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Genetic Research

2017.08.01

Center Researchers takes part in mapping the genetic make-up of the Danish population

A new research project has taken a big step toward treating and preventing genetically determined…

PRIZE

2017.06.15

Signe Sørensen Torekov awarded prestigious Norwegian Career Prize

It has been 25 years since a researcher at the University of Copenhagen has won the Anders Jahre…

LIVER

2017.05.02

Got a Sweet tooth? Blame Your liver

A hormone called FGF21 that is secreted by the liver after eating sweets may determine who has a…

OBESITY

2017.04.27

Physical activity helps to counteract weight gain from obesity-causing gene variant

With people consuming more calories and being less physically active, the world has witnessed an…

2017.04.26

We are hiring: Center Administrator for Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research seeks a Center Administrator, who will…

CALL FOR LETTERS OF INTEREST

2017.03.31

Professorship at the Center for Basic Metabolic Research

Call for Letters of Interest: University of Copenhagen seeks letters of interest for a new position…

HEART

2017.03.24

Cut Down on Sugar, If You Are Experiencing Heart Rate Problems

If you are experiencing heart rate problems, you should not consume large amounts of sugar at once.…

2017.03.24

Scientific Director Jens Juul Holst receives the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine

His discovery of the GLP-1 hormone and translation of these results into new treatments for…

PRIZE

2017.03.22

Tune H. Pers awarded prestigious honorary medal

Associate Professor Tune H. Pers is to be the 2016 recipient of an honorary medal from the Society…

OBESITY

2017.02.09

Newly Discovered Neurons May Play a Role in Obesity

Using Harvard-developed technology, scientists have catalogued more than 20,000 brain cells in one…

PRIZE

2016.10.31

Young researcher awarded Lundbeckfonden’s Talent Prize

This year, Lundbeckfonden’s personal merit award, also called the Talent Prize, is awarded to Docto…

PRIZE

2016.09.22

Prizes from Bagger-Sørensen Foundation for two of our health researchers

Professor Torben Hansen has been awarded the Bagger-Sørensen prize of DK 500,000 - one of the…

OBESITY

2016.09.21

Carriers of the obesity gene can also lose weight

The risk of becoming obese is 70% greater for carriers of the famous obesity gene, FTO, and on…

DIABETES

2016.09.02

Patients with type 2 diabetes and known vascular damage extends life by around 8 years

A long-term Danish follow-up study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European…

DIABETES

2016.07.13

Gut bacteria imbalance increases diabetes risk

An EU funded European-Chinese team of investigators called MetaHit have discovered that specific…

DIABETES

2016.07.12

Genetics of type-2 diabetes revealed in unprecedented detail

The world’s largest study of type-2 diabetes provides us with the most detailed picture of the…

GRANTS

2016.07.01

Three center researchers awarded grants from Danish Council for Independent Research

Three center researchers have been awarded grants from the Danish Council for Independent Research.…

2016.05.30

Scientific Director Juleen Zierath selected for EMBO membership

European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has just announced Professor Juleen Zierath will be…

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

2016.05.23

Mutation protects against heart disease

According to new international research, just less than one per cent of the population is naturally…

HEALTH

2016.05.10

Do probiotics have an effect on healthy adults? It’s too early to tell

There is little evidence to support any consistent effect of probiotics on the gut microbiota of…

2016.05.03

Marie Aare Bentsen: A personal story about being a Center employee, a female scientist and an interdisciplinary researcher

Being part of the Center from its very beginning in 2010, Marie, a newly-employed…

EXCELLENCE GRANT

2016.04.25

Excellence grant for two Center researchers

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded the ‘Excellence Grant’ worth DKK 5 million over five years…

2016.04.15

Ida Donkin will compete in the PhD cup final

Former PhD student and current postdoc Ida Donkin from Section for Integrative Physiology has…

2016.04.14

Juleen Zierath honoured for her mapping of how sugar enter cells

Scientific Director Juleen Zierath is giving the 2016 Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture on her…

OBESITY

2016.04.14

New research: Obese people can maintain stable weight loss

Maintaining a stable weight loss is the biggest struggle for obese individuals, yet new research…

2016.03.30

Thorsten Brach to join the Center as a Marie S. Curie fellow

Thorsten Brach, a German researcher, is to join Manimozhiyan Arumugam’s Group, Section for…

PRIZE

2016.03.21

Genetic scientist from Denmark is honoured with Indian prize

On 2 March 2016, at a ceremony at Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan’s Diabetes…

2016.03.18

A young Center scientist receives DKK 2.1m fellowship to investigate parts of the brain controlling how much we eat

Roldan Media De Guia, a postdoc in the Treebak group, Section for Integrative Physiology, Novo…

2016.03.09

Elahu Gosney Sustarsic receives a highly prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.

Elahu Gosney Sustarsic, a postdoc in Zach Gerhart-Hines group, Section for Metabolic Receptology,…

2016.02.29

Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen has been awarded the Elite Research travel grant

The grant will allow him to continue his research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and…

2016.02.19

Two Center researchers received highly prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

Elahu Gosney Sustarcis, a postdoc in Zach Gerhart-Hines’ group, Section for Metabolic…

2016.02.11

Researchers come up with new answers concerning a weight-regulating hormone

The recent study focuses on the powerful hormone leptin, which regulates humans’ long-term energy…

2016.01.18

Morten Lundh Received a Prestigious Sapere Aude Grant

A prestigious grant from the Danish Council of Independent Research was received by Morten Lundh, a…

2016.01.14

Center Researchers receive two major NNF Challenge Programme grants

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded two new grants under its Challenge Programme.