Grant strategy
Grant strategy
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The Lundbeck Foundation, through the awarding of grants, aims to strengthen Danish research of the highest quality in biomedicine and natural sciences.
Neuroscience is a core area within biomedicine, but projects within other areas are also supported. However, the Foundation has reservations in areas where other Danish foundations and institutions have special interests and obligations.
Projects outside the fields of biomedicine and natural sciences are supported only to a very limited degree, normally on the condition that they are of a scientific nature.
The Foundation is committed to maintain and exploit the opportunities and freedom of a private foundation as being independent of special interests and public institutions.
Instruments:
The Lundbeck Foundation supports high-quality research in biomedicine and natural sciences carried out in Denmark or by Danish researchers abroad through a number of instruments:
You can apply for grants to:
• Research projects
• Visiting researchers and travel stipends
• Junior Group Leader Fellowships
• Grants of Excellence in Neuroscience
Research prizes:
The Talent Prize and the Research Prize for Young Scientists cannot be applied for but nominations are accepted from leading scientists at Danish universities.
• Talent Prizes
• Research Prize for Young Scientists
• Nordic Research Prize
All project applications are assessed by one of the Foundation's two International Scientific Advisory Committees (either the committee for medical sciences or the committee for natural sciences).
Assessment of other applications to the Foundation takes place in collaboration with independent external experts according to normally accepted standards of impartiality and competence (read more under Publications and notices).
Re.: Biomedical Sciences
The Lundbeck Foundation divides biomedical research into three levels: basic research, applied (translational / clinical) research and research within epidemiology, health sciences research and prevention of disease.
Basic research is overall perceived as research into disease mechanisms, and consequently applications within this area do not require a topic related focus.
At the applied research and epidemiology level there is greater emphasis on projects focused on neuroscience, either directly or expected in the future.
Re.: Natural Sciences:
Within the natural sciences the Foundation supports non-biological research in chemistry and physics.
The Foundation also supports research within the natural sciences that has topic boundaries to the biomedical area. Such research is assessed by the Foundation's International Scientific Advisory Committee for medical sciences.
Support for research:
The Lundbeck Foundation's overriding criterion for granting research funds is solely based on the quality of the research. This relates to the quality of the project's scientific content, the applicant's 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 financial resources to a small number of projects, rather than small amounts to a large number of projects.
Results achieved from the awarding of grants are monitored and evaluated.
General guidelines / conditions:
The recruitment of scientists is supported through the granting of scholarships and Ph.D. stipends, in addition to projects that stimulate interest in biomedicine and natural sciences in general. Scholarships are awarded only for research, though not when the research is an integral part of an education.
Project support is provided in the form of salaries for academic staff (eg. Post doc.) technical personnel and to a lesser degree to project relevant equipment.
As a rule, the Foundation places no restrictions on the patenting or commercialisation of research results from project grants.
Research projects conducted by private businesses and trials of commercial drug candidates are not supported.
Revised October 2009