Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen

👩🔧 Are you our new workshop employee? Pharma workshop, the new joint workshop for Dept. of Drug Design and Pharmacology (ILF), University of Copenhagen and Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, is looking for a new employee. 📅 Application deadline is 30 March 👨🔧 We are looking for a workshop employee who has an education and experience in electronics, precision mechanics, electronics technical engineering or similar. In addition, it is important that you are a person who actively engages in the workshop team and is curious about other people and professions. 👉 See the job posting here: https://lnkd.in/gBYxunWY

✨ Kārlis Bērziņš is Emerging Investigator in Crystal Growth & Design 2025 ✨ 👉 Every three years, the journal Crystal Growth & Design highlights a series of authors that have been publishing in the journal over the time period and have been entrusted a senior role on the articles in their early post PhD era. 👌 Here at our department, Karlis is research assistant in the Structured Biointerfaces group led by Professor Ben Boyd. 📢 Karlis explains his research interests: 1️⃣ “My main research interests include the material science of pharmaceutical solids (including promising drug delivery platforms) with a specific emphasis on the application of novel laser spectroscopic techniques for their characterization and dynamic analysis." 2️⃣ "As such, my work often involves intense collaboration both with industry and academic groups that not only made it exciting but also allowed me to learn a lot of new things along the way." 3️⃣ "In fact, the ability to work side-by-side with researchers of various scientific backgrounds and interests has been the biggest factor for my professional growth in my post-Ph.D. career so far.” 👉 Read the article “Emerging Investigators in Crystal Growth & Design 2025” here: https://lnkd.in/ds4a8Y4V

🎆 Congratulations, Leonard Siebert on receiving a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 grant of 1.5 mill DKK for the project DRUG-SPIN, where he will work closely together with Professor Thomas Rades. 🎆 💊 One of the challenges with the consumption of drugs is that most of the pharmaceuticals are insoluble in water and pass through our bodies without being processed and accumulate in the environment. 👉 Leonard Siebert says: “The best option is to make drug dissolve easier, by bringing the pharmaceuticals into a disordered state called amorphous. From this state they can dissolve much more easily. Thomas Rades is a highly recognized researcher dealing with these amorphous drugs and there are still a lot of open questions that cannot be answered easily because the techniques for producing disordered drugs are limited.” 💊 In the project, Leonard Siebert will adapt a materials science technique called melt-spinning where molten drug is rapidly frozen into its disordered state on a rapidly spinning copper wheel. ❄ The speed dictates how fast the freezing happens, giving the researchers a valuable tool for studying the various disordered states and perhaps also enable the disordering of drugs that are currently too stable in their ordered state. 👉 Leonard Siebert describes his field of interest: “I am a materials scientist and engineer, meaning, I have dealt with the production of new materials by novel techniques, like 3D printing, fiber spinning etc. I am very passionate about materials engineering with a strong focus in the medical direction. Pharmacy is an important in life science and I want to expand my knowledge in that direction, applying it in life science and engineering in the future.” #Career #pharmacy #materialsscience #lifescience #dkforsk #mariecurie #MSCA #EU #Horizon2020

🍾 Congratulations Marco Polimeni on receiving a 2 mill DKK Marie Curie grant 🥂 👉 The grant is for the two-year project ELSa, "Early-stage Liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein”. 🔬 The project will be conducted in the research team of Professor Vito Foderà and in collaboration with CoSAXS - MAX IV Laboratory 👨🔬 Postdoc Marco Polimeni explains the project, and his research focus: 1️⃣ “ELSa aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of alpha-synuclein (a-syn) liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), a precursor step to protein aggregation related to Parkinson's disease.” 2️⃣ “My research combines time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering that provides a high temporal resolution with computer simulations for molecular-level insights.” 3️⃣ “Employing this multidisciplinary approach I will investigate factors modulating a-syn LLPS and subsequent aggregation, and I will provide a new tool for disentangling the different molecular mechanisms driving both phase separation and aggregation.” 4️⃣ “This knowledge may be instrumental for developing novel therapeutic strategies aimed at preventing or reversing aberrant protein aggregation related to neurodegenerative disorders.” 🍀 “My research focuses on increasing the synergy between advanced computational tools, which are my main expertise, and experiments in the field of protein biophysics, the key area of the host team led by Vito Foderà.” 🍀 “My career plan is to integrate these two complementary approaches further to advance our understanding of protein interactions.” #Career #proteins #parkinsons #neurodegeneration #brain #dkforsk #datascience

🎇 Congratulations 🎇 ESS Lighthouse: Colloids and Interfaces in Food and Pharma (CaIFF) has received a prestigious grant of DKK 39.4 million from the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. 👌 The funding is part of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s ESS strategy, aiming to make use of the European Spallation Source ERIC resource. 👉 Professor and Center Director Martin Malmsten says: “The purpose of CaIFF is to perform cutting-edge research of complex structures within colloid and interface science, focusing on out-of-equilibrium multiphase systems. Special tools based on neutron- and X-ray scattering are crucial for unlocking this knowledge. ESS provides cutting-edge technology to study how these tiny structures change during production, storage, or even inside our bodies. This work bridges science and industry, ensuring innovations to directly benefit food and pharmaceutical development.” 👉 The center unites 16 research groups from the Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, with additional collaborations involving the DTU - Technical University of Denmark and the Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark. #dkforsk #kbhuni #colloidscience #interfacescience #x-rayscattering

🎇 Congratulations to Professor Vito Foderà on receiving 3.4 mill DKK from NNF for the project “Unraveling the Connection between Protein Phase Separation and Amyloid Morphology by Modular Microfluidics” – and thanks to Novo Nordisk Foundation, for the generous support 🎇 👉 With this project, Vito Foderà will develop a microfluidics-based approach for the evaluation of protein aggregation in relation to Parkinson’s disease and investigate the protein’s phase transitions, e.g. liquid-liquid phase separation, occurring in a very fast timescale. 🧠 Understanding the phenomena behind the accumulation of proteins in the brain is key to the development of effective treatments of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. In the project, Vito Foderà will examine the specific protein α-synuclein (aSN), and how perturbing the early phase of the aggregation reaction may prevent the onset of pathological aggregates. 👉To this aim modular microfluidics, X-ray scattering and optical spectroscopy will be combined, and the research team will collaborate with Dr. Ann Terry and Dr. Fátima Herranz-Trillo from MAX IV Laboratory in Lund. 🔬 🕐 Current studies on liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and solid amyloid transition focus on investigating the processes on time scales of minutes to hours or even days, not allowing the analysis of the fast dynamics taking place in the milliseconds range preceding LLPS formation. 👨🔬 🔬 Vito Foderà will investigate these fast processes in his project, and this will hopefully give us new knowledge of the molecular mechanisms leading to protein phase transition, contributing to fields such as physics of biological systems and drug development for neurodegenerative disorders.   #Parkinsons #Alzheimers #neurodegenerativediseases #microfluids #proteins #xrayscattering #dkforsk #biophysics #amyloidosis #physics #drugdevelopment

🌍 Career opportunity! 🌍 Center for Pharmaceutical Data Science Education is looking for an associate professor or tenure track assistant professor in computational drug development 🍀 👩💻 👨🔬 So, are you dreaming of an academic career where you will conduct innovative research and develop research-based teaching in the field of computational drug development, with a focus on AI- and data science in drug product design? Then read on and apply before February 18: https://lnkd.in/d6XJ_X35  ❗ 📆 Your research areas will include subjects that: 👉 apply data science and simulation techniques to establish a molecular-level understanding of drug product design. 👉 unfold the potential of data science for extracting knowledge from complex data to understand the physical chemistry underlying drug development processes. 👩🏫 In terms of teaching, you will be a pharmaceutical data science anchor point bringing in new methods and inspiration for other teachers in the pharmaceutical curriculum, covering broadly all aspects of drug development. 👨🏫 ❗ Check out the responsibilities of the tenure track assistant professor or the associate professor in the job posting: https://lnkd.in/d6XJ_X35 🍀 The vision of Center for Pharmaceutical Data Science Education is to make pharmaceutical data science a catalyst for life science and healthcare strongholds. To achieve this, the Center will develop and deliver research-based education for the future workforce – spanning bachelor, master, PhD, and life-long learning. Find out more about the new center here: https://lnkd.in/d2ZhySfU #Career #datascience #drugdevelopment #drugdeliverysystems 

Is it possible to slow down the aging processes of the skin? And do all the creams and dietary supplements actually have an effect on skin aging? Join us for this Medicinens Verden science talk by Andrea Heinz, "Who wants to live forever? What is aging? And how can aging be slowed down?", 24 February at Panum. The ticket price is including a glass of wine, water or soft drinks. Direct link to ticket sale in the comments. #sciencecommunication #scicomm #skin #aging https://lnkd.in/di4mT96M

✨ Big congratulations to Associate Professor Inês C. B. Martins on receiving the prestigious Inge Lehmann grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark. ✨ 🔬 Inês Martins has received almost DKK 3.2 million from DFF for the research project “Amorphous Engineering: A new route to develop better medicines”. In this project, Inês Martins will develop an innovative perspective on solid-state materials engineering in drug formulation, a research area called amorphous engineering. 💊 Here, Inês will investigate the elusive phenomenon of polyAmorphism in drugs, where distinctly different amorphous forms present different physicochemical properties. Its implementation on drug formulation should result in the sustainable design of better medicines. See this publications to dive into the subject: https://lnkd.in/dySJUYVn 👩🔬 Inês Martins says: “Receiving such a prestigious grant will boost my academic career by allowing me to develop a new research area within pharmaceutical sciences – amorphous engineering. This will shape the future of drug formulation, by enabling medicines to contain minimal amount of drug in its amorphous form, leading to better drug efficacy and reduction of side effects. This new research could also enrich the teaching content of pharmacy courses at the Department of Pharmacy.” 👉 Here at Department of Pharmacy, Inês is part of the research group Pharmaceuticals, Processes and Products: https://lnkd.in/dxjr8W-6 ❗ The purpose of the Inge Lehmann programme is to support a more equal gender balance in the research environments, focussing on the career stages where inequality sets in. #Career #drugformulation #crystalengineering #amorphousengineering #kbhuni #dkforsk

🥂🍾 Today we are celebrating Professor Bente Gammelgaard’s new status as Professor Emerita 🥂🍾 ✨ Colleagues, friends and family got together for a festive reception for Bente, who has had a long and impactful career in research and education. 🍀 Bente has been professor of analytical chemistry for many years (although not 100, as she said when asked) and has been deeply involved in education here at Department of Pharmacy. 👉 Head of Department Jukka Rantanen, Head of Pharma School Susan Weng Larsen, Professor Lotte Stig Nørgaard and Lab technician Camilla Jensen gave speeches for Bente, thanking her for her many achievements, her participation in the lunch club and her personality. Finally Bente thanked everyone ✨