The corona research team at the Department of Biomedicine can look forward to a donation from a pair of siblings who are European champion in triathlon and world champion in kayak, respectively, and who both want to fundraise by competing against each other. "Fantastically generous and good publicity for our research," says Professor Søren Riis Paludan.

Lasse Sommer Kristensen, associate professor at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University, receives DKK 300,000 from the Riisfort Foundation to improve the treatment options for patients with colon cancer.

Annelli Sandbæk is newly-appointed clinical professor at Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital and Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus. In her work, she focuses on how general practice, municipalities and hospitals together and separately deal with diabetic patients and people with a high-risk of developing diabetes.

In a new series of articles, university director Arnold Boon highlights important operational tasks being carried out in various corners of the administration. This month, we’re focusing on the travel group in the accounts department, which is part of the AU Finance and Estates Projects and Development. This team recently launched a development project to make travel expense reporting at AU more flexible. And the coronavirus lockdown of the country has given them a task they hadn’t anticipated.

Due to the corona pandemic, the Danish government has imposed a ban on gatherings of more than 500 people up to and including August. Because to this, Health has cancelled this year's faculty celebration, which was planned for 21 August 2020.

Lars Henning Pedersen is Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital’s new professor. A focal point of his research is personalised medicine for pregnant women. As part of this research he develops new methods for assessing how the foetus is fairing in the mother’s stomach.