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• 2019.02.14

  EU Grant for Large Project on the Blood-Brain Barrier

  A large research consortium with participants from both public and private institutions across Europe will receive DKK 67 million from the European Innovative Medicines Initiative. Researchers from Aarhus University and … »

• 2018.12.11

  SUND's Got Talent: Fewer Side Effects from Morphine

  PhD Student Mie Fabricius from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology is exploring the possibility of one day developing morphine compounds with no side effects. Morphine compounds work by targeting a specific … »

• 2018.11.01

  Research Team Receives New Funding for Continued Research into the Blood-Brain Barrier

  A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Aarhus University (AU) and Aalborg University (AAU) has received a new grant of DKK 24 million from the Lundbeck … »

• 2018.10.04

  'The Department Must Be Sustainable Far into the Future'

  The Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology must be strengthened and ready for a future of fierce competition. This is one of the ambitions of Head of Department Helle Waagepetersen. … »

• 2018.08.15

  Postdoc Kaushik Thanki was awarded at the CRS Annual Meeting in New York

  Postdoc Kaushik Thanki from the Vaccine Design and Delivery Group received the 2018 Best Oral Abstract Presenter Award for the oral presentation entitled Lipid-polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles (LPNS) for Efficient Pulmonary … »

• 2018.06.07

  This year's award nominations are in place

  The nominations for this year's awards have ticked in and you can now see who has been nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award, the Innovation Award and the Study Environment Award. Photo: Innovation Award winners … »

• 2018.06.07

  SUND Spaces: The University Park Glass Bridge

  The decoration on the footbridge was created by the artist Ferdinand Ahm Krag, and the idea was to ‘bridge the gap’ between the architectural expressions of the two buildings through a combination of warm and cold … »

• 2018.05.15

  Professor Jukka Rantanen received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

  Jukka Rantanen has been granted DKK 5,9 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for the project “PCP2 – Particles for Continuously operating Powder handling Processes.” … »

• 2018.05.15

  Independent Research Fund Denmark awards DKK 100m to SUND researchers

  DFF wishes to create the flexibility to follow original ideas for research with as yet unknown potential to improve our lives and way of living.  That is the vision of DFF which has just published the names of the … »

• 2018.05.15

  Researchers Discover Connection Between Circadian Rhythm and Aggression

  Each year around 8,000 Danes are diagnosed with a form of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is one of them. The disease manifests itself in memory difficulties in particular, but can also result in personality changes and … »

• 2018.05.09

  Assistant Professor Kathryn Browning received a grant from LEO Foundation

  Kathryn Browning from LEO Foundation Center for Cutaneous Drug Delivery has been granted DKK 2.23 million from LEO Foundation for the project “Neutron reflectivity of healthy and atopic dermatitis lesional skin lipid … »

• 2018.05.07

  Assistant Professor Mariena van der Plas has been granted DKK 2.75 million from LEO Foundation

  Mariena van der Plas from the LEO Foundation Center for Cutanous Drug Delivery was awarded with the grant for the project ‘Development of Biomarkers and Models for Wound Infection.’ … »

• 2018.04.26

  New Professor in Vaccine Design and Delivery

  Camilla Foged has been appointed as professor of vaccine design and delivery from 1 April 2018 at the Department of Pharmacy, where she has been the leader of the Vaccine Design and Delivery group since 2014. … »

• 2018.04.23

  Grant from Lundbeckfonden

  Postdoc Feng Wan from the Drug Delivery and Biophysics of Biopharmaceuticals group has been granted DKK 1.4 million from Lundbeckfonden to the project "Towards optimal treatment of recalcitrant respiratory infections: … »

• 2018.04.19

  Professor Sven Frøkjær receives Pharmaceutical Gold Medal

  Gold Medal Former vice-dean at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Professor Sven Frøkjær, has received the Danish Pharmaceutical Society’s gold medal for his work and great influence on the pharmaceutical field. … »

• 2018.02.15

  Head of Studies for Pharmacy: If We Are to Do Something Big for Denmark, then...

  Over the next new weeks SUND Communication will shine a spotlight on the faculty’s talented heads of studies and their work organising the study programmes. This time we have talked to Associate Professor Tommy Nørskov … »

• 2018.01.31

  New technology: Edible QR code can be the medicine of the future

  Researchers at Department of Pharmacy have developed a new method for the production of medicine. They print medical drugs in QR coded patterns onto an edible material. … »

• 2018.01.24

  Professor at Department of Pharmacy is leading new Nordic Collaboration

  A pharmaceutical collaboration between Nordic universities receives DKK 35 million from NordForsk. The project will focus on new pharmaceutical products specially adapted to each patient. Project leader is Professor … »

• 2018.01.24

  Scientist at Department of Pharmacy receives grant to research in protein superstructures

  Associate Professor Vito Foderà from the Department of Pharmacy receives the Velux Foundation's VILLUM Young Investigators grant of DKK 8.6 million. … »

• 2017.12.15

  Distinct human mutations can alter the effect of medicine

  About one third of all medicine binds to the same type of receptor in the human body. An estimated 3 percent of the population have receptors of this type that are so genetically different that they are predisposed to … »

• 2017.12.15

  Head of Department Ole Thastrup Leaves ILF to Manage Listed Biotech Company

  Ole Thastrup is leaving his position as head of the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology (ILF) to manage the recently listed biotech company 2cureX. Helle Waagepetersen has been appointed as head of department ad … »

• 2017.12.14

  Paper from Department of Pharmacy published in Molecular Cell

  An article by i.a. PhD student Ingvar Möller and Professor MSO Kasper Rand has been published in Molecular Cell, a top journal of molecular biology. … »

• 2017.12.12

  Great Prize Year at SUND

  The past years’ strategic focus on prizes is now bearing fruit, and the faculty’s many talented researchers and teachers receive both Danish and international acclaim for their work. See the list of prizes received in … »

• 2017.11.30

  Four SUND researchers receive a Sapere Aude Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

  With DKK 165 million distributed among 29 talented researchers, the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Sapere Aude Grants support excellence in Danish research. This year, four talented researchers from SUND are among … »

• 2017.11.23

  PharmaSchool Takes Recruitment to the Next Level

  New teaching project at PharmaSchool is designed in cooperation with teachers from Vibenshus Gymnasium. The goal is to ensure coherence between the recruitment of attractive students, the needs of the upper secondary … »

• 2017.11.23

  Sapere Aude Starting grant for Researcher at Department of Pharmacy

  Associate Professor Korbinian Löbmann has been granted the prestigious starting grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. … »

• 2017.11.16

  ’I'm Pursuing the Research Connection, Which Is Always Difficult in the Early Semesters'

  Associate Professor Lasse Kristoffer Bak from Pharmacy lets his first-year students design laboratory tests with cancer cells, hires older students to give feedback to younger students and experiments with silent … »

• 2017.11.07

  Researchers map trends in drug development

       One third of all drugs on the American market act on the same kind of important cell receptor – the G protein-coupled receptors. A major mapping of these drugs by the University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University … »

• 2017.10.17

  Researcher’s Cooperation with a Company Results in International Level Technology

  X-Ray Machine   Over the past three years the private company SAXSLAB has cooperated with Professor with Special Responsibilities Bente Vestergaard on developing new technology for biostructural research. This has … »

• 2017.10.05

  The Effect of Ibuprofen on the Nervous System

  Drug Research    The popular pain-relieving medication ibuprofen plays a role in our nervous system. For the first time, researches from the University of Copenhagen have now been able to determine how the drug works in … »

• 2017.03.30

  Front cover of Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism

  A paper by Professor Helle S. Waagepetersen, Research Assistant Jens V. Andersen, PhD -scholarship Sofie K. Christensen and Academic employee Jakob D. Nissen - made this month's front cover of Journal of Cerebral Blood … »

• 2017.03.14

  Researchers receive 20 million kr. to smuggle medicine past the blood brain barrier

  Associate Professor Birger Brodin, Department of Pharmacy, is part of a research team which is awarded DKK 20 million from the Lundbeck Foundation. … »

• 2017.02.24

  Elite Research travel grant to researcher at Department of Pharmacy

  PhD student Ulrik Hvid Mistarz receives the Elite Research travel grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. … »

• 2017.02.07

  Front cover of Nature Chemical Biology

  A paper by Professor Kristian Strømgaard and Assistant Professor Hans Michael Maric and collaborators at the universities of Hamburg and Wuerzburg made it this month's front cover of Nature Chemical Biology … »

• 2017.01.30

  Large Grant for Research into Biopharmaceuticals

  A research project at Department of Pharmacy is granted DKK 60 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme. The grant is given to Professor Hanne Mørck Nielsen who will conduct research into the … »

• 2017.01.29

  10th European Workshop on Particulate Systems (EWPS)

  The EWPS 2017 was held in Copenhagen at Department of Pharmacy 19-20 January. … »

• 2017.01.05

  ITN European Industrial Doctorates Grant

  Associate Professor Kasper D. Rand, Department of Pharmacy, has received DKK 4.3 million from The Doctoral Industrial School for Vaccine Design through Structural Mass Spectrometry. … »

• 2016.12.13

  Honourable nomination of Professor at Department of Pharmacy

  Martin Malmsten has been elected as chairman of Section for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA. … »

• 2016.12.08

  Danish research paves the way for new treatments of the brain

  Danish researchers from the Center of Biopharmaceuticals have developed new compounds that affect receptors in the brain in such a way that side effects in treatments of e.g. sleeping disorders, anxiety and epilepsy … »

• 2016.11.16

  2016 AAPS Postdoctoral Fellow Award

  Postdoc Kaushik Thanki from Department of Pharmacy awarded at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting. … »

• 2016.10.26

  Grant from Lundbeckfonden

  Postdoc Kaushik Thanki from the Vaccine Design and Delivery Group at the Department of Pharmacy has been granted DKK 1.4 from Lundbeckfonden. … »

• 2016.10.14

  Research articles from Department of Pharmacy are cover stories in influential scientific journal

  Two research articles have been chosen as cover stories in Journal of Controlled Release, as well as being highlighted for the importance of the work described in the papers. … »

• 2016.10.13

  New research center at Department of Pharmacy

  Backed by DKK 40 million from the LEO Foundation, the LEO Foundation Center for Cutaneous Drug Delivery will form the basis of new research on skin and drugs. Behind the project is the Department of Pharmacy at the … »

• 2016.09.27

  New edition of textbook in Medicinal chemistry by teachers from Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology

  The 5th edition of “Textbook of Drug Design and Discovery” edited by Professor Kristian Stromgaard, Professor Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen and School Director Ulf Madsen, all from Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology has … »

• 2016.09.26

  Professors at Department of Pharmacy issue book on analytical techniques

  The book "Analytical Techniques in the Pharmaceutical Sciences" from authors Professor Anette Müllertz, Prof. Thomas Rades, both from department of Pharmacy, and Professor Yvonne Perrie from Strathclyde University, … »

• 2016.09.07

  Danish research team revives drug research

  As the first in the world, a Danish research team from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology has succeeded in mapping and producing two important substances which may greatly impact future drug research. … »

• 2016.06.30

  Professor at Department of Pharmacy awarded with a research gift

  Professor Thomas Rades at Department of Pharmacy has been granted an award of USD 46,000 from Agilent Technologies in acknowledgement of his work. … »

• 2016.06.27

  Grant from Hørslev-Fonden

  Associate Professor Camilla Foged from the Vaccine Design and Delivery Group at the Department of Pharmacy has received DKK 150,000 for a project on chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD). … »

• 2016.06.27

  Professor at Department of Pharmacy awarded for lifelong outstanding work

  Professor Bente Gammelgaard at Department of Pharmacy is personally awarded with The Nordic Plasma Torch Award 2016. … »

• 2016.04.01

  Professor at Department of Pharmacy awarded for exceptional work

  Professor Jukka Rantanen at Department of Pharmacy is personally awarded for outstanding research achievements in Pharmaceutical Sciences. … »

• 2016.03.14

  Decoding the signaling pathways of the brain

  New four-year research project at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology will develop tools to understand the signaling pathways of the brain. … »

• 2016.02.15

  Researchers from Department of Pharmacy to boost Danish export

  The Department of Pharmacy is involved in a project, which will help the industry to address the challenges related to exporting dry products to new growth markets with high humidity and temperatures. … »

• 2016.01.19

  Researchers at Department of Pharmacy develop novel cell line for screening of brain drugs

  Researchers from the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Copenhagen have developed a cell line, which may be used to investigate new drugs and help predict whether they are able to enter the brain. The research … »

• 2015.11.25

  Graduate Student Award to PhD Fellow at Department of Pharmacy

  Philip Jonas Sassene at Department of Pharmacy has received the AAPS Lipid-based Drug Delivery Graduate Student Award. The award from American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS) is an acknowledgement of … »

• 2015.07.13

  Research results on cover of Lab-on-a-Chip journal

  A research article by researchers at the Department of Pharmacy has recently been highlighted on the cover of the prestigious Lab-on-a-Chip journal. … »

• 2015.06.23

  Researcher at the Department of Pharmacy receives the prestigious Sapere Aude Grant

  Associate Professor Kasper D. Rand receives the prestigious DFF Starting Grant 2015 with nearly 7 mill. DKK. The grant is awarded by the Danish Council for Independent Research as a part of the Sapere Aude research … »

• 2015.06.11

  Researcher at the Department of Pharmacy receives big grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research

  Associate Professor Camilla Foged from the Vaccine Design and Delivery Group at the Department of Pharmacy has received DKK 4.6 mill. for a project on tuberculosis. … »

• 2015.05.10

  Two Faculty PhD Scholarships to Department of Pharmacy

  Department of Pharmacy has been awarded two PhD scholarships at the faculty application round, Spring 2015. … »