News about The brain

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…

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…

Ceremedy lands an agreement with global pharmaceutical company

The three KU researchers Petrine Wellendorph, Bente Frølund and Birgitte Kornum are behind Ceremedy. Also joining the company is Casper Tind Hansen, who has experience with business development within biotech. The smal…

Rune Berg receives the Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator grant of DKK 10,000,000

Every day, we elegantly and effortlessly move our bodies. The brain generates the commands to contract muscles and, in this way, orchestrates the motion. But how do we do it? How do our brains do it? It is a fundamental…

Mikkelsen Lab receives grants of DKK 9,600,000

The Novo Nordisk Foundation grant of DKK 8,047,826 has been provided support the application with the title "Synaptogenesis and Neuroinflammation in Epilepsy". The project is in collaboration with Lars Pinborg, MD,…

A CAN-group master student is Brain Battle finalist

Collin A. Shampine is one of three finalists in the Lundbeck Brain Battle, an annual competition MSc students or MSc graduates seeking an industrial PhD in neuroscience at Lundbeck.

First Parkinson’s patient administered a stem cell-based transplant

A patient suffering from moderate Parkinson’s disease (PD) has received a transplant with the human stem cell-derived nerve cell product STEM-PD in a clinical trial at Skåne University Hospital in southern Sweden.

Depression can lead to memory dysfunction. This study may pave way for new drugs

PET scanning of patients has identified changes in the serotonin system in patients suffering from depression and memory dysfunction, a new joint study suggests.

Ilary Allodi featured in the Stories of Women in Neuroscience (WiN) podcast

“It is fitting that Dr. Ilary Allodi, who enjoys writing short stories in her free time, began her foray into neuroscience with a book. As a teenager, Ilary read Searching for Memory by Daniel Schacter, which details th…

Protein behavior in synthetic cells

Proteins may lose their normal function and lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This process, named protein aggregation, happens gradually in the brain over time, and it’s an…

Loved it! NeuroGrad Winter School F-2-F

After two years of corona-zoom versions – were the PhD students in neuroscience, the NeuroGrads, able to assemble for their yearly day of sharing their science at NeuroGrad Winter School.

Department of Neuroscience part of two larger Collaboration Projects funded by the Lundbeck Foundation

David Gloriam and Rikke Møller receive funding for their projects in collaboration with Ulrik Gether, Jakob Balslev Sørensen and Jean-Francois Perrier.

Four researchers from ILF receive 114 mill DKK to expand our knowledge of the human brain

Four ambitious research projects supported by the Lundbeck Foundation will give us completely new insights into the human brain, hopefully paving the way for new treatments of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease,…

New theory about the neural network that controls walking

In an article from the Lundbech Foundation, the recent findings from the research team consisting of Rune Berg, Henrik Lindén, Peter Petersen and Mikkel Vestergaard, is presented. For decades, it has been thought that…

New study maps the development of the 20 most common psychiatric disorders

Nearly half of all psychiatric patients get a different diagnose within 10 years. New figures for diagnoses will help predict the course of psychiatric illnesses.

Agnete Kirkeby and her international colleagues receive permission to start stem cell trial on Parkinson’s patients

A novel stem cell treatment developed by Agnete Kirkeby and her colleagues at Lund University has received green light from the Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial in Parkinson’s disease. The…

Fluorescent mouse blood will help us gain knowledge about brain diseases

A fluorescent protein makes it possible to follow disease progression in brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, strokes, and depression. That may lead to better insight into diseases and possible new treatments.

Huge unveiling of schizophrenia brain cells show new treatment targets

For the first time, researchers show how schizophrenia affects both the single cell and regional cell networks in the brain. The study may provide new options for treating the disease.

Spinal cord cells surprise researchers: “I hope this will lead to a lot of new ideas and studies”

Damage to the spinal cord can be extremely disabling. Now research from the University of Copenhagen shows that the cells of the spinal cord do not behave as expected – a discovery that may prove important in connection…

Excessive brain fluid can lead to risky surgery. New research seeks to change that

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that fluid does not necessarily enter the brain the way one thought. According to one of the researchers behind the study, the result may lead to fewer major…

German documentary features Agnete Kirkeby on new treatments for Parkinson’s Disease

So far, there is no cure for Parkinson’s disease. Agnete Kirkeby and her colleagues are developing a stem cell therapy which can replace the dead dopamine nerve cells in the brains of the patients, and this work is now…

Birgitte Kornum is Carlsberg Foundation's Researcher of the Month #8

Birgitte Rahbek Kornum searches in both genes and molecules for the causes of the sleeping disease Narcolepsy. This month she is the Carlsberg Foundation’s Researcher of the Month.

Stress transmitter wakes your brain more than 100 times a night – and it is perfectly normal

You may think that a good night’s sleep should be uninterrupted. But in fact, the neurotransmitter noradrenaline causes you to wake up more than 100 times a night, new research from the University of Copenhagen…

Why it isn’t always your fault when you can’t remember

We have all been there. Somehow, we procrastinate to the point where we fail to achieve our daily goals. Research has shown that there are several factors that determine whether we remember to do our daily tasks or not.