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Sleep is the brain’s way of spring cleaning—and effectively removing toxins. During deep sleep, the body is normally completely at rest and unreactive to the brain’s signals...
There is increasing evidence to suggest that a particular sleep disorder producing abnormal movements during dream sleep may be an early marker for Parkinson’s disease...
DTU and Frederiksberg Hospital are heading a European research project, where engineers and medical doctors develop new instruments for detecting bladder cancer. The concept...
Our own Danish astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, occupies the front cover of the new issue of Technologist, DTU's international magazine, which this time takes a closer look...
Jakob E. Bardram was welcomed as a new professor in pervasive healthcare at DTU Computer and the Institute of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Drug delivery is all about getting the active substance in medicine to target the right place in the body at the right time. American researcher and business founder...
This year a former DTU Elektro PhD student and two MSc students received prizes when the Elektrofondet celebrated its 50th anniversary and distributed the 'Elektroprisen...
The Mayor of Public Health in the City of Copenhagen officially opened CACHET at a public conference at the Copenhagen City Hall.
The Danish National Health Service is under pressure, with increasing numbers of elderly suffering from chronic disorders and a growing demand for healthcare services...
Elderly people and children with disabilities are jumping their way to improved life quality using interactive robot tiles developed at the Center for Playware.
Professor Jan Ardenkjaer-Larsen will be giving a lecture on Dissolution-DNP: Instrumentation at the upcoming EU-COST Summer School on Nuclear Spin Hyperpolarization Techniques...
Denmark's largestresearch project on chemical cocktail effects infood, spearheaded by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has just been completed...
An Italian researcher who has recently completed a visiting professorship at DTU claims that water contains hidden properties which may have a major impact on areas such...
A DTU researcher is seeking to understand what causes the immune system to attack the body’s own healthy cells in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and how to prevent...
Backed by a Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship, Leticia Hosta-Rigau plans to develop a new nanomedical approach to repairing damaged cells, which may benefit newborns with...
Two PhD students have been awarded DKK 250,000 by the Paul V. Andersen Foundation to develop a 3D printer with the capacity to print in a resolution of 10 micrometres.
Research groups from DTU are participating in two interdisciplinary projects that receive millions in funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
The dream of being able to predict whether medicine works and its potential side effects—even before you start producing the drug—lives again. This is the potential for...
Professor Henrik Hautop Lund is Keynote Speaker at Health Tech 2014 - Brainport Region Eindhoven. Health Tech is a yearly high tech event held at the University of Eindhoven...
In the near future car traffic will be able to run on electricity but air traffic remains dependent on liquid fuel. The National Food Institute, Technical University of...
DTU Skylab was packed to the rafters on Friday, 28 November when the University hosted the inauguration of Denmark’s new supercomputer. The powerful computer is located...
The Center for Playware exhibits Playware research at Rudersdal Municipality's Technology for Welfare Event
Campylobacter is the foodborne bacteria that contributes most to the burden of disease in Denmark. This is the finding of a study from the National Food Institute, Technical...
The research of the Center for Playware is described in an article in Weekendavisen
The Playware Film "With Robots in Mind" featuring Professor Henrik Hautop Lund of DTU's Center for Playware to be shown this week on DR2
And on top of this Prasanth Thummala got at travel grant for this trip!
On 1 September 2014, Nordic Power Converters (NPC) was started as a spinout from DTU Electrical Engineering with the founders as first employees.
The ECCE Europe, organized by the EPE Association took take place from 26 August to the 28 August 2014 at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in Lappeenranta...
PhD student Khiem Nguyen-Duy from the Electronics Group at DTU Electrical Engineering recently finished his external stay at the Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC...
PhD student Lina Huang from the Electronics Group at DTU Electrical Engineering is back from her external stay. From May to July 2014, Lina joined the Laboratory for...
The Ministry of Health visited DTU and our Center for Playware.
A generous grant from The John & Birthe Meyer Foundation for radiation therapy equipment at DTU has paved the way for new breakthroughs with the potential to improve radiation...
What started out as a BSc project a few years ago has now developed into a company attracting international attention in partnership with UNICEF and the Clinton Health...
A public-private partnership project has laid the foundations for significantly improved treatment of COPD patients.
The modular robotic system, Fable, from our Center for Playware is presented in the IEEE Spectrum.
At the World Molecular Imaging Conference, Professor Jan Henrik Ardenkjær Larsen from The Biomedical Engineering Group at DTU Elektro, was awarded the gold medal for...
This workshop integrates advanced research and technologies in order to present the development of smart living. Management systems that optimize energy consumption are...
A number of leading international researchers, amongst others from the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, recommend that fluorochemicals are only...
Bacteria in the gut help the body to digest food, and stimulate the immune system. A PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, examines...
It is important to keep the number of MRSA infections at a low level. In a PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, the latest technologies...
Playware has been Featured in the Sunday Edition of the most influential Italian Newspaper for Finance and Economy "Il Sole 24 Ore"
The Russian Media Polit.ru has, following a visit of international journalists to the centre, published a story on the research of the Centre for Playware.
Infections caused by foodborne microorganisms are an increasing public health burden. In a PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark...
Ziwei Ouyang Assistant Professor from the Electronics Group at DTU Electrical Engineering was the winner of the "Young Engineer Award" and was honoured at the opening ceremony...
Part of the occurrence of Salmonella in humans comes from food-producing animals. A PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, estimates...
DTU researchers have identified and mapped 500 previously unknown microorganisms and more than 800 bacterial viruses in our intestinal flora. A discovery which—in the long...
Journalists from international media services such as WIRED, Spiegel, ARTE, ZDF, Il Sole 24 Ore, visited the Center for Playware on the 24th of June
Researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Copenhagen (KU) have followed six million Danes for 15 years through patient and disease registers...
Professor Henrik Hautop Lund will give the keynote talk “Playful Rehabilitation with Playware for Older Adults” at the 9th World Conference on Gerontechnology (ISG 2014...
InnovationsFonden was established as of 1 April 2014 by bringing together research, technology development and innovation grants from the Danish Council of Strategic...
PhD student Juan Carlos Hernández Bottella from the Electronics Group receives "Best IEPE Poster Award 2014"
Nordic Power Converters is a soon-to-be spin-off company from DTU Elektro, specializing in cheap, small and efficient power converters.
There is a connection between previous consumption of cephalosporin antibiotics and the amount of ESBL bacteria in pigs. At the same time, there is an increased occurrence...
A promising new ventilation system for hospital beds captures airborne infection and supplies patients with fresh air.
TRiMiCri is a new software tool for setting and evaluating risk-based microbiological criteria for Campylobacter in broiler meat. The software was developed at the National...
The John & Birthe Meyer Foundation has donated DKK 18.7 million to finance investment in market-leading and state-of-the-art equipment for measuring doses in connection...
In March, Professor Torsten Dau received Brinch’s honorary award for his hearing research at the highest international level. His is currently engaged in giving DTU’s research...
The nutritional factor that has the greatest impact on the development of a child's gut flora is whether the child is breastfed, according to a new study by the National...
The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, invites you to Ellen Gerd Christensen’s PhD defence which examines whether changes in the composition of gut...
Researchers are searching for new ways to ‘smuggle’ medicine past the brain’s efficient defences. A new multidisciplinary research partnership involving DTU Nanotech is...
Bisphenol A, used in plastic packaging and paper, is suspected of having health-damaging effects in humans. The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark...
The National Food Institute (Technical University of Denmark), Saxocon and Leadscope, Inc., co-organise a seminar on the new ICH M7 guideline on assessment and control...
A tough strain of bacteria adapts its DNA to suit life in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. The bacterial genome has now been mapped, however, and this could lead...
The harmful phthalates, which have been used as softeners in e.g. plastic toys and food packaging, will possibly be replaced by a plastic softener produced from sunflower...
On 5 February 2014, Sebastian C. Holst who graduated as Engineer in Medicine and Technology in 2008 will be giving a seminar on Molecular mechanisms of sleep-wake regulation...
Biocides, e.g. disinfectants, are used to fight disease-causing bacteria in hospitals and in the food industry, as well as to fight pests and fungi. A PhD project at...
DTU, Oticon, Widex and GN Resound open a new research centre on 1 January 2014. The centre is named CAMM—Centre for Acoustic-Mechanical Micro Systems—and will focus on...
On 10 and 11 December 2013 an international conference was held in Paris on the research and risk assessment challenges posed by chemical mixtures. The goal of these...
Danish researchers from National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Systems Biology and Hvidovre Hospital have demonstrated how—within the space of a...
The Center for Playware project on modular playware tiles for rehabilitation in sub-Saharan Africa has won the 1st Prize at the Tanzanian ICT Summit in Dar Es-Salaam. ...
Professor Henrik Hautop Lund from the Center for Playware gave an entertaining talk at Byens Lys in Christiania as part of the Science and Cocktails concept. The topic...
The new biotech company Saxocon offers companies direct access to the high-quality knowledge of researchers at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark...
Together, the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, ANSES, French Institute for Risk Assessment, and BfR, Germany's Federal Institute of Risk Assessment...
DTU - Center for Playware’s work on of the interactive Fable modular robotic system for playful science and engineering education of children and young adults has received...
Danish researchers have found a gene that makes children susceptible to developing serious asthma early in life. The discovery may impact our understanding of how and...
Professor Henrik Hautop Lund from DTU's Center for Playware and the Director of "Children and Prevention" at Gentofte Municipality, Torben H.D. Petersen, talk about the...
National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark invites as co-organizer to a international conference on challenges and risk assessment of simultaneous influence...
More and more scientific studies indicate that perfluorinated substances are carcinogenic or otherwise hazardous to health. In the Nordic countries, new per- and polyfluorinated...
Playware's high tech MusicCubes are featured on stage as part of the show with Peter Gabriel on his "Back to Front" 2013 European tour
Professor Henrik Hautop Lund gives an interview in DR P1 Kulturnyt.
Welfare technology Hip fractures reduce quality of life and cost the state millions. But a study has shown that exercise using interactive tiles from DTU is fun and offers...
The increase in the number of Danes infected with MRSA bacteria continued in 2012, and the total number of those infected has almost doubled since 2009. The vast majority...
Playware and rehabilitation technology in DTU Avisen Playware og velfærdsteknologi i DTU Avisen
Having a particular set of bacteria in your gut places you in the high-risk group for developing metabolic disorders such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular...
Fast Company on Playware- These Musical Cubes Remix the Way We Play With One Another
The National Food Institute invites you to attend Karen Riiber Mandrup’s PhD defence on endocrine disruptors and their impact on breast tissue and sexual organs. The...
The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, in its capacity as co-organiser, invites you to the international workshop on fluorinated compounds in materials...
Volbeat, Efterklang, etc. play with Center for Playware at Roskilde Festival 2013
The Center for Playware at the People's Public meeting in Bornholm Center for Playware på Folkemødet på Bornholm
Elderly improve functional abilities significantly through play with Playware technology Ældre forbedrer funktionsevner signifikant gennem leg med playware-teknologi...
The National Food Institute invites to Pernille Rosenskjold Jacobsen’s PhD defense on environmentally relevant substances with endocrine disrupting effects. The defense...
Several European institutions have evaluated the much spoken-about French study of the effect on rats’ consumption of genetically modified corn and the herbicide Roundup...