Christian Morberg Wejse’s research will teach us more about global epidemics and the complex health challenges of migrants. On 1 October, he took up the position as professor of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Global Health at Aarhus University.

There is a large degree of overlap between the genetic causes of autism and ADHD. Now, researchers from Aarhus University have found gene variants, which increase the risk of developing only one of the diagnoses and not the other.

Christian Kanstrup Holm, a newly-appointed professor at Aarhus University, conducts research into infections of the airways and investigates at the cellular level why some people become ill from viral infections, while others go free.

Rubens Spin-Neto is a newly qualified doctor at Aarhus University. In his higher doctoral dissertation, he examined how the movements of patients during a Cone-Beam CT scan can affect image quality, and thereby also diagnosis.

Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded grants totalling DKK 127.3 million, nearly 23 million of which is going to eight of the faculty’s researchers, working in areas as diverse as psychiatry, fertility, heart disease and arthritis.