Borregaard Clinical Ascending Investigator

The Borregaard Clinical Ascending Investigator is a five-year individual research grant to promote and strengthen Danish clinical and translational research and to support the development of clinical research leaders. Grants support patient- and disease-related research including translational and clinical studies, intervention studies, register-based research, proof-of-concept studies and initial clinical trials. The grant is anchored at a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit research institution and the applicant must be a clinically active medical doctor with a PhD or dr. med. degree.

Research funding up to DKK 11,000,000 for five years; funding for a qualified substitute salary (up to DKK 1.6 million per budget year); individual grant at the disposal of the applicant.

Applicants must be medical doctors and should have a Ph.D. or a dr. med. degree, be qualified specialist physicians employed in full-time clinical positions at a Danish hospital, and should be at the associate professor level or have similar qualifications. Professors (including clinical professors) cannot apply; applicants must have institutional support from heads of both the clinical department and the department where the research is to be performed, and applicants’ own salary must be covered throughout the 5-year project period.

Applicants must upload required institutional support letters and follow the guidelines document.