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“Extremely satisfying” as researchers find new hope for heart patients

There is currently no cure for the heart condition ARVC, which usually affects young individuals. A new study from the University of Copenhagen presents a surprising new treatment strategy.

Global health summer courses: 150 students are ready to tackle future global health challenges

Over three weeks, 150 students from more than 20 different countries have participated in School of Global Health's summer courses

New gene technology can reveal how well medicine works. Behind it, you will find the new company BioPhenyx

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have started a new company which, on the basis of gene technology, shall make the development of medicine faster and more precise. According to the researchers behind the…

Researchers crack the code to muscle generation

In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a protein that the body uses to generate muscle mass and have even succeeded in artificially triggering it.

Rationale for combination therapy in acute myeloid leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a highly heterogeneous disease for which there is an unmet need for improved targeted therapies. In a new study, the Olsen Group and collaborators use phosphoproteomics to devise rational…

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.

“You have a new match!”

The “PerMed Match-Making Day” of the Personalised Medicine Research Cluster was a great success, and will likely be the beginning of many new matches between researchers.

Revolutionary tool could meet future pandemics with accelerated response

A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one million times while minimizing costs.

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…

Fruit fly metabolism could pave the way for new obesity and diabetes drugs

The inner workings of fruit flies are more similar to those of humans than one might think. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a hormone in these flies that can help us better understand…

CANCELLATION OF 1st Joint Symposium of China's Pharmaceutical Association and Nordic POP

The event planned for this summer in Shenyang university had to be cancelled due to ongoing pandemic situation. The 14th China Pharmaceutics Conference should include the first joint event of China's Pharmaceutical…

Covid-19 clinical trials ignore gender differences

Although the coronavirus affects men and women differently, most clinical trials do not mention sex/gender, a new analysis of 4,420 studies concludes. Ultimately, it can influence the treatment negatively.

Three Nordic POP units (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Uppsala) hosting a new European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant

Three researchers, Alexandra Teleki from Uppsala University, Kasper Dyrberg Rand from University of Copenhagen, Timo Laaksonen from University of Helsinki have been granted the ERC Consolidator Grants. This means not…

New study to examine lifestyle among Danes with increased cancer risk

A collaboration between Hvidovre Hospital and the Department of Anthropology will uncover how people who are predisposed to hereditary bowel cancer relate to recommendations on cancer-preventive health behaviour.