News archive 2017

News archive 2017

How we can add to the good lives of older people

2017.04.07

Over the last decades, a considerable amount of research has been focussed on children and young…
Judith Kyst: We are gathering and sharing our knowledge about the good life in old age

2017.04.06

The Department of Food Science, together with two other departments at the University of Copenhagen…
Large ERC grant for Kim Sneppen

2017.04.05

An advanced ERC grant for Kim Sneppen of DKK 16.500.000 was awarded for development of new methods…
Nordic Food Lab publishes book on eating insects

2017.04.05

How do you harvest ants from an anthill in the forest? How does trading occur with insects in…
Senior Citizens Do Not Benefit from Popular Drug

2017.04.04

There is a need for new guidelines regarding the treatment of mildly underactive thyroid gland amon…
Discovery of Enzyme Can Lead to New Treatment for Ovarian Cancer

2017.03.30

A research group at the University of Copenhagen has discovered an enzyme that plays a main role in…
Stem cell models offer new avenues for dementia treatment

2017.03.29

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed stem cell models that can reveal the…
Mustard seeds without mustard flavor: new robust oilseed crop can resist global warming

2017.03.28

University of Copenhagen and the global player Bayer CropScience have successfully developed a new…
New Structural Biology Cluster at the University of Copenhagen

2017.03.24

The University of Copenhagen is establishing a new cluster, ISBUC, which compiles researchers from…
Ice core-researcher, astrophysicist and computer scientist honoured by VILLUM FONDEN

2017.03.23

Professors Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jens Hjorth and Mikkel Thorup of the University of Copenhagen’s…
New vaccine concept to eradicate dreaded bacterial disease in fish

2017.03.23

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new type of vaccine in collaboration…
Universities want to help companies benefit from materials research of the future

2017.03.20

How might Danish firms large and small make use of the world’s most powerful neutron and X-ray…
New chairman at the University of Copenhagen

2017.03.16

Executive Vice President of Novo Nordisk, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, will be the new chairman of the…
'World's best CEO’ named distinguished alumnus at the University of Copenhagen

2017.03.14

“There is no doubt that in honouring Lars Rebien, the University of Copenhagen will get a…
Surprise: Transport proteins evolved long before their compounds emerged

2017.03.09

Danish scientists from the DynaMo Center, University of Copenhagen, bridge an important gap that…
Breakthrough in live coral imaging

2017.03.06

Scientists at University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), and…
Elite Researcher Award 2017: Three in a row

2017.03.03

The three winners work in widely different research fields; Mikael Rask Madsen, Professor of…
VIDEO: Meet UCPH's new rector

2017.03.01

On 1 March 2017, Henrik Caspar Wegener becomes Rector of the University of Copenhagen. Wegener come…
Treatment of malignant brain tumour in children gets closer

2017.02.28

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have identified important mechanisms underlying how a…
Elite Research Prize won by a mathematician in a league of his own

2017.02.27

On February 23, Professor Søren Galatius of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of…

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