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Dato
19.03.2012
Record-breaking grant: New research project to investigate the causes of mental disorders
Causes for mental disorders will now be thoroughly investigated. A new grant – the largest sum ever awarded to a Danish research team in this field – will support Danish researchers in their pursuit of understanding mental disorders. The project may also lead to new prevention and treatment methods.
Dato
12.03.2012
Two European neuroscientists awarded the € 1 million BRAIN PRIZE 2012 for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness
The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation announced today that The Brain Prize 2012 is jointly awarded to Christine Petit and Karen Steel:
Dato
07.02.2012
Seed Partner
The Lundbeck Foundation is expanding its activities and establishing start up financing for selected new Danish life science projects. We are seeking a partner with industrial and operational experience combined with solid academic background to be a partner in this program.
Dato
18.01.2012
Research talent price to bright young talent
Light is life-giving. Emission of absorbed light, or fluorescence, has given life to young scientist’s career. The Lundbeck Foundation has awarded the 30-year-old post.doc. Thomas Just Sørensen, Keble College, Oxford University and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen the Talent Prize for younger scientists. The prize is a personal award of 100.000 DKK (approx. £11.000).
Dato
22.09.2011
Professor Eske Willerslev's research team identifies the world's first explorers
In an exciting development, an international team of researchers have, for the first time, pieced together the human genome from an Aboriginal Australian. The results, now to be published in the international journal Science, re-interpret the prehistory of our species.
Dato
25.08.2011
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr receives 10 million kroner to research the mysteries of particle physics
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, a physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute, has been awarded 10 million kroner by the Lundbeck Foundation for the establishment of his own research group, which will study the mysteries of high energy physics by building a bridge between theoretical physics and experiments currently taking place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Dato
31.05.2011
Professor Mikael Rørth appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lundbeck Foundation
Dato
28.04.2011
The Lundbeck Foundation increases its ownership of Falck from 36% to 58%
The Lundbeck Foundation, KIRKBI and the members of Falck’s Executive Management Board become principal shareholders of Falck and Nordic Capital Fund V (“Nordic Capital”) sells all its shares in Falck.
Dato
07.03.2011
The Lundbeck Foundation reports a profit of DKK 2,7 billion
In 2010 the Lundbeck Foundation obtained a profit of DKK 2.7 billion (€ 362 million) which is the second best result since its establishment in 1954.