The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) belongs to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen and currently employs around 160 scientists and technical staff with an additional 50 staff members affiliated. The center was established through a donation of DKK 885 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. With Copenhagen as its epicenter, the CBMR works in close collaboration with research groups in the region as well as leading research groups from top-ranking universities in the USA, Europe and China. Our vision is to establish and operate a world-leading Center of Excellence for interdisciplinary basic metabolic research evolving from the thematic areas of Metabolic Genetics, Integrative Physiology, and Metabolic Receptology/Enteroendocrinology in order to generate cutting-edge and profound knowledge about metabolic functions as the basis for the development of novel means of diagnosis, prevention and individualized treatment of common metabolic disorders.