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DEBATE: How do we prepare the students to function in a world that is constantly changing? This is the question that the healthcare study programmes should ask themselves, writes Charlotte Ringsted, Lars Bo Nielsen and Per Höllsberg, who are the vice-dean for education, the dean of Health and the director of studies for the medical degree programme at Health, Aarhus University, respectively.

The future of the public health degree programmes will be on the agenda when the Vice-Dean for Education Charlotte Ringsted together with the Department of Public Health invites internal and external stakeholders to a workshop at the Sandbjerg Estate on 5 and 6 December 2017.

A completely new spin-out company has just been named the best biotech start-up – and has at the same time received DKK 2.5 million from The Novo Nordisk Foundation. The grant will be used to develop medicine that lowers cholesterol levels.

Researchers from Aarhus University have discovered that patients with the RBD sleep behaviour disorder lack dopamine and have a form of inflammation of the brain. This means that they are at risk of developing Parkinson's disease or dementia when they grow older.

Associate Professor and PhD Magdalena Janina Laska from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital receives DKK 500,000 from the NEYE Foundation for her research into endogenous retrovirus. The goal is to develop a vaccine that can be used in the treatment of cancer.

If you are involved in education and teaching, then the annual education fair at Health is a must. Register now as the deadline is fast approaching.

Through a large-scale collaboration between researchers from the Department of Clinical Medicine, the Department of Biomedicine and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, researches have succeeded in identifying and characterising the consequence of a newly discovered mutation that is associated with cardiac arrhythmia.

Rehabilitation of the hands and arms following a stroke does not have to follow traditional occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Researcher Iris Brunner from Aarhus University shows in a new research project that virtual training using a computer is a suitable supplement to traditional training.

Thee hundred clinical researchers indulged their curiosity at the 1st Annual Research Meeting at the Department of Clinical Medicine. The goal was to find out more about other people's research, share experiences – also of difficult topics – and in this way stimulate new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Watch the video and hear what people got out of the event.