18 May 2021

Nine new grants to health researchers at UCPH

Research leaders

No less than nine researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receives a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation in their research leader program. They are awarded to researchers ranging from younger researchers establishing their own group and to professors at the highest international level.

Laboratory work
(Photo: Simon Skipper)

In total, nine researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receives a new grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation in their research leader programme.

The grants all amount to DKK 10 million and are awarded to researchers on different career stages:

  • Emerging Investigator: Upcoming and promising researchers who want to establish or are in the process of establishing their own research group and research leader profile.
  • Ascending Investigator: Talented research leaders at the associate professor level in the process of consolidating their research group and profile. 
  • Distinguished Investigator: Professors of high international standing and caliber.

 

The grants are awarded to:

 

Distinguished Investigator

Anja Groth, Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research

Inge Marie Svane, Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine and Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

 

Ascending Investigator

Konstantin Khodosevich, Associate Professor, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC)

Petrine Wellendorph, Associate Professor, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology

 

Emerging Investigator

Beatrice Dyring-Andersen, Associate Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research and Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

Benjamin Jensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences

Eva Kummer, Associate Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research

Tor Biering-Sørensen, Assoicate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

Trisha Grevengoed, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences