News about Health

Diversity Works completes facilitator training on Self-help Plus with UCPH

The ADVANCE team at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with its partner organisation Diversity Works, successfully concluded an intensive four-day training during the first week of December 2024.

Newly discovered mechanism in the cell’s energy factory can lead to new treatment of muscle disorders

Researchers have discovered a mechanism in our cells essential to energy production in the muscles. It may lead to new treatment of disorders affecting the muscles.

Eva Kummer Selected for Prestigious International Programme

EMBO announces new exceptional scientists, who represent innovation and excellence in their fields, to join the EMBO Young Investigators Programme. BRIC group leader Eva Kummer is selected.

Reyes RA et al. Nature 636: 182-189, 2024

Team DISCOVERY paper published

Playing football with your friends can lead to a healthy old age

Moderate physical activity can help protect the nerve cells and thus foster healthy ageing, research from the University of Copenhagen and Bispebjerg Hospital shows – and it doesn’t have to be high-performance sports.

Prasansa Subba: How equity and stigma interact with mental health

Meet Prasansa Subba, a postdoctoral fellow at the Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen.

Youth confront deep-rooted mental health stigma in Lithuania

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among individuals aged 15 to 29, with Lithuania’s youth suicide rate being twice the global average.

ERC grant funds research to support weight loss maintenance

Associate Professor Christoffer Clemmensen from the University of Copenhagen has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project that aims to develop new therapeutic interventions that will help people maintain weight…

Kasper Haldrup Björnsson

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

New publication on the ribotoxic stress response and UV

is now online in Molecular Cell

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc fellowship for 2 exciting projects.

All people are unique – also in the gut

A new study from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen increases our knowledge about the gut and the life of gut bacteria. The study shows, among other things, that changes in…

Lopez-Perez M et al. Nat Commun (in press)

Team SURFACE manuscript accepted

Fermented seaweed found to boost gut health and immunity in Atlantic Salmon

A new study has found that fermented sugar kelp can enhance gut health and immunity in Atlantic salmon, offering a sustainable solution to boost fish welfare in a growing aquaculture industry.

Join the Student Advisory Board at the School of Global Health!

The School of Global Health at the University of Copenhagen is launching a new Student Advisory Board to bring fresh perspectives and ideas to its global health initiatives.

Alfredo Jauregui joins CMP

Alfredo joins the EPITOPE team

Cronshagen J et al. eLife (in press)

Team DISCOVERY manuscript accepted

New study unravel novel insight to muscle insulin resistance and the insulin sensitization effect of exercise

Insulin resistance remains one of the biggest health problems in our society serving as a gateway to many diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and various cancers. Extraordinarily, we still do not have muscle…

Price increases from January 1, 2025

General pricing The following general price increases have been decided for internal users in 2025: 8 pct. (including the regular 3 pct. P/L) price increase for rodent housing 13 pct. (including the regular 3 pct. P/L)…

Researchers can now identify cancer cells leading to tumor recurrence

Cancer cells escaping tumors in the brain avoid surgery and create new recurrent tumors, but now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have identified and characterized these cells. This can…

Njotto LL et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18: e0012679, 2024

Team DRUGS paper published

Odense: Multicomponent drugs: co-crystals, co-amorphous & deep eutectic systems

The meeting hosted by prof. Annette Bauer-BrandlDrug Delivery & Research Group, Dept. of Physics Chemistry and Pharmacy, is meant to introduce differences and similarities, as well as general advantages and disadvantage…

New insights into hologenomics research in wild vertebrates

In a new technical paper just published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, researchers highlight the potential of hologenomics to deepen our understanding of biological systems from a host-microbiota perspective.…

Millions in funding for mental health research

The Independent Research Fund Denmark funds 20 projects at SUND focussing on psychiatry, marginalised children and youth, poor well-being and loneliness.