[ LEO Foundation – Open Competition Grants | Research funding in dermatology ]

The LEO Foundation is one of Denmark’s largest commercial foundations. Established in 1984, its main objective is to ensure the long-term independence and success of the global, research-based pharmaceutical company LEO Pharma.
 
LEO Foundation Open competition grants support the best dermatology research projects worldwide that:

• Improve the understanding of the underlying medicinal, biological, chemical, or pharmacological mechanisms of dermatological diseases and their symptoms.
• Address clinical issues among people who are at risk of developing, or have developed, a skin disease, including how it impacts their quality of life and the societal costs involved.

• Projects involving commercial companies.
• Projects involving commercial drug testing.
• Clinical trials and register-based studies testing medical compounds.

• Do NOT disclose any confidential or IP-related information in your application.
• Open access mandatory for results funded by the foundation.

• Budget must be prepared in DKK.
• Eligible costs: salary for PhD students, other project-related costs, 5% overhead.
• Does NOT cover: graduate students, other salaries if funding has been secured, meetings, courses, passive attendance at conferences, travel by several persons from the same research unit or department.