Health, Body & Mind

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences is involved in 4 of the 12 projects afforded the status of Centres of Excellence by the Danish National Research Foundation, with a grant totalling DKK 700 million over the nex…

Researchers at University of Copenhagen have studied access conditions at brain cell level. New study explodes existing paradigm that huge channels uncritically perforate cell membranes.

University College Capital and Metropolitan University College are joining the University of Copenhagen in a collaboration intended to promote practice-oriented research and improve study programmes.

Using advanced computer models, neuroscience researchers at the University of Copenhagen have gained new knowledge about the complex processes that cause Parkinson’s disease.

In a study on rats, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered the cause of the involuntary muscle contractions which patients with severe spinal cord injuries frequently suffer.

A study based on blood samples from more than 55,000 Danes conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows a direct correlation between smoking and mortality.

With new advanced techniques developed by the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics at the University of Copenhagen it is possible to study cells in greater detail than ever before.

Certain protein domains could be used as 'drones' to direct DNA repair or activator proteins towards specific genome sequences

Research from the University of Copenhagen is shedding new light on the brain's complicated barrier tissue.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have uncovered new knowledge about the immune system in a mouse study, which indicates that natural birth improves the immune system of the pups.

New research from BRIC identifies crucial mechanism for maintaining cell identity and enables new cancer diagnostics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen University Hospital have identified a particular genetic mutation that may cause parkinsonism in young people.

Masculinity in TV cooking shows is the focus in a new PhD dissertation by Jonatan Leer.

Professor Jiri Lukas, director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, has been awarded the prestigious international Leopold Griffuel Prize for his work on proteins role in cancer cells.

Studies in a complex data landscape now enable researchers to pinpoint very busy routes for widespread diseases such as cancer, arthritis and diabetes.

For the first time, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet are able to show that a particular gene variant lowers the risk of arteriosclerosis by 41 per cent.

New Danish genetics research explains the high incidence of type 2 diabetes in the Greenlandic population. The ground-breaking findings have just been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.

Researchers have successfully mapped the genome of the whipworm parasite.

Access to HIV medication has significantly reduced the number of AIDS related deaths in Africa. Yet in a number of African countries one in four HIV infected still dies within the first few months of commencing…

The Universities of Copenhagen, Basel, Hertfordshire and King’s College, London, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding whereby they will work together in harmonising programmes to produce a common Masters programme…