Biotech Research & Innovation Center

These findings, which were published today in www.jci.org/articles/vie... are now being shared internationally, and will enable doctors to provide more informed treatment options to their patients.

Using a new technique which our researchers developed, they revealed which of 54 different genetic variants of the BRCA2 gene found worldwide are associated with an increased risk of developing cancer.

Getting to the bottom of understanding our genetic risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
Work by @bric-ucph.bsky.social researchers has resulted in a technique to improve detection of a patient's genetic risk of developing cancer before symptoms appear.

#cancerresearch #biobank #cancerorganoid #ovariancancer #collaboration

Camera operator and TV crew in a lab, close to a scientist in a cell culture cabinet, conducting a recorded interview

And, we aren’t the only ones who think this is worth sharing 🎥 To mark this important step in the fight against ovarian cancer, a crew from hashtag#DR1 came to visit our labs, to learn more and capture some exciting footage to share this news with the world this week.

This coalition also includes key figures from Tyks Turku University Hospital, the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi and the Auria Biobank.

This work has taken many years of dedication, and today that hard work has been marked with the launch of the OvaCure collection which will make these 3-dimensional cell cultures available to all researchers.

We are proud to share that Assistant Professor Wojciech Senkowski @wojtsen.bsky.social from Professor Krister Wennerberg’s lab has developed methods to culture ovarian cancer organoids in the lab, using samples collected from patient biopsy tissue.

Ovarian cancer is responsible for the deaths of over 200,000 women per year, and the diagnosis rate is expected to increase over the next 25 years. To address this challenge, researchers need better ways to study this important disease in the lab.

𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #𝐎𝐯𝐚𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 #𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen.

We had our first BRIC Day! 🚀

A fantastic poster session where we explored the diverse research projects at @bric-ucph.bsky.social and discovered what drives our colleagues to come to the lab every day.

Science thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and shared passion—this event was all about that!

Congratulations to George Hunt (Postdoc), Meet Jariwala (Postdoc), and @porsebo.bsky.social (Clinical Professor), who all receive an LF Experiment grant from @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social 👏 🧠

#innovation #neuroscience #basicresarch

Cristian Bellodi

We are very happy to welcome Professor Cristian Bellodi as new Group Leader at BRIC ✨

Cristian Bellodi explores how RNA modifications, noncoding RNAs, and RNA-binding proteins regulate gene expression during development and tumorigenesis.

Read more about Cristian here:
🔗 tinyurl.com/36yxsks4

Researchers aim to reveal mechanisms leading to schizophrenia Researchers from University of Copenhagen, Karolinska Institute and University of Zurich join forces to close the knowledge gap on how schizophrenia develops.

Researchers from @bric-ucph.bsky.social, @ucph.bsky.social, @karolinskainst.bsky.social and University of Zurich have joined forces to study the risk factors and development of schizophrenia with support from @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social 👏
🔗Read more: shorturl.at/5K6WN

#schizophrenia #neuroscience