Eight researchers at Health receive almost DKK 23 million for patient-oriented research
Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded grants totalling DKK 127.3 million, nearly 23 million of which is going to eight of the faculty’s researchers, working in areas as diverse as psychiatry, fertility, heart disease and arthritis.
Researchers from Health are behind eight of the 56 original and luminous ideas in the field of patient-oriented, clinical and independent research for which Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has just awarded grants. The almost DKK 23 million that the eight researchers from the faculty will collectively receive will benefit patients and treatment within the following areas:
- Professor Annette de Thurah of the Department of Clinical Medicine will receive DKK 2,878,681 for her research into nursing-driven telehealth interventions targeted at patients with gout.
- Professor Inger Mechlenburg of the Department of Clinical Medicine will receive DKK 2,877,833 for her studies of the training and treatment of patients with knee and hip arthritis.
- Associate Professor Kresten Krarup Keller of the Department of Clinical Medicine will receive DKK 2,839,100 for his research into prednisolone treatment for patients with muscle arthritis.
- Professor Søren Dinesen Østergaard of the Department of Clinical Medicine will use his grant of DKK 2,437,632 for a research project on the measurement of schizophrenia symptoms in young people suffering from psychotic disorders.
- Professor Henrik Wiggers of the Department of Clinical Medicine will receive DKK 2,802,614 to examine whether lactic acid given as an infusion or beverage has a beneficial effect on the hearts of patients with chronic heart failure.
- Associate Professor Ellen Margrethe Mikkelsen of the Department of Clinical Medicine will receive a grant of DKK 2,879,136 to investigate whether stress and poor sleep affect the risk of spontaneous abortion.
- Associate Professor Christian Wejse of the Department of Public Health and the Department of Clinical Medicine will use his grant of DKK 2,869,920 to investigate whether chronic worm infection has an impact on the effect of vaccination programmes in low-income countries.
- Clinical professor Christian Højbjerg Gravholt from Department of Clinical Medicine receives a grant of DKK 2,880,000 to examine the genetics of the testicular tissue in a number of men with azoospermia.
Several of the researchers are also affiliated with Aarhus University Hospital.
With the award, DFF wishes to support experiments and studies in areas where there is limited commercial interest or opportunities to obtain external funding, e.g. from other foundations.
This report is based on press material from Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Edited on 6 October 2022: Claus Gravholt is added to the list of recipients