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Committees

Committees

We have established a number of committees that implement the decisions of our Board of Directors to support various types of projects. Our committees are comprised of recognised experts who can assess the quality of the projects we support.

Committee
Members
Committee on the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
7
Committee on the Novo Nordisk Prize
10
Committee on the Novo Nordisk Foundation Teaching Prizes
5
Committee on Society in the Green Transition
6
Committee on Science Education and Outreach
10
Committee on Science Communication and Dialogue
6
Committee on Research in Art and Art History
6
Committee on Plant Science, Agriculture and Food Biotechnology
7
Committee on Nutrition
5
Committee on Nursing Research
5
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Innovation Grants
11
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2026 – Harnessing biology for climate-resilient and healthy soils
8
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2026 – Unravelling the pathways of human invasive fungal diseases
8
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2026 – Modelling of Human Cardiometabolic Disease
8
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2026 – Biological systems under non-equilibrium conditions
8
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2025 – Heterogeneity in biomanufacturing
7
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2025 – The NNF grand AI Challenge
7
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2025 – Ectopic fat and cardiometabolic disease
8
Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2024 – Integrating safety and environmental sustainability impacts of bio-based solutions
8
Committee on Interdisciplinary Research
11
Committee on Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology
7
Committee on Endocrinology and Metabolism
10
Committee on Clinical and Translational Medicine
12
Committee on Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine
12
Committee of Inequity in Health
4
Committee for the Natural and Technical Sciences
9
Committee for Data Science
10