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 | 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 | Munalisa Begum Aalborg University            | 
                                                                                        Forskningsprojekt vil afdække genetiske årsager til stråleresistens ved endetarmskræft | ||
| 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 | Experiment | Tomasz Brudek Senior researcher  Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital            | 
                                                                                        Could B Cell Depletion Therapy Trigger Parkinson’s-Like Protein Aggregation? | 2.000.000 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Miguel Alexandre Ramos-Docampo Postdoc  Aarhus University            | 
                                                                                        Chiral plasmonic nanoparticles for neural stimulation in a 3D model | 1.999.836 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Louise Birkedal Glenthøj Associate Professor  Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark            | 
                                                                                        Enhancing psychotherapy for schizophrenia spectrum disorders using AI | 2.000.000 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Jens Randel Nyengaard Professor  Aarhus University            | 
                                                                                        Translational chemogenetics in models of parkinsonian movement disorders | 1.999.800 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | George Hunt Postdoc  University of Copenhagen             | 
                                                                                        Tracing the origin of the brain’s immune cells | 1.999.453 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Beatrice Choi Postdoc  University of Copenhagen             | 
                                                                                        Bacterial translocation from gut to brain – fact or fiction? | 2.000.000 DKK | 
| 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 | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Søren Degn Associate professor  Aarhus University            | 
                                                                                        Cell-penetrating autoantibodies – a missed link between systemic autoimmunity and neuronal damage | 1.998.315 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Meet Jariwala Postdoc  University of Copenhagen             | 
                                                                                        Decoding neural circuits in psychiatry: A focus on the molecular basis of behavioral disorders | 1.974.574 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Kristi Anne Kohlmeier Associate Professor  University of Copenhagen             | 
                                                                                        Can a dietary strategy reverse neuronal and glial alcohol related dysfunction? | 1.999.978 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Jannick Prentø Associate professor  University of Copenhagen             | 
                                                                                        High-Resolution Blood-Brain-Barrier Structures by Claudin-Occludin Integration into Large Nanodiscs | 1.999.863 DKK | 
| 2024 | Experiment | Daniel Jercog Assistant Professor  University of Copenhagen             | 
                                                                                        Cracking the neural code of transforming thoughts into actions | 2.000.000 DKK |