Bloom Festival 2024 is opening this Friday in Søndermarken, Frederiksberg!🎉

Check out the full program on Bloom’s webpage: bloom.ooo/program/

Bloom is the biggest science and nature festival in Denmark.

🌟 Exciting Day at Bloom School! 🌟 Our Chief Scientific Officer Anne-Marie Engel welcomed 500 7th-9th graders to Søndermarken. We hope everyone had an inspiring day discovering 'The Entangled World' and how the earth, the universe, and life itself are connected in wondrous ways!🌱✨🧬

Did you know nearly everyone experiences acne? It happens when hair follicles get clogged by oil and dead skin cells, leading to pimples or zits. Contrary to common belief, #acne isn't caused by dirty skin or poor hygiene (and it's not contagious either).

#LetsTalkAboutSkin

Truely humbled and honored to receive this recognition from Leo Foundation LEO FAST

I want to thank my mentors colleagues and team for empowering the research I was recognized for. #skinscience

Congratulations! Dr. Shruti Naik has received the Leo Foundation Award 2024. AND we warmly welcome her to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as Associate Professor w- a joint appointment in Dept. Dermatology and Dept. Immunology & Immunotherapy in July! Emma Guttman-Yassky Miriam Merad, MD, PhD Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute

🍾CONGRATULATIONS🍾 to the fantastic Dr. Shruti Naik on winning this year's @LeoFondet award in recognition of her visionary skin research program encompassing dermatology, neuroimmunology and more! Read all about it >>> leo-foundation.org/en/2024/05/17/…

Congratulations to JAX's Julia Oh, recipient of a LEO Foundation - LEO Fondet research grant. Awardee projects range widely in their skin research focuses but are intended to generate novel and exciting dermatological insights: bit.ly/3w8eg2O

Congratulations to Dr. Shruti Naik from NYU Langone Health, and soon-to-be from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on winning this year’s ⭐️LEO Foundation Award in Region Americas ⭐️in recognition of her exceptional scientific achievements and innovative vision for #skin #research . leo-foundation.org/en/2024/05/17/…

Are you a young, talented skin scientist in Region Asia-Pacific? Apply now for the LEO Foundation Award. Self-nomination deadline: 27 Jun 2024 (16:00 CET)

The award – worth USD 100,000 - recognizes outstanding young scientists from around the world.

👉 leo-foundation.org/en/grants-and-…

Apply for Serendipity Grants now – supporting active LEO Foundation grantees who have found a novel and unexpected discovery or idea.

💡Maximum grant amount: Up to DKK 4 million
💡Application deadline: 25 June 2024, 4 PM CEST

Read more and apply here👇
leo-foundation.org/en/grants-and-…

Ever wondered about the incredible elasticity of your skin? Every day it’s subjected to constant stretching, folding, and compressing, yet it maintains its integrity, keeping the outside out and the inside in. Amazing.
#Letstalkaboutskin

We are looking for two new colleagues who will help develop and strengthen our growing philanthropic activities.

Learn more and apply:
👉 Scientific Management Assistant: leo-foundation.org/en/2024/05/06/…
👉 Senior Scientific Officer: leo-foundation.org/en/2024/05/06/…

Congratulations to JAX's Julia Oh, recipient of a LEO Foundation - LEO Fondet research grant. Awardee projects range widely in their skin research focuses but are intended to generate novel and exciting dermatological insights: bit.ly/3w8eg2O

Dr. Maxine Caws introduces the “ACCELERATE' project - emphasizing the urgent need to expand and strengthen early case detection and treatment activities in Leprosy. The project is funded by @LeoFoundation in collaboration with University of Melbourne Doherty Institute, Sarah Dunstan.

The LEO Foundation - LEO Fondet has granted 4 million DKK to a new innovative #phagetherapy project led by Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén (@UCPH_Research), aiming to combat necrotizing soft tissue infections by harnessing Group A Strep-targeting #phages .

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Congratulations to ⭐ Sophie Amalie Krog Nyenstad ⭐ Zana Ibrahim, and ⭐ Nikolai Paaske Sandberg from Horsens Gymnasium & HF, this year’s winner of the LEO Foundation Rising Star Prize! 🤩 Unge Forskere leo-foundation.org/en/2024/04/29/…

From new technology with the potential to revolutionize the treatment of skin diseases to insights into aging cells and their role in scleroderma. 11 researchers receive a total of DKK 42 m for their research projects on the skin.

#skin #dermtwitter

leo-foundation.org/en/2024/04/25/…

Congratulations to LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center on yet another successful #SICSpringtimeSchool !

The talented researchers were invited to an intense three-day learning experience on skin and immunological skin disease research.

Learn more about SIC: sic.ku.dk

📸Kim Matthäi Leland

Four projects receive a total of DKK 5 million to cultivate passion for science 🔭🧬

Videnskab.dk DTU Skylab NaturalHistoryDK #Gozebra

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