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Health researchers receive DKK 81 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Nine researchers from Health each receive up to DKK ten million to carry out ambitious projects, uncover complex problems and develop new techniques and methods within their respective fields of research. The money comes from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s new Research Leader Programme.

2019.05.16 | Sabina Bjerre Hansen

Over the next five years, nine of the faculty's researchers can call themselves research leaders under the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: AU, private etc.

Over the next five years, nine of the faculty's researchers can call themselves research leaders under the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: AU, private etc.

Excellent researchers at all career stages – from younger talents to established, international names at professor level. They are the researchers who receive 44 grants totalling DKK 413 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation – and nine of them are researchers at Health.

Read more about the projects these researchers at Health are undertaking in the areas of clinical and translational research and bioscience and basic biomedical research on the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s website, and see how the nine grants are distributed below:

CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

RESEARCHER

DEPARTMENT

AMOUNT

Karen Louise Thomsen

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 9,993,900

Morten Schmidt

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 7,403,725

Lars Christian Gormsen

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 7,604,060

Lars Henning Pedersen

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 7,463,618

Peter Jepsen

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 9,981,300

BIOVIDENSKAB OG BASAL BIOMEDICINSK FORSKNING

Ina Maria Schiessl

Department of
Biomedicine

DKK 9,970,800

Diego Vidaurre

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 9,544,551

Martin Tolstrup

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 9,858,087

Rikke Nørregaard

Department of
Clinical Medicine

DKK 9,423,750

Grants and awards, Technical / administrative staff, Health, Health, Academic staff, Department of Biomedicine, Public/Media, Department of Clinical Medicine, External target group