If you have a company idea and play with the thought of bringing it to life – even while you are still studying – the possibilities in Aarhus for doing so are bigger than you might think.

AU’s new IT webshop will be used the next time you need to buy new IT equipment. The new solution offers a better user experience and replaces the current local IT webshops.

In connection with business travels abroad, you are covered by Europæiske’s travel insurance. The old plastic insurance card has now been replaced by a digital solution.

In a recently established InnoBooster collaboration, PhD student Nanna Møller Jensen from Poul Henning Jensen’s group is collaborating with the Copenhagen-based biotech company, Orphazyme, in a quest for the development of novel therapies against Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Collaboration between the Capogna group from AU and the Sørensen group at AUH leads to a discovery on the cellular mechanism of action of dopamine in the human cerebral cortex.

The paper is published in Brain and entitled "Ageing promotes pathological alpha-synuclein propagation and autonomic dysfunction in wild-type rats". Read the paper here.

Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen is one of Health's 54 female professors. She is an epidemiologist, loves the competitive environment of the research world and is a keen advocate of gender equality. Because everyone with talent and ambition must have equal opportunities to reach the summit of academia – regardless of gender.