News about Health

Safety becomes more important than foraging when a specific neuronal circuit in the brain is activated

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a neural circuit in the mouse’s brain which ensures that it prioritises safety over other needs, e.g. food seeking, and that this happens automatically when…

Andy and the STEM-PD journey

Patient Andrew Cassy shares personal story on his participation in the STEM-PD clinical trial.

Ceesay S et al. PLoS Pathog 21: e1013210, 2025

Team DISCOVERY/ DRUGS paper published

Is it possible to revert lipid changes associated with Parkinson’s Disease?

The title of the project is "Reverting brain lipid changes associated with Parkinson’s Disease pathology in patients’ neuronal cells". Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the deposition…

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network will investigate the role of lipids in protein aggregation

The Doctoral program will train fifteen doctoral candidates, including three who will be employed at the Galvagnion lab. The project seeks to unravel the structural complexities of amyloid protein-lipid aggregates and…

NIVI Research Center welcomes Leader of Formulation Sciences and Devices Group

VACCINES The Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity is pleased to welcome Joanna Rejman as Leader of NIVI Research Center’s Formulation Sciences and Devices group.

Rethinking peptides to create better drug candidates

In drug development, peptides are promising as a modality because they are extremely good at binding, even for proteins that are difficult to bind using traditional drug-like molecules.

Call for abstracts: Extreme heat and health in the context of climate change

The goal of this symposium is to highlight a global health emergency: The impact of extreme heat on public health due to climate change.

Studieforløb i Kenya: Brug din faglighed i globalt udviklingssamarbejde

Deltag i et internationalt lærings- og innovationsforløb om Danmarks udviklingssamarbejde, FN’s Verdensmål og sundhedsudfordringer i Kibera, Kenya.

Gloria Ceasar: The threat of mosquito-borne viral diseases

Meet Gloria Ceasar, an Assistant Lecturer from University of Dar es Salaam and Doctoral Student from the KCMC University, Tanzania

ISIM researchers aim to develop the world’s first hepatitis C vaccine

A Grand Solutions Grant worth DKK 15.7 million from Innovation Fund Denmark will help bring groundbreaking Danish vaccine candidate to clinical trials.

One step closer to the world’s first hepatitis C vaccine

A Grand Solutions Grant worth DKK 15.7 million from Innovation Fund Denmark will help bring groundbreaking Danish vaccine candidate to clinical trials.

Interview with Rico Kongsager

COPE interviews Rico Kongsager, Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His research focuses on climate resilience in Nordic communities, and…

Emma Giordana joins CMP

Emma joins the VLPVAC team

Eric Felix Lyimo

Ph.D., Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Lopez-Perez M et al. J Infect Dis 231: e956-e965, 2025

Team SURFACE paper published

Newly discovered ‘molecular fingerprints’ could transform diabetes treatment and diagnosis

Unprecedented insights into insulin resistance could pave the way for better treatments and earlier detection of type 2 diabetes.

A better structural understanding of the dopamine transporter

Professor Claus Juul Løland has been named Distinguished Investigator by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, receiving a grant of 11.4 mill DKK to further investigate the human dopamine transporter.

PREPARE4VBD annual meeting Uganda 2025

UCPH led Research Project on Vector-Borne Diseases held final Annual meeting and Outreach event in Uganda.

CLEAR Network workshop Madrid 2025

The “Instituto Química Física Blas Cabrera” (CSIC) in central Madrid hosted the 2025 CLEAR network meeting, training and mid-term review - from Monday March 24th till Friday March 28th.

Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn’t been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University…

Everyday PrEP negotiations - new book exposes the paradoxes of HIV prevention pills

A new open-access book published by Policy Press offers a groundbreaking perspective on one of the most promising tools in HIV prevention: PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Løppke C et al. NPJ Precis Oncol 9: 144, 2025

Team OF-BIOMARKER/ BIOENGINEERING/ OF-CANCER paper published

Webinar highlights: How do we translate eHealth research to real-world use?

What we see again and again is that digital tools for mental health have become more visible, more accepted, and more expected than ever. But visibility does not always translate into easy implementation.