Lower Saxony's Ministry of Science and the Volkswagen Foundation are funding medical research with 20 million euros
07.11.2023 17:52
With two new calls for proposals, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation are promoting research into personalized medicine and health care. Up to 20 million euros are available for this from the joint zukunft.niedersachsen program.
“Healthy living is highly relevant for our future well-being. The first two measures in the area of medical research focus on important decisions in our healthcare system. On the one hand, it's about individual therapeutic approaches for various diseases, and on the other hand, we are looking for the best solutions to ensure high-quality medical care for people close to home, even in a rapidly changing health system," says Lower Saxony's Minister for Science and Culture, Falko Mohrs.
New questions in personalized medicine in prevention, diagnostics or therapy
Personalized medicine looks at the basic genetic requirements and living conditions of the person being treated and thereby promises the best possible care with the fewest possible side effects. The call for proposals “New questions in personalized medicine in prevention, diagnostics or therapy” is aimed at researchers in the areas of biomedicine, biotechnology and data science, for example. Collaborative and individual projects are funded with up to four million euros for five years. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2024. More information: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/personalized-medicine
New socio-medical impulses for health services research: intersectionality, gender and diversity research
How is every person treated in the best possible and safest way when they become ill? Which services help with which treatment? Health services research examines these questions. The second call for proposals “New socio-medical impulses for health care research: intersectionality, gender and diversity research” is aimed at scientists in social medicine, nursing sciences, sociology, gender and diversity research and related sciences. Collaborative and individual projects are funded with up to four million euros for five years. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2024. More information: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/sorgesforschung
“Personalized medicine and health services research are good examples of how answers to the changes in our society can be found through collaboration between different research disciplines. They create added value that we can all experience in our everyday lives,” says Dr. Georg Schütte, Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation.
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The majority of the funding from zukunft.niedersachsen results from the equivalent of the annual dividend on a nominal 30.2 million VW trust shares from the state of Lower Saxony, which are subject to the profit transfer claim to the Volkswagen Foundation. According to the statutes, the funding is to be awarded to scientific institutions in the state of Lower Saxony. To this end, the state government presents proposals for use to the foundation's board of trustees, usually in the summer and autumn. In the 2022 reporting year, a total of 237.3 million euros were available for zukunft.niedersachsen (then Niedersächsisches Vorab). In addition, a one-off amount of 576.3 million euros from the special dividend from the IPO of Porsche AG is available.