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Major discovery about mammalian brains surprises researchers

In a new breakthrough to understand more about the mammalian brain, University of Copenhagen researchers have made an incredible discovery. Namely, a vital enzyme that enables brain signals is switching on and off at…

New podcast about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar

A new podcast series from the University of Copenhagen about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar.

Parasite visualization workshop

Five-day workshop at NMIMR 21-25/11/2022

Pushing the Boundaries in Disaster Studies: Reflections from the NEEDS 2022 PhD Workshop

Integrated in this year's Northern European Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) Conference in Copenhagen, there was a two-day PhD Workshop which took place between October 31 and November 1.

NMIMR Annual Research Meeting

CMP scientists at the NMIMR ARM 17-18/11/2022

Anna Kathrine Okholm

Cand. scient. (Molecular Biomedicine), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

CPR researchers on the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers list 2022

The "Highly Cited Researchers list" recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers (ranking in the top 1% by citations…

Anxiety, schizophrenia, sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases: Why and how do psychological and somatic disorders occur together?

When a person has multiple psychological and physical disorders, they affect each other. But how? Associate Professor in psychology Karen-Inge Karstoft will study this with a new grant from the Independent Research Fund…

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…

Promise of better treatment for diabetes in Greenland after discovery of widespread genetic variant

An international team of researchers have discovered a new genetic variant that is responsible for close to 7% of all cases of diabetes in Greenland.

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.

Seminar on Current Regulatory Actions Addressing Pharmaceuticals in the Environment was held on Nov 3, 2022 in Helsinki

A hybrid seminar on Current Regulatory Actions Addressing Pharmaceuticals in the Environment was hosted by the University of Helsinki on November 3, 2022. The seminar gathered together ca. 40 participants live in…

A new workshop on physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling well received

A new workshop on physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling was organised at the University of Eastern Finland recently, with the internationally invited lecturers Professor Leon Aarons from the University of…

"Integrating epidemiological and omics data can help us to understand what's really going on"

Associate Professor Marta Guasch-Ferré relocates from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, to start a new Group focused on nutrition and metabolism.

UCPH research fights life-threatening infections in lymphoma patients

Skin lymphoma can lead to severe and even deadly infections. New research from the University of Copenhagen paves the way for prevention.

Against (ethnographic) Interpretation

By Anjana Bala, LSE Fellow in Anthropology.

Breakthrough in CRISPR may lead to more effective and safer gene editing

CRISPR has great potential within disease control due to its ability to modify our DNA. New research can prevent situations where CRISPR edits the wrong genes.

Is the future of whipped cream fat-free and made of bacteria and beer waste?

Bacteria-based whipped cream could be the future. Food researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a fat-free prototype of the much-beloved substance built using bacteria instead of milk fat – in both…

Is the future of whipped cream fat-free and made of bacteria and beer waste?

Bacteria-based whipped cream could be the future. Food researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a fat-free prototype of the much-beloved substance built using bacteria instead of milk fat – in both…

Microbes at Culture Night

This year the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics took part in Culture Night with our stand: "The microbes you can't live without" in the Mærsk Tower alongside other research centres from SUND. The many participants me…

New insights into the growth of protein self-assembled structures

A study in Nature Communications Biology has identified a novel growth pathway for pathological protein aggregates. This discovery may give us a better understanding of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.​​​​​​​

How cancer cells hide from chemotherapy

Although cancer cells have the ability to divide indefinitely, some appear to have lost this ability and are therefore not sensitive to traditional chemotherapy. New research shows that these cells can still divide and…

New collaboration between the University College Copenhagen and University of Belize

COPE researcher Rico Kongsager from the University College Copenhagen just returned from Belize, where he, together with his colleague Maren Egedorf, are in the initial phase of establishing a collaboration with the…

Sebastian Boje Christensen

Cand. scient. (Molecular Biomedicine), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen