News about Grants

Top scientists from UCPH and Oxford get DKK 180 million to research obesity

Worldwide, more and more people are suffering from obesity. Now a group of top researchers has received a great grant to develop new treatment.

Top researchers from UCPH and Oxford receives DKK 180 million to develop treatment for people with obesity

CEMES GRANTS – Spring 2023

Call for applications for research activities planned for 2023.

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

Research into how nerve cells regulate communication receives ERC grant

Associate Professor at Department of Neuroscience Alexander Matthias Walter has received an ERC consolidator grant for research into synaptic plasticity.

Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective

Nina Grønlykke Molleup receives Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for her project Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective.

SUND receives four Sapere Aude research leader grants

Four researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receive Sapere Aude research leader grants. They each receive DKK 6 million for their innovative projects.

Four SUND researchers receive DKK 11 million from the Inge Lehmann Programme

Four researchers from SUND receive a total of DKK 11 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Inge Lehmann Programme. The programme aims to strengthen talent development and promote gender equality in Danish…

One year, five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships

Orchids, toads, 3D folding of DNA, the genomic consequences of social structure, and squirrel hologenomics are the five research fields that researchers at the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) will investigate…

Two BMI profiles receive millions in grants from the Inge Lehmann programme

Trisha Jean Grevengoed and Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg are each awarded more than DKK 2.8 million from Denmark's Independent Research Foundation.

Three ERC Starting Grants to SUND researchers

Researchers Lea Haarup Gregersen, Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas and Victor Moreno Mayar each receives a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

DKK 10 million for research into sleep and delta receptors

Two SUND professors have been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation's Ascending Investigator grant. This means more research into sleep in young adults and basic research into the brain's largest neurotransmitter system.

The year's best Master's theses are written by BMI students

The Medical Society in Copenhagen has just announced the three winners of the award for best Master's theses, where two BMI students won first and third place.

Anxiety, schizophrenia, sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases: Why and how do psychological and somatic disorders occur together?

When a person has multiple psychological and physical disorders, they affect each other. But how? Associate Professor in psychology Karen-Inge Karstoft will study this with a new grant from the Independent Research Fund…

New project will map and analyse late parenthood in Denmark

What are the age norms for parenthood, what characterise the life trajectories of parents having children late, and how does late parenthood affect work life?

New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

Student internships spring 2023

The Centre for Modern European Studies (University of Copenhagen) and The Lausanne Project invite applications for student internships, in spring 2023.

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Researchers will enhance visual impressions using AR technology

A research collaboration between a psychologist and a computer scientist is now supported with 3 million DKK from the Villum Foundation. The researchers will investigate how visual impressions can be strengthened using…

SIC receives prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

The new fellowship secures two years of intensive studies on the role of microRNAs in the regulation of generation and maintenance of allergy-induced skin resident memory T cells. Allergen-induced skin resident memory T…

Professor Bente Frølund receives a Novo Nerd 2022 grant

Bente Frølund has recently received 8.5 mill DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to the project “Proximity-inducing new downstream chemistries - A platform for re-wiring cell signaling”.