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2025.08.14

Arctic Reindeer Face Drastic Decline

By the year 2100, reindeer populations in parts of the Arctic could decline by up to 80 percent. This is the alarming conclusion of a new international study led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Adelaide.

Grants

2025.08.08

Interaction between cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can lead to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver, and new knowledge suggests that chronic virus infections can promote arteriosclerosis, insulin resistance and increased mortality due to cardiovascular disease.

SUND Basic Research

2025.08.07

The brain continues to flush out waste products far into old age

Every day the brain produces around half a litre of fluid, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which protects the brain from injuries and is responsible for nutrient delivery and waste product removal from the brain cells.

ISOTOPES

2025.08.07

Chemical detective work could be the solution to stolen and repackaged medicine

Medicines have a unique chemical fingerprint. Researchers say this knowledge can be used to trace counterfeit or stolen medicine.

Microbiome

2025.08.01

Microbiome breakthrough: Gut bacterium may hold key to future treatments for widespread chronic diseases

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Copenhagen has discovered a common gut bacterium that lowers body weight and blood sugar while increasing bone density. The finding could pave the way for a new approach to preventing and treating cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. The first clinical trials in humans are already underway.

ANCIENT DNA

2025.07.09

Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease history

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Cancer

2025.07.09

Research in the development of blood stem cells receives international recognition

Professor Ana Cvejic was recently elected as member of EMBO, European Molecular Biology Organization, in recognition of her outstanding achievements and research excellence.

grants

2025.06.27

Two research projects on the effects of yoyo dieting and oral infections receive large Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Grants

Two research projects from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, led by respectively Professors Thomas Jespersen from Department of Biomedical Sciences and Professor Torben Hansen from Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, has both been rewarded with generous funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

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Arctic Reindeer Face Drastic Decline

Interaction between cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and chronic hepatitis B virus infection

The brain continues to flush out waste products far into old age

Chemical detective work could be the solution to stolen and repackaged medicine

Microbiome breakthrough: Gut bacterium may hold key to future treatments for widespread chronic diseases

Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease history

Research in the development of blood stem cells receives international recognition

Two research projects on the effects of yoyo dieting and oral infections receive large Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Grants

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European Chemokine and Cell Migration Conference 2025

Double Inaugural Global Health Professor Lectures

Biomolecular condensates: molecular insights and implications for disease intervention

PhD defence: Juliana Josephine Vivian Grandt

PhD defence: Signe Bille

PhD defence: Anna Louise Silvia Walser