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Using personalized medicine to avoid resistance to leukemia treatment

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is an aggressive cancer type that mostly affects children. The standard treatment is chemotherapy, but about one in four patients do not respond or develop resistance to this. Now,…

Ashamed of shaming? Stories of managing, deflecting, and acknowledging shame after committing image-based sexual abuse

PhD Fellow Sidsel Kirstine Harder has contributed to the journal First Monday with the article 'Ashamed of shaming? Stories of managing, deflecting, and acknowledging shame after committing image-based sexual abuse'. Th…

A student solution for Brazil's mass vaccination problem

A multidisciplinary team consisting of five students from Global Health, Global Development, and Medicine represented the University of Copenhagen at the 2021 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.

Basketball Mathematics scores big at inspiring kids to learn

New study with 756 1st through 5th graders demonstrates that a six-week mashup of hoops and math has a positive effect on their desire to learn more, provides them with an experience of increased self-determination and…

Our personality traits explain how we perceive and react to COVID-19

Both Danes and Germans with prosocial personality traits are more likely to follow health recommendations, while people with traits that make them more susceptible to negative emotions are more likely to see COVID-19 as…

We need to rethink the healthcare sector

The conference on chronic conditions at the UCPH revealed a growing interest in the everyday lives of chronic patients. The job is now to make improved quality of life a matter of priority, says Ayo Wahlberg, one of the…

New Global Health Case Challenge: Improving quality of care at birth in the wake of COVID-19

There is a new student case challenge in town! University of Copenhagen is re-launching its popular international Global Health Case Challenge in collaboration with three Nordic universities.

The fight against diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh

Rebeca Sultana has spent the last six years investigating diarrheal diseases including cholera transmission in a low-income urban community in Dhaka. Read her story here.

Failing to see the wood for the trees may be preventing better outcomes in cardiovascular disease

Managing single risk factors like blood pressure rather than looking at overall risk may be wasting scarce resources in countries where cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise, according to a new study.

Researchers discover how to control zinc content in plants: Could help the world’s malnourished

Over 2 billion people worldwide are malnourished due to zinc deficiency. Led by the University of Copenhagen, an international team of researchers has discovered how plants sense zinc and use this knowledge to enhance…

New project looking to enhance young people’s climate crisis awareness, agency and action in Tanzania

Researchers from the sections of Global Health and Health Services Research have been awarded DKK 12 million from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The University of Copenhagen gathers medical anthropologists for a conference on chronic conditions

With close to 500 participants, the Chronic Living conference on 4-6 March will be one of the largest medical anthropological events on record.

Big grant enables young researcher to develop AI solution for pancreatic cancer

With a new grant for research leaders in data science, Assistant Professor Bulat Ibragimov will lead an ambitious project that will leverage the artificial intelligence advances to improve pancreatic cancer treatment…

New method allows researchers to find protein imbalances causing diseases like cancer

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a first-of-its-kind method called Deep Visual Proteomics. Deep Visual Proteomics gives an unprecedented insight into diseases such as cancer.

Every fifth Dane wants to put immigrants with Covid-19 back in the hospital queue

According to a new survey, up to one in five Danes would prioritise hospital beds for COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms born in Denmark over recent immigrants.

How a holiday affected the spread of COVID-19 in Europe

New research explores the importance of the exact timing of the February 2020 midterm holiday.

Computer can determine whether you’ll die from COVID

Using patient data, artificial intelligence can make a 90 percent accurate assessment of whether a person will die from COVID-19 or not, according to new research at the University of Copenhagen. Body mass index (BMI),…

We’re more like primitive fishes than once believed

People traditionally think that lungs and limbs are key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was already established…

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…

Virtual reality will help us in communicating the social benefits of vaccination

Professor Robert Böhm and Associate Professor Guido Makransky from the Department of Psychology have received funding for developing a virtual reality app to communicate herd immunity in vaccine advocacy.

Three researchers from Department of Neuroscience receive in total 6 Million from the Lundbeck Foundation

Andreas Toft Sørensen, Ilary Allodi and Rune Berg have each received a grant of 2 Million from the Lundbeck Foundation LF Experiments research programme.

Kan man følge virus på vej igennem en organisme?

Tænk, hvis man blot ved at kigge ned i et mikroskop kunne se, hvordan en virus spreder sig? Det er faktisk lige præcis det, som vi kan med den genmodificerede fiskevirus.

Twitching, fast and slow: New approach to studying muscle fibers reveals different responses to exercise training

Scientists at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, both at the University of Copenhagen have performed the most in-depth analysis of fast…

World Disasters Report, 2020: Come Heat or High Water

On December 17, 2020, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted an online talk with Maarten van Aalst, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Kirsten Hagon, Senior Analyst in the IFRC…