{"id":12833,"date":"2024-12-16T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/?p=12833"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:26:45","slug":"15-pioneering-skin-research-projects-receive-leo-foundation-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2024\/12\/16\/15-pioneering-skin-research-projects-receive-leo-foundation-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"15 pioneering skin research projects receive LEO Foundation grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
15 talented skin researchers have been awarded a LEO Foundation Research Grant in Open Competition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 16 December 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the third and final round of 2024, the LEO Foundation awards 15 international scientists with a research grant. The funding \u2013 totaling just over DKK 56 million (EUR 7.5 million)\u2013 supports cutting-edge research in the field of skin research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The grantees, representing a diverse geographic spread, hail from institutions such as University College London, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, the Technical University of Denmark and Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe LEO Foundation is proud to support the best skin research projects worldwide that further our knowledge of the skin and its diseases. We aim to improve the lives of millions of people living with skin diseases \u2013 and we believe that scientific findings from these cutting-edge projects will pave the way to do exactly that,\u201d says Anne-Marie Engel, Chief Scientific Officer at the LEO Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe LEO Foundation awards DKK 56 million to 15 research projects that will improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of skin diseases and their symptoms. This latest round of Research Grants in Open Competition saw the highest number of applications in the Foundation\u2019s history.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n