Danish Cancer Institute has received funding of 2.4 million kr. i.e., 225K USD from the Danish National Research Foundation. This funding will be given to Anja viendahl Olsen, working at the Danish Cancer Institute, for her project “Lifestyle behaviour in midlife” where she serves as the Group leader in the Diet, Cancer and Health Group.
With this funding, she is planning to study the effect of lifestyle changes during midlife on our health and how we can what changes we can make to improve our health. With the growing number of cancers and other diseases due to lifestyle changes, we are still unaware of the societal costs it imposes, and since there are very few people doing the treatments while more people require it, so this research would help humanity by suggesting the best lifestyle changes to reduce this burden, said Anja Olsen.
Other than this, Professor Niels Mailand has also received funding of 2.2 million kr., and they will join the Danish Cancer Institute within a year and will work on the project named “Defining the genetic determinants of micronucleus biology”. He is currently working as a Program Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen and his research areas include molecular mechanisms of disease, DNA damage response, and the ubiquitin signaling network in cellular stress responses.
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