A new study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital shows that fewer prescriptions of antibiotics are written for very young children. This is good news as the medicine has damaging side effects. The study also shows that the older children were when they experienced their first winter, the higher the risk of them receiving antibiotics.

Karen-Lise Garm Spindler has started work as clinical professor at AU and AUH. Her research aims to improve the results and reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for cancer in the gastrointestinal tract.

Christian Kanstrup Holm, researcher at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University, receives the Milsten Young Investigator Award for his contribution to basic research.

Karin Lykke-Hartmann from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University has just received a financial acknowledgement of her research into hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body) in children.

Finn Christoph Wiberg is a new honorary professor at Aarhus University. Here he will help advise the faculty on collaboration with the biotech and pharmaceutical industries and contribute to the teaching of students at Health.

How can researchers create business relations? Thirty-five young researchers learned the answer to that question at a workshop on Collaboration Planning hosted by Science for Society with guests from Novo Nordisk.

Aarhus University is taking steps to make it easier for junior researchers to plan their careers. A comprehensive new career development programme and a new university-wide junior researcher website are some of the services now available.

When we reduce costs in the administration, our ambition for the future is naturally not just to perform the same work with fewer man hours. We must continue to develop the administration and prioritise which tasks we perform and how. In this month’s post, I would like to follow up on my previous posts about the development of the administration. I would like to focus on how we can work together to make AU an even more attractive place to work and develop our support for Aarhus University’s core tasks.

In 2014, the senior management team decided to reduce administrative costs by 2% annually in the period 2015-2019. This period has since been extended until 2021. The decision is based on a shared desire to spend a larger proportion of the university’s budget on research and education.

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