Center for Healthy Aging

2016 News archive

Niels A. Lassen Prize

Professor Martin Lauritzen awarded brain research prize

Martin Lauritzen, consultant at the Department of Neurophysiology, Rigshospitalet, and professor at…

In Many Ways, Basic Research Is Very Similar to Chess

RESEARCH PROFILE Even in his late teens Simon Bekker-Jensen dreamt of becoming a professional chess…

Molecular aging

Substance with the potential to postpone aging

The coenzyme NAD+ plays a main role in aging processes. In mice and roundworm adding the substance…

Athletes who peak early – do not live as long

New research from the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen and the Dutch Leyden…

Two new Aging summer schools receive support from EIT Health

Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA) is involved in two summer schools who recently received 1 million…

Research profile

Curiosity is my main driver

A teacher in secondary school discouraged Lene Juel Rasmussen from studying chemistry and…

Huge grant for research on Alzheimer's

Lene Juel Rasmussen and Vilhelm Bohr, Center for Healthy Aging, receive DKK 10 million for research…