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…
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…