News about Grants

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

How many habitable planets are there in the Milky Way? A new project sets out to answer this question

Researchers from the Globe Institute want to know how many planets in our galaxy are habitable. Professor Anders Johansen has received just under DKK 20 million from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project.

New project examines Danes' views on other people's lifestyles

How do we rank different lifestyles? And to what extent do we discriminate against others based on their taste and interests?

Denmark spearheading transformation of EU food system

The University of Copenhagen is leading a comprehensive new EU project, CLEVERFOOD, that will facilitate a society-wide mobilisation of European citizens to transform the European food system that benefits climate goals…

Major research project studies what it looks like when HIV and coronavirus proteins bind to medications

The way in which molecules interact forms the basis of life and treating illness. But what does it look like when a viral protein meets and binds to molecules like those found in medications? A new research project has…

ERC awards grant to counteract metabolic diseases

UCPH researcher Zach Gerhart-Hines from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receives the prestigious European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant.

Four researchers receive DKK 114 million to expand knowledge of the human brain

Four ambitious research projects will pave the way for new treatments of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, substance use disorder and many other conditions.

Eight SUND-researchers receive grants to high-risk projects

Research daredevils from Danish universities and hospitals receive the Lundbeck Foundation Experiment grant to implement high-risk projects.

Researchers receive grant to develop digital tool for ethnographic research

Morten Axel Pedersen and August Lohse receive Carlsberg Foundation's 'Research Infrastructure Grant' for a new research platform.

Top scientists from UCPH and Oxford get DKK 180 million to research obesity

Worldwide, more and more people are suffering from obesity. Now a group of top researchers has received a great grant to develop new treatment.

Top researchers from UCPH and Oxford receives DKK 180 million to develop treatment for people with obesity

CEMES GRANTS – Spring 2023

Call for applications for research activities planned for 2023.

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

Research into how nerve cells regulate communication receives ERC grant

Associate Professor at Department of Neuroscience Alexander Matthias Walter has received an ERC consolidator grant for research into synaptic plasticity.

Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective

Nina Grønlykke Molleup receives Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for her project Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective.

SUND receives four Sapere Aude research leader grants

Four researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receive Sapere Aude research leader grants. They each receive DKK 6 million for their innovative projects.

Four SUND researchers receive DKK 11 million from the Inge Lehmann Programme

Four researchers from SUND receive a total of DKK 11 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Inge Lehmann Programme. The programme aims to strengthen talent development and promote gender equality in Danish…

One year, five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships

Orchids, toads, 3D folding of DNA, the genomic consequences of social structure, and squirrel hologenomics are the five research fields that researchers at the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) will investigate…

Two BMI profiles receive millions in grants from the Inge Lehmann programme

Trisha Jean Grevengoed and Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg are each awarded more than DKK 2.8 million from Denmark's Independent Research Foundation.

Three ERC Starting Grants to SUND researchers

Researchers Lea Haarup Gregersen, Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas and Victor Moreno Mayar each receives a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

DKK 10 million for research into sleep and delta receptors

Two SUND professors have been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation's Ascending Investigator grant. This means more research into sleep in young adults and basic research into the brain's largest neurotransmitter system.

The year's best Master's theses are written by BMI students

The Medical Society in Copenhagen has just announced the three winners of the award for best Master's theses, where two BMI students won first and third place.

Anxiety, schizophrenia, sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases: Why and how do psychological and somatic disorders occur together?

When a person has multiple psychological and physical disorders, they affect each other. But how? Associate Professor in psychology Karen-Inge Karstoft will study this with a new grant from the Independent Research Fund…