The Danish Council for Independent Research has just awarded research funding from the Sapere Aude career programme, and Health is represented with four researchers.

It is well-known that anticoagulant medicine assists in the prevention of strokes. A large Danish study now shows that the medicine can also reduce the risk of death and brain damage when a stroke happens anyway.

Professor Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital will receive DKK 17 million towards a new scanning technique. The technique will show what meat, fat and soft drinks mean for the development of lifestyle…

Maiken Cavling Arendrup has taken up the position of honorary professor in fungal infections at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. Her position will strengthen collaboration with the researchers in Aarhus who work in this area.

Jens Georg Hansen is a specialist in general medicine and has recently completed his research with a doctoral dissertation in acute sinusitis.