Are you or one of your colleagues affected by unhealthy stress? If the answer is yes, is there talk of stress in the well-being zone, the risk zone or the danger zone? You can find the answer to this and many other questions in Health's new stress folder.

Tomonori Takeuchi receives the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Young Investigator Award. The award comes with DKK 20 million that will enable the Japanese researcher to become part of the Department of Biomedicine and establish both a research laboratory and a research group at DANDRITE.

A new Danish-Swedish research alliance wants to advance understanding of how biological molecules look and behave. With support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, scientists at four universities in Denmark and Sweden will join forces to create a Nordic network in cryo-electron microscopy, whose developers were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

When Ivan Bjerre Damgård first started getting interested in data encryption, everyone with any knowledge of the subject could gather in one room. Early in his research career, he developed a theory for the protection of data – and now, 30 years later, practical applications are exploding.

The Festival of Research will be taking place in week 17, and everyone in Denmark has the opportunity to receive a free visit from a researcher. If you are one of those people who enjoys sharing your knowledge, you can now register to give a lecture on your research.

How can the welfare state survive? This is the topic to be considered by the MatchPoints Seminar, which will be welcomed by Aarhus University and Aarhus Municipality from 24 to 26 May 2018. Conference delegates will be able to meet people like James Heckman, American winner of the Nobel Prize, a broad selection of experts, politicians, commentators and practitioners working in the field of welfare – and two robots, Norma and Silbot. The conference is open to the public, and registration begins on x January 2018.

Reimar W. Thomsen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital is the recipient of the Niels Schwartz Sørensen Award 2018 for his extensive contribution to research into diabetes. The award was founded by the Danish Diabetes Association.