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 | Professorships | Ole Kiehn Professor Københavns Universitet |
Unraveling Brain-Wide Circuits for Movement | 39.091.459 DKK |
| 2025 | Professorships | Andreas Kjær Professor Københavns Universitet og Rigshospitalet |
Development and clinical translation of pioneering radioligand therapy and phototheranostics for glioblastoma | 40.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Professorships | Kamilla Miskowiak Professor Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark, University of Copenhagen |
ASCEND – Advancing Solutions for Cognitive Enhancement across Neuropsychiatric and Somatic Diseases | 19.999.996 DKK |
| 2025 | Professorships | Abigail Mackey Professor Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg hospital, Københavns Universitet |
Exercise to maintain and repair the ageing motoneurone-muscle axis | 20.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Professorships | Claus Juul Løland Professor Københavns Universitet |
Molecular Lego: Building the protein complex responsible for dopamine regulation | 20.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Talent Prize | Mark Khurana Physician, PhD student University of Copenhagen |
Kriseberedskab: Mark er med til at gøre Danmark klar til næste pandemi | 300.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Talent Prize | Rune Häckert Christensen Physician, PhD student Danish Headache Center, Rigshospitalet |
Hovedpine: Rune vil finde de basale mekanismer bag hovedpinesygdomme | 300.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Talent Prize | Mohamed Attauabi Physician, PhD and postdoc Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Herlev Hospital |
Inflammatoriske tarmsygdomme: Mohamed vil forudsige patienternes sygdomsforløb | 300.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Talent Prize | Stine Johansen Physician FLASH – Center for Liver Research, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark |
Alkoholrelateret leversygdom: Stine vil opspore patienterne tidligt | 300.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Talent Prize | Adelina Yafasova Physician, PhD student Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet |
Hjerte-kar-sygdomme: Adelina tænker på tværs af flere sygdomme | 300.000 DKK |
| 2025 | The Brain Prize | Frank Winkler Professor for Neuro-Oncology Heidelberg University |
Cancer Neuroscience | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 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 | Young Investigator Prize | Anton Pottegård Pharmacist, ph.d., dr.med. Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Environmental Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark |
Farmakologi: Anton vil lære os at bruge medicin bedre | 1.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Agnieszka Wlodarczyk Associate Professor University of Southern Denmark |
REMEMBER: REstoring MEmory via Microglia-driven Brain rEpaiR | 7.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Brian Hansen Professor Aarhus University |
Does Locus Coeruleus dysfunction impact brain waste removal? | 5.954.722 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Daniel Kondziella Clinical Professor Rigshospitalet |
Methylphenidate for Early Awakening in Comatose ICU Patients | 6.999.660 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Jean-Francois Perrier Professor University of Copenhagen |
Innovative Therapies for STXBP1 Related Neurodevelopmental Encephalopathy | 5.500.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Kristian Agmund Haanes Senior researcher Rigshospitalet |
Beyond the Spike: Electrically Silent CGRP Release in Migraine | 5.992.460 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Carmelo Bellardita Associate Professor University of Copenhagen |
Cortical Inference Across Motor Hierarchies: Dissecting Predictive Circuits for Sensorimotor Control | 6.998.166 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Rasmus Bak Associate Professor Aarhus University |
Programmable Blood-Derived Cells as Trojan Horses for Brain Drug Delivery | 5.498.941 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Timothy Patrick Jenkins Associate Professor Technical University of Denmark |
Multi-target acute GPCR inhibitors for migraine delivered via intranasal mRNA-encoded binders | 4.500.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Thomas Folkmann Hansen Group leader Rigshospitalet |
Menstrual Cycle Biology Modulates ADHD-symptoms | 5.000.000 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Søren Krogh Andersen Professor University of Southern Denmark |
Does selective visual attention sample rhythmically? | 6.259.925 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Andrew Urquhart Associate Professor Technical University of Denmark |
Targeted drusen solubilisation as a prevention against late stage age-related macular degeneration | 4.625.805 DKK |
| 2025 | Ascending Investigators | Pétur Heidarsson Associate Professor University of Copenhagen |
Recoding the pioneer factor Ascl1 to reveal and rewire the molecular logic of neuronal reprogramming | 6.999.161 DKK |