Professor Jacob Fog Bentzon, Department of Clinical Medicine, Professor Rune Slothuus, Department of Political Science, and Associate Professor Thomas Poulsen, Department of Chemistry, have all just received one of the coveted ERC Consolidator Grants 2019.

Charlotte Ringsted has spent a whole working life on improving medical programmes and other health science programmes – for the past five years as vice-dean for education at Health. Now she is ending her career and retiring. Kind of.

A talented, foreign postdoc for two years – free of charge. That is what the EU is offering. But very few researchers at Health utilise the scheme.

Laboratory animals are not necessarily needed to carry out high quality research. And if animals are used, this should be done in a proper and ethically responsible manner. This is the essence of a new award – the 3R Prize – which Health has established. It will be presented for the first time at the PhD Day in January.

Join us when AU publishes its first climate accounts at the university’s sustainability network’s last meeting of the year on Wednesday 18 December. At the meeting, university director Arnold Boon will also give an update on the work on AU’s sustainability strategy, and the new AU Garden will be presented. All are welcome!

Study abroad, stay in touch with your research group during maternity leave, create a family-friendly work culture and establish clear career paths. Both the women employed there and Health as an organisation got some good advice when the faculty held its seminar on a better gender balance in research.

In a new professorship financed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Thomas Willnow will establish a new research group at Aarhus University. Here, he will study why diabetes and obesity are among the biggest risk factors of Alzheimer’s.