News about The University

Top scientists from UCPH and Oxford get DKK 180 million to research obesity

Worldwide, more and more people are suffering from obesity. Now a group of top researchers has received a great grant to develop new treatment.

PhD Course: Mechanisms in Innate Immune Signaling

PhD course on innate immune signaling pathways on 24-27 January 2023 at The LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center.

Top researchers from UCPH and Oxford receives DKK 180 million to develop treatment for people with obesity

Last chance to register for 12th Uppsala University Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development Symposium

The registration for the 12th Uppsala University Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development Symposium is closing on Dec 21 and there are still places available. To all Nordic POP members, we also want to…

CEMES GRANTS – Spring 2023

Call for applications for research activities planned for 2023.

This year's 'invisible hand': "Capturing the attention of a student requires relevance and motivation"

The teaching prize "The Invisible Hand" is awarded each year to a lecturer at the Department of Economics who has demonstrated excellent teaching skills. This year the award goes to associate Professor Anders…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

On Monday 12 December heating and hot water will be shut off

On Monday 12 December from 8 am to 3 pm, the heating and hot water will be shut off. Furthermore, the counter will be unmanned that day and you will therefore only be able to enter with a KU-Card. So if you intend to…

Brian Lystgaard Due receives the UCPH Innovation Award

Brian Due received the award for his interdisciplinary basic research into people's interaction with new technology.

Center for Medicinal Chemistry announces 6 PhD fellowships

Center for Medicinal Chemistry announces its first initiative of co-funded PhD fellowships with the industry. The initiative is financed with 9 mill DKK and is a broad collaboration

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…

New book about Dan Zahavi

A new book on Dan Zahavi by Pablo Emanuel Garcia has just been published.

Modeling Economic Agents as Deep Reinforcement Learners

Jeppe Druedahl is awarded the IRFD Sapere Aude grant to bridge theory with empirical evidence.

Polymers in Pharma PhD-course gathered Nordic POP participantscoming from Norway, Finland and Sweden at

The PhD-course gathered 15 Nordic POP participants, mainly PhD students and a couple of master students, at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg from 7.-11. November 2022 to an intensive week of science. The…

Research into how nerve cells regulate communication receives ERC grant

Associate Professor at Department of Neuroscience Alexander Matthias Walter has received an ERC consolidator grant for research into synaptic plasticity.

Opening hours during Christmas and New Year

Friday 23 December: 8am-3pm Saturday 24 December: Closed Sunday 25 December: Closed Monday 26 December: Closed Tuesday 27 December: 8am-8pm Wednesday 28 December: 8am-8pm Thursday 29 December: 8am-8pm Friday 30…

Researcher: The future of learning technology is offline 

If learners are in more control of the technology they use for learning and the data they generate, it can create better learning as well as deeper understanding of the technology, says Postdoc Mark Johnson.

Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective

Nina Grønlykke Molleup receives Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for her project Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective.

Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

This year’s award recipient of The Margaret Clark Award is Ida Marie Lind Glavind, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology.

Natália da Silva Perez receives Sapere Aude grant

We are thrilled to announce that Natália da Silva Perez, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, has been rewarded the Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The Sapere Aude…

SUND receives four Sapere Aude research leader grants

Four researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receive Sapere Aude research leader grants. They each receive DKK 6 million for their innovative projects.

BRIDGE Alumni Event

Join the lecture from Keynote speaker Prof Edvard Moser on our first alumni event on 14 December 2022 from 14:45-16:00 at Panum.

Zerion Pharma, a successful spin-out from our research environment

Zerion Pharma is a growing company with patents and technology that have been developed mostly by Associate Professor Korbinian Löbmann in the Solid State Pharmaceutics group.