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5'th International suPAR symposium, Amsterdam May 8-9th, 2014

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:18:41 GMT

The 5th International suPAR symposium is hosted by Professor Marcus Schultz from The Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam.
This years theme is "suPAR and its value in clinical use". Information on Programme, registration and accommodation can be found here: http://suparnostic.com/index.php/events/supar-symposias/5th-international-supar-symposium

Marianne Thellersen on Copenhagen Spin-outs

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:08:04 GMT

COLLABORATION BETWEEN RESEARCH, INDUSTRY AND INVESTORS

Prorector at University of Copenhagen is interviewed about Copenhagen Spin-outs. Copenhagen Spin-outs is a collaboration between the academic research environment and industry with a focus on innovation and commercialisation of biotech research in the capital region area. In the project we will focus on strenthening the collaboration between universities, research parks and investors to speed up the effort to promote the good ideas from the research institutions and turn them into sustainable biotech companies. The spin-outs will work within the areas of MedTech, Diagnostics, Pharmaceuticals as well as Industrial biotech and Food.

Copenhagen Spin-outs run from 2012-2014, and is funded with 20 million DKK from EU Regional Fund, 8 million DKK from the Captal Regions Growth Forum and 12 million DKK from the partners.

To read more, please visit http://copenhagenspin-outs.dk/

The Brain Prize meeting at Hindsgavl October 2012

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:28:20 GMT

As part of their outreach program, the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation hosted the annual Brain Prize Meeting at Hindsgavl Castle in Denmark in late October 2012. The meeting allowed for interaction between the two brain prize winners, Karen Steel and Christine Petit, invited keynote speakers and brain researchers.

Alila Ubud Bali - The Experience

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:04:48 GMT

Alila Ubud is a tranquil and secluded hillside retreat that sits high up on the edge of the rich green Ayung River valley in Bali's central foothills, in the traditional Balinese hill village of Payangan. The resort is located just minutes from Ubud, the island's cultural heart. Blending contemporary design and traditional Balinese architecture, the resort's secluded courtyards, spacious terraces and private gardens create an intimate feeling like none other.

Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 11 Launch Event

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:01:14 GMT

Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 11 Smart TV Launch presented by CEO Tue Mantoni.

B&O launched their new BeoVision 11 at a spectacular event in Copenhagen October 11 2012. With the music of Dansk Fløde, punk and art of television came together. Sound by Freezone and filmed by BioLogicMedia

Brain Prize Winners 2012 Karen Steel and Christine Petit

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:44:37 GMT

The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation has announced that The Brain Prize 2012 is jointly awarded to Christine Petit and Karen Steel:
‘for their unique, world-leading contributions to our understanding of the genetic regulation of the development and functioning of the ear, and for elucidating the causes of many of the hundreds of inherited forms of deafness’.
Inherited conditions render one in a thousand children deaf at birth, and cause as many again to become deaf before maturity, leading to delay or failure in the acquisition of speech, and frequently to disadvantages in communication and learning. Genetic anomalies also contribute to many age-related and progressive forms of hearing loss. About one-tenth of the population in the developed world suffers from significant hearing impairment, which has an enormous impact on individuals and on society.
Karen Steel and Christine Petit are at the forefront of efforts to understand the molecular mechanisms of the specialised hair cells in the inner ear, whose extraordinary sensitivity to mechanical stimulation underpins the senses of hearing and balance. These two researchers, at the peak of their productivity and influence, are international leaders in the field of hereditary deafness.
Each has brought special skill to this challenging area of research. Their approaches have been complementary. Karen Steel has worked upwards, employing elegant and exhaustive study of mutations in mice and their functional consequences to illuminate human disorders. Christine Petit has started with the genetic analysis of patients, subsequently investigating the role of the identified genes in animal model systems.
Professor Colin Blakemore, Oxford University, Chairman of the Selection Committee said: ‘Together, the work of these two Europeans scientists illustrates the value and power of interdisciplinary approaches in neuroscience, and the way in which cutting-edge fundamental research is needed to understand complex clinical problems and to accelerate benefit for patients’.......’We are delighted that The Brain Prize for the best of European neuroscience goes, in its second year, to two
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women scientists. We are sure that the award will be applauded by female researchers around the world, and by all those who are concerned that young women are given every encouragement to consider careers in science’
The prize lectures and award ceremony will take place 9th May in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Prize will be presented by Her Majesty the Queen.
Bios: Christine Petit, Professor at College de France, holding the Chair of Genetics and Cellular Physiology, head of the Genetics and Physiology of Hearing laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris also affiliated to INSERM, is a geneticist and a neurobiologist. She conceived and pioneered the genetic strategy to assess the molecular mechanisms underlying the cochlear differentiation and physiology. She developed this genetic approach in humans, by succeeding to overcome the difficulties specific to linkage analysis for deafness. She thereby mapped to human chromosomes the first two genes responsible for hereditary congenital deafness. She identified the causative genes for about 20 inherited forms of deafness, initially by an innovative candidate gene approach. Together with her colleagues, she also unraveled the roles of most of the proteins encoded by these genes, namely in the sensory hair cells, their stimulating gel, and the supporting cells, by multidisciplinary studies of engineered mouse models. Her work shed light on the functions mediated through various fibrous links within the hair bundle, the mechanoreceptive structure to sound. Her work on Usher syndrome (deafness, blindness), demonstrated that all Usher 1 proteins as well as all Usher 2 proteins form protein networks enabling the links they form to shape the hair bundle. She also identified some Usher1 proteins as components of the mechanotransduction machinery. Christine Petit’s discoveries have already had a significant impact on medical practice, with respect to diagnosis, genetic counseling and therapeutic decisions by indicating the potential benefit of cochlear implants and hearing aids for patients.
Karen Steel, Professor and Principal Investigator for the Genetics of Deafness and founder of the Mouse Genetics Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK, has pioneered the use of mouse models, starting with her painstaking description of the characteristics of mutant mice with disorders of balance and hearing. Her early work on cochlear function and hair cell degeneration in the mutant deafness mouse led to identification of the gene called Tmc1, the human homologue of which is mutated in several forms of hereditary deafness. She and her colleagues went on to identify causative genes in nearly 30 forms of hearing disorder in mice, most of which have been linked to human conditions. In particular, she described the genes for myosin-7a and cadherin-23, which are key components in the transduction mechanism in hair cells, and mutations of which underlie forms of Usher Syndrome. Karen Steel is internationally recognized for her generous and altruistic approach to science. Working with a consortium of European researchers, she has established, catalogued and made freely available to other researchers
several hundred mouse mutant lines, which have facilitated research in several areas of neuroscience around the world.
About the Brain Prize The Brain Prize - € 1 million is awarded by Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, a charitable, non-profit organization.
The Brain Prize is a personal prize awarded to one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to European neuroscience.
For more information please contact:
Kim Krogsgaard, MD, DMSc or Director Mobile: +45 2014 8384 Phone: +45 3917 8240 kk@thebrainprize.org
Nils Axelsen, MD, DMsc Chairman Mobile: +45 40548646
Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Ole Maaløes Vej 3 2200 N Copenhagen
Denmark
www.thebrainprize.org

Announcing the winner of the Brain Prize 2012

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:15:56 GMT

Announcing the winner of the Brain Prize 2012 at 10 am CET 12 March 2012

Press release from the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation

Two European neuroscientists awarded the € 1 million BRAIN PRIZE 2012 for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness Copenhagen, Denmark 12th March, 2012: The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation announced today that The Brain Prize 2012 is jointly awarded to Christine Petit and Karen Steel:
"for their unique, world-leading contributions to our understanding of the genetic regulation of the development and functioning of the ear, and for elucidating the causes of many of the hundreds of inherited forms of deafness".
Inherited conditions render one in a thousand children deaf at birth, and cause as many again to become deaf before maturity, leading to delay or failure in the acquisition of speech, and frequently to disadvantages in communication and learning. Genetic anomalies also contribute to many age-related and progressive forms of hearing loss. About one-tenth of the population in the developed world suffers from significant hearing impairment, which has an enormous impact on individuals and on society.
Karen Steel and Christine Petit are at the forefront of efforts to understand the molecular mechanisms of the specialised hair cells in the inner ear, whose extraordinary sensitivity to mechanical stimulation underpins the senses of hearing and balance. These two researchers, at the peak of their productivity and influence, are international leaders in the field of hereditary deafness.
Each has brought special skill to this challenging area of research. Their approaches have been complementary. Karen Steel has worked upwards, employing elegant and exhaustive study of mutations in mice and their functional consequences to illuminate human disorders. Christine Petit has started with the genetic analysis of patients, subsequently investigating the role of the identified genes in animal model systems.
Professor Colin Blakemore, Oxford University, Chairman of the Selection Committee said: ‘Together, the work of these two Europeans scientists illustrates the value and power of interdisciplinary approaches in neuroscience, and the way in which cutting-edge fundamental research is needed to understand complex clinical problems and to accelerate benefit for patients’.......’We are delighted that The Brain Prize for the best of European neuroscience goes, in its second year, to two women scientists. We are sure that the award will be applauded by female researchers around the world, and by all those who are concerned that young women are given every encouragement to consider careers in science.
The prize lectures and award ceremony will take place 9th May in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Prize will be presented by Her Majesty the Queen.

Bios: Christine Petit, Professor at College de France, holding the Chair of Genetics and Cellular Physiology, head of the Genetics and Physiology of Hearing laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris also affiliated to INSERM, is a geneticist and a neurobiologist. She conceived and pioneered the genetic strategy to assess the molecular mechanisms underlying the cochlear differentiation and physiology. She developed this genetic approach in humans, by succeeding to overcome the difficulties specific to linkage analysis for deafness. She thereby mapped to human chromosomes the first two genes responsible for hereditary congenital deafness. She identified the causative genes for about 20 inherited forms of deafness, initially by an innovative candidate gene approach. Together with her colleagues, she also unraveled the roles of most of the proteins encoded by these genes, namely in the sensory hair cells, their stimulating gel, and the supporting cells, by multidisciplinary studies of engineered mouse models. Her work shed light on the functions mediated through various fibrous links within the hair bundle, the mechanoreceptive structure to sound. Her work on Usher syndrome (deafness, blindness), demonstrated that all Usher 1 proteins as well as all Usher 2 proteins form protein networks enabling the links they form to shape the hair bundle. She also identified some Usher1 proteins as components of the mechanotransduction machinery. Christine Petit’s discoveries have already had a significant impact on medical practice, with respect to diagnosis, genetic counseling and therapeutic decisions by indicating the potential benefit of cochlear implants and hearing aids for patients.

Karen Steel, Professor and Principal Investigator for the Genetics of Deafness and founder of the Mouse Genetics Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK, has pioneered the use of mouse models, starting with her painstaking description of the characteristics of mutant mice with disorders of balance and hearing. Her early work on cochlear function and hair cell degeneration in the mutant deafness mouse led to identification of the gene called Tmc1, the human homologue of which is mutated in several forms of hereditary deafness. She and her colleagues went on to identify causative genes in nearly 30 forms of hearing disorder in mice, most of which have been linked to human conditions. In particular, she described the genes for myosin-7a and cadherin-23, which are key components in the transduction mechanism in hair cells, and mutations of which underlie forms of Usher Syndrome. Karen Steel is internationally recognized for her generous and altruistic approach to science. Working with a consortium of European researchers, she has established, catalogued and made freely available to other researchers
several hundred mouse mutant lines, which have facilitated research in several areas of neuroscience around the world.
About the Brain Prize The Brain Prize - € 1 million is awarded by Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, a charitable, non-profit organization.
The Brain Prize is a personal prize awarded to one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to European neuroscience.
For more information please contact:

Kim Krogsgaard, MD, DMSc or Director Mobile: +45 2014 8384 Phone: +45 3917 8240 kk@thebrainprize.org

Nils Axelsen, MD, DMsc Chairman Mobile: +45 40548646
Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Ole Maaløes Vej 3 2200 N Copenhagen
Denmark

www.thebrainprize.org

BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, opened on February 10th its...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:35:39 GMT

BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, opened on February 10th its first European Genome Research Center located in Copenhagen Bio Science Park (COBIS). This research center is about 1,200 square meters and equipped with 10 Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencers. The center aims to establish collaborations to better accelerate the innovation and development of genomics research and applications in health care, agriculture, bioenergy and other related areas in Europe.

BGI Chairman Huanming Yang has expressed his appreciation to the Danish government and the scientific partner in Denmark. He said, “Nothing would have been made possible by BGI without the full understanding, continuous encouragement and firm support from our supervisors, colleagues and friends in both the academic and industrial communities in Denmark since the very beginning until now. BGI’s leaders and staff have been successively educated and trained in Denmark from the past to present. It is the strong tie between BGI and Denmark both culturally and scientifically which led BGI’s choice to establish the first European Genome Research Center of BGI in Copenhagen, Denmark.”

According to Ning Li, Director of BGI Europe, the genome research center grants from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (HTF). Two integrated projects will be initiated in this center, one is to identify previously unknown cancer pathogens that will lead to the development and patenting of commercial vaccines and the other is to establish a unique catalogue of the millions of variations in Dane’s DNA by finishing 1% Dane’s Genome Sequencing. The genome atlas will serve as the foundation for new studies that will cast light on the hereditary causes for a number of common diseases, as well as the treatment and prevention.

Brain Prize winner Tamás Freund lecture on Endocannabinoid signalling in the...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:22:12 GMT

Prof. Tamás Freund's talk on his scientific work that led to the Brain Prize award. Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation hosted the annual Brain Prize Meeting at Hindsgavl Castle in Denmark from October 6-8th, 2011. The meeting was planned in collaboration with the Danish Neuroscience Schools and Danish Society for Neuroscience and it allowed for interaction between the three Hungarian prize winners and Danish brain researchers.

Prof. R. Clay Reid talks on Large scale structural and functional imaging of...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:15:32 GMT

Keynote lecture by Prof. R. Clay Reid. Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation hosted the annual Brain Prize Meeting at Hindsgavl Castle in Denmark from October 6-8th, 2011. The meeting was planned in collaboration with the Danish Neuroscience Schools and Danish Society for Neuroscience and it allowed for interaction between the three Hungarian prize winners and Danish brain researchers.

Brain Prize winner Gyorgy Buzsáki talks on assembly organization by brain rhytms

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:12:12 GMT

Prof. Gyorgy Buzsáki's talk on his scientific work that led to the Brain Prize award. Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation hosted the annual Brain Prize Meeting at Hindsgavl Castle in Denmark from October 6-8th, 2011. The meeting was planned in collaboration with the Danish Neuroscience Schools and Danish Society for Neuroscience and it allowed for interaction between the three Hungarian prize winners and Danish brain researchers.

BioLogicMedia Showreel Spring 2011

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:36:04 GMT

Communicating Life Science

BioLogicMedia's culture and actions
are designed to support our central
goals which are communicating you,
your product, your science and your
story, and working with you and your
team to create comprehendible,
accurate and inspirational movie.
We invite you to explore our work
and we look forward to tell your story.

With medical expertise, creative individuals and complete in-house
high-end film production, the company
can participate in all stages from the
birth of concepts and ideas to the execution and delivery of end-stage products.

Jesper Eugen-Olsen
Scientific director of BioLogicMedia. 15 years of experience in medical research, virology, biomarkers, inflammation. Author or coauthor of more than 65 peer reviewed papers and 12 issued patents. Experience in entrepreneurship and business development. Founder/cofounder of ViroGates, IMMUTELL, EYEAMTV and BioLogicMedia. PhD from University of Copenhagen 2003. Specialties: Immunology, inflammation, biomarkers, patents and scientific communication.

Bjørn Vidø
Creative Director and cofounder of BioLogicMedia.
17 years of experience with Feature movies, Documentaries and
commercials.
Educated from the The National Film School of Denmark as a Sound Designer 1997. Founder/cofounder of Freezone, Welcome Sound, EYEAMTV and BioLogicMedia.
Specialties: Creativity on all levels from the first idea to the finished production.

www.biologicmedia.dk/

BioLogicMedia Showreel Summer 2011

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:50:38 GMT

BioLogicMedia

We are making award-winning audio visual productions for Life science companies, institutions and organisations. From script to screen.

We Translate complex medical information into video productions that are
entertaining, informative, scientifically truthful and visually compelling.

1. LEARN is an interactive exhibition that takes the shape of an artistically made gigantic vein. It is a “hear-see-feel exhibition”, i.e. is focused on experienced-based learning. The exhibition communicates the esoteric nature of immune mediated inflammatory diseases; Autoimmune diseases that vary in their clinical manifestations, but share common underlying disease mechanisms Visitors can walk around inside the giant vein and see what goes on “when your body becomes your enemy”. The aim of LEARN is to address the stigmas, misperceptions, by increasing the awareness and knowledge of autoimmune diseases. The exhibition had World premiere on June 10th, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is currently touring the globe.

2. Doctor Doctor - What is going on? A Hit on BBC.Jesper Eugen-Olsen and Bjørn Vidø worked with patient societies in Denmark to produce the catchy pop video. The Video has its own site on BBC. Check it and sing along.

3. Conference coverage and edutainment. BioLogic Media also offers to cover conference events as well as conference edutainment. An example of edutainment was the Nordic Meeting of Gastroenterology in Copenhagen 8-11 June 2009. In this case the aim was to boost a simple 45 minute dinner lecture on inflammation into an edutainment event. In just 3 days. The solution was to combine a classical power point presentation with live video, live music, light design, smoke machines and sound effects. BioLogic Media provided a thrilling presentation on inflammation to the conference-participating doctors.

4. Dissemination of research results. In most cases, medical research results in scientific publications that only reach peer researchers. At BioLogic Media, we bring the results of research to the general public. An example of this is an EU FP6 funded clinical trial carried out in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The study found that a simple blood test (The suPARnostic® assay, ViroGates, Denmark) can predict post-hospital mortality.

BioLogicMedia Showreel

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:55:34 GMT

A travel through our productions in a few minutes