Funding from RH

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Published: Friday, 23 March 2018 08:56
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Congratulations to Vibe Frøkjær for receiving 879.700 DKK from the Research Council of Rigshospitalet for the 3-year project "Brain architecture of risk and resilience in the context of steroid hormone dynamics and inflammation; window of opportunity for protecting mental health".

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Funding from Augustinus Fonden

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Published: Monday, 12 March 2018 14:33
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Congratulations to Gitte Moos and Martin K. Madsen for having received 500.000 DKK from Augustinus Fonden to perform the project 'Effects of psilocybin on chronic cluster headache: an open-label clinical trial and neuroimaging study targeting a burdensome disease'.

PhD defence: Vincent Beliveau

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Published: Thursday, 15 February 2018 09:56
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On Tuesday Feb 27th at 3 pm in Auditorium 93 at Rigshospitalet, Vincent Beliveau, MSc, will defend his PhD thesis entitled "Functional and Molecular Imaging of the Serotonin System in the Human Brain".

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PhD defence: Louise Møller Jørgensen

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Published: Thursday, 15 February 2018 09:56
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On Friday March 9th at 3 pm in Auditorium 93 at Rigshospitalet, Louise Møller Jørgensen, MD, will defend her PhD thesis entitled "Pharmacological and DBS-induced changes in cerebral serotonin release".

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Historical EU-funding for NRU post docs

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Published: Thursday, 01 February 2018 15:57
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We are extremely proud to announce that two of our post docs, Sebastian Holst and Martin Schain, each has been granted one of the highly competitive Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF-2017) after having received very high ranking in the evaluation process for their respective proposals. Each of the grants contains two years of full salary for the applicant himself as well as a smaller amount for project-related running costs and management. We are looking very much forward to hosting their projects at NRU!

Below is more information about each of the two proposals.

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Two FSS grants to NRU researchers

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Published: Tuesday, 09 January 2018 14:42
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Congratulations to Sofi da Cunha-Bang for receiving a Clinician Scientist Position grant worth 191.429 DKK for her part-time research project "The role of serotonin 1B receptors in aggressive behavior" and to Vibe G. Frøkjær for receiving a scholar stipend grant worth 103.100 DKK for the project "Inflammation in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder; does serotonin play a role?", both from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (FSS).

Travel grant to NRU from the Lundbeck Foundation

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Published: Thursday, 21 December 2017 10:55
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Congratulations to Olaf Paulson for receiving a travel stipend of 50,000 DKK from the Lundbeck Foundation for the project "Automatic detection of structural changes in epilepsy patients". The grant covers a one-week research stay of 4 people from NRU at Bruce Fischl's lab at Mass. General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.

NRU X-mas symposium Dec 8

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Published: Thursday, 07 December 2017 14:38
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The NRU Christmas symposium will take place on Friday, December 8th, in the auditorium at the Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, entrance 2, 8th floor. The program is available here.

Scholarstipend from FSS

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Published: Wednesday, 06 December 2017 16:01
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Congratulations to Vibe Frøkjær for receiving an FSS scholarstipend of 103.100 DKK for stud.med Søren Vinther Larsen for the project "Inflammation in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder; does serotonin play a role?.

Introduction stipend to Vibeke Dam

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Published: Friday, 24 November 2017 09:48
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Congratulations to Vibeke Dam who has been granted one year introduction stipend from the Research Council at Rigshospitalet for the project 'Affective and social cognition as neurocognitive predictors of antidepressant treatment response'.

This 1-year project takes advantage of data from a large longitudinal study investigating potential neurocognitive and neurobiological predictors of response to standard antidepressant treatment in MDD. The proposed project has two parts:
Part 1. Aim: To validate and implement the novel EMOTICOM test battery as a research and clinical assessment tool for affective and social cognition.
Part 2. Aim: To determine baseline differences in affective and social cognition outcomes assessed with the EMOTICOM between MDD patients and healthy individuals.

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  1. Sapere Aude Starting grant to Vibe Frøkjær
  2. PhD-course: Basic Kinetic Modeling in PET and MR Imaging, Feb 26-March 2, 2018
  3. NRU Staff News November 2017
  4. Prof. Jens D. Mikkelsen re-appointed as IRFD council member
  5. Gitte Moos Knudsen is the new chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Human Brain Project
  6. Travel grants from the Lundbeck Foundation to NRU
  7. Lars Pinborg in new half-time position as associate professor
  8. Visiting NRU as an ECNP research intern
  9. PhD defence Sep 15, 2017 at 2 pm - Per Jensen
  10. Sebastian Holst receives grant from Toyota-Fonden