Garik Mkrtchyan receives Frontier Grant from the Lundbeck Foundation
Garik Mkrtchyan, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen and Daniela Bakula from ICMM receives the Frontier Grant from the Lundbeck Foundation to support their work to develop an entirely new type of medicine for Alzheimer’s.
“Overall, our work is about identifying and further developing molecules that can reduce existing damage to DNA in brain cells and strengthen the cells’ own repair mechanisms,” explains Garik Mkrtchyan, who is leading the project.
The Lundbeck Foundation considers the project so promising that it has decided to support it with DKK 4.3 million in the form of a Frontier Grant. This research grant will be used by the trio for further development and investigation of the modified molecule, with a view to commercializing their discovery at a later stage.