Centre for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA) was established by a major grant from The Danish National Research Foundation (Danmarks Grundforskningfond). The interdisciplinary centre involves researchers from Chemistry, Physics and Molecular biology.

CDNA is based at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) at Aarhus University, and includes the senior scientists Prof. Kurt V. Gothelf, Prof. Flemming Besenbacher and Prof. Jørgen Kjems. Internationally CDNA has close collaboration with Prof. Thomas H. Labean at Duke University, USA and Prof. Hao Yan at Arizona State University.