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NIVI Research Center welcomes Professor Søren Buus

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity welcomes Professor Søren Buus who is joining NIVI Research Center and the Airway Immunology Research group.

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun engaged in two insightful panel debates at Folkemødet 2025

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun participated in two insightful panel debates at this year’s Folkemødet on Bornholm, both addressing key questions about the ethics and future of research. In her roles as professor,…

Enciso-Martinez A et al. J Extracell Vesicles 14: e70106, 2025

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

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Meanwhile the 12th EuPAT conference is in full speed, remember the EuPAT SPECIAL ISSUE, too!

Whereas the 12th EuPAT Conference is happening these days, bringing together international experts from academia, industry, and regulatory authorities to discuss the latest developments in pharmaceutical process and…

Lauritz Brorsen wins AI Award for innovative skin cancer project

Postdoc Lauritz Brorsen recently won the AI Award at the AI and Pharmacology – now and in the future symposium hosted by Altinget 3 June.

CULTMIND Resilience Workshop 20-21 May 2025

A two-day interdisciplinary and multi-regional workshop on resilience was organised at CULTMIND on May 20th and 21st, 2025.

Understanding cancer cell subclones opens door to more personalized treatment

Using advanced techniques, the researchers from LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have been able to see which genes are switched on in each cell, and which…

Understanding cancer cell subclones opens door to more personalized treatment

Using advanced techniques, the researchers from LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have been able to see which genes are switched on in each cell, and which…

Safety becomes more important than foraging when a specific neuronal circuit in the brain is activated

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a neural circuit in the mouse’s brain which ensures that it prioritises safety over other needs, e.g. food seeking, and that this happens automatically when…

Andy and the STEM-PD journey

Patient Andrew Cassy shares personal story on his participation in the STEM-PD clinical trial.

Ceesay S et al. PLoS Pathog 21: e1013210, 2025

Team DISCOVERY/ DRUGS paper published

Is it possible to revert lipid changes associated with Parkinson’s Disease?

The title of the project is "Reverting brain lipid changes associated with Parkinson’s Disease pathology in patients’ neuronal cells". Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the deposition…

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network will investigate the role of lipids in protein aggregation

The Doctoral program will train fifteen doctoral candidates, including three who will be employed at the Galvagnion lab. The project seeks to unravel the structural complexities of amyloid protein-lipid aggregates and…

NIVI Research Center welcomes Leader of Formulation Sciences and Devices Group

VACCINES The Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity is pleased to welcome Joanna Rejman as Leader of NIVI Research Center’s Formulation Sciences and Devices group.

Rethinking peptides to create better drug candidates

In drug development, peptides are promising as a modality because they are extremely good at binding, even for proteins that are difficult to bind using traditional drug-like molecules.

Call for abstracts: Extreme heat and health in the context of climate change

The goal of this symposium is to highlight a global health emergency: The impact of extreme heat on public health due to climate change.

Studieforløb i Kenya: Brug din faglighed i globalt udviklingssamarbejde

Deltag i et internationalt lærings- og innovationsforløb om Danmarks udviklingssamarbejde, FN’s Verdensmål og sundhedsudfordringer i Kibera, Kenya.

Gloria Ceasar: The threat of mosquito-borne viral diseases

Meet Gloria Ceasar, an Assistant Lecturer from University of Dar es Salaam and Doctoral Student from the KCMC University, Tanzania

ISIM researchers aim to develop the world’s first hepatitis C vaccine

A Grand Solutions Grant worth DKK 15.7 million from Innovation Fund Denmark will help bring groundbreaking Danish vaccine candidate to clinical trials.

One step closer to the world’s first hepatitis C vaccine

A Grand Solutions Grant worth DKK 15.7 million from Innovation Fund Denmark will help bring groundbreaking Danish vaccine candidate to clinical trials.

Interview with Rico Kongsager

COPE interviews Rico Kongsager, Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His research focuses on climate resilience in Nordic communities, and…

Emma Giordana joins CMP

Emma joins the VLPVAC team

Eric Felix Lyimo

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

Lopez-Perez M et al. J Infect Dis 231: e956-e965, 2025

Team SURFACE paper published