News from reNEW Copenhagen

Grant

2023.06.27

Associate Professor Żylicz awarded ERC Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Associate Professor Jan Żylicz and his team a 1,5 million euro grant for their work on unravelling specificity of epi-metabolic regulation in development.

Grant

2023.06.21

Associate Professor Mariaceleste Aragona has been awarded a Leo Foundation Grant

The Leo Foundation has granted Professor Aragona and her team a 4 million DKK grant for their work on identifying factors that improve stem cell self-renewal. The fund is awarded for a period of three years.

Publication

2023.06.13

reNEW Leadership highlights the need for standards in organoid research

The term “organoid” has experienced a significant increase in use in recent years due to advancements in biomedical research and the field of regenerative medicine.

Publication

2023.04.12

How to build human airways; a lesson from frogs

How airways develop, is a complex process that has puzzled scientists for many years, but it turns out that we can learn a lot from frogs.

Grant

2023.04.03

StemScreen research center opens at reNEW

It is nowadays possible to build fully functional human mini organs with stem cells that can be used to mimic a variety of diseases. These organoids as they also are called can be used to establish disease models in the…

Annual Report

2023.03.31

reNEW releases its first annual report

reNEW, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, is thrilled to release its first annual report. reNEW is a global consortium focusing on translating stem cell science into therapies.

Grant

2023.03.30

Professor Klaus Høyer awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council (ECR) has awarded Professor Klaus Høyer and his group a 2.5 million euro grant.

Grant

2023.03.30

Professor Brickman awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council (ECR) has awarded Professor Josh Brickman and his group a 2.5 million euro grant.

Grant

2023.03.28

Dr Magnussen has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

Postdoc Michael James Magnussen from the Aragona Group has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Union to develop a better disease model of the physiological condition of the bladder.

Inauguration

2023.03.24

Professor Melissa Helen Little inaugurated at University of Copenhagen

Professor Melissa Helen Little is inaugurated at the University of Copenhagen.

Public Engagement

2023.03.17

reNEW's first global UniStem Day

reNEW Copenhagen hosted about 450 curious high school students at the University of Copenhagen during UniStem Day 2023 to tell them more about stem cell medicine.

Brain

2023.03.02

First Parkinson’s patient administered a stem cell-based transplant

A patient suffering from moderate Parkinson’s disease (PD) has received a transplant with the human stem cell-derived nerve cell product STEM-PD in a clinical trial at Skåne University Hospital in southern Sweden.

Research

2022.10.27

How cancer cells hide from chemotherapy

Although cancer cells have the ability to divide indefinitely, some appear to have lost this ability and are therefore not sensitive to traditional chemotherapy. New research shows that these cells can still divide and…

RESEARCH

2022.10.20

Stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease granted approval for entering clinical trial in Sweden

Associate Professor and Principal Investigator from reNEW UCPH brings hope to people with Parkinson’s Disease by being part of a decade long team effort between universities and hospitals in Sweden and the UK.

Colorectal Cancer

2022.09.07

Dormant tumour cells use a differentiated cloak to hide from treatments

A group of reNEW scientists has analysed a great number of colon tumours aiming to understand how some tumour cells avoid dying upon treatment with chemotherapies.

Collaboration

2022.09.02

reNEW meets Lund Stem Cell Center

Principal Investigators from the Lund Stem Cell Center and reNEW Copenhagen cam together in Malmö for a full day of scientific interaction and discussion.

Public engagement

2022.04.25

Engaging with students from Utrecht University

Engaging with students from Utrecht University

ULCERATIVE COLITIS

2022.03.11

Quantum leap towards transplanting stem cells into the intestines

Stem cell transplantation can cure mice suffering from inflammation in the large intestine. This is good news for ulcerative colitis patients, as it may lead to the development of new treatment forms that do not result…

discovery

2022.03.07

How to create an artificial gut

An artificial bowel could potentially treat many severely disabling diseases. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have improved understanding of how to create various parts of the intestine.

Public engagement

2022.02.09

reNEW Copenhagen hosts students from Ordrup Gymnasium

reNEW Copenhagen hosts students from Ordrup Gymnasium

Public engagement

2022.02.04

reNEW entered partnership with EuroGCT

reNEW entered partnership with the newly EU-funded project EuroGCT that will develop an online hub to provide accurate information on the use of cells and genetic material to treat diseases.