Congratulations to Gitte Moos Knudsen who has received 4.432.749 DKK in support from DFF for the project 'Sleep, brain oscillations, and brain microstructure in mild traumatic brain injury'.
The project will be initiated August 1, 2025 and will last 4 years.
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Following a review of articles published in 2024, the board of the Danish Society for Affective Disorders (DSAL) has awarded “Affekten” (https://sites.google.com/view/danselforafflid/home/affekten) to Søren Vinther Larsen for the article titled “Association Between Intrauterine System Hormone Dosage and Depression Risk” (https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230909).
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The 2024 NRU annual report has been published and is available for download (in a low-resolution version) here.
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Gitte Moos Knudsen has received 748.357 DKK in support from Toyota-Fonden for a powerful GPU server to be installed at NRU.
The server is to be used for the analysis of brain imaging data using new AI-based methods.
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NRU was represented at the annual meeting of the Danish Society of Psychiatry (DSP) by professor Vibe Frøkjær, postdocs Søren Vinther Larsen and Kristian R. Jensen, together with Master's students Kamilla G. Nielsen, Randi T. Kjær, and Jonas Kendal. Søren Vinther Larsen was awarded 1st Prize at the Pontoppidan Lecture Competition for young researchers for his presentation "Effect of oral contraception on serotonin 4 receptor binding and verbal memory: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial". Congratulations to Søren!
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NRU PhD student Clara Madsen has received an award for the second best poster at this year's NeuroGrad Winter School which was held Jan 20-21 at Marienlyst Badehotel. Clara's poster was entitled 'Cerebral serotonin 2A receptor occupancy and behavioral effects of classic serotonergic psychedelic drugs in pigs'.
The yearly three-day NeuroGrad Winter School is designed to stimulate networking between PhD students affiliated with the graduate program in neurosciences (NeuroGrad) at University of Copenhagen. It offers a chance for the PhD students to present and discuss their project with other PhD students. Furthermore, the graduate students will obtain transferable skills relevant to the stage of progress of their PhD study and project.
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We are thrilled to announce that Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen has received 20 mio DKK in a Lundbeck Foundation Collaborative project grant for the 5-year project “Developing TRUSTMIND: AI in Mental Health”. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Prof Aasa Feragen from DTU Compute at Denmark's Technical University (DTU) and Prof Merete Osler from Center for Clinical Research and Prevention at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals (CCRP-RH) and Institute of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Read more about the project and the grant via the following two links:
Lundbeck Foundation news and LinkedIn post from Melanie.
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Congratulations to both Vibe G. Frøkjær and Søren Vinther Larsen for each receiving a grant from Læge Sofus Carl Emil Friis og hustru Olga Doris Friis Legat.
Vibe has received 1.210.000 DKK in support for her project "Promoting women's mental health by identifying markers of hormone-sensitive depression?", while Søren has received 500.000 DKK in support for his project "Hormonal sensitivity and brain biology: Do oral contraceptives distort serotonergic brain signaling?"
About Vibe's project:
In this project, we will leverage novel data from a set of existing cohorts to identify common epigenetic signatures among women undergoing two different types of hormonal shifts (pregnancy to post- partum, starting a hormonal contraceptive) and with different risk factors (e.g. absence/presence of early life trauma) and evaluate whether these signatures map onto a spectrum of depressive-like symptoms or not. This will allow us for the first time to develop a molecular biomarker of hormone sensitive depression and to provide a clinical tool to promote women’s mental health.
About Søren's project:
The primary aims are to determine:
1. If use of oral contraceptives (OCs) distorts serotonergic brain function in terms of serotonin 4 receptor (5-HT4R) binding in healthy young women measured with Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
2. If so, we will evaluate what mechanism may underlie this, i.e., is it direct effects of the synthetic steroids or indirect effects of the change in endogenous hormone production due to the synthetic steroids.
The secondary aims are to determine:
3. If OC-induced 5-HT4R changes map onto the emergence of (sub)clinical depressive symptoms including sexual dysfunctions and changes in behavioral-, emotional- and cognitive processes.
4. If OC use affects brain activation during reward-related behavior.
5. If OC use affects brain structure in terms of regional changes in gray matter volumes.
6. If OC use affects resting state network connectivity measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
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Here in the sweet Christmas time, some NRU researchers have had a wonderful visit by Santa.
Vibe G. Frøkjær has received 164.000 DKK in a scholarship from Danish Psychiatric Society (DPS) for scholarstudent Parmida Rezai and her project 'The role of sex hormones on serotonergic brain markers: a molecular brain imaging study in natural cycling healthy women'. Also, Vibe has received 120.000 DKK from RH for medical student Sofie Hvitved who will work part-time on the project 'The impact of hormonal contraceptive use on hippocampal volume'.
Anjali Sankar and Søren Vinther Larsen has each received a grant from Ivan Nielsens Fond for personer med specielle sindslidelser. Anjali's grant is worth 50.000 DKK and is for the project 'Major depression', while Søren's grant is worth 30.000 DKK and is for the project 'Hormonal sensitivity and brain biology: Do oral contraceptives distort serotonergic brain signaling?'.
Furthermore, Martin Balslev Jørgensen has received 164.000 DKK in a scholarship from Danish Psychiatric Society (DPS) for scholarstudent Ása Maria Debes Michelsen and her project 'Neuroticism and Affective Bias in Health', which she will work on with Vibeke Naja Høyrup Dam and Kristian Reveles Jensen, while on the BrainDrugs-Depression project.
And last but not least, Patrick Fisher has received 70.000 DKK in a scholarstipend from RH for scholarstudent Line Wiberg and her project 'Persistent psilocybin-induced changes in personality and brain serotonin 2A receptor levels'.
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Congratulations to Vibe G. Frøkjær and Annika Læbo Rasmussen for receiving from Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark a PhD stipend (worth 2,176,716 DKK) for the 3-year project 'Optimizing antidepressant treatment for women on the pill: From mechanism to precision psychiatry', which will be Annika's PhD project.
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- New one-year research stipend from RH
- NRU X-mas symposium - Nov 29 in RH-Auditorium 2
- Substantial funding from FSS for three NRU research projects
- Prof. Vibe Frøkjær awarded prestigious Lundbeck Foundation Ascending Investigator Grant
- NRU part of new Center for Discoveries in Migraine
- Drummond McCulloch receives the Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prize 2024
- Prof. Russell Poldrack receives Rigshospitalet's International KFJ Award 2024
- Travel grant from 'Jordemoderforeningen'
- Grants from Ivan Nielsens Fond for personer med specielle sindslidelser
- Another scholarstipend from Danish Society of Psychiatry