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The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded DKK 60 million each to five researchers from Rigshospitalet, the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark for ambitious projects that address global challenges within health...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation will help researchers to improve understanding of how gut microbiota affect our health by awarding nearly DKK 60 million to focus on an insufficiently explored theme within research on diet...

The Foundation is providing DKK 120 million for research that will make crops more resilient to plant diseases and climate change. A growing population coupled with a need to reduce the impact of food...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded DKK 120 million for research on persistent bacterial infections and the potential transmission of the influenza A virus from pigs to people. The research will enhance understanding of...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is opening for applications for the Challenge Programme 2020 on 14 October. DKK 480 million is earmarked research within healthcare, biotechnology, and – as something new – natural and technical...

Advancing biomass utilization and biosustainability requires improving understanding of the microbial degradation of plant biomass. Through its Challenge Programme, the Novo Nordisk Foundation will help by supporting research on microbial secretomes and the plant...

As part of its Challenge Programme, the Novo Nordisk Foundation will support research on the development of quantum simulators. Overcoming the limitations of today’s computers through quantum-based simulation holds the potential to transform computing,...

As part of its Challenge Programme, the Novo Nordisk Foundation will support research on neurodegenerative diseases, with a focus on the metabolic aspects of these diseases. Millions of people worldwide have neurodegenerative diseases such...

A growing worldwide demand for food and biomass and parallel goals on reducing CO2 emissions and the use of fossil fuels significantly strain global ecosystems. As part of its Challenge Programme, the Novo Nordisk...

Page 1 of every genetics textbook states that the molecular machinery inside cells transforms the information from DNA into functioning proteins. Reality is, however, not nearly that simple, because numerous auxiliary proteins help to...