Purpose

With this call, the Novo Nordisk Foundation wishes to support the cardiometabolic research environment in the Nordic countries, while enhancing the use of ‘Danish Center for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes’ (DD2) data, with a particular focus on promoting DD2 to new and external researchers.

The purpose of the call ‘DD2 Research Grant’ is to promote cohort-related research within the field of cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs), while maintaining and improving a unique Danish type 2 diabetes (T2D) resource. Using DD2 data, projects supported by the ‘DD2 Research Grant’ should lead to better understanding, treatment and prevention of T2D complications, its interactions with other CMDs and improved quality of life for people with T2D.

To find out more about the DD2 cohort profile, please refer to: https://dd2.dk/forskning/projektoversigt/projekter/dd2-cohort-profile

Important information
To use DD2 data for a research proposal, you must fill in and send a DD2 protocol which will be evaluated by the DD2 Scientific Advisory Board (https://dd2.dk/om-dd2/scientific-advisory-board).

If you need guidance in connection with the preparation of the protocol, you are welcome to contact research manager Kurt Højlund ([email protected]) and program manager Jens Steen Nielsen
([email protected]).

You can download the protocol template here or you can obtain the protocol template from DD2.

DD2 Symposium

To promote the call, DD2 hosts a symposium on 25 October 2024. The symposium will take place at the Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen in Herlev. Please contact DD2 for more information and to sign up for the symposium: https://dd2.dk/forskning/seminar 

Eligibility

• Projects must be anchored at a hospital, university, or other non-profit research institution in a Nordic country (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden).
• The profile of main applicants may be experienced basic or experimental researchers or clinicians who are in the process of establishing themselves as independent researchers.
• Early-career researchers such as senior PhD’s, postdocs and assistant professors are encouraged to apply.
• Applicants that are new users of DD2 data will be prioritised during the evaluation.
• Master students are not eligible to apply (as main applicant or co-applicant).
• As the aim of the call ‘DD2 Research Grant’ is to enhance the use of the DD2 resource to external researchers, applicants and co-applicants cannot be:
  i) employed by the DD2 organisation or in any way be financially supported by DD2,
  ii) a member of the DD2 Board of Directors, or
  iii) a member of the DD2 Scientific Advisory Board.
• As a main applicant, you may submit only one application for a ‘DD2 Research Grant’ in the same calendar year. If you submit more than one application as a main applicant, only the first application submitted will be evaluated, while any subsequent applications will receive an administrative rejection.