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Grant of DKK 2.5 million to DCE researcher

Associate professor Jiong Li from Department of Clinical Epidemiology has received a grant of DKK 2,588,067 from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Medical Sciences for the project ”Maternal ill health during pregnancy and childhood neuropsychiatric disorders in the offspring: a cohort study of 8.8 million children in five Nordic countries”. The study will investigate whether there is an association between neuropsychiatric disorders in childhood and effects from maternal disease during pregnancy. The study will be based on data from 35 different registries from five Nordic countries and will include 8.8 million pairs of mother and child.