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Updated educational resources about innovation in global health

Newly updated educational resources about innovation in global health. Freely available to anyone interested.

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Huge Power-to-X investments in new hydrogen-based fuels shall propel the green transition in Denmark towards 2050. But how do we prevent local conflicts over new production plants?

Starch from plants is key to bioplastic that is actually degradable

Professor Andreas Blennow’s research group experiments with bioplastics, nutritionally healthy crops and antibiotic multiresistance, but sustainability is the bond that ties Starch together.

Two CBMR Group Leaders join the BioInnovation Institute’s Venture Lab program

Scientists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) study metabolic health and disease in the hope that their discoveries will lead to new prevention and treatment strategies.

High-speed fluorescence image–enabled cell sorting

For 52 years, cell sorting has been blind to spatial features like protein localisation. A new method changes that by sorting cells by shape and structure at up to 15,000 events per second.

New educational resources about innovation in global health

University of Copenhagen has produced a series of freely available modules and online lectures about innovation in global health.

New in ISBUC: Eva Kummer

Eva Kummer is one of the newest members of ISBUC. In April 2021, Eva was recruited as an Associate Professor in the Structural Biology Group at the Centre for Protein Science, UCPH.

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

Biotech company funds research project on diversity

In collaboration with Genmab, a new anthropological postdoc project at the Department of Anthropology will now explore and help develop the company's efforts to ensure a diverse and inclusive workplace.

CPHSAXS, the In-House Biological Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) Facility at UCPH

CPHSAXS is a state-of-the-art, high-throughput, small-angle X-ray scattering instrument. Through funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the instrument is now in operation as an open facility.

Feature Interview: Henriette Elisabeth Autzen

Henriette Elisabeth Autzen is one of the newest members of ISBUC. In February 2020, Henriette was recruited as an Associate Professor in Biomolecular Sciences at the Department of Biology, UCPH, establishing her own lab…

Danish and Chinese tongues taste broccoli and chocolate differently

Two studies from the University of Copenhagen show that Danes aren’t quite as good as Chinese at discerning bitter tastes. The research suggests that this is related to anatomical differences upon the tongues of Danish…

CBMR scientists win innovation funding to develop new anti-cancer and obesity drugs

The BioInnovation Institute (BII) has awarded two grants worth DKK 3.5M each to CBMR to develop new drugs based on its basic metabolic research.

Researchers put human mobility into new formula

Researchers at DTU and the University of Copenhagen have developed a model that provides new knowledge about how we move around in our everyday life and bridges a gap in the scientific understanding of mobility.

Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms

Within the scientific community, it is estimated that artificial intelligence — otherwise meant to serve as a means to effectively combat climate change — will become one of the most egregious CO2 culprits should curren…

Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

There are far more trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel than most would expect. A combination of artificial intelligence and detailed satellite imagery allowed a team from the University of Copenhagen and…

New blog looks at social consequences of a cashless economy

Researchers at the Department of Anthropology have launched a new blog, which discusses the transition to a cashless economy and the impact on the cash-reliant and indebted urban poor.

Zach Gerhart-Hines awarded DKK 6M Distinguished Innovator grant

Zach Gerhart-Hines awarded DKK 6M Distinguished Innovator grant

Gene-based personalised medicine to treat diabetes

A new project will draw on the genetic information of diabetes patients so that doctors can provide them with personalized treatment.

3D breakthrough: Now anyone can print an interactive model of the brain

A new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen allows anyone to print interactive 3D objects. These might include models of the brain, to be used as educational tools.

New Head of AnthroAnalysis unit will break down walls between the university and society

Kasper Tang Vangkilde has joined the Department of Anthropology as an associate professor, where he, as the new head of the AnthroAnalysis unit, will contribute to strengthening the impact and value of anthropology in…

Medical Museion awarded DKK 4,7M for science communication project

CBMR research will reach an even wider audience thanks to a 4,7 million kroner grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to support the Medical Museion and their project ‘Microcosmos/Macrocosmos’.

Atul Deshmukh kickstarts group with Future Leaders Award

His group hopes to use mass spectrometry-based proteomics to discover new proteins and peptides for treatment of type 2 diabetes