We are very happy to announce that the NorthPop research infrastructure has received a grant of 2 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE).
It was one of 12 projects that was awarded in the call ‘Project grants for new, improved and accessible research data 2024’.
The grant will go towards continued building of the infrastructure, including data collection, biobanking and improved data access for researchers.
An overall aim of the NorthPop research infrastructure is to build a large, longitudinal mother-child cohort (10,000 dyads), including a large database and biobank, for the first time enabling truly interdisciplinary research on how exposures in early life influence health and development in childhood as well as adult health outcomes.
You can read more about NorthPop on https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/northpop/
”This will enable us to develop a variable list with keywords for the very large number of variables in our database, and to make it searchable for researchers on a website”, said Prof Magnus Domellöf, principal investigator of NorthPop.