News about Health

Developing a new research area: amorphous engineering

Associate Professor Inês Catarina Batista Martins has been awarded DKK 7 million from the Carlsberg Foundation, one of Denmark’s most competitive funding instruments for early-career researchers.

From data collection to innovation: Student perspectives on health challenges in Kibera

15 students from the University of Copenhagen participated in the Study and Innovation Programme in Kenya, and came up with innovative solutions for health challenges in Africa's largest informal settlement.

Njotto LL et al. Malar J (in press)

Team DRUGS/ TANZANIA manuscript accepted

Significant Increase in Eating Disorders Among Young People

New research from the Department of Clinical Medicine and the Capital Region of Denmark shows a clear rise in eating disorders in Denmark between 2000 and 2022. The increase is particularly pronounced among girls in…

A common diabetes drug may slow the progression of atrial fibrillation

By using horses as a translational animal model, researchers from the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences have shown that metformin, a known diabetes drug, can slow the progression of atrial fibrillation (AF).

Diversity of mononuclear phagocyte populations in the healthy and inflamed human intestine

Researchers from the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center (SIC) at the University of Copenhagen have made new insights into the composition of antigen presenting cells in the intestines of people suffering fro…

Emma F Hocke

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

Lopez-Perez M et al. Microbiol Spectr 14: e0221225, 2026

Team SURFACE paper published. 1st CMP paper with a 2026 date!

Proof of Concept grant to explore innovative research

Postdoc Søren Blikdal Hansen has been awarded an innovation grant from the University of Copenhagen’s Proof of Concept Fund, providing time and resources to further develop an analysis method originating from his PhD…

Sorgho SF et al. BMC Infect Dis 25: 1825, 2025

Team DRUGS paper published

Vidal-Calvo EE and Salanti A. Expert Opin Drug Deliv (in press)

Team OF-CANCER manuscript accepted

Sander AF and Fougeroux C. Clin Transl Med 15: e70560, 2025

Team VLPVAC paper published

From Archived Brains to Future Psychiatry: Revealing the role of infection in mental health

One of five projects under the new SUND Collaborates initiatives by the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH goes to Associate Professor Sandra Breum Andersen from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics. Her…

Mujollari J et al. Blood (in press)

Team OF-BIOMARKER/ OF-CANCER/ BIOENGINEERING manuscript accepted

Mothering on the Move: New NNF grant for Maria Marti Castaner

Maria Marti Castaner , will head INTERGEN, an interdisciplinary research international project aimed at Advancing Maternal Health and Wellbeing in Contexts of Forced Migration Across Borders.

DFC funds research collaboration with NIMR and State University of Zanzibar

Support from DFC

DFC funds research collaboration with University of Ghana

Support from DFC

DFC funds research collaboration with University of Hargeisa (Somaliland)

Support from DFC

Double degree PhD student Ludovica Preite

Ludovica Preite has started as a new PhD student at the University of Sydney and University of Copenhagen, in a double PhD degree position.

Hocke EF et al. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist 29: 100611, 2025

Team DRUGS paper published

Santos MI et al. Infect Immun 93: e00516-25, 2025

Team SURFACE paper published

Stefania De Angelis

Stefania is an Italian PhD student at the University of Calabria. her research project focuses on air pollution, effects and legal consequences of the responsibility of private individuals and the State for the…

The UCPH spin-out company Sonohaler invents a new inhaler for respiratory patients

SUND researchers have co- developed a new dry powder inhaler for respiratory patients, where the patients can more easily take high-dose medication and monitor the effectiveness of their inhalation via an app.

Congratulations to Catarina Pechincha and Sofia Ramalho

who are awarded EMBO Fellowships to study mRNA translation