The Danish Society for Women in Science (DANWISE) is a non-profit organization to address gender inequality in Denmark, representing women from academia and industry within the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) and Humanity fields. Katherine Gill, External Communications Officer of DANWISE and a postdoctoral scientist at DANDRITE, debates on the purpose, goals and efforts of DANWISE.

Mads Fuglsang Kjølby, affiliated Anders Nykjær's lab at DANDRITE/PROMEMO, and Ole Schmeltz Søgaard, will test the effect of Camostat Mesylate on SARS-CoV-2 infections in Covid-19 patients.

Luc Nijssen has joined the Takeuchi team at the start of March. He will work

with Drs Toshiro Sakamoto and Chihiro Nakamoto in setting up the

modified version of schema task in rats. Schemas, which are conceptual

structures of memory, consist of past experiences and facts stored in our

long-term memories.The formation of long-term memories in the

neocortex has been thought to be a slow process. However, new

information can be added to existing schemas very rapidly if this

information is relevant to the schema. Luc is currently following his masters in medical biology - neurobiology in Nijmegen and previously ran the object space task in mice

there.

There is a lot to suggest that the extreme societal changes caused by the corona virus exacerbate existing mental disorder and increase the number of new cases. Professor Søren Dinesen Østergaard has been given the opportunity to investigate this hypothesis with the help of a DKK one million grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

A type of immunotherapy which has undergone preliminary testing on mice shows promise for the future treatment of ovarian cancer, a cancer which is often discovered too late resulting in a high mortality rate. The research group behind the study is headed by Anders Etzerodt from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University.