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Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2025 – Interactions of Infectious and Cardiometabolic Disease

The Committee implements the Board of the Foundation’s decision to award the Foundation’s Challenge Programme grants that supports research within annually decided research themes.
In 2025 the theme is: Interactions of Infectious and Cardiometabolic Diseases.

The Board has established a grant budget of DKK 360 million for the entire Challenge Programme in 2025, for large programme grants, each of DKK 30-60 million.

The Board selects the committee members among international experts in the fields of the annual research theme in accordance with the general rules covering the Foundation’s committees.

The current members of the Committee are listed below.

Reinout van Crevel

Chair

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Moffat Nyirenda

Member

Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Malin A K Flodström-Tullberg

Member

Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Geltrude Mingrone

Member

Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy / King's College London, United Kingdom

Julia Alison Critchley

Member

Professor, University of London, United Kingdom

Thomas Fredy Baumert

Member

Professor, University of Strasbourg, France

Oliver Söhnlein

Member

Professor, University of Münster, Germany