Nine researchers from Health each receive up to DKK ten million to carry out ambitious projects, uncover complex problems and develop new techniques and methods within their respective fields of research. The money comes from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s new Research Leader Programme.

More than one in four patients with schizophrenia and epilepsy die before reaching the age of fifty. This is shown by research from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. The results, which have been published in the journal Epilepsia, aim to contribute to ensuring patients will receive the correct treatment in time.

DNA-SCIENCE: An international team, lead by researchers from the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, has shed light on a mysterious 5000-year-old mass grave in Poland. Despite being killed brutally, the victims were buried carefully, flanked by gifts, in a mass grave. Ancient DNA has revealed the mass murder to be that of a large family. The new research results shed light on a particularly violent era in European prehistory of which little is known. The study has just been published in the prestigious American journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Assistant Professor Maria Andreasen from the Department of Biomedicine is being honoured as one of Denmark's most promising, female research talents with the presentation of the For Women in Science Award today – an award that UNESCO, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and L’Oréal are jointly behind.

In the most recent round of funding, the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) granted DKK 230 million to 64 researchers at Aarhus University.

The research-orientated honours programme is continuing with a new round of admissions in both 2019 and 2020. Judging by the feedback the programme is a success, says Vice-dean for Talent Development Lise Wogensen Bach.

Do you think there’s too little focus on health policy in the Danish election campaign? Then here is your chance to use your expertise and put some meaningful questions to the politicians.

The faculty management team at Health has decided that unsettled credit card transactions in RejsUd that are more than 90 days old will in future result in a salary deduction.