University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Det sundhedsvidenskabelige fakultet
Seal of the Faculty of Science
Latin: Facultatis Medicæ
Type	Public university
Established	1479
Dean	Ulla Wewer
Students	8000
Location	Copenhagen , Denmark
Campus	North Campus, City Campus, Frederiksberg Campus
Affiliations	EUA, LAOTSE
Website	healthsciences.ku.dk

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (Danish: Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet) at the University of Copenhagen houses 13 departments, 24 centres, four schools and three hospitals. In January 2012 the Faculty of Health Sciences merged with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Industries and the veterinary part of the Faculty of Life Sciences into a new Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

The Faculty educates students in the areas of Human Health and Medical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science and Oral Health Sciences.

The Faculty library is part of the Royal Library and is shared with the Faculty of Life Sciences.

The University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1814 as a de facto Norwegian (partial) continuation of the medical faculty in Copenhagen, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the breakup of Denmark-Norway by the foreign powers. The medical faculty in Oslo therefore shared many of its traditions with the Copenhagen faculty.

Departments

Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Department of Pharmacy
• Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology

Human Health and Medical Sciences

• Department of Biomedical Sciences
• Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
• Department of Clinical Medicine
• Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology
• Department of Forensic Medicine
• Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
• Department of Public Health

Oral Health Sciences

• Department of Odontology

Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

• Department of Large Animal Sciences
• Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Science
• Department of Veterinary Disease Biology

Centres of excellence

Supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation

• Stem cell research: (co founded: Danish Council for Strategic Research) Danish Stem Cell Center (DanStem)
• Metabolic research: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR)
• Protein research: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR)
• Neuroscience research The Centre of Basic and Translational Neuroscience (CTN)

Lundbeck centres

• Astma in Childhood: Copenhagen Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC)
• Biomembranes in Nanomedicine: Lundbeck Foundation Center for Biomembranes in Nanomedicine (CBN)
• Neuropsychiatric diseases: The Lundbeck Foundation Centre for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (CIMBI)
• The Lundbeck Foundation Center for Neurovascular Signaling: The Lundbeck Center for Neurovascular Signalling (LUCENS)

Interdiciplinary centers

• Centre for Medical Parasitology (CMP)
• The Center for Healthy Ageing (CEHA)
• Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE)
• Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health (RTH)
• The Centre for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP)
• The Centre for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology (CPNN)
• University of Copenhagen Research Centre for Control of Antibiotic Resistance (UC-care)

Basic research

• Copenhagen Center for Glycomics (CCG)
• Danish Arrhythmia Centre (DARC)
• Centre for Biopharmaceuticals
• Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism (CIM)
• Sino-Danish Breast Cancer Research Centre
• Costerton Biofilm Centre (CBC)
• Center for Chromosome Stability (CCS)

National centers

• Danish Obesity Research Center (DanORC)

Other centres

• In Vivo Pharmacology: Novo Nordisk - LIFE In Vivo Pharmacology Centre

Schools

• School of Medical Sciences
• School of Oral Health Sciences
• School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Locations

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences has facilities in seven different locations: six in Copenhagen and one in Taastrup:

• Panum
• Teilum
• Center for Sundhed og Samfund
• Medical Museion
• Universitetsparken
• Frederiksberg Campus
• Taastrup Campus

Hospitals

• Copenhagen University Hospital
• University Hospital for Companion Animals
• Large Animal Teaching Hospital

Building projects

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences is building new facilities for international health and medical research and education.

The Maersk Building

The Maersk Building will be an extension of Panum. Construction commenced in 2012 and is expected to be completed in 2015. The Panum complex will grow from 105,000 square metres to 140,000 square metres. The 42,700 new square metres (approx.) will primarily be dedicated to research and educational activities, canteen and bicycle parking facilities. First, 7,700 square metres will be demolished to accommodate a new forecourt with a main entrance, new park areas and a doubling of the bicycle parking facilities.

The new building will rise to a height of 75 metres, slightly higher than Rigshospitalet's helipad at 71 metres. On the top floor of the Maersk Building, there will be public access to an observation platform.

Pharma Science Building

The new Pharma Science Building will have 5,130 square meters of floor space. It will cost DKK 175 million. Of this DKK 14 million will be spent renovating an existing neighbouring building at Nørre Allé 71, which will be integrated with the new building

The Pharma Science Building will house modern laboratories for pharmaceutical research. The new research building will meet the huge need for additional laboratory facilities at the Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry and at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology. The new Pharma Science Building also adds new interdisciplinary joint facilities, where researchers can meet and find inspiration for further collaboration and innovation.