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.

Keisuke Yonehara is leader of the Yonehara Group at DANDRITE (the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience), Aarhus University. He has just been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of EUR 1.5 million for research into the visual nerve…

The PhD students at Health have named Associate Professor, PhD Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen from the Department of Biomedicine as the year's best supervisor.

Professor and medical specialist in general practice Mogens Vestergaard from Aarhus University has been chosen as the new chair of the Committee on General Practice and Family Medicine Research of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.