Sansuthan (Sansu) Paramanathan (26) and Johan Frederik Berg Arendt (29) are both newly qualified medical doctors from Aarhus University. On Friday 30 January 2015 they pledged the Hippocratic oath together with 110 other newly qualified doctors from…

Jørgen Frøkiær from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital is the new chairman of the Danish Council for Independent Research | Medical Sciences. Jørgen Frøkiær has been a member of the council and its vice-chair since 1 January 2011.

A European research project with participants from 14 countries will now work to increase the understanding of autism. Aarhus University is the Danish partner in the three-year project, which has been awarded EUR 2.1 million in funding.

37-year-old Henrik Jensen has just defended his doctoral dissertation in heart surgery in which he has examined how it is possible to secure better treatment for patients suffering from leakages of the heart valve.

The PhD Day warmed up with presentations by PhD students who were all recipients of the Fogh-Nielsens Legacy and the DKK 100,000 that was available. Their performance on the stage determined how much of the grant each of them received.