Rigshospitalet is now making it easier for companies and start-ups to pitch innovative health- and care solutions with a new on-line “Pitch –and-match” tool. The aim of the tool is to match innovative ideas and technologies from start-ups to clinics with specific needs.

​Professors Jes Olesen and Lars Edvinsson from Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen receive the most prestigious brain research prize in the world, the Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, which they will be the first researchers in the Nordic countries to receive. The prize celebrates 40 years of research into migraine, which is now recognised as a treatable neurological disease.

​Using patient data, artificial intelligence can make a 90 percent accurate assessment of whether a person will die from COVID-19 or not. Now Danish hospitals will use the data to predict how many patients will need a respirator 5 days later.

The first treatment results from a worldwide COVID-19 study show that treatment with the antibody LY-CoV555 has no effect on patients in hospital. Three new antibodies now to be tested.