5 November 2021

Two researchers from BMI have been awarded Ascending Investigators Grants

Grant

This year, the Lundbeck Foundation have awarded the Ascending Investigators Grants to 11 researchers. Two of the recipients are Associate Professor Hanne Borger Rasmussen and Professor MSO Signe Sørensen Torekov from the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

The total grant allocation from the Lundbeck Foundation for the Ascending Investigators category is approx. DKK 55 million. Five of the researchers who have been awarded a grant are from the University of Copenhagen, and two of these are from the Department of Biomedical Sciences; namely Associate Professor Hanne Borger Rasmussen and Professor MSO Signe Sørensen Torekov. The 11 researchers each receives about DKK 5 million for research in neuroscience and associated fields.

Associate Professor Hanne Borger Rasmussen receives a research grant worth DKK 5,000,000. Her project uses sophisticated protein analyses to study how a region that acts as gatekeeper for the brain’s electrical activity works more specifically at molecular level. This region (AIS) also plays a role in several neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions

Professor MSO Signe Sørensen Torekov receives a research grant worth DKK 4,898,890. Her project seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the neurobiological factors underlying the development of obesity in the earliest childhood years – and ultimately to enable development of new types of treatment. Statistically, children who become obese in the first years of childhood are at high risk of suffering from obesity in later life.

See all 11 recipients of the Ascending Investigators Grants at the Lundbeck Foundation website