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Prestigious research award goes to professor from Aarhus University

Jens Peter Gøtze, professor at Aarhus University has received the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Research Award together with a colleague for their research into heart failure.

[Translate to English:] Jens Peter Gøtze fra Aarhus Universitet har, sammen med professor Jesper Hastrup Svendsen fra Københavns Universitet, fået Odd Fellow Ordenens Forskerpris på 250.000 kroner.
[Translate to English:] Jens Peter Gøtze fra Aarhus Universitet har, sammen med professor Jesper Hastrup Svendsen fra Københavns Universitet, fået Odd Fellow Ordenens Forskerpris på 250.000 kroner.

Around 80,000 Danes suffer heart failure, but heart failure is a difficult diagnosis to make because the symptoms can often be difficult to interpret. Jens Peter Gøtze’s research has led to a blood analysis that can reveal whether patients have heart failure.

This is one area of his research for which he has recently been honoured. Jens Peter Gøtze is 45 years old and honorary professor in cardiovascular endocrinology at Aarhus University and consultant at Rigshospitalet's Clinical Biochemistry Department. Together with Professor Jesper Hastrup Svendsen from the University of Copenhagen, he has received the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Research Award of DKK 250,000.

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Research Award goes to researchers who have already drawn attention to themselves in Denmark and abroad. The award recipients are researchers who have shown great potential within medical research and, at the same time, have a long research career ahead of them.

Jens Peter Gøtze’s research field is interdisciplinary and requires close collaboration with both basal researchers and clinicians. His research objectives are to be able to contribute to new and better understanding of endocrine contexts relating to heart disease, and thus new methods of treatment. This research is important for doctors specialising in treating heart and other internal diseases, endocrinologists and physiologists.

And with his blood analysis he is well on the way. It has been in use for the past ten years, and with the right diagnosis and medication, patients can have a better and longer life. Jens Peter Gøtze and his research group's scientific perspectives will be published in Nature Reviews Cardiology, one of the world's most recognised heart journals, during early summer 2014.

Further information

Professor Jens Peter Gøtze
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Rigshospitalet, Department of Clinical Biochemistry
jens.peter.goetze@rh.regionh.dk