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"Without a doubt, our core task in the administration is day-to-day operations, so how can we find the time and resources to continually develop our operations", Arnold Boon writes on his blog this month.

In the spring of 2019, AU will conduct a workplace assessment (WPA). Unlike in previous years, the upcoming WPA survey will include questions about both the physical and the psychological workplace environment at AU. The questionnaire will also be simplified compared to previous years.

As a result of the great demand for advisory services concerning protection of personal data, Corporate Relations and Technology Transfer (TTO) now opens a new hotline on a trial basis. The new hotline can be used by members of AU staff who have specific questions concerning protection of personal data.

Citizens must take responsibility for their own health data. This is the idea behind an interdisciplinary project which Carsten Obel from the Department of Public Health is behind together with Kaj Grønbæk from the Department of Computer Science. The project has received DKK 20 million from Innovation Fund Denmark.

The STING protein is normally an important part of our immune system, but in some autoimmune diseases it is itself the source of the disease. The pharmaceutical industry is therefore engaged in a race to find a drug that can inhibit STING. Now, researchers from Aarhus may have found it.