Funding Radar: Novo Nordisk Foundation puts €21.7M into Danish bioscience

11 Nov 2025 | News

The foundation aims to nurture top research talent through grants for emerging and rising researchers 

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The Novo Nordisk Foundation in Denmark, one of the world’s leading funders of pharmaceutical and biotechnology research, is investing €21.7 million to support emerging and rising Danish researchers in bioscience and basic biomedicine through two new grant programmes.

Both calls aim to strengthen Danish fundamental research that contributes to better health through new biological and biomedical insights, and submitted proposals must include projects anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark. However, the funding amount differs significantly between the two programmes.

The Hallas-Møller Emerging Investigator grant has a total budget of DKK 50 million (€6.7…