Traces of cancer can be detected both earlier – by approximately nine months – and more effectively with a new blood test developed by researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. The next step is to establish whether a new detection programme can uncover colorectal cancer relapses earlier and thereby save the lives of more patients. The study is supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark.

The relationship between Denmark and Germany has been characterised by conflict and collaboration at different times throughout history. Aarhus University will put the Danish-German relationship up for debate at the MatchPoints Seminar on 23-25 April 2020 – here you can meet the American historian and debater Anne Applebaum, among others. Registration for the conference will open in January 2020.

Is it possible to strengthen HIV patients’ immune system to such an extent that they no longer need to take medicine every day for the rest of their lives? This is the focal point of the research being carried out by PhD and Associate Professor Ole Schmeltz Søgaard from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. He has now received a financial helping hand to further target his research in the form of a grant of DKK five million from the Lundbeck Foundation.

Young researchers looking to know more about possible career paths can find inspiration in AU’s Junior Researcher Development Programme. Information meetings in October and December.

Fredrik Hieronymus from Aarhus University conducts research into the effect of pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders including depression and schizophrenia. He has now received the Rafaelsen Young Investigators Award in recognition of his efforts and potential.

In a laboratory at Aarhus University, researchers are busy studying the importance of the nervous system’s support cells in relation to the development of chronic nerve pain. Associate Professor Christian Vægter is heading the research and he has just received DKK five million from the Lundbeck Foundation to continue the study.

He was declared "not suitable" for upper secondary school, but today he is one of the world's most cited chemists. What’s more, he insists on a little wildness at work. Meet Professor Karl Anker Jørgensen, who today is receiving the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in chemistry. The medal is being awarded for the first time in 30 years.

Thirty-nine newly appointed Skou professors from all over the world were warmly welcomed by Dean Lars Bo Nielsen and Rector Brian Bech Nielsen in the Merete Barker lecture theatre. “You can’t imagine how happy we are”, said the rector.