Immune researcher receives the faculty's talent award
Assistant Professor Anne Troldborg is an exceptionally talented researcher who divides her time equally between her research and the patients that the research benefits. Moreover, she is a master of the art of cooperation. These are among the reasons why she is awarded the Skou Award – a talent prize named after the Nobel Prize winner Jens Christian Skou.
Anne Troldborg is a specialist in internal medicine and rheumatology, and she is distinguished by her internationally recognised research on the innate immune system and its role in autoimmune diseases such as Lupus.
Department Head Jørgen Frøkiær of the Department of Clinical Medicine nominated Anne Troldborg for the talent award. He describes her as a dedicated translational researcher who manages to identify new immunological areas and methods that can benefit patients, while at the same time using the complex disease Lupus as a model to describe new mechanisms in the immune system.
In practice, Anne Troldborg combines basic research with shifts at Aarhus University Hospital, where she treats patients who have the same diseases in which she conducts research.
Read more about the Skou Award 2022, Anne Troldborg and her research in the portrait article: "I say no thanks when gut feeling is wrong".
About the Jens Christian Skou Award
Each year, Health awards the Skou Award, which is named after Nobel Prize winner Jens Christian Skou. The Skou Award is presented annually to a researcher in the field of health science who is extraordinarily talented within his or her field of research, and who is both creative and productive.
This year, the award ceremony will be held on Friday 14 October, and the prize will be accompanied by DKK 100,000, which Anne Troldborg intends to use for international networking activities.
The following researchers at Health have previously received the Skou Award:
- 2021: Morten Schmidt: Skou Award winner: Talent is something you have to earn
- 2020: Nicolai Juul Birkbak: Evolution nerd receives talent award named after Nobel Prize winner
- 2019: Ebbe Bødtkjer: Talented biomedical researcher receives distinguished award
- 2018: Maiken Stilling: Clinician with unique research talent receives the 2018 Skou Award
- 2017: Simon Glerup: Extraordinary research talent receives the Jens Chr. Skou award
- 2016: Trine Hyrup Mogensen: Exceptionally talented researcher receives the Jens Chr. Skou award
You can read more about the Jens Chr. Skou award in the article New award at Health to honour research talents.
Contact
Assistant Professor, Consultant and PhD Anne Troldborg
Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine and Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology
Mobile: (+45) 40 78 90 72
E-mail: as@biomed.au.dk