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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…
Read moreNew 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…
Read moreHow 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreMorten Meldal, former center leader, wins Nobel Prize
This week, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless. We congratulate the three…
Read moreFirst 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreTwo sides of the same coin – Greenland in a future climate
While the European heat wave dries out the river beds and sets forests on fire, the sea ice at the North Pole is melting, giving…
Read moreAre 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…
Read moreA journey toward alien stars and planets
At the end of June, our DNRF Center for Stellar Astrophysics (SAC) will close after ten years of groundbreaking research in astrophysics. The head of…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreNew 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…
Read moreGathered for the first time at a conference in Copenhagen
The Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis (CHEAC) held a two-day conference in May at which some of the best scientists working with high-entropy alloys*…
Read moreA Superpower Material Scientist
This year, Professor Antti-Pekka Jauho celebrates his 40th anniversary as a researcher in Denmark and continues as professor emeritus. He has a long, impressive career…
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