Congratulations to Vibe Frøkjær for receiving a scholarstipend grant (140.00 DKK) from DPS-Lundbeckfonden for stud. med. Anna Kauffmann in the project 'The role of oral contraceptive use on serotonin 2A receptor brain architecture in health women' which is part of the Pill project.

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Published: 08 April 2022

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Congratulations to Patrick Fisher, Hanne D. Hansen and Anjali Sankar for being accepted as members of the new Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network (LFIN) initiative.

The LFIN network will consist of approximately 30 early to mid-career scientists (from postdocs to junior faculty) working in Denmark and in any field of neuroscience (from basic to clinical). The network has two main goals: To developing new areas of multidisciplinary neuroscience research in Denmark, and to help young investigators realize their scientific potential. To realize these goals, LFIN will engage in initiatives that foster the development of working relationships among network members that span scientific institutions and disciplines in Denmark. Members of LFIN will also receive training in topics that are relevant for their career and personal development.

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Published: 07 April 2022

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Congratulations to Martin Korsbak Madsen for having received ECNP's 2022 Citation Prize for his paper ‘A single psilocybin dose is associated with long-term increased mindfulness, preceded by a proportional change in neocortical 5-HT2A receptor binding’. The award is given for the most-cited paper in European Neuropsychopharmacology in the last two years and will be presented at the upcoming 35^th ECNP Congress on 15-18 October in Vienna.

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Published: 01 April 2022

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Sagar Sanjay Aripaka, M.Eng., is defending his PhD thesis entitled Molecular Biology in the Pain Generation in Lumbar Intervertebral Discs on April 8th, at 1 pm.
Venue: Rigshospitalet - Blegdamsvej, entrance 44, Auditorium 2.
For more details, click here.

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Published: 28 March 2022

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NRU was represented at the annual meeting of the Danish Society of Psychiatry by professors Vibe G. Frøkjær and Martin B. Jørgensen and PhD-student Kristian R. Jensen, together with their master students Malene Ravn-Eriksson and Astrid Tougaard Mikkelsen.

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Published: 28 March 2022

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Congratulations to Prof. Jens Holm Mikkelsen who has been granted 35.000 DKK from Gigtforeningen for a project entitled 'Concentration of biomarkers as a prognosis for the long-term effect of surgical treatment of low back pain' which is conducted at NRU in collaboration with Rachid Bech-Azeddine from Videncenter for Reumatologi og Rygsygdomme, Glostrup Hospital.

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Published: 25 March 2022

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A warm welcome to our new staff members who have joined us during March:

Research Assistant Miriam Navarro (Pharmaceutical Sciences), who will be working with Hanne.

Visiting student Hector Mebenga (Applied Mathematics & Computer Science). He will be working with Cyril.

          

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Published: 23 March 2022

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Gitte Moos Knudsen has received a Lundbeck Foundation scholarstipend from the Danish Neurological Society for the project 'Brief exposure therapy for patients with MRI-related claustrophobia'.

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Published: 26 January 2022

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Welcome to the new NRU members:

Post Doc Jonas Svensson, Specialist in Psychiatry. He will be working on the following projects "Precision psychiatry and a new model for serotonin in depression: PET studies of synaptic density and the serotonin transporter" and "The search for an aging biomarker: in vivo quantification of age-related proteins using Positron Emission Tomography in humans".

Research Assistants Clara Madsen (Molecular Biomedicine) and Emily Beaman (Human Biology).

Sif Kaad (Medical & Molecular Biology) is new student helper in the experimental lab.

Scholarstipend student and master's student Emil Colliander (Medicine).

   
      Clara                                                  Emil                                                     Emily                                    
                        

                                         Jonas                                          Sif
                                               

Also a warm welcome to Mengfei Xiong, visiting PhD student from Uppsala University, Rudbeck laboratory.

   

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Published: 10 January 2022

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Lundbeck A/S and Neurobiology Research Unit will collaborate in order to identify and validate cross-species biomarkers of inflammation in the human brain

Researchers at Lundbeck and NRU will work together to identify and validate new biomarkers of inflammation in the brain in a cross-species translational collaboration.  Neuroinflammation is a pathological condition that is linked to a number of neurological and psychiatric diseases. However, the mechanisms behind neuroinflammation are poorly understood, and there are limited options to determine and prevent it.

Scientists at Lundbeck have identified a number of tools that can be used to define glia activity in the brain as a biomarker of neuroinflammation. The NRU scientists will use these tools to determine levels of neuroinflammation across species and in brain tissue from epilepsy patients, as well as tissue from chronic animal models. This research project will be important in identifying new drug candidates and evaluating their potential in treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Contact person for the project at NRU is Professor Jens H. Mikkelsen.

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Published: 10 January 2022

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