Grant Committee

All eligible applications for a PhD scholarship or a Postdoctoral Fellowship will be forwarded to the Danish Cardiovascular Academy Grant Committee for scientific evaluation. Following persons are part of the grant committee:


Boye L. Jensen (chairman), MD, Professor, Head of Research, Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, University of Southern Denmark

Lars Køber, MD, Professor, Chief Physician, Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Ulrich Schotten, MD, Professor, Department of Physiology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

David Erlinge, Professor, Head of office at Cardiology, Lund University, Sweden

Rie Schultz Hansen, PhD, Head of Discovery and Innovation, Zealand Pharma A/S, Denmark

Patricia McGettigan MD, Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacologist and Consultant Physician at Queen Mary University of London, England

Lydia Sorokin, Professor, Director of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University of Münster, Germany

Molly Maleckar, Research Professor, Department of Computational Physiology, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

Harald Binder, Professor, Head of Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Freiburg, Germany

Karl Swärd, Professor, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Sweden

Jens Cosedis Nielsen, MD, Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & Department of Heart Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Hanno Tan, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Miranda van Eck,  Professor of Cardiovascular and metabolic therapeutics, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Maria Kristiansen, Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dobromir Dobrev, MD, Professor and Director, Institute of Pharmacology, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Alun Hughes, MD, Professor, Universtiy College London, UK

Mary Sheppard, Professor, St George’s University Medical School, London, UK

Pyotr Platonov, MD, Professor, Electrocardiology Research Group, Lund University, Sweden