteed her/his own salary for the entire project period.
For more information, visit Novo Nordisk Foundation.