https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/ en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:52:11 +0200 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:52:11 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 diseases... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-researchers-takes-part-in-mapping-the-genetic-make-up-of-the-danish-population/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/signe-soerensen-torekov-awarded-prestigious-norwegian-career-prize/ It has been 25 years since a researcher at the University of Copenhagen has won the Anders Jahre Prize... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/signe-soerensen-torekov-awarded-prestigious-norwegian-career-prize/ Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:30:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 sweet... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/got-a-sweet-tooth-blame-your-liver/ Tue, 02 May 2017 13:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 obesity... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/physical-activity-helps-to-counteract-weight-gain-from-obesity-causing-gene-variant/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:45:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 ensure... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/we-are-hiring-center-administrator-for-novo-nordisk-foundation-center-for-basic-metabolic-research/ Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:30:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/professorship-at-the-center-for-basic-metabolic-research/ Call for Letters of Interest: University of Copenhagen seeks letters of interest for a new position as... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/professorship-at-the-center-for-basic-metabolic-research/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:30:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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. A... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/cut-down-on-sugar-if-you-are-experiencing-heart-rate-problems/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:45:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/professor-jens-juul-holst-receives-the-harrington-scientific-director-jens-juul-holst-recieves-prize-for-innovation-in-medicine/ His discovery of the GLP-1 hormone and translation of these results into new treatments for widespread... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/professor-jens-juul-holst-receives-the-harrington-scientific-director-jens-juul-holst-recieves-prize-for-innovation-in-medicine/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:30:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 for... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/tune-h.-pers-awarded-prestigious-honorary-medal/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:45:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/newly-discovered-neurons-may-play-a-role-in-obesity/ Using Harvard-developed technology, scientists have catalogued more than 20,000 brain cells in one region...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/newly-discovered-neurons-may-play-a-role-in-obesity/" alt="Newly Discovered Neurons May Play a Role in Obesity" title="Newly Discovered Neurons May Play a Role in Obesity"><img src="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/newly-discovered-neurons-may-play-a-role-in-obesity/341770d7446d0f49bd3ddd42b93f7bfb_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/newly-discovered-neurons-may-play-a-role-in-obesity/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:45:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/young-researcher-awarded-lundbeckfondens-talent-prize/ This year, Lundbeckfonden’s personal merit award, also called the Talent Prize, is awarded to Doctor...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/young-researcher-awarded-lundbeckfondens-talent-prize/" alt="Young researcher awarded Lundbeckfonden’s Talent Prize " title="Young researcher awarded Lundbeckfonden’s Talent Prize "><img src="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/young-researcher-awarded-lundbeckfondens-talent-prize/Nikolaj_Albrechtsen_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/young-researcher-awarded-lundbeckfondens-talent-prize/ Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:30:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/prizes-from-bagger-soerensen-foundation-for-two-of-our-health-researchers/ Professor Torben Hansen has been awarded the Bagger-Sørensen prize of DK 500,000 - one of the... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/prizes-from-bagger-soerensen-foundation-for-two-of-our-health-researchers/ Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:15:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 average,... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/carriers-of-the-obesity-gene-can-also-lose-weight/ Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 Association... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/patients-with-type-2-diabetes-and-known-vascular-damage-extends-life-by-around-8-years/ Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:15:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/gut-bacteria-imbalance-increases-diabetes-risk/ An EU funded European-Chinese team of investigators called MetaHit have discovered that specific imbalances... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/gut-bacteria-imbalance-increases-diabetes-risk/ Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/genetics-of-type-2-diabetes-revealed-in-unprecedented-detail/ Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:30:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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. The funds... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/three-center-researchers-awarded-grants-from-danish-council-for-independent-research/ Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:15:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/scientific-director-juleen-zierath-selected-for-scientific-excellence-membership/ European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has just announced Professor Juleen Zierath will be one... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/scientific-director-juleen-zierath-selected-for-scientific-excellence-membership/ Mon, 30 May 2016 12:15:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/mutation-protects-against-heart-disease/ According to new international research, just less than one per cent of the population is naturally protected... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/mutation-protects-against-heart-disease/ Mon, 23 May 2016 13:45:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/do-probiotics-have-an-effect-on-healthy-adults-its-too-early-to-tell/ There is little evidence to support any consistent effect of probiotics on the gut microbiota of healthy...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/do-probiotics-have-an-effect-on-healthy-adults-its-too-early-to-tell/" alt="Do probiotics have an effect on healthy adults? It’s too early to tell" title="Do probiotics have an effect on healthy adults? It’s too early to tell"><img src="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/do-probiotics-have-an-effect-on-healthy-adults-its-too-early-to-tell/COLOURBOX8504950_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/do-probiotics-have-an-effect-on-healthy-adults-its-too-early-to-tell/ Tue, 10 May 2016 13:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/marie-aare-bentsen-a-personal-story-about-being-the-center-employee-a-female-scientist-and-an-interdisciplinary-researcher/ Being part of the Center from its very beginning in 2010, Marie, a newly-employed talented postdoc at... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/marie-aare-bentsen-a-personal-story-about-being-the-center-employee-a-female-scientist-and-an-interdisciplinary-researcher/ Tue, 03 May 2016 13:45:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/excellence-grant-for-two-center-researchers/ The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded the ‘Excellence Grant’ worth DKK 5 million over five...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/excellence-grant-for-two-center-researchers/" alt="Excellence grant for two Center researchers " title="Excellence grant for two Center researchers "><img src="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/excellence-grant-for-two-center-researchers/DSC_8624_1_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/excellence-grant-for-two-center-researchers/ Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/ida-donkin-will-compete-in-the-phd-cup-final/ Former PhD student and current postdoc Ida Donkin from Section for Integrative Physiology has reached... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/ida-donkin-will-compete-in-the-phd-cup-final/ Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:30:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/juleen-zierath-honored-for-her-mapping-of-how-sugar-enter-cells/ Scientific Director Juleen Zierath is giving the 2016 Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture on her pioneering... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/juleen-zierath-honored-for-her-mapping-of-how-sugar-enter-cells/ Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/new-research-obese-people-can-maintain-stable-weight-loss/ Maintaining a stable weight loss is the biggest struggle for obese individuals, yet new research from...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/new-research-obese-people-can-maintain-stable-weight-loss/" alt="New research: Obese people can maintain stable weight loss" title="New research: Obese people can maintain stable weight loss"><img src="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/COLOURBOX8795740_55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/new-research-obese-people-can-maintain-stable-weight-loss/ Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 Metabolic... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/thorsten-brach-to-join-the-center-as-a-marie-s.-curie-fellow/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:45:00 +0200 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 Hospital... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/genetic-scientist-from-denmark-is-honoured-with-indian-prize/ Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:00:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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 Nordisk... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/a-young-center-scientist-receives-dkk-2.1m-fellowship-to-investigate-parts-of-the-brain-controlling-how-much-we-eat/ Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/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, receives... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/elahu-gosney-sustarsic-receives-a-highly-prestigious-marie-sklodowska-curie-individual-fellowship./ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 13:45:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-phd-student-recieves-elite-research-travel-grant/ The grant will allow him to continue his research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and also...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-phd-student-recieves-elite-research-travel-grant/" alt="Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen has been awarded the Elite Research travel grant" title="Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen has been awarded the Elite Research travel grant"><img src="https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-phd-student-recieves-elite-research-travel-grant/Nikolai_Kvadrat.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-phd-student-recieves-elite-research-travel-grant/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:00:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/marie-curie-grants/ Elahu Gosney Sustarcis, a postdoc in Zach Gerhart-Hines’ group, Section for Metabolic Receptology,... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/marie-curie-grants/ Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:15:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/researchers-come-up-with-new-answers/ The recent study focuses on the powerful hormone leptin, which regulates humans’ long-term energy... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/researchers-come-up-with-new-answers/ Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:15:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/sapere-aude-morten-lundh/ A prestigious grant from the Danish Council of Independent Research was received by Morten Lundh, a postdoc... https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/sapere-aude-morten-lundh/ Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:30:00 +0100 https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-researchers-receive-two-major-challenge-programme-grants/ The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded two new grants under its Challenge Programme. https://cbmr.ku.dk/news/2016/center-researchers-receive-two-major-challenge-programme-grants/ Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:15:00 +0100