Interview with Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, medical doctor and associate professor and member of the steering group of the Challenge project, studying what happens to our tissues when we age. Every day Morten Scheibye-Knudsen swallows 2 capsules of nicotinamide riboside. So does his wife. And his mother. They...
Interview with Mette Nordahl Svendsen, professor in anthropology and member of the steering group of the Challenge project, researching all the ethical issues involved in health data science. When you are old, sick and cannot speak or move, you need a lot of healthcare. Heavy healthcare....
Vera Timmermans is head of the Pathology Department at Rigshospitalet. She hopes to make an Age Clock to find out if doctors should treat a disease e.g. skin cancer differently in a 20-year old compared to a 60-year old. She also made sure to set...
Statistics Denmark is part of a research project, where the independent neutral state-funded organisation is the data controller and responsible for the use of data. Until today, the rich data from Statistics Denmark have been used in slices. Now it’ll be used across topics and...
In the 1990s Danish Dynamite had to do with football. In the 2020s it has to do with personal data. At least according to professor Rudi Westendorp, who has received a grant from the Novo Nordisk Fund to make us all age better. His project...