2021.01.21 | Department of Physics, Department of Biology
Since 2011 the Young Investigator-programme from the VILLUM Foundation has supported the carriers of young and ambitious researchers. This year two new promising talents has received a grant amounting to approx. 14 mio. DKK.
2021.01.19 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, iNANO
Associate Professor Magnus Kjærgaard participates in a new consortium, BOUNDLESS, headed by Associate Professor Frans Mulder and funded by the Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. With the grant of DKK 14.4 M, the consortium will study how membrane-less organelles control key biological processes.
2021.01.08 | Department of Mathematics
Professor Peter Jørgensen, Department of Mathematics, has been awarded a DNRF Chair from the Danish National Research Foundation, which is just the second overall since the instrument was launched in 2020, and the first awarded to Natural Science.
2021.01.05 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Results published in Science from Aarhus University describe how legumes pick up special signalling molecules to distinguish between harmful and beneficial microbes. These results have been nominated by the Danish technical news journal “Ingeniøren” (the Engineer) as being among the five most important results in Denmark in 2020.
2021.01.05 | Department of Geoscience
Andrew Murray and Mads Faurschou Knudsen from the Department of Geoscience, together with colleagues from DTU and the universities in Oslo, Uppsala, Moscow, Novosibirsk and Dushanbe (Tajikistan), have received 15 million. NOK to study the first presence of both prehistoric and anatomically modern humans in Central Asia.
2021.01.04 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
In a joint collaboration, Danish and German researchers have characterized a cellular activity that protects our cells from potentially toxic by-products of gene expression. This activity is central for the ability of multicellular organisms to uphold a robust evolutionary ‘reservoir’ of gene products.
2021.01.07 | Computer Science
Professor Lars Arge, Department of Computer Science, passed away 23 December 2020 at the age of just 53.
2020.12.21 | Department of Physics
The Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma plays a major role in research by Nordic astronomers, and in the education of new astronomers. It has been doing this for more than 30 years, and it will to continue to do so. Together with the University of Turku in Finland, Aarhus University has just taken over the observatory, which was otherwise under…
2020.12.15 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
Kidney diseases, atherosclerosis, colon cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and neurological disorders are five global health problems that the first five research projects in the Open Discovery Innovation Network (ODIN) are now addressing. In the projects, researchers from Aarhus University and the pharmaceutical industry are working…
2020.12.11 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
The groundbreaking open research collaboration, so far between Aarhus University and nine pharmaceutical and biotech companies, ODIN, is now up and running, and the researchers are ready to embark on their first joint projects aiming at fostering the development of new drugs throughout the world. The platform is completely open with the goal that…
