News about Health

New project will give a better understanding of GPCRs

Professor Trond Ulven has received 6.2 mill DKK from Independent Research Fund Denmark for his project Bivalent ligands as tools for structural studies of dimeric GPCRs.

Vaccine disguised as a virus tricks the body into stronger immunity

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t just face masks that became part of everyday conversation - so did a new vaccine technology: the mRNA vaccine. As the first of its kind, the COVID-19 vaccine was developed using…

More women can now get answers about their hereditary risk of breast and ovarian cancer due to new genetic method

A new gene-editing method enables researchers to more easily determine whether a patient has inherited an increased risk of developing cancer—before any symptoms appear. Researchers at Rigshospitalet have tested the…

More women can now get answers about their hereditary risk of breast and ovarian cancer due to new genetic method

A new gene-editing method enables researchers to more easily determine whether a patient has inherited an increased risk of developing cancer—before any symptoms appear. Researchers at Rigshospitalet have tested the…

NIVI Research Center welcomes Henrik Nyhus Kløverpris

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity welcomes Henrik Nyhus Kløverpris who has joined NIVI Research Center.

NIVI Research Center welcomes Mustafa Ghanizada

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity welcomes Mustafa Ghanizada, MD who has joined NIVI Research Center.

NIVI Research Center welcomes Professor Søren Buus

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity welcomes Professor Søren Buus who is joining NIVI Research Center and the Airway Immunology Research group.

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun engaged in two insightful panel debates at Folkemødet 2025

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun participated in two insightful panel debates at this year’s Folkemødet on Bornholm, both addressing key questions about the ethics and future of research. In her roles as professor,…

Enciso-Martinez A et al. J Extracell Vesicles 14: e70106, 2025

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

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Meanwhile the 12th EuPAT conference is in full speed, remember the EuPAT SPECIAL ISSUE, too!

Whereas the 12th EuPAT Conference is happening these days, bringing together international experts from academia, industry, and regulatory authorities to discuss the latest developments in pharmaceutical process and…

Lauritz Brorsen wins AI Award for innovative skin cancer project

Postdoc Lauritz Brorsen recently won the AI Award at the AI and Pharmacology – now and in the future symposium hosted by Altinget 3 June.

CULTMIND Resilience Workshop 20-21 May 2025

A two-day interdisciplinary and multi-regional workshop on resilience was organised at CULTMIND on May 20th and 21st, 2025.

Understanding cancer cell subclones opens door to more personalized treatment

Using advanced techniques, the researchers from LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have been able to see which genes are switched on in each cell, and which…

Understanding cancer cell subclones opens door to more personalized treatment

Using advanced techniques, the researchers from LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have been able to see which genes are switched on in each cell, and which…

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