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PhD student Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen is among the recipients of the coveted Elite Researcher Travel Grants awarded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. She conducts research into child incontinence, and the travel grant will be used to visit international centres with which she collaborates.
2021.05.06 |
PhD student Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen receives an Elite Researcher Travel Grant. Photo: Simon Fischel, Health AU
Up to 15 per cent of all children of school age wet the bed at night, with big consequences to follow for the children's well-being and self-esteem. Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen, who is a PhD student at Department of Clinical Medicine, has collaborated with researchers from iPSYCH and deCODE Genetics in Iceland to become the first in the world to localise some of the genes behind child incontinence, also known as bedwetting.
A large proportion of the children do not respond to the current treatment methods. Learning more about the genetics and the mechanisms behind child incontinence is therefore crucial to being able to develop new and better treatment. This is the aim of the major international study that Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen and her international colleagues are working on. The travel grant of DKK 200,000 gives her the opportunity to visit the collaborating centres in China, Poland and Belgium, and to ensure that the clinical trials are carried out uniformly in all the countries.
PhD Student Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine
Mobile: (+45) 6116 1606
Email: cecilie.siggaard@clin.au.dk
The coverage is based on press material from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.