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A few good reasons to choose CBMR
As part of the recruitment process for international staff, the Center collaborates closely with the Office for International Staff Mobility (ISM) at the University of Copenhagen.
ISM provides a number of services to address the practicalities of moving to Denmark, such as housing, taxes, pension and childcare.
CBMR’s mission is to transform the basic understanding of cardiometabolic health, and accelerate its translation into prevention and treatment strategies, through interdisciplinary research spanning from single-cell genomics to whole-body systems. The Center’s research has resulted in seminal discoveries as to how genes, hormones, and environmental factors influence cardiometabolic health and disease throughout life.
The Center received its third round of strategic funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2024, worth up to DKK 1BN over five years. This generous external financing allows the Center’s 24 Research Groups to receive core funding to support their research activities in addition to their own external independent grants from prestigious funding agencies such as the ERC, NIH and DFF
CBMR's primary research objective is to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying cardiometabolic health and disease. The Center's 24 Research Groups each take a unique approach through the study of energy homeostasis, appetite, adipose tissue biology, genetics, insulin sensitivity/resistance, muscular function and organ crosstalk.
CBMR scientists work synergistically across the Center in a collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment. To support collaboration among closely aligned researchers, Research Groups are clustered into four thematic Research Programs that represent promising areas of scientific investigation, which reflect the Center's scientific strengths:
- Human Variation and Functional Genomics
- Metabolic Dynamics and Organ Crosstalk
- Physiological Control of Energy Homeostasis
- Cardiometabolic Research in Society and Culture
Read more about the Center’s research strategy, here.
CBMR is embedded in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, which allows close collaboration with scientists in a range of complementary fields.
Read more about Departments and Centers at the Faculty here.
The Center is highly integrated into the regional research ecosystem, which includes clinical partners such as Rigshospitalet and Gentofte Hospital, as well as the pharma and biotech industry located in Medicon Valley. The Center’s translational efforts benefit from rich Danish registers with longitudinal health information, and the biological samples available from the Danish Biobanks.
Copenhagen, Denmark, placed 2nd in the 2023 Global Liveability Ranking published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, based on assessments of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. The Center is located across three floors of the Maersk Tower at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences in the Copenhagen district Nørrebro. It can be reached in less than 10 minutes by public transportation from one of the city’s central transportation hubs, Nørreport Station. Most staff choose to cycle to work, and park in the dedicated bicycle parking basement beneath the Maersk Tower.
CBMR offers a comprehensive and holistic talent development program for its scientific, technical and administrative staff. This includes coaching and mentoring, professional and career development courses, and leadership and management training.
Learn more about our commitment to training and talent development here.
To advance the Center’s basic research questions, six Enabling Biology and Technology Platforms have been established to empower the scientists and accelerate their discovery and innovation.
- Metabolomics
- Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping
- Single-Cell Omics
- Data Analytics
- Genetic Perturbation
- Computational Chemistry
Read more about the Center’s Enabling Biology and Technology Platforms here.
CBMR scientists also have direct access to highly specialized core facilities at the Faculty. These include the Core Facility for Transgenic Mice, the Proteomics Research Infrastructure and Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy.
Find the full list of core facilities at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences here.
The Center is committed to translating its discoveries to accelerate the prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiometabolic disease. While the Center already has a proven track record in successful patent applications and developing spinout companies, additional initiatives are being implemented to foster a stronger innovative culture and translational mindset across CBMR.
Read more about the Center’s translation strategy here.
CBMR is committed to enabling more nuanced discussions about cardiometabolic health and disease, and to build trust and curiosity through engagement that acknowledges the complexity of metabolism in an approachable and relatable way. Our outreach activities are largely driven by Research Program 4, Cardiometabolic Research in Society and Culture, at the Medical Museion.
Read more about outreach and engagement at CBMR here.
Opportunities for Postdocs and PhD, Master and Bachelor Students
The CBMR International PhD and Postdoc Program supports competitive national and international recruitment of PhD and Postdoc fellows.
The fellowships are aimed at early career researchers with a basic science background or clinicians who aspire to a career in academic medicine. We are particularly interested in candidates who are familiar with integrative research approaches within the broad area of basic cardiometabolic research with an application towards human pathophysiology.
We are also always looking for highly motivated and engaged students, both at bachelor and master level. Both Danish and international students are accepted.
2025 PhD Projects
With Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - doctoral network HubMOL - Hub Molecules of Metabolism and Signalling – Key regulators of Life
Background: Recent advances in mass spectrometry-based proteomics have enabled cell-wide identification of specific NAD-dependent ADP ribosylation on proteins that play important roles for cellular function. In animal models, our preliminary data suggest that insulin resistance is associated with marked differences in skeletal muscle ADP ribosylation status on protein involved in insulin action. This indicates a yet unrecognized interplay between insulin signaling and cellular NAD+ metabolism that regulates insulin sensitivity.
Objectives: (1) Define the global ADP ribosylome in insulin sensitive and resistant skeletal muscle from mice and humans. (2) Define the role of specific ADPr sites in mouse and human muscle cells in vitro for regulating insulin action. (3) Determine the interaction between ADP ribosylation and HubMOLs for mediating effects of insulin in skeletal muscle cells.
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