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Professor Jørgen Agerholm from the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, who has researched hereditary cattle diseases since 1989, has uncovered a completely new disease due to a mutation in a breeding stud.
A DKK 2.6 million apparatus was originally purchased for research in the oil industry. Today, chemistry lecturer Tue Hassenkam uses it to sniff out the birth of life on Earth. The device has already played an important role in a discovery that he published in 'Nature' in July, and now he dreams of looking for traces of life on Mars.
The Faculty of the Humanities rose seven places to 63rd in the 2018 Times Higher Education ranking
EU grants – Five rising academic stars in a diverse range of fields have been granted highly competitive European Research Council Starting Grants
The Academic Council of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has deprived neuroscientist Milena Penkowa of her doctorate in medicine. Penkowa writes on Facebook that she will fight to keep her degree and that she will take UCPH to court.
A dozen Microsoft employees are currently working with scientists at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The goal is to build the first functioning quantum computer. At the University of Copenhagen alone, Microsoft has invested a three-digit million (DKK) amount.
Mikkel Nørtoft solves the riddles of language. As a student of Indo-European Studies, he uses linguistics, archaeology and botany to find out where we come from.
The Danish government wants to increase the total public research funding to DKK 22.2 billion on its budget. But this remains below the 2016 level before the large scale cuts. And the so-called re-prioritization contribution will continue, each year cutting two per cent from the universities’ grants for education.
It’s 9:56 am, and the first patient of the day is ready to be operated on. He’s three months old, weighs 190 kilos and is fully anesthetized. The five-person operation team is ready, too. For three of them, the surgery is part of their education.
It is the latest huge grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to UCPH. Researchers are to find new treatments for two types of blood cancer. The development of drugs for these diseases came to a standstill many years ago.
