Funding

Our research has been supported by major Danish foundations, research councils and collaborative programmes.

Current and recent programmes

Programme Funder Period / note
MitoPort — Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Transport in Metabolic Disease Novo Nordisk Foundation, NERD DKK 13 million; announced 2026
NPlastick — Engineering bacterial pili to remove plastic nanoparticles from water Novo Nordisk Foundation, Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme 2024–2026
PolyNetPep — peptide-functionalized polymeric networks for nanoplastic filtration SDU Climate Cluster / project funding 2025–2027
UCP1 proton-leak mechanism Danish research funding / collaboration 2023–2025

Selected previous funding migrated from the legacy website

  • Lundbeck Foundation Young Investigator Grant — DKK 10 million
  • Novo Nordisk Foundation Synergy Grant — DKK 4 million
  • Villum Foundation Experiment Grant — DKK 1.2 million

SDU Research Portal — projects