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• 30.06.2025

  Cameras and artificial intelligence to map life in playgrounds

  PhD student from the University of Southern Denmark aims to analyse playground use through a new AI-based method. SDU funds, Discovery, gave an important boost to the development.

• 14.06.2025

  Researcher aims to prevent infection in patients with CVCs

  Medtech postdoc Mahdi Momeni is developing a device that detects infections in patients with a central venous catheter (CVC). The device monitors the tissue around the catheter to keep the patients safe - and ultimately save lives.

• 13.06.2025

  Researcher uses light to print everything from organs to prosthetics

  Andreas Gejl Madsen is building a holographic 3D printer that uses light to fabricate, for example, a pancreas or a heart valve in under a minute. He has one year to develop a business based on his research.

• 22.01.2025

  2024: Record in spinouts at SDU

  Seven new companies founded by SDU researchers became a reality in 2024. This is the largest number of research-based companies from SDU in a single year to date – and the expectation is that a similar number will be founded in the coming years. One of the new SDU spinouts will develop a new treatment for patients with Huntington's disease. A market projected to be worth more than $2.5 billion by 2035.

• 15.01.2025

  Vision: To ensure that fewer patients around the world die from cirrhosis

  Doctors need help detecting liver disease patients in time so they don't die from cirrhosis. This is the goal of the founders of Evido Health, a company based on research from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital.

• 08.11.2024

  Researcher investigates the business potential of fictional worlds

  Can devising scripts become a business? Postdoc Nathali Herold Solon Pilegaard will find out. She has researched how script developers create the worlds viewers encounter in the Danish TV series Valdes jul and Efterforskningen. Now she is embarking on a new project.

• 17.10.2024

  Sensors will help detect heart failure in patients

  New sensors in waiting room chairs and hospital beds will detect heart problems in patients. A heart attack can be detected several hours before the patient realises that something is wrong. The sensors will be tested at OUH in the Fall.

• 12.09.2024

  SDU researcher starts a drone company

  Postdoc Kristian Husum Laursen is taking off – thanks to the entrepreneur programme Spin-outs Denmark – from the University of Southern Denmark with the drone company CODRONE

• 05.09.2024

  Light can help oncologists reduce re-surgery rates

  Today, one in ten cancer surgeries is repeated because surgeons failed to remove all the cancer tissue the first time around. A new instrument can give surgeons a more accurate picture during surgery to make sure there is no more cancerous tissue left.

• 03.09.2024

  New company paves the way for advanced treatment of brain cancer

  Three researchers have developed a new treatment for glioblastoma, the most deadly and common form of brain cancer. Now they are starting a company to achieve an important goal: to revolutionise the treatment of the disease and make it available to patients.

• 02.10.2023

  Solar panels used indoors can replace batteries in small devices

  SDU's new translational postdoc Bhushan Patil wants to replace batteries in small devices such as clocks and keyboards with solar panels that collects energy from indoor light in homes and offices.

• 18.04.2023

  New postdoc wants to empower teen communication using virtual reality

  Public speaking is like learning a new language. The earlier you start, the better a speaker you will become. Translational Postdoc Ïo Valls-Ratés is creating a virtual universe that allows teenagers to practise their communication skills