Purpose
With the present call ‘Tandem Programme’ The Novo Nordisk Foundation wishes to strengthen and support Danish translational health research of high international quality. Collaborative project applications from one basic and one clinical researcher, that seek to stimulate the transition of basic research to clinical practice and vice versa are invited.
Eligibility
- The project must be anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark.
- The main applicant must have his/her primary employment at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark (minimum 75%).
The co-applicant can be anchored in Denmark or abroad.
- Only applications where one basic and one clinical researcher (must see patients) establish a cross-disciplinary collaboration will be considered for funding. In this context, a clinical researcher is defined as a person with clinical responsibilities doing patient-centered research.
- It is crucial that the equal collaboration between the main- and co-applicant is very clear from the application and from the budget. The budget must be equally split (60/40% is also accepted) between main- and co-applicant, otherwise it can lead to an administrative rejection.
- The main applicant can be either the basic researcher or the clinical researcher.
- The clinical researcher must be active in the clinic and have current clinical responsibilities, i.e. not be employed in a full-time research position.
- The grant cannot cover the salaries for the main- and co-applicant. Therefore, the main- and co-applicant must be guaranteed his or her salaries for the entire applied project period.
- Both the main applicant and the co-applicant must receive a defined part of the grant budget, and this must be detailed in the application budget, and it must be clear from the application, how the project collaboration is ensured, and the work is distributed.
- The applied project must be of 4 years duration.
Applications from ph.d. students and postdocs that carry out research under supervision, and applications where ph.d. students or postdocs are named as co-applicants will not be considered.
Research field
One basic scientist and one clinical scientist must apply together for a project, which is clinically relevant, cross-disciplinary, and translational in nature, to catalyse improved treatment or diagnosis of patients, or understanding of underlying disease mechanisms. It is expected that to two applicants take equal part in the project.
Funding
A total of up to DKK 52 million is available for grants between DKK 11,000,000 and DKK 13.000,000 for grants lasting four (4) years.
Up to four 4-year Tandem Programme grants are available for funding.
Application process
The application must be completed and submitted using the foundation’s electronic application system, using the link “Send application”. Link is found at the top of the page and will be visible when the call opens.
It is very important that the applicant carefully reads the application guidelines before initiating the application process. This document contains the complete call as well as detailed instructions for the application process.
