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Nano-Science Center is a cross faculty initiative between the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Health - two faculties that total 10.000 students and around 2850 full-time employees.

In September 2001 the Center was inaugurated as a joint venture between the Niels Bohr Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen.

The Center has continuously developed its area of research, and today we are working closely together with the Institute of Molecular Biology and the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Health. 

The Center was the first in Denmark to introduce a full Bachelor- and Master's Education in Nanoscience. Today the center has more than 250 students of Nanoscience who are primarily educated to obtain jobs in private companies.

In total 100 scientists, Post docs and PhD students are working at the Center. Nano-Science Center has since the inauguration in 2001 received above 70 million € overall in external funding pledges from both private and public funding - among others from the EU's Framework Programs, Nano-Science Center coordinats the 7th Framework Program SINGLE. With a 16 million € elite grant from The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Synthetic biology was established is a new research area at Nano-Science Center in 2009. Nano-Science Center also houses two basic research centres: Center for Molecular Movies and Danish-Chinese Center for Molecular Nano-Electronics . 

Research at the Nano-Science Center is organized in eight different research groups: