Professor Karin Lykke-Hartmann from Institut of Biomedicine is working to develop an alternative to the traditional hormone treatment of female infertility. After years of research and a large grant from the BioInnovation Institute, she is now ready to kick start a new treatment option.

After 18 years in the United States and Canada, Professor Morten Ørregaard Nielsen has returned to Aarhus University where he first began his career with a Master’s degree in economics, followed by a PhD. That was back in 2003.

Associate Professor Katherine Musliner from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital Psychiatry receives DKK 2.8 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to study the role of genetics in the development of borderline personality disorder.

The Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded grants as a part of the Inge Lehmann programme, which aims to support talent development and promote gender balance in Danish research environments. At AU, ten researchers will receive about DKK 29 million in total.

Biological research has repeatedly demonstrated that the relationship between the producer and the consumer is governed by a scaling law. An international research team has now looked into whether this law of nature can be reproduced in the relationship between the production of plants in an area and the number of large herbivores that graze on them. The study reveals that Africa is the only continent where the scaling law holds true.

Increasing demand for automation meant that the Danish company, NIZE equipment ApS, was losing customers. Now, in collaboration with engineering students and researchers from Aarhus University, the company has started work on developing robots to work with humans in the future.