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Pain treatment for diabetics inspired by marine cone snails │Akasi Pharma

Walden Bjørn-Yoshimoto is CEO of Akasi Pharma, a company working to develop a new type of pain relief for diabetics, inspired by marine cone snail venom. Initially, however, it wasn’t Walden's dream to work with…

Peter Haahr receives “Young Talented Cancer Researcher Award” from the Danish Cancer Society

Peter Haahr, Group Leader at the Center for Gene Expression (CGEN), has received the Young Talented Cancer Researcher Award from the Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse). The award is made possible through the…

Sociologist joins the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Congratulations to Professor Jakob Demant, who on 1 January, 2026, will join the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) as a newly appointed council member for a four-year term.

Asta Mønsted in Interview about Greenlandic Oral History

Following the publication of her first book, Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland, Privacy scholar Asta Mønsted was recently interviewed by Naja…

Clinging to the past? Let’s overcome the fear of the digital

Blog post by Jonas Tilsted.

CAISA receives large-scale funding for collaboration on infrastructure and research on responsible AI

The National Centre for AI in Society (CAISA) is receiving 45 million Danish kroner from the Danish research reserve for a new AI collaboration with Statistics Denmark. This has been confirmed after the parties behind…

Congratulations to Jesper Velgaard Olsen

Jesper Velgaard Olsen and colleagues have received an ERC Synergy Grant for ADIPOhealth, a project exploring how adipose tissue influences heart health and disease to uncover new therapeutic targets for cardiometabolic…

New ERC Synergy Project to Pave the Way for Future Photonic Quantum Technology

Researchers from three European universities join forces to develop scalable quantum hardware based on quantum dots.

Can AI understand culture, biology and irony? Four research projects receive millions in funding

Can language models learn to understand culture and irony? How do language models actually arrive at the answers they give?

Congratulations to Jesper Velgaard Olsen

with the ERC Synergy Grant of €2,4 mio

New research project begun: Towards an Understanding of Global Feminist Enlightenments

This fall, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen University) and Dr Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University) started the HUM:GLOBAL research project Towards an Understanding of Global Feminist Enlightenments.

LEGATER TIL AKADEMISK UDVEKSLING - USA

Fulbright Danmark uddeler legater til danske kandidat- og ph.d.-studerende, forskere & undervisere, som tager på studie- eller forskningsophold i USA. Legaterne er på mellem 50.000-200.000 DKK. Fulbright tilbyder gratis…

Call for Papers for Special Issue - Women, Gender & Research

The theme of the special issue is: After the tipping point - New perspectives on Danish and Nordic trans studies. Deadline 7th of January.

Rector:” We want to bolster Denmark for the age of AI”

The University of Copenhagen launches a new AI Package aimed at helping Denmark and Europe harness the potential of artificial intelligence in a responsible and sustainable way — for the benefit of many.

Two DFF–Research Project1 grants awarded to Hajime Hirase and Verena Untiet

Two new research projects from Center for Translational Neuroscience have each received a DFF-Research Project1 grant of 3 million DKK.

Recent funding for VOLT

Two VOLT members from the Ecosystem Ecology group, Kathrin Rousk and Mingye Yuan, received major grants for groundbreaking studies on moss–cyanobacteria interactions and their role in ecosystem evolution.

HUM:Global establishes new partnership with The Global Biography Working Group, GloBio

NEW PARTNERSHIP: HUM:Global has formed a new partnership with GloBio, an online platform and forum for interdisciplinary scholars to present, discuss, and disseminate global biographies, particularly historical…

EUFJE Conference 2025 held at the Faculty of Law

CLIMA - Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance at the Faculty of Law hosted the 2025 Annual Conference of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE).

Reconstructing maize domestication

Assistant Professor Jazmín Ramos Madrigal has been awarded a prestigious grant for her project “Reconstructing the chronology of selection during maize domestication through genotype imputation of ancient genomes.”

It stays in the family – Villum grant for Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen

Siblings and professors Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen receive Villum Synergy grant to investigate the critical tipping point of AMOC – Atlantic Meridian Overturning Circulation.

PI Gunvor Simonsen at the Omohundro Institute

ITSS PI, Gunvor Simonsen has been asked to serve as a member of the Council of the Omohundro Institute.

Zach Gerhart-Hines Awarded First Flemming Quaade Prize for Outstanding Obesity Research

The Danish Association for the Study of Obesity (DASO) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have awarded the first Flemming Quaade Prize for Outstanding Obesity Research to Zach Gerhart-Hines, Associate Professor at the…

Ida Vandsøe Madsen is Teacher of the Year 2025 at the Department of Anthropology

Ida is recognised as Teacher of the Year 2025.

“A Feeling of Melancholy Resignation”: The League Visits the Nordic Countries in 1936

Blog post by Emil Eiby Seidenfaden.