News about Health

Group leaders Jesper B. Andersen and Claus S. Sørensen appointed professors

Group Leader Jesper B. Andersen has been appointed professor in translational hepatology by June 1st 2023. Jesper B. Andersen has been a group leader at BRIC since 2014. The goal of Andersen Group is to unravel the…

Brain scientist receives the Anders Jahre Award for discovering the brain’s cleaning system

Professor Maiken Nedergaard receives the prestigious medical Anders Jahre Award 2023 for her ground-breaking brain research which has led to the discovery and description the brain’s cleaning system, the glymphatic…

Hidden mechanism connects cancer and diabetes

Insulinresistens er normalt noget, man forbinder med type 2-diabetes. Men nu har forskere opdaget det hos kræftpatienter, og det kan have betydning for, hvor hurtigt kræften spreder sig.

George Mtove

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

ISBUC researchers receive 8 grants from DFF

This spring, no les than 8 ISBUC researchers have received project grants from Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF).

Mark Bergholt Cuadrado

M.Sc. (Biochemistry), University of Copenhagen

Louise Wellmann Thomsen

Cand. scient. (biology), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia 40,000 years earlier than we thought

An international research team jointly lead by Globe Institute show one of the earliest modern humans migrations out of Africa.

Sarah Wellmann Thomsen

Cand. scient. (biology), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

New ISBUC collaboration to develop cyclic peptides for acid-sensing ion channels

ISBUC sits down with Principal Investigator Stephan Pless (ILF), Henriette Autzen (BMI) and Joe Rogers (ILF) to find out how they went from meeting at an ISBUC event to landing a DFF Project grant in under two years.

Memory killer cells could help improve survival for melanoma patients

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Karolinska Insitutet have shown that people with better survival in melanoma also have high levels of such memory killer cells in cancer tissue.

Official opening of Center of Gene Expression

Center of Gene Expression (CGEN) was officially opened June 1st 2023

Two SUND researchers receive fellowship grants from the Lundbeck Foundation

Two researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receive a DKK 10 million research grant in 2023 from Lundbeckfonden.

Florence Nightingale Medal awarded to Master of Disaster Management alumni

We are extremely proud of our disaster management alumni - Rikke Dalsted who was awarded The Florence Nightingale Medal. The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to individuals who have shown exceptional courage and…

HALRIC: a new chapter for cross-border collaboration begins

The University of Copenhagen is a partner in the Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC).

Research achievements of the Building Stronger Universities programme at State University of Zanzibar

The partners in the Building Stronger Universities programme at The State University of Zanzibar celebrated a decade of fruitful collaboration with a two-day symposium at Zanzibar Beach Resort on 5-6 June 2023.

Unsustainable coffee production is making more and more people sick

Intensive pesticide use on coffee farms around the world is leading to progressively more reports of poor human and animal health. Coffee production needs to return to its roots and rediscover sustainability, according…

Unsustainable coffee production is making more and more people sick

Intensive pesticide use on coffee farms around the world is leading to progressively more reports of poor human and animal health. Coffee production needs to return to its roots and rediscover sustainability, according…

Danish supercomputer predicts who will develop deadly cancer

New study shows how a supercomputer can predict people in high risk of developing the disease.

Danish supercomputer predicts who will develop deadly cancer

New study shows how a supercomputer can predict people in high risk of developing the disease.

Illuminating the Cellular World - A Portrait of New Group Leader Fena Ochs

Fena Ochs is new Group Leader and Associate Professor at the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) in Copenhagen.

4 researchers from Department of Neuroscience receives grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Claus Juul Løland, Jakob Balslev Sørensen, Jens-Francois Perrier and Jens Bo Nielsen receive funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF). The grants come from the DFF Research Project 1 and DFF Research…

SUND secures 36 grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receives 36 grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).

Could this explain why childhood obesity leads to early puberty?

Puberty often begins early for children who are obese. While there is nothing new about this fact, a scientific explanation has been elusive. Now, a team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen offers what may be …