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Novo Nordisk Foundation The vision of the Novo Nordisk Foundation is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is an enterprise foundation with philanthropic objectives, established in Denmark in 1924. Our vision is to improve people’s health and contribute to the sustainability of society and the planet. Through strategic grant giving, partnerships, and long-term investments, the Foundation seeks to generate impact that benefits both current and future generations. Community guidelines
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16/10/2026

Global food systems are under increasing pressure. Rising populations and a changing climate are making it harder to feed the world, and harder still to nourish it. The challenge is not simply how to produce more food, but how to produce sufficient and nutritious food while using less land and reducing environmental impact.

New breeding technologies have the potential to accelerate the development of climate-resilient crops, helping farmers adapt to changing conditions and bringing scientific advances more quickly into farmers’ fields.

Through our support for organisations such as CIMMYT and ICRISAT, we are helping advance the science needed to build more resilient food systems, improve nutrition and strengthen food security.

14/10/2026

School meals do more than feed children. When well designed, they can contribute to the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes later in life.

One reason is that the school-age years are a critical window, when food preferences and lifelong habits take shape.

A new white paper from the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, highlights the potential of school meals programmes to improve diets and support lifelong health.

Go to the website of the School Meals Coalition to read the white paper: https://schoolmealscoalition.org/school-meals-and-non-communicable-disease-prevention-across-life-course-working-paper

01/10/2026

Professor Kei Sakamoto of the University of Copenhagen has been awarded the 2026 EASD–Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence. His research has helped uncover how working muscle can still take up glucose when insulin signalling is impaired, and revealed an important part of how metformin – one of the world’s most widely used medicines for type 2 diabetes – lowers blood glucose.

Read more: https://novonordiskfoundationprize.com/news/kei-sakamoto-receives-2026-diabetes-prize-for-uncovering-what-still-works-when-insulin-falters

Over the past five years, researchers in Denmark and at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have been working togethe...
01/10/2026

Over the past five years, researchers in Denmark and at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have been working together to better understand the biology behind obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Their collaboration has led to new tools, datasets, and insights into how genetic variants influence cells and disease.

Now, with renewed support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, researchers will use AI and advanced technologies to take this work even further.

Learn more: https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/one-centre-two-continents-new-insights-into-disease/

29/09/2026

Every year, cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading cause of death.

What if something as simple as potassium could help prevent some of the most dangerous heart rhythm disturbances?

In a recent Danish randomised trial, researchers found that a modest increase in potassium levels, still within the normal range, reduced the risk of life-threatening arrhythmias by around 25% among high-risk patients with implanted defibrillators.

The finding challenges the assumption that "normal" potassium levels are always optimal. It also highlights how small biological adjustments may have important consequences for heart health and prevention.

17/09/2026

As a child growing up on a farm in Kenya, Damaris A. Odeny witnessed first-hand the impact of crop failure on farming families. Today, that experience drives her work as a genomics scientist at ICRISAT, helping develop crops that can better withstand a changing climate while improving nutrition for the communities that depend on them.

At the Novo Nordisk Foundation, we support research and partnerships that advance science to produce nutritious food with minimal land use and environmental impact.

15/09/2026

A quarter-century of research led Australian scientists to a major breakthrough: growing blood stem cells in the lab that closely match those in the human body.

Researchers at the Melbourne node of reNEW, based at Murdoch Children's Research Institute, made the discovery in 2024. It could pave the way for personalised blood stem cell transplants, matched to each patient's own cells rather than a donor's, reducing the risk of complications for children and adults living with leukaemia and bone marrow failure disorders.

It's also a reminder of why long-term, sustained investment in basic research matters. Without it, breakthroughs like this don't happen.

Early detection can be the difference between a straightforward treatment and a life-changing diagnosis. Dermloop enable...
10/09/2026

Early detection can be the difference between a straightforward treatment and a life-changing diagnosis.

Dermloop enables GPs to capture dermoscopic images using a smartphone and dermatoscope and share them securely with dermatologists for rapid assessment.

More than 75,000 digital skin assessments have been completed.

In 2025 this contributed to more than 10,000 fewer physical referrals to dermatologists.

Developed through BETA.HEALTH, supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Read more here: https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/from-weeks-to-hours-how-dermloop-brings-specialist-care-closer-to-patients/

And discover more about how our work benefits both people and the planet here: https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/our-impact/

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