Purpose
With the MicroMAX Collaborative Research Grants, the Novo Nordisk Foundation wishes to strengthen the user community at the MicroMAX beamline, which is located at the MAX IV Synchrotron in Lund, Sweden. MicroMAX is a macromolecular crystallography beamline optimised for serial-synchrotron crystallography with time-resolved capabilities, see MicroMAX – MAX IV for further details about the beamline. The goal of the programme is to:
- Facilitate high-quality collaborative research projects at the MicroMAX beamline
- Promote the MicroMAX beamline to a Danish user community while encouraging international collaboration
- Establish expertise within serial synchrotron crystallography anchored at Danish non-profit research organisations
- Educate and train early career researchers within advanced synchrotron crystallography methods that benefit the life science ecosystem
- Advance the MicroMAX beamline’s capabilities, e.g. by the development of instrumentation and/or methods, that will benefit a large group of users
Areas of support
The projects should be within the Foundation’s strategic focuses on biomedicine, health sciences, sustainability, biotechnology, natural and technical sciences, or data science.
Applications within natural, technical, or computational sciences must explicitly describe how the research enabled by the research infrastructure may have potential future applications in health or sustainability.
Eligibility
The main applicant must be affiliated (at least 80% of a full-time position) with a Danish university, hospital or other non-profit organisation (host institution).
1 or 2 co-applicants are required for the application. The co-applicant(s) can be anchored in Denmark or abroad at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution.
At least either the applicant or (one of) the co-applicant(s) must have expertise within synchrotron-based crystallography or closely related method(s).
Please consult the guidelines for detailed eligibility requirements.
Application process
The application must be completed and submitted using the foundation’s application system NORMA that can be accessed via the link “Apply now“.
Please read the Guidelines carefully before initiating the application process. Essential additional information on the call and application process is found here.
