Clinical Distinguished Investigator

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Grant Name

Funder

Novo Nordisk Fonden

Country or Region

Denmark

Research Field

Clinical Research or Studies

Disease

Epidemiology

Family Medicine

Medical Intervention Methods

Medical Treatment

Patient Care Planning

Public Health

Deadline

January 12, 2022 (Expired)

Grant Size

Upper 5,000,000 kr.DKK Each grant runs over 5 years and can be up to DKK 10 million in total over the 5 years. Approximately DKK 2 million per budget year can be allocated to project related expenses. Up to two Clinical Distinguished Investigator Grants will be awarded in 2021.

Contact Info

Ursula Bach, Senior Grant Manager urba@novo.dk

Kristian Winge, Senior Scientific Manager, PhD KWI@novo.dk

Eligibility

- The project must be a 5-year project and it must be anchored at a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit research institution.
- Applicants must have an MD and should have a Ph.D. or a dr. med. or similar qualifications.
- Applicants must be clinical professors. Applications can, in rare circumstances, be accepted from applicants who have been evaluated and found to be professor-qualified but is not yet in a clinical professor position.
- Applicants must remain associated with clinical work / have clinical responsibilities throughout the entire 5-year grant period and it is expected that the applicant will spend between 20-50% of their time in the clinic, while 50-80% time can be spent on research.
- A Clinical Distinguished Investigator grant cannot be used to cover substitute replacement salary for neither clinical nor teaching obligations of the applicant, as the continued commitment of the applicant to both is considered of great importance.
- Applicants must have institutional support from the heads of both the clinical department and the department where the research is to be performed.

Description

To strengthen Danish clinical and translational research at the highest international level, the Novo Nordisk Foundation seeks to support excellent clinically active research leaders at professor level with ambitious and clinically relevant 5-year research projects.The overall goal is to support medical research with relevance to patients and human health. The research fields could be within, but are not limited to: Patients and disease related research, translational and clinical research, research in: disease mechanisms; treatment methods; disease trajectories, epidemiology; diagnostic methods; public health and family medicine, intervention studies, register-based research, proof-of concept studies, pilot projects, initial clinical trials and clinical testing, biomedicine etc. Eligibility - The project must be a 5-year project and it must be anchored at a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit research institution.
- Applicants must have an MD and should have a Ph.D. or a dr. med. or similar qualifications.
- Applicants must be clinical professors. Applications can, in rare circumstances, be accepted from applicants who have been evaluated and found to be professor-qualified but is not yet in a clinical professor position.
- Applicants must remain associated with clinical work / have clinical responsibilities throughout the entire 5-year grant period and it is expected that the applicant will spend between 20-50% of their time in the clinic, while 50-80% time can be spent on research.
- A Clinical Distinguished Investigator grant cannot be used to cover substitute replacement salary for neither clinical nor teaching obligations of the applicant, as the continued commitment of the applicant to both is considered of great importance.
- Applicants must have institutional support from the heads of both the clinical department and the department where the research is to be performed.

Website

https://novonordiskfonden.dk/da/grants/clinical-distinguished-investigator/

Funding resources
Novo Nordisk Foundation Code of Conduct	Download File
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link