{"id":13582,"date":"2025-11-18T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:26:48","slug":"four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n

Ann-Marie Schoos, Xiang Zheng, Sigr\u00fan Schmidt and Hans Christian Ring<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

18 November 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Original ideas need support to become groundbreaking research. The LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships help promising young skin researchers advance and devote time and resources to the realization of an original research plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s Fellows were selected for the program through a rigorous review process, combining external peer review with personal interviews. This approach ensures an evaluation of each project\u2019s scientific excellence, and at the same time assesses the applicants\u2019 ambition, leadership potential, and plans for building a strong research group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2025 Fellows and their projects are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann-Marie Schoos: \u201cUnraveling the Gut-Skin-Epigenome Axis: A Multi-Omics Approach to Early-Life Atopic Dermatitis\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiang Zheng: \u201cMultiplexed Imaging-Powered Deep Visual Proteomics for Precision Dermatology\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigr\u00fan Schmidt: \u201cLeveraging Real-World Data for Dermato-Epidemiological Research of Bullous Pemphigoid and Lichen Planus in Denmark\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hans Christian Ring: \u201cThe Unraveling of the Cutaneous Microbiome in the Pathogenesis of Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Potential Treatment Option\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each Dr Abildgaard Fellow receives DKK 12 million over 5 years to establish a research group for their project at a Danish host institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne-Marie Engel, Chief Scientific Officer at the LEO Foundation, says about the 2025 Dr Abildgaard Fellows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeen together, their projects offer a glimpse into the future of skin research. Rooted in dermatology their projects connect to the fields of pediatrics, epidemiology, and microbiology. There is a variety in their academic grounding and scientific approaches, but the four new Fellows share important qualities: They all try out innovative methodologies and collaborate broadly with other institutions and colleagues with different skillsets than their own. They have already demonstrated great potential in their careers so far, and through this program, we believe that they are given the opportunity to significantly impact their respective skin research communities \u2013 ultimately to the benefit of patients living with skin diseases.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet the Fellows and explore their stories here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
Ann-Marie Schoos<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Xiang Zheng<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
Sigr\u00fan Schmidt<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Hans Christian Ring<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFour new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LEO Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-18T08:19:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-18T08:26:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"line\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"line\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"line\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a917cfcd7db68bb9fd9e612fb95142\"},\"headline\":\"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-18T08:19:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-18T08:26:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\"},\"wordCount\":360,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\",\"name\":\"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-18T08:19:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-18T08:26:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a917cfcd7db68bb9fd9e612fb95142\"},\"description\":\"Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/\",\"name\":\"LEO Foundation\",\"description\":\"LEO Foundation\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a917cfcd7db68bb9fd9e612fb95142\",\"name\":\"line\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d26ff5abb7672b114d0119683598cb1006932391d3f80b96d2b26c7788441eb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d26ff5abb7672b114d0119683598cb1006932391d3f80b96d2b26c7788441eb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d26ff5abb7672b114d0119683598cb1006932391d3f80b96d2b26c7788441eb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"line\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups","description":"Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups","og_description":"Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.","og_url":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/","og_site_name":"LEO Foundation","article_published_time":"2025-11-18T08:19:22+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-11-18T08:26:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"line","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"line","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/"},"author":{"name":"line","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a917cfcd7db68bb9fd9e612fb95142"},"headline":"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups","datePublished":"2025-11-18T08:19:22+00:00","dateModified":"2025-11-18T08:26:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/"},"wordCount":360,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/","url":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/","name":"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png","datePublished":"2025-11-18T08:19:22+00:00","dateModified":"2025-11-18T08:26:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a917cfcd7db68bb9fd9e612fb95142"},"description":"Announcing the LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowships for 2025: Four researchers are awarded DKK 12 million each to complete a new 5-year project within skin research.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Dr-Abildgaard-Fellowships-2025.png","width":1200,"height":628},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/four-new-dr-abildgaard-fellows-to-establish-their-own-skin-research-groups\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Four new Dr Abildgaard Fellows to establish their own skin research groups"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/","name":"LEO Foundation","description":"LEO Foundation","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6a917cfcd7db68bb9fd9e612fb95142","name":"line","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d26ff5abb7672b114d0119683598cb1006932391d3f80b96d2b26c7788441eb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d26ff5abb7672b114d0119683598cb1006932391d3f80b96d2b26c7788441eb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d26ff5abb7672b114d0119683598cb1006932391d3f80b96d2b26c7788441eb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"line"}}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"LEO Foundation","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13659,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions\/13659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leo-foundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}