Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH

Great news! 🎉 Today, Associate Professor at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research Christoffer Clemmensen has received an ERC Consolidator Grant to support his research in weight loss maintenance 🔬 There are various methods for effective weight loss, but a lot of people have difficulty maintaining weight loss in the long term. He receives the grant for a project that aims to overcome that very obstacle by developing a new therapeutic approach that target the brain cells that regulate hunger and weight. With the grant comes EUR 2 million to fund Christoffer Clemmensen’s research at CBMR for the next five years. Congratulations Christoffer and team! Read more about the project below 👇 #ERC #ERCCoG #weightlossmaintenance #obesityresearch

Funding for green research and research into the elderly 🌱👴 Researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH receive new grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The funding supports research into the ethical challenges of gene-editing quinoa when adapting it to a Nordic climate and investigating the connection between physical fitness, depressive symptoms and brain health in the aging part of the population. Read more here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gw6rT7vS

Mental health research gets funding boost 🧠 20 researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH secure grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, totaling almost DKK 50 million. The funding supports original research projects within mental health, including social isolation among middle-aged and senior citizens, children in out-of-home care and the relationship between genetics and risk of loneliness. Congratulations to the recipients! See the full list here 👇

At the University of Copenhagen’s Annual Commemoration we were honored to welcome Her Royal Highness Queen Mary of Denmark as we celebrated two outstanding scientists as new Honorary Doctors: Professor Peer Bork and Professor Brian Kobilka. Professor Bork’s groundbreaking work in bioinformatics has advanced health and environmental science, while Professor Kobilka’s pioneering research on cellular receptors has transformed pharmacology and patient care. Both have made invaluable contributions through international collaborations, a hallmark of our university’s impact since 1479. We extend our heartfelt congratulations and appreciation to Professors Bork and Kobilka for inspiring us and strengthening our global academic community 👏

Talent prizes to young SUND researchers 🔬 Five researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH receive Lundbeckfonden / Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prizes. The prizes are earmarked for research into headaches, pancreatic cancer, postoperative pain and more. Congratulations! 🎉

Funding for brain research 🧠 Six researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH receive grants totaling DKK 33 million from Lundbeckfonden / Lundbeck Foundation to projects within neuroscience.   See the list of recipients here 👇

SUND researchers secure grants for Arctic research ❄ The Independent Research Fund Denmark funds three research projects at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH with DKK 15 million to strengthen sustainable development research in the Arctic. The studies will map the demographic changes of narwhal populations, explore the genomes of Southwest Greenlandic sled dogs and find environmentally, economically and socially sustainable solutions for feeding the sled dogs in Greenland. Congratulations to Eline Lorenzen, Anders Johannes Hansen and Charlotte Reinhard Bjornvad!

Globe Institute professor Matthew Collins and a cross-Nordic team receive ERC Synergy Grant of €13 million 🎉 The grant goes toward investigating how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE. The groundbreaking study combines traditional humanities approaches with cutting-edge biomolecular analysis of fragments from medieval books written on animal skin. Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_KbqJis

Professor Jens Juul Holst receives prestigious award 🎉 The 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research recognizes Jens Juul Holst and colleagues’ research for its “enormous clinical and social impact” by enabling “the development of effective drugs to combat diabetes and obesity.” Last week, Jens Juul Holst received his award at Oviedo, Spain. The Princess of Asturias Award honors “scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of the universal heritage of humanity” in a range of fields. Previous recipients include Rafael Nadal, Miguel Induráin (for Sports), Meryl Streep, Bob Dylan (for the Arts) and Leonard Cohen (for Literature). Congratulations, Jens! Photographs: Julián Rus, Iván Martínez and Yeray Menéndez, The Princess of Asturias Foundation

Wednesday, Professor Eske Willerslev from Globe Institute received the prestigious Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2024 at an award ceremony in Montreal, Canada.   “It was a great experience and great honor to receive a prize that so many acknowledged researchers before me have been awarded. I see the award as a great acknowledgment of the scientific fields of ancient human genomics, pathogen genomics, and environmental DNA – fields that I have spent my entire career on,” says Eske.   Congratulations! 🎉