Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials
Supports Danish hospital teams with non-commercial clinical trials to improve patient care.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation's Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials programme funds larger non-commercial clinical trials anchored at Danish hospitals, with the explicit goal of improving patient treatment through rigorous evidence from new medicines, technologies, or care routines. Both monocentric and multicenter national trials are eligible; for multicenter international trials, the coordinati…
Funds larger non-commercial clinical trials with patients in Denmark — randomised and non-randomised — aimed at improving treatment routines through new medicines or technologies, anchored at Danish hospitals.
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