A total of DKK 5.6 million. This is what three early career researchers from Health are receiving towards their research projects into key nerve pathways, congenital heart defects and skeletal muscle, respectively. The funding is part of a larger round of funding from the Lundbeck Foundation, which secures two to three years of research funding for particularly talented researchers.

2021.04.21 | Simon Byrial Fischel

Three early career researchers from Health are among the recipients of the Lundbeck Foundations postdoc grants for 2021.

The Lundbeck Foundation has just awarded its postdoc grants for 2021. The foundation's talent panel consisting of 15 Danish and international senior researchers has processed hundreds of applications and selected 33 early career researchers that they found particularly talented and promising in an international context. Three of the talented researchers come from Health.

Haruka Yamamoto from the Department of Biomedicine and DANDRITE receives DKK 2.4 million for his research project entitled: "The Development of cell-type-specific synaptic convergence in the mouse retina-brain pathway".

In his postdoc project, he will study the development of key nerve pathways linked to our vision.

Peter Agger from the Department of Clinical Medicine and the Comparative Medicine Lab receives DKK 1,685,360 for the project: "Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; when the right side of the heart is the wrong side”.

His research focuses on increasing scientific understanding of a rare, congenital heart defect that causes underdevelopment of the left side of the heart.

Kamil Kobak from the Department of Public Health receives DKK 1.6 million for his postdoc project: "Anabolic resistance and the role of abnormal nuclei positioning in congestive heart failure patients”.

He examines the muscle gain in patients with the congenital heart disorder CHF, which weakens the pumping function of the heart and affects around one per cent of the population. 

This coverage is based on press material from The Lundbeck Foundation.