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In June 2004 MDL received a major donation of "The John and Birthe Meyer Foundation" of 19.8 million Danish Kroner (about 2,6 mill. Euro) to strengthen and enhance its research in bladder, colon and prostate cancer. In June 2009, MDL received another grand donation of 19.5 million kroner from the "The John and Birthe Meyer Foundation" to ensure continuation of the numerous cancer research projects at MDL.

The Center for Molecular Clinical Cancer Research - CMCC was founded at Aarhus University Hospital at Skejby on March, 3rd 2005. MDL will cooperate national and international with clinical, surgical and pathological departments from different hospitals as well as research laboratories at Aarhus University to gather and investigate numerous tumor samples.

From 2005 to 2010, MDL participated in the "Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme in Molecular Medicine", funded by the Joint Committee of the Nordic Medical Research Councils, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study.

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MDL was part of the Nordic Network of Excellence in Disease Genetics (NoNEDG) and one of the six participating research teams from Denmark, Finland and Sweden, that was coordinated by Academy professor Leena Peltonen, Biomedicum at University of Helsinki, who unfortunately passed away in March 2010.

MDL participates in ”The MicroRNA Research Consortium – Towards novel molecular targets for LNA-based
cancer therapy” from January 2006. Read more...