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Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2026 – Modelling of Human 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 2026 the theme is: Modelling of Human Cardiometabolic Disease.

The Board has established a grant budget of DKK 600 million for the entire Challenge Programme in 2026, for large programme grants, each of DKK 40-75 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.

Milica Radisic

Chair

Professor, Cell & Tissue Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

Matthias Hebrok

Committee Member

Professor for Applied Stem Cell and Organoid Systems, Helmholtz Munich, Technical University Munich, Germany

Eckhard Wolf

Committee Member

Professor, Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Paul Morris

Committee Member

Senior Clinical Lecturer, Cardiology, University of Sheffield, UK

Francesca Spagnoli

Committee Member

Professor, Regenerative Medicine, King's College, London, UK

Seung-Woo Cho

Committee Member

Associate Dean, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Calum MacRae

Committee Member

Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA

Molly Stevens

Committee Member

Professor, Bionanoscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, UK