Health, Body & Mind

Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC), led by Professor Hans Bisgaard, University of Copenhagen, receives 2 million US dollars from the American National Institutes of Health (NIH), for a Danish…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 60 million for an ambitious new research programme in clinical proteomics at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen.

Knowledge, growth and visions for future health. These will be the keywords when the University of Copenhagen formally becomes part of the strategic alliance 'Health Axis Europe' on Thursday 27 August 2015 at 14.00. The…

New research reveals a distinct association between male intelligence in early adulthood and their subsequent midlife physical performance. The higher intelligence score, the better physical performance, the study…

Final results from two landmark studies bolstered the scientific case for initiating HIV treatment soon after diagnosis, and an additional study shed new light on the non-daily use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)…

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of most common causes of death in the world today - active smoking accounting for approx. 85% of all cases. Yet ground-breaking research from the University of…

A new PhD project seeks to investigate whether time in nature can be an effective supplementary treatment for children with ADHD.

Football’s impact on health and the Danish exercise concept of Football Fitness are key points on the agenda when the Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health at the University of Copenhagen hosts the World Congress…

In collaboration with international scientists, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to help shorten the road to better cancer treatment

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have made a discovery that may change the way we treat cancer

By analysing a simple blood sample, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in predicting if a woman will get breast cancer within two to five years. The method – a metabolic blood profile – is still…

New research from the University of Copenhagen has found that the beneficial effects of exercise are more important for our health than the negative effects of air pollution, in relation to the risk of premature…

In a project co-funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, researchers from Yale University have reversed type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease in rats

The level of vitamin D in our blood should neither be too high nor to low. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen are the first in the world to show that there is a connection between high levels of vitamin D and…

A chemist from the University of Copenhagen has invented a compound which measures oxygen in cells and other biological material with high precision. The novel method will make it possible to measure oxygen using the…

The world’s largest study looking at the secretion of the gut hormone GLP-1 has found that the secretion is reduced among overweight and obese people, people with pre-diabetes and newly diagnosed people with type 2…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded scientist Maiken Nedergaard their oldest prize for a study that shows how the brain cleans itself during sleep.

Funding from the Lundbeck Foundation ensures joint professorship in drug delivery and nanomedicine between the University of Copenhagen and the University of British Columbia. The professorship will lead to the creation…

Professor Rudi Westendorp has for many years endeavoured to change the way society view older people in the Netherlands. He is one of the most cited researchers into ageing in Europe and has moved to the University of…

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have studied the immediate reaction in the brain after quitting smoking.