Grants & prizes
We grant a minimum of DKK 500 million each year to Danish public research
Our grants go primarily to biomedical and health science research – both basic and clinical applied research as well as epidemiological research – focusing mainly on the brain.
What we have funded
In 2024, the Lundbeck Foundation allocated a total of DKK 1.074 billion to biomedical sciences research, spread across 186 grants. This was equivalent to the salaries of 947 full-time researchers in Denmark.
Our grants go primarily to biomedical and health science research – both basic and clinical applied research as well as epidemiological research – focusing mainly on the brain.
News about grants and prizes
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POSTDOCS & ECCS 2025One of the Lundbeck Foundation’s long-term strategic goals is to establish Denmark as a leading nation in neuroscience. A step in that direction is to support and develop highly qualified researchers in establishing a research career, which is the basis for the LF Postdoc and Early-Career Clinician Scientist grants.
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The Brain Prize 2025Two pioneering scientists are awarded The Brain Prize 2025 for their discoveries that open up an entirely new way of thinking about and understanding these lethal diseases, and the potential strategies to treat them.
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Experiments 2024There are plenty of innovative researchers in Denmark. Thirty of them have received a 2024 Lundbeck Foundation Experiment grant to test wild ideas in neuroscience that challenge traditional notions.
