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University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and Eir Ventures, a life science focused venture fund, have established a limited company with the main aim of investing in the University’s own spin-out companies. It is the first time that a Danish university establishes an investment company of this kind. UCPH Ventures The newly-established investment company, UCPH Ventures, will […]

A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed at the University of Copenhagen has been approved for phase 1 testing on humans. The vaccine is developed by a team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the companies AdaptVac, ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies and Bavarian Nordic. The vaccine candidate, ABNCoV2, has now been approved for human clinical […]

Danish researchers report about the vital role of CD103+ dendritic cells. Morten Hansen and Mads Hald Andersen at the University of Copenhagen contributed with an article about the role of dendritic cells in the special issue on cancer and autoimmunity in Seminars of Immunopathology 2016. Dendritic cells (DCs) are major players in the control of […]

While developing a malaria vaccine for pregnant women, scientists at the University of Copenhagen Department of Immunology and Microbiology found an unique molecule. Cancer researchers had been searching for something like it for decades. The molecule, explains Professor Ali Salanti, leader of the research group, is a certain chondroitin sulfate (CS), a modified carbohydrate. The […]

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have studied gatekeepers of cell membranes one at a time with revolutionary nanotechnology. They found that these gatekeepers can be manipulated to work longer hours by turning on a molecular switch. In order to let useful molecules go through the membrane, cells use gatekeeper molecules called transporters. The findings […]

New research indicates that young people can lose a third of their muscular strength, leaving them on par with a person who is 40-to-50 years older, after just two weeks of inactivity. The Center for Healthy Aging and the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen conducted the research. They examined what happens […]