Young researcher with impressive career receives the Lundbeck Foundation's Talent Award
Lars Wiuff Andersen from The Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital has just received the Lundbeck Foundation’s Talent Award 2016. The award is given to researchers under the age of thirty who have produced particularly promising research in the field of health science.
Aged 28, he already has an extensive research career behind him, and this has been noticed. Lars Wiuff Andersen has therefore received the Lundbeck Foundation’s Talent Award 2016. The award includes a DKK 100,000 cash prize.
Lars Wiuff Andersen graduated from Aarhus University as a medical doctor and later earned a PhD from the same university. His research field is acute and critical illness, primarily clinical research in the area of cardiac surgery, serious infections and cardiac arrest.
"I hope that my research can help patients who suffer cardiac arrest, because this is a group of patients with a very high mortality rate," he says.
The award gives Lars Wiuff Andersen the opportunity to focus even more on his research.
"It is a personal award, which gives me some flexibility in relation to having some periods where I can take time off from my clinical work. I feel very honoured to receive this award,” he says.
While studying medicine, Lars Wiuff Andersen took a research year at Harvard Medical School in Boston. After the final examination at Aarhus University in 2013, he again returned to Boston, this time as part of his PhD studies, which were carried out in collaboration with The Research Center for Emergency Medicine and the Department of Anaesthesiology at Aarhus University Hospital. During his stay in Boston, he also took a Master of Public Health.
While in the USA, Lars Wiuff Andersen was also involved in the development of the international guidelines for resuscitation after cardiac arrest through the organisation International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
His research efforts have primarily focused on patients who undergo cardiac surgery, as well as critically ill patients with cardiac arrest and sepsis. This has resulted in a large number of publications in internationally recognised journals.
Further information
PhD Lars Wiuff Andersen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Anaesthesiology
lwandersen@clin.au.dk