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Committee on Clinical and Translational Medicine

The Committee on Clinical and Translational Medicine implements the Board of the Foundation’s granting decisions for the support of fellowships and project grants in the fields of clinical, translational research in Denmark.

The Board has decided to grant DKK 330 million annually, via the applications evaluated by the Committee on Clinical and Translational Medicine. The grant budget is allocated to project grants (DKK 50 million), Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials (DKK 80 million), Clinical Accelerator Programme CAP (DKK 60 million), 10 Clinical Investigator grants (DKK 100 million), and Tandem programmes in translational research (DKK 40 million), per year.

The Committee on Clinical and Translational Medicine was established in 2017, but originates in the Committee on Medical and Natural Sciences Research that was established in 1959. The Board of the Foundation appoints the Chair as well as the other members in accordance with the general rules for the Foundation’s committees.

The current members of the Committee are listed below.

Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen

Chairman

Professor, Consultant, Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Has been a member since 2015. Chair since 2020.

Lars Køber

Member

Professor, Department of Cardiology, Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Has been a member since August 2017

Claus Nerlov

Member

Professor, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Has been a member since 2018

Kaare Christensen

Member

Professor and consultant, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital, Denmark
Has been a member since 2019

Anders Juul

Member

Professor, consultant, head of department, Department of Growth and Reproduction & EDMaRC, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Has been a member since July 2019

Lou Brundin

Member

Professor in Neuroimmunology, Neurologist, Scientific Director Neuro, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Has been a member since 2020

Henrik Zetterberg

Member

Professor Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Has been a member since January 2021

Kristina Hermann Haugaa

Member

Professor Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Has been a member since January 2021

Bjørn Tore Gjertsen

Member

Professor Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Has been a member since January 2021

Helle Krogh Johansen

Member

Professor and consultant
Department for Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Has been a member since September 2022

Maarit Venermo

Member

Professor and head of Vascular Surgery , Helsinki Central University Hospital, Finland
Has been a member since 2023

Jörn M. Schattenberg

Member

MD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
University Medical Center Mainz, Germany
Has been a member since September 2022