Standalone grants

Grant category: Standalone grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

This grant will support BIOSKIN 2.0, enabling the continuation of BIOSKIN (The Copenhagen Translational Skin Immunology Biobank and Research Program) at the Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital. The program focuses on translational research by expanding analysis of longitudinal patient data and patient samples, integrating advanced skin immunology and omics technologies and including the establishment of a comprehensive data biobank. The overall aim is to identify new prognostic biomarkers and targets for improved treatment of some of the most common inflammatory skin diseases.

Grant category: Standalone grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Innovation District Copenhagen (IDC) is a newly established association aimed at building a strong international innovation environment in Copenhagen. The initiative brings together research, education, and industry with a shared focus on translating knowledge into solutions that create societal value.

Grant category: Standalone grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

The goal of DREAM (Dermatology Research Across Multiple Disciplines) is to unravel the complex mechanisms linking chronic inflammatory and autoimmune skin diseases to systemic complications. By identifying key factors that predict disease progression and multi-organ involvement, the aim is to enhance our ability to forecast individual disease trajectories.

The overall vision of DREAM is to uncover and solve leading research questions in dermatological and associated diseases using a systems medicine approach.

Grant category: Standalone grants

Year: 2025

Geography: Denmark

Through this grant the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center is expanding its scientific and technological capabilities by incorporating three new areas of expertise:

• Spatial transcriptomics (in collaboration with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR))
• Establishment of an animal facility for “wildlings”  – a special type of laboratory mice that contain a – controlled – level of microorganisms which make them more akin to real-world animals and provides a more natural model, in particular for interactions with and responses from the immune system.
• Establishment of advanced 3D skin models for experiments building on genetic manipulation of specific cell types from the skin.

Each area is carefully selected to strengthen the center’s focus on performing frontier research within barrier immunology.