Associate professor Ronan Berg receives funding to study how the lungs’ immune defences react to COVID-19
Associate professor Ronan Berg is heading a study on how the lungs’ own immune defences react to COVID-19. The study is one of ten projects that have been granted a total of DKK 20 million under the Lundbeck Foundation’s corona program.
COVID-19 can cause severe pneumonia followed by lung damage. However, as the COVID-19 is a new virus we currently have little knowledge about how it affects the lungs. Ronan Berg and his group will take out fluids from critical ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit and characterize immune cell and neurotransmitters.
The Lundbeck foundation have granted DKK 800,000 for the projects entitled “The lungs’ acute immune response in critical ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection”.
It has only been one and a half weeks since the Lundbeck Foundation made it possible for researchers to apply for a total of DKK 30 million for research projects aimed at the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the first DKK 20 million has been granted.
At the Lundbeck Foundation website, you can see the additional projects that have received funding