Project Grants in Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine

Project Grants in Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine provide competitive research funding to support high international level projects that advance fundamental knowledge relevant to understanding the human organism and basal mechanisms underlying human health and disease. The call supports research within bioscience and basic biomedicine, including areas such as molecular and cell biology, bioinformatics, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, biophysics, biochemistry and biostatistics. Grants are awarded for project periods of 1 to 3 years. A specific portion of the budget is reserved for a strategic theme on microbiota–host interactions.

Project funding of DKK 1,000,000–4,500,000 per grant over 1–3 years; access to foundation grant management support.

The administrating institution and the main applicant must be anchored in a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark, and the research activities applied for must take place at such an institution in Denmark.

Applicants must read the 2026 guidelines and follow the detailed instructions in the call; applications are submitted through the foundation's grants application pages as described in the guidelines.