Deadline: 11-Jan-23
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is accepting applications for Distinguished Investigator – Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine.
Purpose
- With the overall aim of catalysing Danish fundamental research impacting better health through knowledge, the purpose of the ‘Distinguished Investigator – Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine’ grant is to support leading professors who propose to undertake novel and ambitious projects that will bring new and important insight into life and health.
Areas of Support
The fundamental research should be within bioscience and/or basic biomedicine and the project relevant for understanding the human organism and/or basal mechanisms underlying health and disease. The research fields include (but are not limited to): molecular biology, cell biology, bioinformatics, modelling of biological systems, enzymology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, experimental physiology, biophysics, biochemistry, biology, and biostatistics etc. The research will typically be carried out in animals, model systems, cellular or subcellular systems, or in silico.
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The Novo Nordisk Foundation offer mutually exclusive calls within the areas listed. It is the responsibility of the applicant to apply within the call most appropriate:
- Endocrinology and metabolism
- Clinical and translational medicine (for clinicians)
- Natural and technical sciences (NERD and RECRUIT).
Funding Information
- A total of up to DKK 20 million is available for up to two 5-year grants, each of up to DKK 10 million with approximately DKK 2 million per year. Annual budget amounts can diverge from DKK 2 million per year if needed (e.g., due to equipment costs).
Types of Expenses
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Applicants may apply for funding for the following types of expenses:
- Salary for employees
- Tuition fee
- Operating expenses
- Equipment
- Conference participation travel
- Publication costs
- Bench fee
- Direct administrative expenses (up to 5 % of the total funding applied for).
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be professors (MSO included).
- Applicants must, during the project, be employed and have their primary research group in Denmark (only minor and/or time-limited affiliation with institutions abroad is allowed).
- This Distinguished Investigator call is intended for ‘full-time’ researchers (teaching obligations included) i.e., researchers with clinical obligations cannot apply for this grant.
- Recipients of this grant must contribute to the pre-graduate teaching environment at their host institution. A Distinguished Investigator grant must not be used to cover a teaching substitute for the applicant.
Where must the research take place:
- The project must be anchored at a university, hospital, or other non-profit research institution in Denmark. It is a requirement that the host institution confirms that the project will take place at the given institution and that the institution will provide the required infrastructure, such as laboratory and office space, and administration of the grant. A hosting letter, signed by the head of the institute, must be included in the application.
What types of projects can be supported:
- The application must describe a clearly defined research project with an appropriate budget. The project can be an independent project, delimited project or a clearly defined part of a larger, running project. In the latter case, the large project must be briefly described.
Important Rules
- An applicant may submit only one application to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for an “Investigator grant” and cannot submit another application for an “Investigator grant” while the application is under review. If an applicant submits more than one “Investigator grant” application for simultaneously review, only the first application submitted will be evaluated, while the subsequent applications will receive administrative rejections.
- An applicant that holds an active “Investigator grant” from the Novo Nordisk Foundation is only eligible to apply for a new “Investigator grant” during the final year of the existing grant, and the two grant periods cannot overlap. I.e., recipients of NNF Investigator Grants 2018 will be eligible to apply in the 2023 Investigator calls and not before.
- While a project submitted to one call in the Novo Nordisk Foundation is under evaluation – a similar or overlapping project CANNOT be submitted to other calls from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. I.e., projects submitted for Distinguished Investigator grants cannot be submitted to any other calls in the Novo Nordisk Foundation until the outcome of this call has been publicised.
Ineligible
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation does not allow double funding of projects.
- The applicant cannot apply for projects/budget posts already funded by other mechanisms
- The project applied for can be partially funded by other mechanisms, but such co-funding must be clearly stated in the application.
- If the applicant, post application submission, receives funding for the project or parts of the applied project from others, the Novo Nordisk Foundation must be contacted as soon as possible.
For more information, visit Distinguished Investigator.
For more information, visit https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/distinguished-investigator-bioscience-and-basic-biomedicine/