All Grants
We annually grant more than 500 million DKK to Danish health care sciences conducted in public institutes. We give grants to biomedical and health science research, both basic research and clinically applied research as well as epidemiological research.
Find specific information about each of our grant recipients and prize winners.
| Year | Category | Applicant | Title | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Brain Prize | Michelle Monje Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator |
Cancer Neuroscience | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | The Brain Prize | Frank Winkler Professor for Neuro-Oncology Heidelberg University |
Cancer Neuroscience | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2024 | The Brain Prize | Larry Abbott William Bloor Professor Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia's Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, USA. |
Computational and theoretical neuroscience | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2024 | The Brain Prize | Haim Sompolinsky Professor Harvard University, USA and Hebrew University, Israel |
Computational and theoretical neuroscience | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2024 | The Brain Prize | Terrence Sejnowski Professor Head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and the Francis Crick Chair, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, USA. |
Computational and theoretical neuroscience | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2023 | The Brain Prize | Christine Holt Professor of Developmental Neuroscience Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at Cambridge University |
Neuronal transcription and translation | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2023 | The Brain Prize | Michael Greenberg Professor of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA |
Neuronal transcription and translation | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2023 | The Brain Prize | Erin Schuman Professor Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
Neuronal transcription and translation | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2022 | The Brain Prize | Silvia Arber Professor & Senior Investigator University of Basel & FMI |
Circuits for movement | 3.333.332 DKK |
| 2022 | The Brain Prize | Ole Kiehn Professor University of Copenhagen and Karolinska Institutet |
Circuits for movement | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2022 | The Brain Prize | Martyn Goulding Professor The Salk Institute and University of California |
Circuits for movement | 3.333.333 DKK |
| 2021 | The Brain Prize | Peter Goadsby Professor and Director University of California, King's College London |
Migraine | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2021 | The Brain Prize | Jes Olesen Professor and chief physician University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet Glostrup |
Migraine | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2021 | The Brain Prize | Lars Edvinsson Professor Lund University |
Migraine | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2021 | The Brain Prize | Michael A. Moskowitz Professor Harvard Medical School |
Migraine | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2020 | The Brain Prize | Huda Zoghbi Professor Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital |
Rett syndrome and epigenetics | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2020 | The Brain Prize | Adrian Bird Professor Edinburgh University |
Rett syndrome and epigenetics | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2019 | The Brain Prize | Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve Professor and director Paris-Diderot University and Lariboisière Hospital |
CADASIL | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2019 | The Brain Prize | Anne Joutel Research direction and professor Inserm and University of Vermont |
CADASIL | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2019 | The Brain Prize | Hugues Chabriat Professor and department head University of Paris, Lariboisière Hospital |
CADASIL | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2019 | The Brain Prize | Marie-Germaine Bousser Professor Paris-Diderot University |
CADASIL | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2018 | The Brain Prize | Michel Goedert Programme Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
Alzheimer's disease | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2018 | The Brain Prize | Christian Haass Head of Division Ludwig-Maximilians University |
Alzheimer's disease | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2018 | The Brain Prize | Bart De Strooper Professor University College London |
Alzheimer's disease | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2018 | The Brain Prize | John Hardy Chair University College London |
Alzheimer's disease | 2.500.000 DKK |