Olsen group news

Sustainability

2023.10.27

Discovery of a unique fungal enzyme

Researchers identified enzymes from very specific fungi that could be an important step toward the…

CPR

2022.11.16

CPR researchers on the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers list 2022

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

Research 1:1

2022.08.09

Rationale for combination therapy in acute myeloid leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a highly heterogeneous disease for which there is an unmet need for…

Proteomics

2022.05.05

New proteomics method can identify mammalian species from a single chip of archaeological bone

The Olsen Group has in collaboration with Danish and international partners developed a new…

citations

2021.11.18

CPR researchers on the prestigious 'Highly Cited Researchers list'

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

Cancer

2021.05.04

Using personalized medicine to avoid resistance to leukemia treatment

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is an aggressive cancer type that mostly affects children. The…

HONOURING

2020.11.19

Protein researcher receives KFJ Prize: Mapped the smallest building blocks in the human body

Professor Jesper Velgaard Olsen is honoured for his significant contribution to high-tech protein…

Evolution

2020.04.01

Oldest ever human genetic evidence clarifies dispute over our ancestors

Genetic information from an 800.000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. Th…

Proteomics technology

2020.02.07

High-throughput and high-sensitivity method to analyse hundreds of cancer phosphoproteomes

A new paper from the Olsen group at CPR presents a new strategy to identify activated signaling…

Collaboration

2019.11.13

Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in reconstructing the evolutionary…

Collaboration

2019.11.06

Researchers discover how cells know their future and forget their past

All cells in the body contain the same genetic material. The difference between cells therefore…

Cancer

2019.10.03

Large-scale mapping of protein networks behind tumor growth in the lungs

Lung cancer is the biggest cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. There were 2 million new…

Heart

2019.07.08

Researchers Map the Heart's Own Pacemaker in Mice

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now mapped the proteins in the heart's natural…

2018.11.20

Olsen Group publishes two papers showing versatile use of quantitative MS-based proteomics

Quantitative mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is a powerful tool that can be utilized to…

Grant

2018.10.23

Cross-Disciplinary European Funding for Protein Research

The European Research Council (ERC) has granted DKK 60 million for a new cross-disciplinary Europea…

Protein research

2018.09.12

Researchers Uncover Previously Unstudied Cancer Enzyme

In a new study published in the scientific journal of repute Nature Communications researchers from…

Protein research

2018.06.29

Enzyme may get key role in drug design for breast cancer and brain condition

In recent years, researchers have focussed on the enzyme TLK2 suspecting it of playing a main role…

Protein research

2018.05.14

Researchers uncover up to 100 potential drug targets for cancer

In the study researchers used the technology mass spectrometry. Protein researchers from the Nov…

Mass spectrometry

2017.12.06

Olsen Group evaluates and optimizes new mass spectrometer for rapid proteome analyses

In collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, researchers from the Olsen Group at CPR has…

2017.10.11

Olsen group reveals global interplay of ATM and ATR with SUMOylation during replication stress

Replication of the human genome is a tremendous task that cells must undertake with great…

2017.09.05

CPR is part of new laboratory for Harnessing the oxidative power of enzymes (HOPE)

Jesper Olsen’s group at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR) is part of new…

2017.06.12

Olsen Group defines the HeLa cell proteome

Most popular and famous human cell line gets its complete proteome defined The world’s most famous…

2017.04.21

Lundbeck Foundation grant to future CPR postdoc

Postdoc Magnus Jakobsson from the Olsen group at CPR has been awarded a grant of 700.000 DKK from…

2016.07.26

Novel insight into protein phosphatase substrate recognition published by the Nilsson group in Molecular Cell

Protein phosphatases play important roles in cellular signaling as they remove phosphorylations fro…

2016.05.03

Insulin 2.0? A new proteomics pipeline to discover novel endogenous bioactive peptides

Endogenous peptides are protein fragments that play important biological roles in the body. Famous…

2016.05.02

Olsen Group reveals molecular mechanisms explaining functional selectivity of growth factors activating the same receptor

Functional selectivity, also known as biased ligand signaling, is the ligand-dependent selectivity…

2015.04.28

Olsen group publishes in Science Signaling

Olsen group publishes on nerve growth factor signaling dynamics in this week’s Science Signaling …

2015.01.09

New paper on SUMO-dependent regulation of the Fanconi Anemia DNA repair pathway by Mailand Group in Molecular Cell

In this new article in Molecular Cell Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research…

2014.10.29

Two new proteomics technology papers published by Olsen Group

The Group of Prof. Jesper V. Olsen published two technical notes in Journal of Proteome Research…

2014.06.22

Annotation of GWAS loci by tissue-specific quantitative interaction proteomics

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research scientists in international collaboration team…

2014.02.24

SUMOylation Dynamics during Cell-Cycle Progression

The group of Prof. Jesper V. Olsen at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at…

2014.01.30

A direct role of Mad1 in the spindle assembly checkpoint beyond Mad2 kinetochore recruitment

By using advanced imaging techniques and artificially bypassing the role of the Mad1 protein in…

2013.09.05

A molecular switch underlying FGF receptor responses

Fibroblast Growth Factors (FGFs) control key cellular processes during early organ development and…

2013.06.04

Getting to the Heart of Signaling

CPR scientists identify the in-vivo Cardiac Targets of beta-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling by…