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After an exciting and influential career with a great scientific impact, Professor Bente Vestergaard has now changed her title to Professor Emerita.

The Drug Research Academy (DRA) summer school took place 25-26 August 2022. This year, 115 PhD students and supervisors participated in the event, enjoying the beautiful venue Bymose Hegn in Helsinge and the…

Bente Frølund has recently received 8.5 mill DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to the project “Proximity-inducing new downstream chemistries - A platform for re-wiring cell signaling”.

The “PerMed Match-Making Day” of the Personalised Medicine Research Cluster was a great success, and will likely be the beginning of many new matches between researchers.

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology have welcomed Lennart Bunch as Professor of Medicinal Chemistry.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen receives a grant to launch a project to identify early signs of eye diseases before they develop in the patient.

The Lundbeck Foundation has admitted assistant professors Alexander Hauser and Anna Mathia Klawonn into their recently established network of researchers, LFIN, Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network.

Friday before Easter Stephan Pless was inaugurated as Professor within Chemical Biology of Ion Channels at Department of Drug Design and Pharmacy.

The lipids, or fat molecules, in the skin are significantly different in patients with a certain type of Parkinson’s disease from healthy individuals, a new multicenter study involving the University of Copenhagen finds…

In order to live, all mammals depend on the function of a large molecule in our nerve cells made up of four proteins.

Professor Fredrik Björkling was celebrated at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology on his retirement last week.

Postdoc Laura Mikél Mc Nair and Associate Professor Matthias Herth have received the grant given by the Lundbeck Foundation for audacious and innovative projects.

Associate Professor Lotte Stig Nørgaard from the Department of Pharmacy was elected to the Board of Representatives of Pharmadanmark.

The enzymes in human cells known as histone deacetylases, or HDACs, are targets for a handful of anticancer drugs because of their ability to affect gene expression

Camilla Foged Professor of vaccine design, Department of Farmaci, talks about the Corona vaccine Din internetbrowser understøtter ikke iframes. Det betyder, at videoen New vaccine - should you be skeptic? ikke kan…

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people lose their mobility or life after having been bitten by a venomous snake. Now Danish researchers propose an alternative type of antivenom, named Serpentides, that is simple to…

Population ageing means more people are treated with different kinds of drugs simultaneously. Treatments must be personalised, and the healthcare system needs more medicinal experts.

The research environment in Denmark and globally is characterised by high ambitions and high expectations. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on researchers' often demanding working life and on creating a good working…

In this article you will find inspiration on how to integrate your research with innovation, what you can learn from the process, and where you can get help. The Defining Moment GHB is a chemical compound that is…

Din internetbrowser understøtter ikke iframes. Det betyder, at videoen Tankelyn - ny podcast fra Københavns Universiet ikke kan afspilles. If you lack good company for, say, the after-work-walk in this time of…

It is a scientist with a huge research capacity and many years of experience in PhD training who has been appointed Head of the Graduate School as of 1 January 2020. From his many years as a supervisor for PhD…

Professor Emeritus Nils Brünner has been elected to the Lund University's Faculty of Medicine Board. He has extensive experience within oncology, both as a clinician and as a professor. In addition, he has been involve…

In November 2018, a committee under the University of Copenhagen's Research and Innovation Council (KUFIR) selected 24 researchers who would be part of UCPH's stake on talent development. Included in the list were 10…

The five new fellows from SUND. From the left: Cordelia Imig, Elisabeth Rexen The Wolf, Marco Donia, Thomas Qvistgaard Jepps, Tor Biering-Sørensen. For the 13th time, the Lundbeck Foundation has awarded a number of…

The human cell has a wide variety of receptors on its surface that many molecules and therapeutic drugs can bind to in order to activate signals inside the cell to regulate different physiological functions. GPCRs are…

As part of the ‘Ascending Investigators’ grant programme, eight researchers at SUND, incl. two from ILF, will each receive DKK 5 million for a number of projects.

Students who wish to complete their master thesis at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology are kindly asked to find the projects at Drug.ku.dk/education. The projects are listed under the Discipline areas as…

Professor Hans Bräuner-Osborne and Professor David Gloriam from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen have received a grant of DKK 10 million from the Lundbeck Foundation. The…

PDZnet together with Zealand Pharma welcomes you at the scientific symposium entitled 'Protein & Peptide Drug Discovery' at Zealand Pharma on 3rd October 2019. The symposium will include talks by internationally…

A professor from the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and professor Christian Adam Olsen from ILF have developed a new method for analysing the signalling molecules of staphylococci. Greater knowledge of how…

Gigantic new facilities in Lund and Hamburg provide researchers with unique opportunities to explore molecule structures and dynamics. Now researchers can apply for transnational life science collaborations within the…

Bachelor students in health sciences will most likely be able dedicate their master’s degree to brain research. The ministry has just approved SUND’s new programme in neuroscience beginning in September 2020.