Millions in funding for mental health research

20 researchers at SUND have received just under DKK 50 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) for original research into poor well-being, loneliness, vulnerable children and youth, and psychiatry.

Specifically, the DFF grants go to research on social isolation among middle-aged and senior citizens, children in out-of-home care, mental health of mothers and their children and the relationship between genetics and risk of loneliness.

The grants are awarded under the fund’s three thematic programmes: “Strengthened research on vulnerable children and youth and poor well-being”, “Research on loneliness” and “Better framework for research in psychiatry”.

The grants aim to generate new knowledge of causes and prevention of loneliness, poor well-being and mental disorders and help strengthen the academic environments and coordination of practice-oriented research.

DFF has granted funding to two SUND projects under the programme “Strengthened research on vulnerable children and youth and poor well-being”:

• Assistant Professor Leonie Koosje Elsenburg (Department of Public Health) – DKK 3,167,802
• Clinical Professor Merete Osler (Department of Public Health) – DKK 763,971

See the full list of projects under the programme ”Strengthened research on vulnerable children and youth”.

The fund has also granted funding to two SUND projects under the programme “Research on loneliness”:

• Professor Rikke Lund (Department of Public Health) – DKK 3,168,000
• Clinical Professor Ole Birger Vesterager Pedersen (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,233,051

See the full list of projects under the programme ”Research on loneliness”.

Finally, 16 SUND projects have received funding under the programme “Better framework for research in psychiatry”:

• Clinical Professor Anders Fink-Jensen (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,268,200
• Associate Professor Gitta Wörtwein (Department of Public Health) – DKK 3,150,853
• Clinical Associate Professor Andreas Christian Rosén Rasmussen (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,265,245
• Clinical Professor Lars Vedel Kessing (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,267,412
• Clinical Professor Annamaria Giovanna Elena Giraldi (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,262,372
• Professor Susanne Dalton (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 1,257,218
• Clinical Professor Julie Midtgaard (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 1,924,524
• Clinical Professor Jimmi Nielsen (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,268,200
• Clinical Professor Sidse Marie Arnfred (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,266,670
• Associate Professor Carsten Hjorthøj (Department of Public Health) – DKK 2,260,467
• Associate Professor Trine Madsen (Department of Public Health) – DKK 2,268,200
• Clinical Professor Merete Nordentoft (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,268,200
• Clinical Professor Klaus Martiny (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,267,937
• Clinical Professor Anne Katrine Pagsberg (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 2,268,200
• Clinical Professor Vibe Gedsø Frøkjær (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 4,429,460
• Clinical Professor Martin Balslev Jørgensen (Department of Clinical Medicine) – DKK 4,422,902

See the full list of projects under the programme ”Better framework for research in psychiatry”.