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2020.10.06 | PhD defense, Public/Media, Graduate School of Health

Virtual PhD defence: Mette Habekost

Conversion of Porcine Fibroblast to Neuronal Cells: Production, Characterization and Utility

2020.10.06 | Meeting, All groups, All AU units

Ensuring women’s participation in the Covidian Era

In this changed world how are women affected - in their workplaces, at home in their private lives and what is required to ensure women continue to progress to equality on all measures including work participation, security and safety and pay? Will we emerge from this era with the gains made pre-COVID?

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2020.11.03 | Administrative, Administration (Academic), All groups

Help with virtual meetings and conferences

The COVID-19 situation has forced us to rethink our previous practices and habits – including how we conduct virtual 'meetings'. A new website can help you get started.

As we’re doing basic research, we obviously don’t know whether the drug works on infections in humans, and it’s up to the infectious disease experts to test for this. However, I have to say that I’m very optimistic, says Christian Kanstrup Holm. Photo: Jesper Rais, AU

2020.10.02 | Research, Health and disease, Public/Media

Medicine for multiple sclerosis patients inhibits the coronavirus – at least in a test tube

A drug which has already been approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis patients effectively inhibits the coronavirus when tested on human lung cells. This is shown by a newly published study from biomedicine researchers at Aarhus University.

The users of ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers had lower mortality rates than the hospitalised patients who took another type of drugs against elevated blood pressure, calcium blockers, says Christian Fynbo Christiansen. Photo: Melissa B. K. Yildirim, AU.

2020.10.02 | Research, Research, Public/Media

Users of blood pressure medicine have a lower risk of dying from influenza and pneumonia

Thousands of Danes use ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers against elevated blood pressure or heart problems, and they may have an improved chance of surviving severe influenza or pneumonia infections. This is shown by a study from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital.

Niels Henrik Buus is a new clinical professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine. Photo: Jann Thiele Zeiss, AU Health.

2020.10.01 | External target group, Health, Research

Niels Henrik Buus is new professor of hypertension

At least a fifth of the Danish population have higher blood pressure than they ought to. According to newly-appointed Professor Niels Henrik Buus from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, knowledge about the causes, prevention and treatment of this can therefore be widely beneficial.

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