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Resistant bacteria are a global problem. Now researchers may have found the solution

A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin lymphoma. This is good news for the patients, but also for the global threat of antibiotics resistance.

The deadline for the submission to European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences VSI: Nordic POP has been extended until May 31

Good news for those that are planning to submit to European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences VSI: Nordic POP and are running a bit late!. The submission deadline has been moved to May 31, 2023. Hope for a rush of…

Do rules at folk high schools make sense for young people - What we learned from COVID-19

In June 2020, a study investigated staff and student reactions to folk high schools reopening under new COVID-19 guidelines.

Elia Morella Roig

M.Sc. (Pharmaceutical design and engineering), Technical University of Denmark

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

The first patient has received a transplant with STEM-PD, a stem cell-derived Parkinson's therapy whose preclinical development was led by Associate Professor Agnete Kirkeby.

Tybjerg Group to explore the impact of personalized medicine on the concept of diagnosis

Associate Professor Karin Tybjerg becomes a Group Leader at CBMR in the Research Program Cardiometabolic Research in Society and Culture, located at the Medical Museion in the Department of Public Health

Grey hair and wrinkles at an early age led researchers to new treatment for rare cancer

Sarcoma is a rare and complex type of cancer of i.a. the bones and muscles. Now researchers have found a way to predict which sarcoma patients will benefit the most from a potential new treatment.

Virtual Conference on Staphylococcal Infections (STAPH-2023)

Nader Abdelmalek attended this virtual conference on February 27-28, 2023.

Why has sperm counts decreased to an all-time low? New leading study seeks to find the answer

Sperm counts have halved in the last 50 years – one possible explanation could be because the sex chromosomes are fighting each other, new Danish research suggests.

Is a better treatment of chronic bone pain possible?

ACTaNet hopes to create an efficient treatment of chronic pain in a project that received 1.2 mill Euro from Eurostar. Anne-Marie Heegaard from Dept. of Drug Design and Pharmacology is heading the research contribution…

"We have miscalculated for decades – half of an insulin dose may not work as expected"

New research suggests that a large portion of a diabetic's insulin dose is unlikely to work as expected. University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered that we have miscalculated insulin behavior for many years.…

Beyond Tanzania: PartoMa team is expanding to Ethiopia

The PartoMa team, renowned for their ground-breaking work in Tanzania, and researchers from Haramaya University, Ethiopia have received 50.000 USD from Laerdal Foundation to adapt the PartoMa approach to Ethiopia.

Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South

Focusing on the research process rather than the mastery of a specific topic or method, it is not a methods course or a summer internship. Rather, it aims to provide students with the tools to raise and address…

Exercise burns fat differently depending on the time of day

Physical activity at the right time of the day seems able to increase fat metabolism, at least in mice, shows a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen.

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…

Alexander Hauser receives 4.8 mill DKK for peptide signalling systems project

Alexander Hauser has received the grant from Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens: Accelerate programme for the project “Discovery of Novel Peptide-GPCR Signalling Systems across Evolutionary Domains”.

Nature’s future pharmacy in peril

For thousands of years, people have relied on the healing properties of plants – in some places they are still the only freely available remedies to this day. Half of the drugs approved worldwide in the last four decade…

Nature’s future pharmacy in peril

For thousands of years, people have relied on the healing properties of plants – in some places they are still the only freely available remedies to this day. Half of the drugs approved worldwide in the last four decade…

Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance

About a year ago, our Cities in Global Climate Governance early career researchers’ (ECR) group took up a project to begin reviewing all of the contemporary global urban climate governance literature.

Exercise burns fat differently depending on the time of day

Physical activity at the right time of the day seems able to increase fat metabolism, at least in mice.

CGC Researcher, Alessandro Moretti, publishes monograph on ticket touting

Based on extended fieldwork among ticket touts, people who illegally sell tickets for cultural events and sports fixtures for profit, Alessandro Moretti has published a monograph on the subject.

The deadline for the submission to European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences VSI: Nordic POP is near!

The submission deadline to European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences VSI: Nordic POP is closing March 31, 2023.

COPE researchers at the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality

Last month, COPE researchers Maansi Parpiani and Suchismita Goswami participated in the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality organized by the Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies and the Tata…