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Zach Gerhart-Hines Awarded First Flemming Quaade Prize for Outstanding Obesity Research

The Danish Association for the Study of Obesity (DASO) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have awarded the first Flemming Quaade Prize for Outstanding Obesity Research to Zach Gerhart-Hines, Associate Professor at the…

Novo Nordisk buys CBMR biotech spinout to acquire their novel approach for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes

Researchers from University of Copenhagen discovered a target that suppresses hunger, stimulates calorie burning and increases insulin sensitivity. The spinout Embark Biotech has now been acquired by Novo Nordisk

“I appreciate having a deeper understanding of how the body works.”

Olivia Sveidahl Johansen is a Danish PhD student in the Gerhart-Hines Group at CBMR. She joined as a student assistant in 2015 and was recently first author on a paper in Cell.

Research in Cell

Scientists turn up calorie-burning in brown fat with a unique ‘on’ switch

Mice genetically engineered to overproduce the receptor GPR3 in brown fat were completely protected from metabolic disease despite being continuously fed a high caloric diet.

Zach Gerhart-Hines awarded DKK 6M Distinguished Innovator grant

Zach Gerhart-Hines awarded DKK 6M Distinguished Innovator grant