2013.12.20 | Grants and awards, All groups, Department of Clinical Medicine
Professor Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital will receive DKK 17 million towards a new scanning technique. The technique will show what meat, fat and soft drinks mean for the development of lifestyle diseases. At the same time, the results can be used by the food industry to produce more healthy…
2013.12.19 | Research, Technical / administrative staff, All AU units
How will we feed nine billion people in 2050 without destroying the environment? New technologies and new patterns of consumption are some of the answers.
2013.12.12 | People news, PhD students, Dept Clin Epi
Professor, DMSc, PhD Henrik Toft Sørensen from Department of Clinical Epidemiology has been elected member of the scientific committee of the Danish Cancer Society. Members of the scientific committee are elected by the executive committee of the Danish Cancer Society. The main task of the scientific committee is to distribute funding for research…
2013.12.12 | Research, All groups, All AU units
Collaboration between Danish, Japanese and American researchers has shown that the milk protein osteopontin can slow down the development of liver injury caused by alcohol abuse.
2013.12.19 | People news, All groups, Department of Clinical Medicine
Maiken Cavling Arendrup has taken up the position of honorary professor in fungal infections at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. Her position will strengthen collaboration with the researchers in Aarhus who work in this area.
2013.12.18 | Research, All groups, All AU units
For the past five years new genetic technology has created a revolution in Danish agriculture. Productivity has increased, cows have become healthier, and the technology can be spread to help produce more climate-friendly food for the world’s increasing population, according to a scientist from Aarhus University.
2013.12.19 | Research, All groups, All AU units
If there is to be enough food for everyone to eat in the future, we should start looking at our own eating habits. Our enormous consumption of meat – particularly beef – is a strain on the environment and is putting pressure on the world’s food resources. However, it is not easy to get people to stop buying so many hamburgers and so much red meat.…
2013.12.18 | Research, All groups, All AU units
Increasing pressure on existing agricultural land requires more intelligent production systems and solutions in order to maintain food production in a sustainable manner.
2013.12.19 | Administrative, PhD students, Health
The number of examiners at Health is being expanded. This is being done in order to meet the departments’ need for additional skilled members of academic staff to examine the students.
2013.12.06 | Seminar, All groups, All AU units
How can translation be reconsidered as a fundamental and necessary cultural and literary activity shaping cultures and literatures across cultural borders? How can translations contribute to an understanding of world literature?