Novo Nordisk Foundation: Application Calls and Grants’ Post

DEADLINE: 23 May 2024 2:00pm (CEST) With this call, the Novo Nordisk Foundation invites ambitious researchers to apply for a Steno North American Fellowship within clinical diabetes research. The purpose of the Steno North American Fellowships is to:  - Strengthen the transatlantic collaboration and clinical research on caring for and treating diabetes patients and enhance synergies across the partner research institutions.  - Give the institutions/research communities the opportunity to exchange methods and ideas.  - Promote the researcher’s academic development, e.g. by obtaining training on specific topics and sharing knowledge in an international research environment focused on clinical and translational diabetes research.   Steno North American Fellowships is a transatlantic collaboration enhancing synergies between the partner institutions for the benefit of people living with diabetes.

DEADLINE: 23 May 2024 2:00pm (CEST) With this call, the Novo Nordisk Foundation wishes to strengthen the collaboration between the Steno Diabetes Centers and the research environments related to the Centers. The foundation will support research projects with a unifying and collaborative mission to develop knowledge, to exchange experience across the research institutions and to facilitate synergy between the research environments around the Steno Diabetes Centers.

The purpose of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Challenge Programme is to make a substantial contribution to the development of Danish research ecosystems within strategically relevant research areas. For the 2025 application call, the Challenge Programme is seeking to support the following research theme: Interactions of Infectious and Cardiometabolic Diseases. Infectious disease (ID) and cardiometabolic disease (CMD) are two major global health challenges that affect millions of people every year. While these are distinct types of disease, there is growing evidence that they interact in complex ways, and that these interactions influence the risk, severity, and prognosis of both types of disease. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dE7yVqyZ

The purpose of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Challenge Programme is to make a substantial contribution to the development of Danish research ecosystems within strategically relevant research areas. For the 2025 application call, the Challenge Programme is seeking to support the following research theme: Heterogeneity in biomanufacturing. The challenge is to understand the impact of heterogeneity in biomanufacturing and develop novel approaches for detection, control, and mitigation throughout both upstream and downstream processing. Research must aim to enhance process performance with an emphasis on increasing yield, titre, purity, and productivity, and enable economically viable scaling of disruptive solutions that minimize environmental footprints, save energy, and conserve natural resources. The programme is aimed at fundamental and applied research that merges synthetic biology, microbiology, process engineering, and analytical or digital methodologies to gain insight and develop tools or methods with potential for broad applicability. Research must aim to integrate techno-economic analysis and environmental sustainability impact assessment when relevant. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dSCFJuUX

The purpose of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Challenge Programme is to make a substantial contribution to the development of Danish research ecosystems within strategically relevant research areas. For the 2025 application call, the Challenge Programme is seeking to support the following research theme: The NNF grand AI Challenge. The Challenge is to develop and deploy AI which can be transformative in addressing some of the most critical global challenges impacting society in healthcare, sustainability, and the life sciences. The Grand AI Challenge focuses on developing and deploying large-scale AI models, targeting key challenges within health or sustainability. Within health, this includes (but is not limited to) health care, drug discovery, protein design, or seeking a deeper understanding of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases. Within sustainability, this includes (but is not limited to) driving the green transition through AI, development of climate models, mapping out sustainable futures, optimizing resource use and discovering novel materials for energy solutions. Research may also be aimed at developing or using AI to accelerate advancements in cybersecurity, quantum technology, and AI research itself. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d9vFK7RZ

The purpose of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Challenge Programme is to make a substantial contribution to the development of Danish research ecosystems within strategically relevant research areas. For the 2025 application call, the Challenge Programme is seeking to support the following research theme: Ectopic fat and cardiometabolic disease. The challenge is to understand causal factors in the development and consequences of ectopic fat accumulation, identifying novel targets and precision medicine strategies in disease prevention and treatment with a human-centric point of departure. Through basic and applied research the programme should have a special focus on disruptive and innovative approaches to tackle the challenge and should include novel state-of-the-art technologies such as large-scale omics and imaging techniques (e.g., CT and MRI) allowing for non-invasive quantification. We encourage applicants to focus on data representing diversity both in relation to gender, ethnicity, and associated conditions. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dX9s3NCu

Deadline: 2 May 2024 2:00pm (CEST) Novo Nordisk Fonden ønsker at reducere ulighed i sundhed blandt børn og unge i Danmark. Fonden vil derfor med dette opslag støtte innovative projekter af høj kvalitet, der sigter mod at integrere elementer fra både social- og sundhedsområdet i indsatser for børn i sårbare positioner i Danmark. Formålet er at give børn og unge i sårbare positioner bedre muligheder for at leve et sundere liv. Fonden ønsker at fostre modeller for tværsektorielle samarbejder, som skaber en bedre synergi mellem social- og sundhedssektoren i Danmark. Dette kan for eksempel skabes ved at inkorporere sundhedsaspekter i eksisterende sociale indsatser, og/eller ved at indtænke sociale aspekter i eksisterende sundhedsfremmende indsatser. Dette kan derudover indebære sociale, innovative projekter, der sammentænker og udvikler nye tilgange og metoder til at fremme sundhed for børn og unge i sårbare positioner.

DEADLINE: 18 April 2024 2:00pm (CET) Humanitarian needs may arise from several, interrelated factors, including extreme poverty and the effects of climate change, conflict, disaster, and displacement. The purpose of the open call is to support humanitarian actors and the humanitarian system in identifying, adapting, or integrating research, learning, and innovative approaches to improve the quality of humanitarian response and deliver better outcomes for people affected by crisis. This open call will focus on improving health outcomes and food security. 

Deadline: 28 May 2024 2:00pm (CEST) The Novo Nordisk Foundation calls for applications within basic and clinical research within the endocrine system and metabolism relating to cellular energy homeostasis. The objective is to promote Nordic research at the highest international level to carry out research projects of 1-3 years duration.

Deadline: 5 August 2024 2:00pm (CET) The primary purpose of the Start Package grant is to make Danish universities or other research institutions more competitive when recruiting top researchers of any nationality. The aim is also to enhance researcher mobility across borders, among Danish universities and from industry to university.