News about Health

NIVI welcomes Head of the Project Management Office

NIVI welcomes Head of the Project Management Office

Panagiota Panagopoulou joins CMP

Panagiota joins the VLPVAC team

Vidal-Calvo EE et al. Nat Commun 15: 7553, 2024

Team OF-CANCER/ BIOENGINEERING/ DISCOVERY/ OF-BIOMARKER/ BIVAC paper published

Björnsson K et al. Vaccines 12: 859, 2024

Team EPITOPE paper published

Invitation for Nordic Zebrafish Meeting 2024

The Nordic Zebrafish Network is pleased to invite you for this year’s Nordic Zebrafish Meeting “From Husbandry to Animal Experiments: Creating Reliable Research,” in Stockholm on 13 to 15 November 2024.

Lisa Gottlieb Becomes a Branco Weiss Fellow

Lisa, BRIDGE and Danish Cardiovascular Academy fellow and postdoc in the Jespersen Group, has received DKK 4.6 million from the Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science for her project "Crosstalk in the Whole Heart:…

POSTPONED - The future of vivarium management

Departments AEM and CBMR will share their experiences with DVC, and we will treat you with interesting scientific talks and sessions. When: To be announced. Where: University of Copenhagen, Henrik Dam Auditorium,…

New center will future-proof education of experts to Danish life science

University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark are leading a new center that will boost the pharmaceutical sciences education by integrating data science at all levels of education.

Celebrating the successful completion of the One Health International Summer Course 2024

A huge congratulations to all the students for their dedication, curiosity, and hard work. Your contributions have made this course a truly inspiring and impactful experience.

'The Social Life of Health Data': Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

Guest Researcher at CAS and Marie Curie fellow at the IT University Alena Thiel has published a new book examining 'The Social Life of Health Data'

Björkman A, Gil P, Alifrangis M. Lancet Infect Dis 24: e540-e541, 2024

Team DRUGS paper published

CPR Scientists Nicholas Taylor and Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen share the Jahre Award for Young Researchers

The annual Anders Jahre Award for Young Researchers is this year awarded to two SUND researchers, with research areas within cardiometabolic diseases, bacteria and proteins.

Do you want to organise Global Health Film Days 2025?

Would you like to learn how to curate films and debates about the most urgent global health challenges of our time? Global Health Film Days are looking for student volunteers.

New international pioneer centre for medical data research

Aarhus University, the University of Copenhagen and University of Oxford are now joining forces to create a new pioneer centre that will become a significant international partner for data-driven medical research.

Submit your film to Global Health Film Days

Global health film makers are encouraged to submit their films now - either for programme selection or inclusion in the Global Health Film Database.

New publication in Nature Communications

"Sex-specific DNA-replication in the early mammalian embryo"

New partnership for a better healthcare system

Charlotte Vermehren is Co-Pl on the project, which is supported by the Velux Foundation with DKK 5.7 million.

ADVANCE's Annual Meeting 2024

The ADVANCE consortium gathered for its Annual Meeting on June 20-21, 2024, setting the stage for mental health innovation at the picturesque University of Verona in Italy.

Discovery of replisome component’s dual function in mediating epigenetic memory

An international research collaboration reveals that the fork protection complex component Mrc1 is a central coordinator of symmetrical parental histone inheritance to both leading and lagging DNA strands during…

Mambo R et al. Neurol Sci 45: 4529-4538, 2024

Team DRUGS paper published

VonWowern F et al. Int J Infect Dis 146: 107102, 2024

Team DRUGS paper published

Benjamin Seeks to Improve Gut Health with Bacterial Lysate

Associate Professor Benjamin A.H. Jensen’s research is centered on the gut and bacteria, which could be key to treating a wide range of diseases. His work with bacteria may also pave the way for more climate-friendly…

Cocaine discovery could pave way for treatment for substance abuse

University of Copenhagen have studied and described how cocaine binds to a specific transporter in the brain, producing new knowledge that may bring us a step closer to designing a drug for cocaine abuse.

Maria Marti Castaner: Preventing mental health challenges among migrants

Meet Maria Marti Castaner, an Assistant Professor at the Section of Health Services Research, University of Copenhagen.