NLS Novo Nordisk Foundation

More than 100 qualified candidates have been screened before the Board of Directors decided to offer Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen the position. “Mads is one of the most competent and committed persons I know, and I am extremely happy that he has agreed to take on the important task of leading the activities of the Foundation […]

Novo Nordisk Foundation awards DKK 138 million under its new data science and artificial intelligence initiative. “Data science is an important driver in all modern research. Society and the research community definitely need more specialists in this area, and with this initiative we want to contribute to Denmark being at the forefront of development – […]

The basic idea behind the Open Discovery Innovation Network (ODIN), a pilot project that will be a free space for the next three years, is to improve Denmark’s ability to convert research results into new products and solutions. Without the restrictive framework of patents, ODIN will boost and use the collective thinking and creativity of […]

Just before Christmas, the Novo Nordisk Foundation announced that it will establish a new centre, the BioInnovation Institute (BII), which aims to help the most talented researchers and entrepreneurs in developing and maturing research projects to a point at which they can attract capital on market terms. The initiative has sprung from the fact that […]

Physicists from the University of Copenhagen and doctors from Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, are investigating whether nanoparticles and laser light can replace chemotherapy in the treatment of malignant tumors. Researchers have found that when laser light strikes nanoparticles placed in a malignant tumor, the particles can get so hot that they burn the tumor away. While the results from tests on mice were […]