With the appointment of MPH, PhD Helle Terkildsen Maindal as professor of health promotion, Aarhus University focuses on promoting health – particularly among the most vulnerable section of the population and in groups where social factors affect…

Too low a level of a hormone in the blood which protects against stress may be the cause of epilepsy-like seizures which doctors had otherwise believed had solely psychological causes. New research results from Aarhus University may help to improve…

Associate Professor and PhD Morten Schallburg Nielsen from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University is receiving DKK 300,000 from the Riisfort Foundation. The grant will go towards funding research into the blood-brain barrier, and lead to…

Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine, Kristjar Skajaa, is stepping down as department head when his six-year employment contract expires next summer. This means the faculty will have to find a new head for Denmark's largest health science…

The Centre for Collaborative Health will close when its grant from the university's strategic funding expires in May, though several of the centre's activities will continue under the auspices of the Department of Public Health.