News from the Foundation

Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
8. February 2023

The right to free mobility

The freedom to travel across borders has always been essential for our development and survival throughout human history. In the past, geographical and technological limitations…

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27. January 2023

DNRF’s 12th Chair Grant funds research in gene regulatory mechanisms

Professor Vijay Tiwari, at the Department of Molecular Medicine, has received a DNRF Chair grant of 10 million DKK to work on revealing gene regulatory…

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Professor Ana Cvejic
23. January 2023

DNRF’s 11th Chair Grant funds research to better understand the interplay between immune cells and cancer

Professor Ana Cvejic, at Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) UCPH, was awarded the DNRF Chair Grant of 10 million DKK to gain knowledge about…

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20. December 2022

New Pioneer Center will revolutionize materials for green transition

Today, a press briefing at DTU (Technical University of Denmark) marks the opening of our third Pioneer Center, CAPeX, the Pioneer Center for Accelerating P2X Materials…

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Søren Stobbe
12. December 2022

How to pave the way for a scientific breakthrough

The Center of Excellence NanoPhoton recently published momentous news about the development of a nanostructure that compresses light in a way that many physicists thought…

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15. November 2022

The DNRF Photo Competition 2023

THE COMPETITION IS CLOSED Again, this year, The Danish National Research Foundation is inviting the Danish scientific community to submit their best photos to the…

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30. September 2022

First network retreat for younger research talents

“I hope this will be around every year,” said Elena Papaleo on her way out from hotel Comwell in Snekkersten. Elena is in the middle…

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16. September 2022

The University of Southern Denmark receives the 10th DNRF Chair grant focusing on social mobility

Are Scandinavian countries really better at breaking the cycle of social inheritance? And how much can society change its level of social mobility? These are…

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11. August 2022

Are the scientists ready for FAIR data?

This year’s annual publication from the DNRF offers a peek into researchers’ views and experiences regarding digitization and FAIR data use. In other words, it…

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8. June 2022

The Queen of Denmark visits the Center for Proteins in Memory (PROMEMO)

Last week, Queen Margrethe II visited our DNRF research center PROMEMO to learn more about the center’s research in molecular neurobiology. The Queen of Denmark…

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7. June 2022

The DNRF invests 625 mil. DKK in 11 new Centers of Excellence

The board of the Danish National Research Foundation has decided to support the establishment of 11 new DNRF Centers of Excellence. The Centers of Excellence…

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3. June 2022

New pioneer center will pave the way for the green transition in agriculture

Denmark’s second pioneer center, the Pioneer Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures (Land-CRAFT), aims to gain knowledge about the possibilities of reducing greenhouse…

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7. April 2022

Read the DNRF’s Annual Report 2021

The Danish National Research Foundation’s Annual Report 2021 has now been published and can be found below. In the report, you can read about: the…

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Foto: Steffen Zelzer
2. April 2022

The picture of a contaminated cross-section sample wins 3rd prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022

The winner of the third prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022 is the picture of a cross-section of a sample with different super-lattice structures…

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Foto: Christina Mortensen.
1. April 2022

The picture of human pain-sensing nerve cells wins 2nd prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022

The winner of the second prize in the DNRF’s Photo Competition 2022 is a picture of human pain-sensing nerve cells. The image was taken during…

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