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 | Frank Winkler Professor for Neuro-Oncology Heidelberg University |
Cancer Neuroscience | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Oskar Jefsen Postdoc Aarhus University |
The development of auditory circuit dysfunction in schizophrenia | 2.500.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Dorthe Maria Vittrup Early-Career Clinician Scientist Rigshospitalet |
Duration of immunity after early Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR)-vaccination | 2.499.293 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Li Juel Mortensen Postdoc Rigshospitalet |
Bone markers in serum as novel biomarker of normal and disordered growth in children and adolescents | 1.799.375 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Sebastian Buhl Rasmussen Postdoc Odense University Hospital |
Chronic Kidney Disease awareness and prevention in cardiac surgery patients | 1.249.327 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Mathias Brejnebøl Postdoc Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital |
Investigations into automated vetting of referrals for radiologic imaging | 1.335.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Christopher Rohde Postdoc Aarhus University Hospital |
Effectiveness of psychopharmacological treatment in bipolar disorder | 1.796.868 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen Postdoc Aarhus University |
Individualized treatment of nocturnal enuresis | 2.085.796 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Sara Witting Christensen Wen Postdoc Hospital Lillebaelt |
Lung cancer pre-screening in general practice | 1.067.457 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Martin Korsbak Madsen Postdoc Rigshospitalet |
Human brain 5-HT2AR levels and functional connectivity in stimulated, blocked, and resting states | 1.122.800 DKK |
| 2025 | Early-Career Clinician Scientists | Martin Kaag Rasmussen Postdoc University of Copenhagen |
Screening of pain provoking proteins in an idiopathic intracranial hypertension translational model | 2.499.920 DKK |
| 2025 | Frontier Grant | Asli Shenol Ph.d. University of Copenhagen |
New medicine against obesity | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Frontier Grant | Marie Boi Jacobsen Postdoc Herlev & Gentofte Hospital |
New medicine for women in menopause | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2024 | Valdemar Wendelboe Nielsen |
Valdemar vil undersøge forbindelsen mellem kronisk hudsygdom og øget risiko for hjertekarsygdom | ||
| 2024 | Cordelia Lindhard Smidth University of Copenhagen |
Genetiske Studier og Præcisionsmedicin i Behandlingen af Svær Epilepsi: Fokus på GABRB3-Varianten | ||
| 2024 | Noah Nilsson |
Noah vil undersøge lymfesystemets rolle i lungeskader hos spædbørn med medfødt hjertesygdom | ||
| 2024 | Ulrich Ellgaard Professor University of Copenhagen |
Leveraging the power of constellation pharmacology to enhance neuroscience research in Denmark | 200.000 DKK | |
| 2024 | Clarissa Schmal University of Copenhagen |
Knæk og bræk: Holder dine knogler stærke hele livet! | ||
| 2024 | Munalisa Begum Aalborg University |
Forskningsprojekt vil afdække genetiske årsager til stråleresistens ved endetarmskræft | ||
| 2024 | Experiment | Mike Barnkob Resident Odense University Hospital |
Collective immune cell reprogramming to combat glioblastoma | 1.994.400 DKK |
| 2024 | Experiment | Magnus Kjærgaard Associate Professor Aarhus University |
Targeted degradation of aberrant protein condensates | 1.999.921 DKK |
| 2024 | Experiment | Katrine Qvortrup Associate Professor Technical University of Denmark |
A general strategy for brain-specific activation of antibodies to limit untargeted side-effects | 1.972.585 DKK |
| 2024 | Experiment | Janina Sormann Postdoc University of Copenhagen |
Leveraging deep learning to develop therapeutics for K2P channel-related neural disorders | 2.000.000 DKK |
| 2024 | Experiment | Bo Thomsen Associate professor Aarhus University |
Mitigating brain aging through biological mechanisms linked to embryonic diapause | 1.997.993 DKK |
| 2024 | Experiment | Ahmad Rafsanjani Professor University of Southern Denmark |
Deployable Kirigami electrodes for minimally-invasive electrocorticography | 2.000.000 DKK |