Selected HEALTH grantees

ERC Starting Grant

• Søren Thorgaard Skou (2018) - Improving health in people with multimorbidity: a paradigm shift in health care from disease-based curative models to personalized exercise therapy and self-management (MOBILIZE)
• Anders Grøntved (2016)- Immediate and long-term health risks of excessive screen-based media use (SCREENS)

ERC Advanced Grant

• Tina Kold Jensen (2023) - PFAS exposure; relationship to serum lipids in children and adults, mechanism of action and potential treatment of high exposed individuals (PFAS foreverywhere)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Timothy Bainbridge (2022) - Using Adoptees and Personality to Re-Examine Neighbourhood Effects on Important Life Outcomes (PAN)
• Peter Stillwell (2022) - The price of success: what is the impact of improving patients’ survival on utilisation of care? (PoS)
• Mauro Laudicella (2018) - The price of success: what is the impact of improving patients’ survival on utilisation of care? (PoS)
  

Sapere Aude - Forskningsleder

• Tore Bjerregaard Stage (2023) - Elucidating the elusive molecular mechanism of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
• Amalie Timmerman (2023) - Breastfeeding and environmental chemicals. Can and should all mothers breastfeed
• Anton Pottegaard (2021) - Hypothesis-free screening for adverse events: A new approach in drug safety research
• Ane Fisker (2019) - Data fra virkelighedens verden er nødvendigt for at forbedre vaccinationsprogrammerne
• Ditte Caroline Andersen (2018) - Regeneration af hjertet ved stimulering af hjertemuskelcelledeling (REPHEART)
• Henrik Dimke (2018) - En ny forståelse for magnesium – et glemt og understuderet mineral med mulige helbredende egenskaber

Inge Lehmann

• Louise Kamuk (2022) - The youth sport specialization paradox
• Marleen Kortenoeven (2021) - Regulation of the renal sodium chloride cotransporter and blood pressure by fibroblast growth factor 1 and calcineurin

Emerging Investigator Grant

• Maria Peleli-Pedersen (2022) - Role of the gasotransmitter Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) in Liver Steatosis

Emerging Clinical Investigator Grant

• Karen Schreiber (2022) - Hydroxychloroquine in pregnant women with antiphospholipid antibodies - A multinational European Randomized Controlled Trial (HYPATIA)
• Maja Thiele (2020) - Decision aids and monitoring biomarkers in liver disease (DECIDE)

Distinguished Clinical Investigator

• Jacob Eifer Møller (2023) - Mechanical Circulatory Support in Cardiogenic Shock: From Patient Selection to Myocardial Recovery

Distinguished Investigator Grant within Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine

• Henrik Dimke (2024) – Calcium sensing receptor signaling: molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis in kidney stone disease

Distinguished Investigator Grant within Endocrinology and Metabolism – Nordic Region

• Moustapha Kassem (2021) - Targeting cellular senescence to improve skeletal health in elderly patients with osteoporosis 

Research Infrastructuren

• Mikael Palner - Simultaneous PET and high-field MR preclinical imaging

Ascending Investigator

• Christoph Patrick Beier (2023) - Making age a treatable risk factor for neuronal damage after status epilepticus
• Maria Semkovska (2022) - Dynamic network modelling of depression: towards personalised treatment targets
• Ane Fisker (2019) - From universal health coverage to evidence based vaccination programmes
• Ditte Caroline Andersen (2019) - Repairing the heart through cardiomyocyte proliferation (REPHEART)

LF Fellows

• Alexander Rauch (2020) - Molecular determinants of stromal cell heterogeneity and their impact in bone regenerative therapy
• Tore Bjerregaard Stage (2019) - Does glucose affect expression and activity of drug-metabolising enzymes?

LF Postdocs

• Katrine Pilely (2021) – Bloodstream infections in kidney patients

LF Expeiment

• Anouk Benmamar-Badel (2021) - Can fetal cells repair the maternal central nervous system?

• Agnieszka Wlodarczyk (2019) - Microglia a key to brain rejuvenation

Semper Ardens Accelerate

• Anne Sophie Oxholm (2022) - HOW DOES PHYSICIANS’ WELLBEING IMPACT CARE AND POLICY RESPONSES?

Thematic Projects

• Christine Stabell Benn (2023) – FP2 Providing BCG revaccination with the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine to improve female survival in Africa
• Ellen Tingleff (2023) – FP2 The FSI forensic project: Family Support and Involvement in forensic mental health settings
• Tore Bjerregaard Stage (2023) – FP1 Clinical biomarker of paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy
• Rikke Søgaard (2023) – FP1 The causes and consequences of inequality in severe myocardial infarction: The double-edged sword of centralised, highly specialised care
• Rikke Søgaard (2022) – FP2 Social inequality in cardiovascular disease - what is the role of the health care system?
• Christine Stabell Benn (2022) – FP1 Can live vaccines induce beneficial innate immune training and reduce systemic inflammation in COPD patients? A Danish investigator-initiated trial (COPD-LIVE)
• Morten Frost Nielsen (2022) – FP1 Identifying Individuals at Risk of Glucocorticoid-Induced Impairment of Bone Metabolism

Research Project 1

• Mikkel Højlund (2023) - Exploring the utilization and consequences of psychotropic drug use in individuals with intellectual disability
• Lars Melholt Rasmussen (2023) - The contribution of somatic mutations and clonal cell populations to atherosclerosis
• Joachim Nielsen (2023) - Spatio-temporal regulation of skeletal muscle single fiber glycogen, force, and calcium during work
• Steven Ludeke (2023) - Using adoptees and personality to re-evaluate neighborhood effects
• Tobias Neher (2023) - Speech understanding problems due to early-childhood middle-ear disease: Perceptual mechanisms & hearing-aid solutions
• Helge Thisgaard (2023) - Glioblastoma stem cell eradication by targeted Auger radiotherapy
• Maria Semkovska (2023) - Neurocognitively-enhanced online cognitive behavioural therapy to prevent depression recurrence
• Katrine B. Holm Johansen (2023) - Scandinavian male homosocialities online and sexualized violence (SCANVIO)
• Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (2023) - How do newly arrived refugees experience resettlement? An ethnographic study on refugees’ mental health needs and the system’s effort to meet these needs
• Kaare Christensen (2023) - The importance of familial factors in COVID-19 susceptibility and severity
• Henrik Dimke (2023) - Strategies to Uncover Renal Calcium-Sensing Mechanisms
• Per Svenningsen (2023) - Dynamics of extracellular vesicle signaling in living animals
• Jonas Bloch Thorlund (2022) - A randomised trial of heavy resistance training for patients with symptomatic knee joint hypermobility
• Christine Stabell Benn (2021) - Specific and non-specific effects of measles vaccine for mother and child in Africa
• Tobias Neher (2020) - Speech communication challenges due to reverberation and hearing loss: Perceptual mechanisms and hearing-aid solutions

Research Project 2

• Anders Grøntved (2024) – Limiting digital screen use in young adult peer groups: a randomized experiment on mental health, behavioral patterns, and physiological synchrony
• Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen (2024) - Are Greenlandic children healthy? An epidemiological study investigating the effect of social determinants and adverse childhood experiences on childhood health
• Søren Rud Kristensen (2023) - Is Competition Cost-Effective? The Impact of Choice and Competition on Quality, Costs and Equity in Public Health Care Delivery
• Christine Stabell Benn (2019) - Using BCG vaccine and probiotics to strengthen the immune system in the elderly

Horizon Europe Cluster 1 (Health) 

Coordinators

• Jes Sanddal Lindholt (2022)
• Susanne S. Pedersen (2021)
• Gunnar Baatrup (2021)

Partners

• Dorte Gyrd-Hansen (2022)
• Daniel Ketelhuth (2022)
• Jasper Schipperijn (2022)
• Tina Kold Jensen (2021)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks

• Jasper Schiepperijn (2021) 

NNF Project Grants – Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine  

• Mikkel Green Terp (2023) - Sustained neutrophil-mediated inflammation promotes EGFR-TKI Resistance in NSCLC
• Lasse Bach Steffensen (2023) - Resolving the architecture and pathological impact of mutated clones in human atherosclerosis
• Kate Lykke Lambertsen (2022) - Assessing the efficacy of taming detrimental and boosting pro-regenerative inflammation post-stroke
• Yaseelan Palarasa (2022) - The role of kallistatin polymers and the contact activation system in abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Henrik Dimke (2022) - Understanding the molecular mechanisms of intestinal magnesium transport
• Ditte Caroline Andersen (2021) - Maturation of induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) for heart repair
• Mengliang Zhang (2020)

NNF Project Grants – Clinical and Translational Medicine  

• Boye Lagerborn Jensen (2023) - Are SGLT-2 inhibitors protecting organs by mitigating directly the lectin-pathway of complement system activation?
• Jonas Heilskov Graversen (2023) - HEPANOSTIC – translational research to develop of a novel NON-INVASIVE NASH biomarker enabling diagnosis in the primary sector
• Kaare Christensen (2022) - Clonal hematopoiesis in elderly twins: The role of mosaic chromosomal aberrations
• Marianne Nygaard (2022) - Epigenetic determinants of health in exceptional survivors – a study of Danish centenarians born in 1895, 1905, and 1915
• Trine Munk-Olsen (2021) - Postpartum depression: A triangulation approach to understanding causality and etiology (PACE)
• Henrik Jørn Ditzel (2021) - A novel RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of combined B-Raf/MEK inhibitor resistant melanoma
• Daniel Ketelhuth
• Helle Raun Andersen (2020)

NNF Project Grants – Endocrinology and Metabolism

• Alexander Rauch (2022) - Restoring Energy metabolism in Glucocorticoids Induced Osteoporosis (REGIO)
• Per Aagaard (2020) - Fitness Doping in Denmark (FIDO) novel treatment strategies and somatic and mental health complications with anabolic androgenic steroids
• Per Svenningsen (2020) - Obesity-induced endothelial dysfunction: the protective role of adiponectin activated endothelial-derived exosome secretion