News about Health

"People in science are my people"

Research Assistant Artem Pavlovskyi explains how a ten-minute conversation opened the door to CBMR, why a structural biologist became a scientific multi-tool, and why checking whether friends in Dnipro are online has…

Ding H et al. J Infect Dis 234: e975-e984, 2026

Team SURFACE paper published

Can your employer demand proof that you’ve slept well?

New technology may be able to improve our sleep. But without clear rules, we risk sleep becoming something that employers, insurance companies and other institutions feel entitled to monitor, researchers warn.

Ouare N et al. Sci Rep (in press)

Team DRUGS manuscript accepted

Sorgho FS et al. Glob Epidemiol (in press)

Team DRUGS manuscript accepted

NORDFUGL 2026: "Exposure and Immunity"

On 2 October 2026, 30 participants from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Germany joined the online NORDFUGL meeting to share updates on avian influenza across the Nordic region.

Children facing multiple adversities growing up are more likely to die at a younger age

Study of 1.2 million Danes finds that children facing health-related, social and economic adversities are seven times more likely to die in early adulthood as their contemporaries.

A molecular switch syncs fat-burning to the body clock, our diet and the temperature around us

A protein in the brown fat of mice sits at the intersection of three metabolic controls: the body's 24-hour clock, the temperature outside, and our diet. The discovery helps explain how the body can keep a daily rhythm…

Ørum-Madsen MS et al. Cell Death Dis 17: 840, 2026

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

Maria Kristiansen receives the prestigious European Innovative Teaching Award 2026

Professor Maria Kristiansen has received the award for the education and learning project “LOLit – Low Literacy at Play”, together with a group of researchers and civil society partners from Denmark, the Netherlands, an…

The hidden switch behind one of the biggest paradoxes in aging muscle

Scientists in the Gerhart-Hines Group pinpoint a molecular cause of muscle aging, and a possible fix. By investigating how muscles adapt to age and disease-related decline, the scientists discovered the involvement of a…

Aftab H et al. Malar J (in press)

Team DRUGS manuscript accepted

Okholm AK et al. Vaccine 92: 129117, 2026

Team VLPVAC/ BIVAC paper published

Ruth Loos wins the Erhoff Prize 2026 for her research into the genetics of obesity

Professor Ruth Loos of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen receives the Erhoff Prize 2026 and DKK 300,000.

Augustin Lambert: Creating a toolkit for decolonising global health education in the Nordic context

Meet Augustin Lambert, a research intern at the School of Global Health, University of Copenhagen.

Annual PAIR project meeting in Lyon in September 2026

Anette Boklund, Yangfan Liu and Carsten Kirkeby from the avian influenza group participated in the annual PAIR project meeting in Lyon in September 2026. The meeting was hosted by Hospices Civils de Lyon, and was…

Khote FL et al. Malar J 25: 332, 2026

Team DRUGS paper published

Stauning MA et al. Malar J 25: 333, 2026

Team DRUGS paper published

Experience IVH after dark

On Friday 9 October from 6 pm to 11 pm, Culture Night comes to Frederiksberg Campus.

What happens to transcription upon oxidative damage

New study in Nature Communications

Chueh S et al. Cell Rep Methods (in press)

Team SURFACE manuscript accepted

Leticia Hartmann

M.Sc., Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

From brain function to child health: Two new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor Marlene Behrmann of the University of Pittsburgh and Professor Janet Currie of Yale University have been appointed honorary doctors of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Newly discovered DNA protection mechanism linked to human brain development

A new study in Cell shows how DDIAS protects DNA during cell division and is essential for normal brain development.