News about The University

Phages to fight bacterial infections

A team of researchers from England, Scotland, Norway, and Denmark have joined forces to develop a safe and efficient phage therapy approach to control the bacteria Pasteurella in Atlantic Salmon farms.

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Huge Power-to-X investments in new hydrogen-based fuels shall propel the green transition in Denmark towards 2050. But how do we prevent local conflicts over new production plants?

Denmark's first quantum information science programme to open soon

With quantum technologies blossoming globally, the demand for quantum experts is already high across several sectors. To meet this demand, the University of Copenhagen will soon open Denmark's first quantum science…

Denmark's first quantum information science programme to open soon

With quantum technologies blossoming globally, the demand for quantum experts is already high across several sectors. To meet this demand, the University of Copenhagen will soon open Denmark's first quantum science…

Frederik Plesner Lyngse wins Best Paper Award prize

Gender gaps in performance and pay are pervasive in high-skilled occupations, and they display a clear widening pattern following the early career and the subsequent arrival of children.

Professor Bente Frølund receives a Novo Nerd 2022 grant

Bente Frølund has recently received 8.5 mill DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to the project “Proximity-inducing new downstream chemistries - A platform for re-wiring cell signaling”.

The Clay Research Award to Galatius & Randal-Williams

The 2022 Clay Research Award are made to Søren Galatius (University of Copenhagen) and Oscar Randal-Williams (University of Cambridge) for their profound contributions to the understanding of high dimensional manifolds…

Elisenda Feilu receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

The sought-after grant from ERC is given to groundbreaking and excellent research, and this time the honour goes to Elisenda Feliu from MATH.

Thomas Rades is Honorary Doctor at University of Helsinki

At the end of May, Professor Thomas Rades from Department of Pharmacy was appointed as Honorary Doctor at the University of Helsinki.

Free movement? New Centre of Excellence examines global mobility rights

A new national Centre of Excellence in law will examine the complex legal structures that govern how we, as humans, move or are prevented from moving across national borders and parts of the world. The new centre will…

Starch from plants is key to bioplastic that is actually degradable

Professor Andreas Blennow’s research group experiments with bioplastics, nutritionally healthy crops and antibiotic multiresistance, but sustainability is the bond that ties Starch together.

Introducing the CERTIZENS Podcast

A podcast connecting scholars and practitioners working on ID systems in diverse global settings.

Diploma Award to Dustin Clausen

Associate Professor Dustin Clausen has received the Hartmann Foundation's Diploma Prize 2022 for his work on developing and understanding the deep connection between geometry and number theory, two basic fields in…

Nine young SUND-researchers receive millions to ignite career

Lundbeck Foundation Postdocs research grants are aimed at young, highly qualified scientists working in the field of biomedical sciences. SUND receives nine out of total of 31 Postdoc grants for 2022.

Professor Lennart Bunch, our new professor in medicinal chemistry

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology have welcomed Lennart Bunch as Professor of Medicinal Chemistry.

Physical meeting in Copenhagen

FutureArcticLives held its first physical meeting and workshop in Copenhagen hosted by the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO).

Anna Klawonn and Alexander Hauser new members of Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network

The Lundbeck Foundation has admitted assistant professors Alexander Hauser and Anna Mathia Klawonn into their recently established network of researchers, LFIN, Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network.

Daniel Bar-Shalom appointed as Fellow of CRS, Controlled Release Society

The Controlled Release Society, CRS, has inducted Associate Professor Daniel Bar-Shalom to the Controlled Release Society College of Fellows.

Engaging with students from Utrecht University

reNEW Copenhagen welcomed 30 students from Utrecht University to the centre to learn more about the work done here, and about a career in stem cell medicine.

Stephan Pless, our new professor in chemical biology of ion channels

Friday before Easter Stephan Pless was inaugurated as Professor within Chemical Biology of Ion Channels at Department of Drug Design and Pharmacy.

Spotlight on researchers in Uganda and Ghana

Video interviews with PhD researchers Milcah Abasabyona and Isaac Owusu Nsiah.

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.