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Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Challenge Programme 2022 – Energy Materials for Biological Applications

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 2022 the theme within Natural & Technical Sciences is:

Energy harvesting, transforming, or storage materials with potential use for bioelectronic devices – enabling next generation wearable or implantable health technologies

The Board has established a grant budget of DKK 360 million for the entire Challenge Programme in 2022, 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.

Oliver G. Schmidt

Chair

Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Roisin Owens

Member

Professor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kristina Edström

Member

Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

Massimo De Vittorio

Member

Professor, University of Salento / Instituto Italiano di Technologia, Italy

Sergey Shleev

Member

Professor, Malmö University, Sweden

Esther Rodriguez-Villegas

Member

Professor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom