Professor Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital receives the Grant for Growth Innovation award and EUR 210,000 for his research into pituitary disorders and growth hormone.

Associate Professor and PhD Mette Hansen from Aarhus University receives DKK 584,000 from the Danish Dairy Research Foundation (Mælkeafgiftsfonden) for a research project that focuses on overweight women who have begun the menopause.

Helle Terkildsen Maindal, associate professor at the Department of Public Health and research manager at the Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, will head a research project for the next five years which aims to prevent type 2 diabetes in vulnerable families. The project receives DKK 7.5 million from The Novo Nordisk Foundation's Research Programme in Nursing.

A new website presents important key figures from the faculty and departments at Health. The website will serve as a common frame of reference for information about e.g. finances, students, employees and publications.

Jeanette Falck Winther is a researcher and consultant at the Danish Cancer Society and now also a new professor at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. Here she will conduct research into delayed complications experienced by children with cancer and expand collaboration with clinical colleagues who treat, care for and support children with cancer during and after hospitalisation.

Rasmus O. Bak from the Department of Biomedicine and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University is receiving the Young Investigator Award 2017, which is awarded by the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.

Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have appointed Consultant, DMSc Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk to a professorship. His research aims to improve the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation, patients with artificial heart valves and patients suffering from pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs).

The faculty management team at Health wishes to maintain a high proportion of quota 2 admissions (twenty per cent) to the medical degree programme. However, the admission interviews will no longer be part of the testing, as the value of the interviews is questionable and not commensurate with the costs.

On Wednesday 11 October 2017, Associate Professor and PhD Simon Glerup from the Department of Biomedicine received the faculty's talent prize named after Nobel Prize winner Jens Christian Skou. The prize winner describes himself as a curious nerd who is looking for 'gold' in his research.