News about The University

Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg receives grant to research individual diabetes treatment

Post.doc and Ph.D. at the Department of Biomedical Sciences Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg receives grant of DKK 600,000 from the Danish Diabetes Association to ensure more individualised diabetes treatment.

Professor inspired by housewives and schoolchildren

University of Copenhagen professor Dennis Sandris Nielsen has been awarded SCIENCE’s Dissemination Award 2022 for his willingness and ability to communicate research about the broader societal perspectives of bacteria,…

Department of Psychology involved in new project on the ‘Big Two’

Researchers from the University of Mannheim and UCPH will lead a new project asking why the so-called ‘Big Two’ in human psychology – agency and communion – are so fundamental to us.

New research on how to quantify quantum effects on black holes

Professor in Physics, Vitor Cardoso from the Niels Bohr Institute, NBIA, has received a DNRF Chair grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to study and quantify quantum effects on astrophysical black holes

Does altitude-like cognition training strengthen brain function?

Researchers at the Department of Psychology will now investigate whether simulated altitude cognition training can strengthen the brain function.

Research project about deterrence is rewarded an ERC Grant

What influence does deterrence have on international politics? The topic is highly relevant at the moment and is now being supported by the European Research Council.

The abstracts submitted for the Annual Meeting 2022 may be updated

Due to changes in date of the Annual Meeting 2022, rescheduled to August 10-12, 2022, the abstracts that were submitted under the registration period may be updated. Since the Annual Meeting was shifted by 6 months, the…

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.

Frikk wins cesifo affiliate award

Scientific originality, policy relevance and the quality of exposition of his paper results in ward to Frikk Nesje

Programmer by day, author by night

When Sofie Riis Endahl tells people that she works as an author and studies machine learning and data science, she is being met with great surprise. But for Sofie it makes good sense to combine her interest in artificia…

Professor Ben Boyd, our new expert in self-assembled materials

Friday 25th of February, the Department of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences said a warm welcome to Professor Ben Boyd at his inauguration ceremony.

Fredrik Björkling: 36 years in the Danish pharmaceutical industry and academia

Professor Fredrik Björkling was celebrated at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology on his retirement last week.

How to choose the right programme of study

Are you interested in pursuing an education in the sciences, or in the humanities? Do you feel like commuting to the university every morning, and do you prefer group work or individual assignments? Here, UCPH researche…

How to choose the right programme of study

Are you interested in pursuing an education in the sciences, or in the humanities? Do you feel like commuting to the university every morning, and do you prefer group work or individual assignments? Here, UCPH researche…

reNEW Copenhagen hosts students from Ordrup Gymnasium

reNEW Copenhagen hosts students from Ordrup Gymnasium

reNEW entered partnership with EuroGCT

reNEW entered partnership with the newly EU-funded project EuroGCT that will develop an online hub to provide accurate information on the use of cells and genetic material to treat diseases.

Young researchers awarded grant for cardiovascular research

The Danish Cardiovascular Academy is ready with the first out of five scholarship grants. Two research talents from BMI among the 20 best projects that have received funding from the newly established academy.

High-speed fluorescence image–enabled cell sorting

Read about the article about sorting cells by intracellular features

Researchers will enlighten us about insurance and pensions

With DKK 45 million (€6M) over the next 12 years, the University of Copenhagen has landed a historically large agreement for additional research and educational programming in the insurance and pension field that will…

UCPH establishes investment company to boost entrepreneurship activities

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has established a limited company with the main aim of investing in the University’s own spin-out companies. It is the first time that a Danish university establishes an investment…

Two of our researchers have received the LF Experiment grant from the Lundbeck Foundation

Postdoc Laura Mikél Mc Nair and Associate Professor Matthias Herth have received the grant given by the Lundbeck Foundation for audacious and innovative projects.

The School-Medicine-Theme Day – a new educational activity in primary schools

Can primary school children read and understand a patient information leaflet? Can they identify alternatives to medicine? Can they explain why some medications are formulated as tablets, while other medications only…

The University of Copenhagen is among the world’s best research environments in Sport Science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine at Bispebjerg Hospital – both departments at the University of Copenhagen – are among the world’s best research environments in “Spor…

Ethical guidelines for FutureArcticLives

Learn about our ethical considerations that will guide the research conducted by FutureArcticLives.