News from CHEM

sustainability

2023.08.04

Hartshorn salt and “baking” solves a serious environmental problem

Polyester is the second most used textile in the world and an environmental menace, especially…

2023.07.28

NNF Challenge Programme grant of DKK 60 awarded to Professor Nikos Hatzakis

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a Challenge Programme grant of DKK 60 million to Professor…

2023.03.28

Electron diffraction infrastructure facility

Based on a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, a new facility for single-crystal electron…

diabetes

2023.02.23

"We have miscalculated for decades – half of an insulin dose may not work as expected"

New research suggests that a large portion of a diabetic's insulin dose is unlikely to work as…

Air pollution

2023.01.20

New measurements show high air pollution in the Copenhagen metro

The concentration of harmful particles in the air is 10 to 20 times higher in the metro than on the…

PhD Fellowships

2022.12.06

Center for Medicinal Chemistry announces 6 PhD fellowships

Center for Medicinal Chemistry announces its first initiative of co-funded PhD fellowships with the…

The brain

2022.11.23

Major discovery about mammalian brains surprises researchers

In a new breakthrough to understand more about the mammalian brain, University of Copenhagen…

2022.11.15

Jesper Bendix receive DKK 17 mill. from NNF to investigate crystalline materials

Jesper Bendix of the University of Copenhagen is receiving a grant of nearly DKK 17 million to…

Nobel Prize

2022.10.06

University of Copenhagen professor wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Professor Morten Meldal, of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Chemistry, has been awarde…

2022.09.13

Two CHEM professors receive Villum Experiment grants

Professors Henrik Kjærgaard and Morten Meldeal from the Department of Chemistry, UCPH are receiving…

2022.09.13

Stephan Sauer receives DKK 40 million NNF grant

Congratulations to professor Stephan P. A. Sauer for leading this exciting new quantum computer…

Grants

2022.07.15

Two brilliant nerds from SCIENCE receive NNF NERD grants

NNF NERD (New Exploratory Research and Discovery programme) supports the unorthodox and wild…

atmosphere

2022.05.26

New type of extremely reactive substance in the atmosphere

For the first time, an entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been discovered…

Medicinal Chemistry

2022.03.31

Revolutionary tool could meet future pandemics with accelerated response

A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one…

2022.03.01

Andreas Erbs Hillers-Bendtsen receives an EliteForsk travel scholarship

PhD student, cand. scientist in chemistry Andreas Erbs Hillers-Bendtsen receives a travel grant for…

2022.01.24

Maria Escudero-Escribano Wins 2021 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

Department of Chemistry congratulates associate professor María Escudero Escribano being announced…

2022.01.13

"DNA is in the air"

All the Earth’s creatures waft around DNA, and now scientists have found a way to detect these…

2022.01.04

Award winners at "Winter Gala Ball 2021"

Friday 3/12-21 the yearly and traditional Gala was held and the Department of Chemistry and student…

2021.12.06

CHEM researcher on list of highly cited researchers

Jan Rossmeisl from the Department of Chemistry is on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list from…

Nano chemistry

2021.11.15

Danish chemist helps England extend lifespan of world-renowned shipwreck

Using an advanced new X-ray scanning technique, a team of University of Copenhagen researchers has…

2021.10.15

Laura Kacenauskaite receives the Villum International Postdoc-program

Department of Chemistry congratulates Laura Kacenauskaite on being one of six recipients of the…

2021.10.14

Science News: Identifying proteins through fingerprinting

Fingerprinting proteins enables researchers to more easily identify interesting industrial or…

2021.09.22

New Novo Nordisk Foundation Center aims at recycling CO2

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded €84.7 million for establishing the world’s first…

2021.09.15

Bo Wegge Laursen receives Ellen and Niels Bjerrum's Chemist Prize

In 2021 Ellen and Niels Bjerrum's Chemist Prize has been awarded to Bo Wegge Laursen, Professor at…

PROTEINS AND AI

2021.08.31

Using artificial intelligence to fingerprint suspicious proteins

An artificial intelligence tool created by researchers at the University of Copenhagen can quickly…

awards

2021.05.05

Elite Researcher 2021: "I find solutions for problems that we don't even have yet."

Chemist Gemma Solomon is an explorer in the world of molecules, where among billions of molecules,…

Disease prevention

2021.04.28

New metabolism regulating method: Could improve prostate cancer and high cholesterol treatments

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new method that makes it possible to…

2021.02.24

Jiwoong Lee promoted to Associate Professor

Ji-Woong Lee is promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry.

2021.02.01

Maria Escudero Escribano promoted to Associate Professor

Maria Escudero Escribano is promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry.

2021.01.13

CHEM Talks launching

The Department of Chemistry is launching a new series of scientific lectures on the research going…

Diabetes

2020.12.03

Better diabetes treatment: New insulin molecule can self-regulate blood sugar

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and biotech firm Gubra have developed a new insulin…

artificial intelligence

2020.11.03

New Danish AI tool provides much-needed help to protein scientists across the world

Sorting huge amounts of data is a bottleneck in protein research, a field that is crucial to make…

egyptology

2020.10.26

Inks containing lead were likely used as drier on ancient Egyptian papyri

Analysing 12 ancient Egyptian papyri fragments with X-ray microscopy, University of Copenhagen…

Chemistry

2020.09.23

Chemist uses CO2 to convert seawater into drinking water

A University of Copenhagen chemist has invented a cutting-edge green technology that uses CO2 to…

2020.09.15

Frederik Diness receives Villum Experiment grant

Associate Professor Frederik Diness from the Department of Chemistry is among 15 SCIENCE researcher…

Breakthrough

2020.08.25

Hydrogen vehicles might soon become the global norm

Roughly one billion cars and trucks zoom about the world's roadways. Only a few run on hydrogen.…

2020.08.14

Quoted from Aarhus University: Researchers discover how plants distinguish beneficial from harmful microbes

Legume plants know their friends from their enemies, and now we know how they do it at the molecula…

2020.06.19

Eight scientists from the Department of Chemistry receive more than 40 million from DFF

"It is not every day that eight colleagues from Department of Chemistry almost simultaneously are…

air pollution

2020.01.20

New discovery about harmful particles: "We have found a fundamental shortcoming in air pollution models"

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a surprising phenomenon in a process…

chemistry

2020.01.13

Researchers find that a new family of copper binding proteins is involved in fungal copper regulation

Researchers from INRAE, Marseille in France, Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina in…