Grant Strategy

Purpose:

The Lundbeck Foundation is a commercial foundation that aims to significantly improve people’s health and lives by supporting research at the highest level within biomedicin and the natural sciences and with a connection to Denmark. Focus is on research into neuroscience, psychiatry and allergology/immune modulation as well as the internationalization of research with a connection to Denmark.

The Foundation, with its grants:

• Supports independent research at the highest level

   within biomedicin and the natural sciences focusing

   on young researchers and research within 
   neuroscience, psychiatry and allergology/immune
   modulation.

• Promotes research internationalization by
   specifically supporting collaboration between
   leading Danish and internationl research groups.

• Motivates, inspires and recognizes research talent
   by awarding research prizes and fellowships.

Grants are divided into:

• Project support for independent biomedical and
   natural science research, awarded through open
   competition.

• Strategic areas with a special focus on
   groundbreaking research, as identified by the
   Foundation’s Board of Trustees, and implemented
   via specific programmes.

Research grants:

The Lundbeck Foundation’s overriding criterion for granting research money is based on the quality of the research. This relates to the quality of the application’s scientific content, the applicants qualifications and to the host institution’s academic focus on high quality.

The general aim is to award grants that make a difference. Thus, the Foundation devotes relatively large financia resources to a small number of projects, rather than small amounts to a large number of project.

The Lundbeck Foundation supports research within biomedicine and the natural sciences with a connection to Denmark.

Projects outside the fields of biomedicine and natural sciences are supported only to a very limited degree, if they are of a scientific nature.