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More Health-researchers receive grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

An additional seven researchers from Health receive grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD). The grants fund research into e.g. treatment of severe heart failure, brain cancer and neonatal jaundice.

2019.05.16 | Sabina Bjerre Hansen

Grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark strengthen health research in Aarhus.

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Health research in Aarhus is strengthened in a range of areas, when the IRFD provides funding for the following seven Health-researcher’s new projects – for the benefit of patients and society as a whole:

  • Anders Rosendal Korshøj from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives DKK 1.393.000 for research into the effects of new treatments on glioblastoma brain cancer.
  • Hans Eiskjær from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives DKK 855.000 to investigate if and how it would be possible to make heart transplants from donors who suffered circulatory death.  
  • Hatice Tankisi from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives DKK 1.461.000 towards discovering the illness mechanism behind Critical Illness Myopathy.  
  • Henrik Saabye Wiggers from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives DKK 2.119.000 for research into severe heart failure.
  • Søren Nielsen from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives DKK 417.000 towards investigating prevention and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which can lead to cardiovascular disease cirrhosis.
  • Tue Wenzel Kragstrup from the Department of Biomedicine receives DKK 869.000 for his research into making treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis spinal arthritis more effective.
  • Yuelian Sun from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives DKK 2.862.000 towards discovering whether neonatal jaundice influences the further development of a child.

Find out more about the research in the project descriptions on IRFD’s homepage and read about the other IRFD-grants for Health in the article “Researchers from Health secure coveted grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark”

Grants and awards, Health and disease, Academic staff, Health, Health, Research, Technical / administrative staff, Department of Biomedicine, PhD students, Department of Clinical Medicine

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Sabina Bjerre Hansen