Award 2025.04.01 Inflection Award for Margarita Poderyte Congratulations to Margarita Poderytė, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, selected…
Mars 2024.07.01 Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life’s building blocks Two samples from Mars together deliver the "smoking gun" in a new study showing the origin of…
Proteins 2024.05.22 New weapon against dementia The clumping of proteins is at the root of a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders that affect…
2024.01.17 New national project aims to strengthen diversity in research environments For many years, research environments in the fields of technical and natural sciences have been…
Chemistry 2023.12.18 Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and…
air pollution 2023.11.22 Smog from Copenhagen’s Bispeengbuen heads straight into living rooms A large amount of the heavy automobile pollution from Copenhagen’s Bispeengbuen thoroughfare goes…
chemistry 2023.11.01 Major EU grant will make metal alloys the catalysts of the future New international research collaboration to trailblaze the next generation of catalysts – a…
2023.10.20 Honorary doctorate in natural science to prof. Paul Dupree During the upcoming annual commemoration on 10th November, 2023, Professor Paul Dupree from the…
2023.10.17 The Novo Nordisk foundation NMR facility at the Department of Chemistry On the 22. September there was the inauguration of the Novo Nordisk Foundation NMR facility at the…
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…