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Departments forced to stop researchers applying for external funding

A number of UCPH departments are under so much financial pressure that they have stopped their researchers from applying for funding unless the grant giver covers overheads. Staff representative says that researchers are frustrated

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Campus

Million Swedish kroner to Maiken Nedergaard for discovering the brain's cleaning system

UCPH professor Maiken Nedergaard is this year's recipient of the prestigious Stora Nordiska award. She receives the award for her discovery of, and research into, the brain's ‘cleaning system’, the glymphatic system.

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Science

UCPH to hire a diversity and equal treatment consultant

A new consultant at the University of Copenhagen is to boost equality among genders and among Danish/international researchers.

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Campus

Award winner presents a biblical buffet

Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme receives the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters’ silver medal for her research on the Old Testament. She knows everything there is to know about what they actually ate in the Bible.

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Science

Brave new food

Cancer patients will in the future be able to enjoy 3D-printed and individually customised meals. UCPH researchers are now trying to avoid the whole thing collapsing into a heap.

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Science

Butterflies on needles to be digitised at UCPH museum

There are two million butterflies in the old scientific collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Now they are to put in a database, and this will reveal patterns in nature over the last 250 years.

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Education

Plant and environmental sciences dismiss 17 employees – 10 pct. of permanent staff

The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences is to cut staff after a series of setbacks that include winning external research projects that drain budgets.

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Science

DKK 13 million ERC grant to protein research at Panum

A research group at the Center for Protein Research at Panum has received a large grant to do research on the relationship between a particular type of receptor on human cells and their significance for certain types of cancer.

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Science

DKK 10 million Lundbeck fellowship to young UCPH scientist

Assistant Professor Amelie Stein from the Department of Biology now has five years of financial security to research the effect of gene variations on proteins in a project that she has named after her young daughter.

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Science

Multiple awards to UCPH research into ancient sagas

Two researchers from the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics recognised for their work in Old Norse literature. It is the Einar Hansen Research Foundation which pays tribute to their "excellent humanities research”.

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