2021.01.18 | Research, Public/Media, All AU units
Despite Covid-19, MatchPoints 2021 will take place at the end of May as a hybrid conference. Mark the date if you’re interested in learning more about digitalisation and democracy.
2021.01.19 | Research, Health and disease, Academic staff
A new nationwide Danish Cardiovascular Academy will bring together Denmark’s experts in cardiovascular disease research. The aim is to improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 150 million to the Academy, which professor Christian Aalkjær will be the Executive…
2021.01.14 | Grants and awards, Research, Academic staff
Two PhD fellows and a four-year postdoc position have been created with the funding coming from the Danish Diabetes Academy, which distributed over DKK 15 million to promising Danish diabetes researchers at the end of 2020.
2021.01.14 | Talent development, Administration (Academic), Research year student
When this year's PhD Day takes place on 22 January, it will be Health's biggest online event ever. But although the event has been moved online, its traditions are maintained, and three of the faculty's most talented PhD students will, as always, compete in the annual Fogh-Nielsen competition. Watch a very brief presentation of each research…
2021.01.13 | Research, Health and disease, Academic staff
According to vice-dean Hans Erik Bøtker, as a researcher there are three EU tools that you need to be aware of in the coming years – and they are COST networks and ERC and consortium applications. All of them demand that researchers get involved.
2021.01.13 | Grants and awards, Research, Public/Media
Lene Baad-Hansen and Karthika Rajeeve from Aarhus University have both received a scholarship from the Frøknerne Anna and Dagny Hjerrilds Foundation. They receive the scholarship for not using laboratory animals in their research.
2021.01.14 | Education, Administration (Academic), Public/Media
The clinical dental technician degree programme now transitions from being an academy profession degree programme to a professional Bachelor's degree programme. The final approval of the new education came shortly before the turn of the year, which was a feather in the cap of the Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, who are behind the major…
2021.01.13 | Research, Public/Media, Health
There is much to suggest that both girls and boys become sexually mature faster, if they do not live together with their father during childhood. For girls in particular, the longer they live without their father, the earlier their puberty. This is put forward by research results from Aarhus University.
2021.01.14 | Education, Administration (Academic), Academic staff
Together with four other universities, Health is launching a new professional Master's degree programme in personalised medicine. The first students will be admitted already in the autumn semester 2021.
2021.01.14 | Grants and awards, Research, Public/Media
In collaboration with European colleagues, Professor Christoffer Laustsen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital will develop a new, advanced MRI examination of chronically ill kidney patients, which will set the standard for European scanning examinations of the kidneys. The Innovation Fund Denmark is supporting the project, which…