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Amalie Mundt Jørgensen

Ph.D., Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Elhassan I et al. Malar Control Elimin (in press)

Team SURFACE manuscript accepted

Podcast: The key to better sleep is found during the day

Professor Birgitte Kornum talks about her research in the podcast series “The World Explained” (Verden forsøgt forklaret), a series of conversations held at the UCPH Library.

"We were walking in the streets, chanting 'research for the people, not for profit'"

From emergency surgeon to discoverer of GLP-1 and its effects on insulin production and satiety, CBMR Group Leader Professor Jens Juul Holst has spent fifty years pursuing one question: how does metabolism go wrong, and…

Researchers Warn: Climate Change Could Expand Habitats for Malaria Mosquitoes

If we fail to curb climate change, malaria mosquitoes could significantly expand their habitats across Africa, exposing hundreds of millions of people to a higher risk of infection.

New Book Explores How Generative AI and Design Are Transforming Law and Contracting

CeBIL is pleased to highlight the publication of Generative AI, Contracts, Law and Design, an interdisciplinary new volume co-edited by CeBIL’s Associate Director Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci together with Helena Haapio…

Ancient arctic adaptations may influence modern disease risk

Inuit in Greenland possess a unique genome, which has evolved over thousands of years as they adapted to a cold climate and consumed a diet largely consisting of marine mammals. Now, a team of international scientists…

Sloan Wood bags second place in international video challenge

"Co-creating Mosquito-Free Hospitals,” MBD-Free PhD researcher Otis Sloan Wood, has won second place in the Buildings & Cities 2025 Video Challenge.

Carsten Kirkeby presents HPAI research at Nordic Poultry Conference 2025

Earlier this month, Carsten Kirkeby from Copenhagen University gave a plenary presentation at the Nordic Poultry Conference 2025 in Oslo, hosted by the Norwegian Poultry Association. The presentation, titled “HPAIV…

Anomalous two-tusked narwhals show no difference in diet or foraging ecology relative to normal narwhals

New research sheds light on one of the Arctic’s rarest biological phenomena—the two-tusked narwhal.

Breast cancer treatments can improve both survival chances and income

Radiation therapy treatment for breast cancer not only improves survival rates but also generates long-term financial benefits according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen.

New Insights into Senataxin’s Role in Transcription

A new paper from Svejstrup lab in Molecular Cell uncovers the biochemical function of Senataxin, a protein encoded by a gene that is mutated in rare and early-disabling neurodegenerative diseases. Key takeaways: Acut…

The world’s oldest RNA extracted from woolly mammoth

New research offers a unique insight into the lives of mammoths during the last Ice Age.

The world’s oldest RNA extracted from woolly mammoth

New research offers a unique insight into the lives of mammoths during the last Ice Age.

Martinez-Vega R et al. BMC Infect Dis 25: 1547, 2025

Team DRUGS paper published

Dube Y et al. J Immunol Methods (in press)

Team BIVAC manuscript accepted

National Congress of the Italian Society of Microbiology SIM 2025

Sally Waheed Yousief presented a poster at the National Congress of the Italian Society of Microbiology (SIM 2025, Catania, 19–22 September)

STAPHGBI2025

Sally Waheed Yousief presented at the Staphylococcus Great Britain and Ireland (StaphGBI) 2025 Conference (Leicester, 24–25 June)

Three researchers at SUND are Ascending Investigators

Lundbeck Foundation has named Jean-Francois Perrier, Carmelo Bellardita and Jannick Prentø Ascending Investigators.

Two Ascending Investigators

Professor Jean-Francois Perrier and Associate Professor Carmelo Bellardita have been named Ascending Investigators by the Lundbeck Foundation.

Watch: Co-Creation of Mosquito Control Solutions in Zanzibar Hospitals

Din internetbrowser understøtter ikke iframes. Det betyder, at videoen Co-Creation of Mosquito Control Solutions in Zanzibar Hospitals ikke kan afspilles. Conventional vector control tools, such as insecticide-treate…

DGHM–VAAM 2024

Sally Waheed Yousief presented at DGHM–VAAM 2024 (Würzburg, 2–5 June).

Genetics and gill microbes work together to shape salmon disease resistance

A new open-access study reveals that both the genes of Atlantic salmon and the microbes living on their gills play crucial roles in how the fish resist Amoebic Gill Disease - a major health problem in aquaculture caused…

Independent Research Fund Denmark funded four new research projects

Professor Bente Frølund, Professor Lennart Bunch, Associate Professor Umberto Maria Battisti and Professor Stephan Pless recently received funding from the DFF 1 call.