Dea S. Stenbæk has been awarded a prestigious Sapere Aude Starting Grant, worth 4.431.907 DKK, from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IFRD) for her 4-year project "Unlocking the doors of perception: Impact of music on acute and lasting effects of psilocybin in depressed patients". We congratulate Dea with the highly prestigious grant and look very much forward to hosting her project at NRU!
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Congratulations to NRU Senior Researcher Patrick Fisher who as of November 1st 2022 is appointed Associate Professor (part-time) for a 5-year period at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen.

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NRU's Christmas Symposium takes place on Friday, December 2, in Auditorium 2, Rigshospitalet - Blegdamsvej, entrance 44.
For programme, click here
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Congratulations to Louise Møller Jørgensen for receiving 140.000 DKK as a scholarstipend grant from Danish Society for Neuroscience for stud.med. Emilie Mauritzon and the project "Cognitive flexibility in responders and non-responders from lumbar fusion surgery to treat chronic low back pain" and to Patrick Fisher for receiving 70.000 DKK as a scholarstipend grant also from Danish Society for Neuroscience for stud.med. Victor Neufeld and the project "Establishing the dose-occupancy relation of LSD at the serotonin 2A receptor in the living human brain".
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Congratulations to Gerda Thomsen, Silvia Bruzzone and Søren V Larsen for receiving travel support from Rigshospitalet's Jubilæumsfond, Gerda for her participation at EANM in Barcelona and Søren and Silvia for ECNP in Vienna.
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Many NRU researchers participated in the 35th annual ECNP Congress which was recently held in Vinnna, Austria.



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Congratulations to Clara Madsen who has been granted a 4 year PhD fellowship from Neuroscience Academy Denmark: First year as Research Assistant with 10-weeks lab rotation in Denmark (three labs) followed by 3 years as PhD student. Information about the NAD PhD fellowships can be found here.
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Congratulations to former NRU PhD-student Nakul Raval who's review paper from 2021, entitled "A Single Dose of Psilocybin Increases Synaptic Density and Decreases 5-HT2A Receptor Density in the Pig Brain", has already been cited 30 times and consequently, been selected as one of the Highly Cited Papers of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) in 2021.
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Nature Outlook has published Psychedelic Medicine, a collection of popular science articles about the advances and challenges of psychedelic research and clinical applications. One article, Your brain on psychedelics, includes NRU Senior Researcher Patrick Fisher's perspective on what we know and do not know about psychedelic effects on the brain.
The article collection can be found here: https://www.nature.com/collections/edcbibiadj
The article including Patrick Fisher can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02874-7
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Welcome to our new staff members:
Student assistant, EEG: Arthur Diness (Medicine & Technology).
Master's students Ahmad Al-Baka and Sandra N. Madsen (both Pharmaceutical Sciences); Joanna Wilkosz (Neuroscience) and Emilie Mauritzon (Medicine).
Arthur Emilie Joanna



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- Two ECNP Excellence Awards to NRU
- Succesful PhD defense by Camilla Borgsted Larsen
- Scholarstipend grant from IRFD for the UFMR project
- Friederike Holze received mobility postdoc grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Scholarstipend grant from DPS-Lundbeckfonden for the BrainDrugs-D project
- PhD defence by Camilla B. Larsen, MD, June 16
- Louise Møller Jørgensen receives BETA.HEALTH grant
- NRU Spring Symposium
- Welcome to Isabel
- Drummond McCulloch awarded 1st place in the FYF Annual Poster and Presentation competition