Brunak group news

Drug interactions

2023.09.20

Giant study finds 694 new potentially harmful drug interactions

Data analysis of more than one million Danish inpatients identifies new drug interactions that are…

Algorithms

2023.06.07

Danish supercomputer predicts who will develop deadly cancer

New study shows how a supercomputer can predict people in high risk of developing the disease.

RESEARCH

2023.03.10

Bartender model predicts how drugs affect each person

A model based on numerous studies of people with type 2 diabetes can make a new type of prediction:…

GRANT

2022.04.22

New research to detect glaucoma timely

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen receives a grant to launch a project to identify earl…

MEDICATION

2022.03.04

Huge study unveils the consumption of drugs by Danes

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Statistics Denmark have analysed more than one…

Migraine

2022.02.07

Genetic researchers can now explain different types of migraine

The world's largest gene study on migraine describes, for the first time, the genetic differences…

Misdiagnosis

2021.02.09

Researchers develop algorithm to find possible misdiagnosis

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed an algorithm that can identify patient…

citations

2020.12.02

CPR researchers on the prestigious 'Highly Cited Researchers list'

The "Highly Cited Researchers list" recognizes world-class researchers selected for their…

Tool

2020.10.02

New tool shows main highways of disease development

New tool developed by CPR enables researchers to explore disease patterns from 7.2 million patients…

GRANT

2020.06.26

Professors receive grants to investigate genetic diagnostics and cancers

Søren Brunak (CPR) is part of the TRANSLATE project, one of two projects from the University of…

Award

2019.09.23

Professor Søren Brunak receives the Fernström Prize

Today, this year’s Fernströmpris was awarded to Professor Søren Brunak from Novo Nordisk Foundatio…

KFJ award

2019.06.21

Leading Researchers of Physical Activity and Health Data Receive Prestigious Award

Michael Kjær and Søren Brunak from the University of Copenhagen are this year’s recipients of the…

Health Data

2019.05.24

New Algorithm Uses Disease History to Predict Intensive Care Patients’ Chances of Survival

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have used data on more than 230,00…

2019.04.25

CPR receives two fellows in the new translational excellence programme, BRIDGE

CPR postdocs Francesco Russo and David Westergaard both receives fellowships from the new…

HEART PATIENTS

2019.03.14

Big Step Towards More Personalised Medicine for Heart Patients

Cardiologists from Rigshospitalet, researchers from the University of Copenhagen and specialists…

Differences in diagnoses

2019.03.10

Study: Across Diseases, Women Are Diagnosed Later Than Men

When considering all diseases, there are big differences between the course of men’s and women's…

Computerome 2.0

2018.12.20

New supercomputer puts Denmark in life science's top league

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invest in a new…

2018.11.27

CPR researchers on the prestigious 'Highly Cited Researchers list'

Four CPR group leaders are on the "Highly Cited Researcher List" in 2018, the list recognizes…

Diabetes

2018.10.31

Colectomy Associated with Increased Risk of Diabetes

People who have had a colectomy have increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers from…

Talks

2018.04.06

Tower Talks with Soeren Brunak

The general public is showing increasing interest in the health and medical sciences. DR has named…

National Genome Centre

2017.12.07

Søren Brunak: Good Idea to Store All Genome Data in One Place

The National Genome Centre is establishing a joint infrastructure for health data collected from…

Genetic Research

2017.07.28

Researchers map genetic make-up of Danish population

A new research project has taken a big step toward treating and preventing genetically determined…

CHSP

2017.06.15

Søren Brunak partner in the health science research partnership (CHSP) anchored at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Caption: Professor Kristian Helin from SUND (second from the left) and Professor Kirsten Grønbæk…

2015.03.27

Professor Søren Brunak and a new venture with Big Data Medicine at SUND and Rigshospitalet

After more than 25 years at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the bioinformatician…

2014.06.26

Temporal disease trajectories condensed from population-wide registry data covering 6.2 million patients

STEP BY STEP Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of…