News about Health

Kara-Lee Aves

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

Professor Ana Cvejic receives a grant to better understand the interplay between immune cells and cancer

Ana Cvejic, a professor at Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC), was awarded the DNRF Chair Grant of 10 million DKK over a period of three years to gain knowledge about the interaction of immune and tumor cells.

Psychologist: Sexuality is founded in childhood

Katrine Zeuthen, psychoanalyst and Associate Professor in clinical child psychology, talks about the nature and transformation of sexuality during our upbringing.

Construction work near the Biocenter - Test piloting

As mentioned, the construction work involves driving 32 steel piles into the ground during the month of February. A meeting with the contractor and the Maintenance Department was held yesterday due our concern for the…

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.

New measurements show high air pollution in the Copenhagen metro

The concentration of harmful particles in the air is 10 to 20 times higher in the metro than on the most polluted stretch of road in Copenhagen, new measurements made by the University of Copenhagen show. More…

Construction work near the Biocenter

There is a risk that this type of construction work may be noisy and can sometimes produce low-frequency vibrations. For further details, please see the attached letter from the construction management (in Danish only).…

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,…

A unique approach for studying changes in chemical markers on DNA

A new method to study specific changes in DNA which occur when cells divide addresses long-standing questions in molecular biology and opens new avenues in research into cancer, ageing and drug discovery

What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters?

An EU-funded project hosted at Roskilde University in collaboration with Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) takes a closer look at the characteristics of attention and proactive response in the context of…

Ditte Boilesen

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

Niels Behrendt receives the NNF Distinguished Innovator Grant

Niels Behrendt, group leader at the Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet/BRIC receives the NNF Distinguished Innovator grant for a project focused on creating test ADC therapeutics.

More than two billion are infected with this disease. Vitamin D can help

A rare patient has made it possible for researchers to prove that vitamin D – the “sun vitamin” – helps the body fight tuberculosis.

More than two billion are infected with this disease. Vitamin D can help

A rare patient has made it possible for researchers to prove that vitamin D – the “sun vitamin” – helps the body fight tuberculosis.

New research project will investigate the effect of sleep extension on body weight, metabolism and learning ability in children

Many children and young people sleep less than recommended. A new research collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet will study the effect of sleep extension on weight, metabolism and learnin…

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of thei…

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of thei…

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…

The proteins of Parkinson’s disease – a new project will give us a better understanding

Associate Professor Vito Foderà has received 2 mill DKK from Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project “Real-time Investigation of Protein Phase Separation and Amyloid Transition in Complex Environments”.

New project will design 3D microfluidic chips for cancer therapy

Associate Professor Anan Yaghmur has received 2.9 mill DKK from Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project “MICNANO: MICrofluidic synthesis and online characterization of cubosomal and hexosomal NANOcarriers for colorectal…

Umami is key to make plant-based Christmas dinner taste like Christmas

How do you combine plant-based foods to bring out the flavours of Christmas? A food engineer and ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen has experimented in Gastro Science Lab. Boosting of umami taste is key.

Now we understand better how cell division works. That puts us a step closer to devising more effective cancer therapies

How does a cell know when to divide? Researchers have found the answer, and it may prove significant to future cancer therapy.

Political depression

Anna Iskra, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. UCPH researchers have teamed up with Danish company…