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Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital will now be able to further increase their diabetes research activities after receiving a grant of DKK 1.5 million from the Danish Diabetes Academy.
2018.12.13 |
Sixty thousand Danes are unaware that they have type-2 diabetes. It is estimated that 300,000 Danes have the initial stages of type-2 diabetes. Henrik Wiggers has just received a grant that will enable him to start a research project that will focus on type 2 diabetes and heart failure. Photo: AU Kommunikation.
The number of people with diabetes has more than doubled from 2000 to 2016. A conservative estimate is that more than 250,000 Danes now have diabetes.
The Danish Diabetes Academy has recently made grants targeted at ensuring there is even more focus on research into diabetes.
Some of this money has gone to AU and AUH, giving them the opportunity to appoint a PhD student, with Clinical Associate Professor Henrik Wiggers from the Department of Clinical Medicine as coordinator, and also to establish a visiting professorship that will go to the American researcher Michael Stafford from Vanderbilt University.
Contact
Clinical Associate Professor Henrik Wiggers
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Cardiology
Tel.: (+45) 7845 2069
Email: hennrikwiggers@dadlnet.dk