Researchers from the Danish psychiatry research-project iPSYCH have contributed to identify 33 new genetic variants which, as it turns out, play a role in bipolar disorder. To achieve this, they have examined DNA profiles from 413,000 people.

One took the initiative, and the other made it all happen. Meet the two driving forces behind the founding of Aarhus University: physician Victor Albeck and High Court Attorney Carl Holst-Knudsen. These two passionate individuals have left a strong impression on campus and their spirits live on in the Victor Albeck Award and the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research, which supports both early-career and established researchers.

Associate Professor David Olagnier from Aarhus University is the only European among the recipients of this year's ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award. He receives the award in recognition of ten years of groundbreaking research into infectious diseases, which has benefited cancer patients, among others.

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has decided that a number of university degree programmes need to be resized due to falling demand for their graduates. At Health, this means that the degree programmes in sports science and public health science will admit fewer students than usual over the coming years.

Associate Professor Christian Kanstrup Holm from Aarhus University receives almost ten million kroner from the Novo Nordisk Foundation towards his research into the treatment of viral infections which cause respiratory problems and have the potential to develop into pandemics.

Jasper Nijkamp from the Department of Clinical Medicine will define Health’s honours programme in the future. As newly appointed programme director, he will have the academic responsibility for the two-year honours programme which is aimed at the faculty's most talented students.