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Preventing and managing cardiometabolic diseases

Although essentially preventable, cardiometabolic diseases are becoming increasingly common. We want to break this pattern by supporting new ways of understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating these diseases – including precision medicine approaches – and ensure solutions are cost-effective, equitable, and patient-centred. 

Our goals are to:

  • Strengthen understanding of cardiometabolic disease mechanisms 
  • Promote, develop, and facilitate data access and use 
  • Ensure equitable prevention and disease management solutions 
  • Improve understanding of the impact of prevention and disease management 

Projects and initiatives we have supported

Preventing and managing cardiometabolic diseases

Steno Diabetes Centers – prevention and treatment of diabetes

The aim of the Steno Diabetes Centers is to establish the optimal framework for preventing and treating diabetes and other related diseases.

Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (DDEA)

The academy's purpose is to strengthen the quality of Danish diabetes and endocrine research and research education.

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease

With a USD 47.5 million commitment over a five-year period, the Foundation supported the establishment of a centre for genomic research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston (US).

Centre for Childhood Health

In 2022, the Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded a grant towards the establishment of a new centre focusing on healthy weight among children.

REACT

Preventing cardiovascular disease through early detection

Microbiome Health Initiative

Do bacteria in our gut play a role in cardiometabolic disease?

Partnership for Education of Health Professionals (PEP)

With the Partnership for Education of Health Professionals (PEP), the Novo Nordisk Foundation takes a step towards reducing inequity in health by strengthening the education of nurses and other key health professionals in India, Kenya, and East Africa.

Lighthouse Consortium on Obesity Management (LightCOM)

Strengthened effort targeting diabetes and other lifestyle-related diseases in Greenland

The initiative aims to ensure that people with diabetes and other lifestyle-related diseases can be offered research-based treatment and prevention of the highest quality, regardless of where they live in Greenland.

Strategic partnership to fight noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania

The project seeks to improve access to treatment, as well as enhance disease prevention and health education, of noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania.