The grants are awarded within the framework of the Danish Council for Independent Research’s E2013 and F2014 call, with the aim of providing younger researchers the best possible conditions for producing outstanding research results at a high international level.
Grant letters will be forwarded to the recipients as soon as possible. Rejection letters will include a brief text, explaining the main academic reasons for the project not obtaining a grant.
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Project Title: The Heart failure progression study. From risk factors, a preclinical ailing heart to severe and fulminant disease
Grant Recipient: Tor Biering-Sørensen
Place of Employment: Gentofte Hospital
Awarded Amount: 977.908
Project Title: Exploring replication catastrophe and Replication Protein A as novel players in cancer diagnosis and treatment
Grant Recipient: Luis Ignacio Toledo
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 2.551.393
Project Title: Structural and Functional Studies of Acyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase Complexes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Grant Recipient: Mette Laursen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: 2.087.780
Project Title: At the Core of Depression – Systematic diagnostic assessment of the core features of depression
Grant Recipient: Jens Drachmann Bukh
Place of Employment: Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital
Awarded Amount: 1.855.800
Project Title: Involvement of Rac1 binding partners in regulating insulin and exercise-induced glucose transport and whole body glucose homeostasis
Grant Recipient: Lykke Sylow Hansen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 3.036.096
Project Title: Excessive vigorous physical activity and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality
Grant Recipient: Anders Grøntved
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: 1.792.800
Project Title: UNDERSTANDING THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF HUMAN CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY SYNDROMES
Grant Recipient: Sheroy Cusrow Minocherhomji
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 1.922.534
Project Title: The role of DNA demethylation in the adaptive response to muscle contraction
Grant Recipient: Kristine Williams
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 2.154.606
Project Title: Targeting Cancer-Specific O-Glycopeptide Epitopes by T-Cell Engaging Immunotherapeutics
Grant Recipient: Catharina Steentoft
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 3.106.361
Project Title: Genetic Risk of Hepatic Steatosis
Grant Recipient: Stefan Stender
Place of Employment: University of Texas Southwestern
Awarded Amount: 1.670.801
Project Title: Developing a screening tool for carcinogenic effects of prescription drugs
Grant Recipient: Anton Pottegård
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: 2.587.680
Project Title: Systems biology analysis of DNA damage-induced phosphorylation responses in cancer cells
Grant Recipient: Louise Marie Agnes Maximiliane von Stechow
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 2.174.924
Project Title: Spatio-temporal patterns in residential addresses of multiple sclerosis
Grant Recipient: Rikke Baastrup Nordsborg
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: 2.649.796
Project Title: Molecular mechanisms and physiological significance of the candidate plasticity gene CPG2
Grant Recipient: Mette Anne Krarup Rathje
Place of Employment: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awarded Amount: 1.131.267
Project Title: Impact of air pollution and noise from road traffic on gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertensive disorders, biomarkers of diabetes and blood pressure in children.
Grant Recipient: Marie Pedersen
Place of Employment: Danish Cancer Society Research Center
Awarded Amount: 1.342.303
Project Title: Investigating the role of glycogen autophagy ('glycophagy') in cancer
Grant Recipient: Elena Favaro
Place of Employment: Danish Cancer Society Research Center
Awarded Amount: 2.308.489
Project Title: Photocontrol of ionotropic glutamate receptors for in vitro and in vivo functional studies.
Grant Recipient: Mette Homann Poulsen
Place of Employment: Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie
Awarded Amount: 686.394
Project Title: Vasopressin regulation of paracellular permeability in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Grant Recipient: Morten Buch Engelund
Place of Employment: University of Kansas Medical Center
Awarded Amount: 1.708.416
Project Title: Multidimensional diagnostics and effect of activity modification in young adolescents with Patellofemoral Pain
Grant Recipient: Michael Skovdal Rathleff
Place of Employment: Aalborg University
Awarded Amount: 2.040.816
Project Title: Structural Basis for malaria parasite invasion of the red blood cell
Grant Recipient: Nick Stub Laursen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: 1.025.094