News from ISIM

Publication

2025.03.04

New insights in immune cells

PhD Fellow Mustafa Ghanizada work on immune cells has been published in Nature Immunology, where he…

podcast

2025.01.16

The Body’s Bodyguards - an illustrative narrative about the immune system

A new podcast-series uses analogies, humor and sound effects as reminders before the students go to…

Malaria

2024.11.20

New Discovery Uncovers the Malaria Parasite’s Achilles’ Heel

The new study, that has just been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, reveals…

Award

2024.11.06

Meet the new Dr Abildgaard Fellow from SIC

Wenning Zheng is among the four talented skin researchers to receive a LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard…

Fellowship

2024.10.18

Five new ISIM BRIDGE Fellows 2024-2026

We are proud to announce that 5 fellows out of 14 are from Department of Immunology and…

Vaccine

2024.09.13

Enabling a vaccine against chronic liver disease

Worldwide, some 58 million people suffer from the liver disease chronic hepatitis C, which leads to…

KFJ award

2024.06.21

Patients infected with new virus sparked professor’s interest in virology

Today, Professor Jens Bukh receives the preclinical KFJ Award for his ground-breaking research into…

Global Health Research

2024.01.31

Global Health Researcher Spotlight: Henrik Kløverpris

School of Global Health, UCPH, has met Henrik Kløverpris, Associate Professor at ISIM researching…

Germs and Cancer

2024.01.10

Germs can offset the effect of cancer therapy

An infection with the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus tends to worsen the condition for patients wit…

Research Centre

2023.12.18

New initiative puts Danish vaccine science on the global map

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen and the Novo Nordisk…

Grant

2023.11.23

Three SUND researchers receive ERC grants for groundbreaking research

The Consolidator Grant is given to three experienced researchers from SUND for projects examining…

2023.11.01

Newly appointed Professor set to integrate gut immunology into skin research at SUND

Professor William Agace is moving from the Technical University of Denmark to SUND, where he will b…

GOLD LEAF Certificate

2023.11.01

First GOLD LEAF Certificate at ISIM

Reducing our climate footprint Laboratories play a key role in research and education in areas such…

Grant

2023.09.13

Improving health and well-being of under-resourced populations in South Africa

The seven-year grant from Wellcome Trust will support the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)…

Collaboration

2023.08.16

New partnerships can promote positive change in East Africa

The partners from East Africa The three East African universities – the State University of Zanziba…

Virus

2023.07.13

Deadly virus hides from the body's immune system. Now researchers have solved some of the mystery

Every year over 300,000 people die because of the hepatitis C virus. It is estimated that over 50…

The skin

2023.06.12

Memory killer cells could help improve survival for melanoma patients

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Karolinska Institutet have shown that people with…

Fellowship

2023.06.09

Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship of DKK 10 million to ISIM researcher

The Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship will enable Mikkel Herly to establish himself as research leader…

RESEARCH

2023.03.14

New malaria study is good news for pregnant women

Each year, 13 million pregnant women get malaria, and as drug resistance increases, the disease is…

Antibiotics resistance

2023.03.09

Resistant bacteria are a global problem. Now researchers may have found the solution

A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin…

Collaboration

2023.02.06

The Power of International Collaboration: The Future Looks Bright

Researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders from the health research community in Tanzania and…

Immune system

2023.01.04

More than two billion are infected with this disease. Vitamin D can help

A rare patient has made it possible for researchers to prove that vitamin D – the “sun vitamin” –…

Research

2022.11.15

ISIM researchers on the prestigious 'Highly Cited Researchers' list 2022

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ at Clarivate have awarded Highly Cited Researcher…

Biofilm

2022.10.19

Bacteria control their metabolism when going into biofilm formation

In a new paper out now in Cell Reports, a research team from Costerton Biofilm Center at the…

Teaching

2022.10.05

New book on Malaria Immunology – including cutting-edge methods and protocols

During the last few years, Professor Lars Hviid and Professor Anja Ramstedt Jensen from Centre for…

Vaccine

2022.09.29

Pregnant women and their unborn babies can die of malaria. Vaccine may be on the way

Malaria is a major health challenge especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Pregnant women and their…

GRANTS

2022.09.27

Five SUND-researchers get DKK 42 million to exciting projects

Five researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receive big grants from the Novo…

Graduate School

2022.09.19

Corona virus and epidemics – the Annual meeting of the Graduate School of Immunology

PhD students and leading researchers within immunology and infectious diseases were gathered to…

New group

2022.09.08

New Group leader at SIC wants to understand eczema

“This is a really exciting opportunity. I think that the network and the support that the skin…

Research

2022.07.11

How to write a policy brief that matters

A workshop for Health researchers at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College in Tanzania i…

HONOUR

2022.06.17

“I realised that my research can have a positive effect on society”

Professor Ali Salanti and Clinical Professor and Chief Physician Mikkel Østergaard receive this…

Vaccines

2022.06.13

The Fight against Placental Malaria

Malaria infection during pregnancy constitutes a major health problem that can lead to the…

Summer School

2022.06.08

Inspiring days at SIC Summer School discussing Immune Regulation of the Skin

For the second time in history, the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, University of…

Prize

2022.02.28

Internationally acclaimed Danish virologist receives the 2022 Hagedorn Prize

Jens Bukh, who heads the Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP) at the Department of Immunology an…

Teaching

2022.01.25

Danish medical students on clinical stay in Tanzania

In the autumn of 2021, when Corona had released the grip a bit, came the opportunity for Birgitte…

BACTERIA

2022.01.13

Common lung diseases can be difficult to treat – but there may be hope

Pneumonia is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world. But our understanding of the…

Summer School 2022

2021.12.13

Immune Regulation of the Skin

25-27 April 2022 LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, University of Copenhagen, invites…

Visit

2021.10.26

Secondary school students explored the skin and gained new insights at SIC

Together with Gefion Gymnasium, SIC has organised a mini course for third-year secondary school…

New Director

2021.08.30

New Director at LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center

"It's a privilege to be leading an evolving research environment." Professor and Director Liv…

Awards

2021.06.24

SIC welcomes two translational BRIDGE fellows

The Skin Inflammation and Cancer Group has been awarded two of this year’s competitive Translationa…

Research Grant

2021.04.13

Professor Niels Ødum receives DKK 9.9 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Professor Niels Ødum and clinical collaborator at Aarhus University Hospital, Professor Lars…

Radio show

2021.04.12

The Evolution of the Skin

Danish radio show featuring SIC-Director, Professor Charlotte Menné Bonefeld about the evolution of…

SIC Annual Activity Report

2021.03.23

Annual Activity Report 2020

SIC’s Annual Activity Report 2020 is now available!