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2019
07 NOV

Complex model of the human brain controls robot

The robots of tomorrow will be able to both adapt to changes in their surroundings and learn new tasks.

Robot technology and automation Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases
Photo by Elvira Eberhardt
21 OCT

70 MDKK for MR scanning and insights into metabolic processes

Professor Jan Ardenkjær-Larsen from DTU Health Tech receives the prestigious ERC Synergy grant together with Professors in Physics Martin Plenio and Fedor Jelezko from...

Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems Health technology
Jørgen Arendt Jensen and Erik V. Thomsen. Photo by Jesper Scheel
21 OCT

73 MDKK for ultrasound in 4D

Jørgen Arendt Jensen and Erik Vilain Thomsen from DTU Health Tech receive the prestigious ERC Synergy grant, awarded to cross-disciplinary research projects. The project...

Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Micro and nanotechnology
11 OCT

DKK 144.5 million from the EU for health technology projects

On 11 October, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded new ERC Synergy grants. DTU participates in two of these, which have each been granted more than DKK 70 million...

Medical equipment and systems Image analysis Health and diseases
08 AUG

EU grant for development of medical sensor

Professor Anja Boisen from DTU Health Tech receives Proof of Concept grant of DKK 1.1 million from the European Research Council.

Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Optics Sensors Micro and nanotechnology
Photo: DTU
04 JUL

Students ensure greater accuracy of scanning images

Thanks to two student projects, the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) research unit at Hvidovre Hospital will be able to receive images of the liver and brain tissue in...

Electrotechnology Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems
Photo: Jesper Scheel
23 JAN

New study programme focuses on healthcare technology materials

From autumn 2019, DTU offers a new MSc programme in advanced materials and healthcare engineering.

Medical equipment and systems Biotechnology
2018
WARD (Photo: Rigshospitalet)
13 NOV

Medical attention around the clock

A new project will revolutionise monitoring of hospitalised patients at special risk, thus reducing the incidence of complications and deaths. 

Health technology Electrotechnology Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems
Walk, sleep and cognition
09 JUL

Team of CACHET researchers reach finals in Stanford Medicine X competition

Physical activity, sleep and cognitive function: Clinical pilot study on crowd-sourced mHealth for cognitive rehabilitation

Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems
girl Itching her arm
17 MAY

InstaPatch receives 5.6M DKK in funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark...

The CACHET PhD project InstaPatch has received funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark. This funding will be used to further expand the project with an additional...

Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Micro and nanotechnology
Photo: T. Kaare Smith
20 APR

High-tech patch wins innovation competition

A patch which can measure movement patterns in persons with Parkinson’s disease won DTU’s Open Innovation X final.

Health technology Medical equipment and systems
2017
Photo: DTU Electrical Engineering
19 DEC

Electronic monitoring of heart rhythm can prevent strokes

A simple method for electronically monitoring patient heart rhythm can improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders and prevent strokes.

Electrotechnology Medical equipment and systems Health technology Health and diseases
18 OCT

Alarm gives epileptics peace of mind

Doctors and scientists have joined forces with a commercial enterprise to develop an alarm that makes life easier for patients and their relatives.

Electronics Health technology Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems
SMB's equipment for rapid blood sample testing in domestic animals consists of an analyser device that can stand in the veterinary clinic, and a number of labs-on-a-chip. Photo: Ulrik Jantzen
13 FEB

Lab-on-a-chip for world's vets

The spin-out company Scandinavian Micro Biodevices has completed its journey from the clean rooms at DTU to a global breakthrough. Zoetis, of USA, has just paid DKK 536...

Medical equipment and systems Innovation and product development
Oxygen robot at Herlev hospital
08 FEB

Robot to ensure oxygen supply to COPD patients

Innovation Fund Denmark has just granted DKK 7 million for the further development of a new robot that will ensure COPD patients of the right amount of oxygen. DTU sees...

Robot technology and automation Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases
Mette Kolpen and Peter Østrup Jensen with two students from DTU, Peter Alexander Vistar Gade og Terkel Bo Olsen.
08 FEB

Oxygen under pressure increases effect of antimicrobial agents

New research from DTU will extend the life expectancy of chronic patients with cystic fibrosis, and delay the need to replace artificial hips and knees.

Health technology Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases
03 FEB

Millions for research into the treatment of heart patients and psychiatric and...

Innovation Fund Denmark has granted DKK 27 million to two major health-promoting projects carried out at the Copenhagen Center for Health Technology, CACHET,, in which...

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SMB's many different labs-on-a-chip will be manufactured at the company headquarters in Farum, where they have established a clean room. Photo: Ulrik Jantzen
05 JAN

Labs-on-a-chip for world's vets

The spin-out company Scandinavian Micro Biodevices has completed its journey from the clean rooms at DTU to a global breakthrough. Zoetis, of USA, has just paid DKK 536...

Medical equipment and systems Livestock diseases Innovation and product development
2016
Jørgen A. Jensen
31 MAY

Portable ultrasound scanners to enable fast diagnosing

In the future, ultrasound scanners will be small and portable, so that patients can be scanned any place and any time. This is the objective of a comprehensive high tech...

Health technology Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems
31 MAY

Engineers and doctors develop new healthcare technologies

New healthcare technologies are needed to prevent, diagnose and treat the increasing number of cases of disease associated with increases in life expectancies. And this...

Biotechnology Micro and nanotechnology Optics Health technology Medical equipment and systems Hospital layout and design Health and diseases Innovation and product development Entrepreneurship
31 MAY

Openness is gold

It was a perfect match when Associate Professor Winnie E. Svendsen met Dan Høgdall, a doctor. Together they developed a chip for diagnosing early-stage cancers. In January...

Health technology Medical equipment and systems Nanomedicine Health and diseases Entrepreneurship Innovation and product development
31 MAY

Doctors and engineers develop better cancer treatment

DTU and Frederiksberg Hospital are heading a European research project, where engineers and doctors develop new instruments for detecting bladder cancer.

Health technology Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Entrepreneurship Innovation and product development
11 MAR

No need to lie still in the scanner of the future

Senior Researcher Oline Vinter Olesen is working on transforming a seven-year-old idea into a business, backed by DTU, Harvard, and Rigshospitalet.

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26 JAN

Colour research

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...

Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems Physiological modelling Data analysis Electronics
Photo: Colourbox
26 JAN

Engineers refine doctors’ tools

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...

Health and diseases Medical equipment and systems Physiological modelling Data analysis Electronics
2015
Illustration: DTU
07 DEC

New issue of Technologist is out now

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...

Electrotechnology Robot technology and automation Electronics Electrical engineering Optics Sensors Medical equipment and systems Entrepreneurship Innovation and product development Space technology Astrophysics Space technology and instruments
29 OCT

“Indispensable entrepreneurs”

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...

Biotechnology Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Entrepreneurship Innovation and product development
Photo: DTU
20 OCT

Health Technology in the hands of citizens

The Danish National Health Service is under pressure, with increasing numbers of elderly suffering from chronic disorders and a growing demand for healthcare services...

Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases
Summer school on Nuclear Spin Hyperpolarization Techniques on 21st – 25th June 2015
15 JUN

Summer school on Nuclear Spin Hyperpolarization Techniques on 21st – 25th June...

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...

Health technology Medical equipment and systems Radioactive pharmaceuticals and isotopes
2014
Photo: Roche
16 DEC

Quantum mechanical shortcut to new medicine

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...

Quantum theory and atomic physics Medical equipment and systems
Photo: Colourbox
24 JUN

Researchers mapping your route from illness to illness

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...

Data analysis Biological systems Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Enzymes and proteins
14 MAY

Collaboration strengthens hearing research

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...

Hearing aids Medical equipment and systems
11 APR

Researchers to find new paths into the brain

Researchers are searching for new ways to ‘smuggle’ medicine past the brain’s efficient defences. A new multidisciplinary research partnership involving DTU Nanotech is...

Biotechnology Medical equipment and systems
04 MAR

DNA analysis can derail aggressive bacteria

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...

Genes and genomes Bacteria and microorganisms Medical equipment and systems Biotechnology Health and diseases Biological systems
2013
Researchers discover new gene implicated in asthma
20 NOV

Researchers discover new gene implicated in asthma

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...

Biotechnology Biological systems Genes and genomes Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases
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