Department of Biomedicine
The Department of Biomedicine tries to achieve a better understanding of diseases at the molecular and cellular level – by bridging science and clinical medicine – and use the results to improved diagnostics, counselling and treatment of patients
News
2012.05.14 | Knowledge exchange
Professors are behind the million selling of company
Professor, DrMSc Søren Nielsen, Dept. Biomedicine and Professor, DrMSc Jørgen Frøkiær, Dept. Clinical Medicine have via the company of Action Pharma sold a research result of 623 million DKK. Both patients and investors will benefit from the sale and is an example of how basic research can be used in concrete terms.
2012.05.14 | Health, People
Ole Fejerskov is honored with yet another honorary doctorate in China
Professor Ole Fejerskov from the Department of Biomedicine has been appointed honorary doctor at the West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University.
2012.03.19 | Grant, Research
Record-breaking grant: New research project to investigate the causes of mental disorders
Causes for mental disorders will now be thoroughly investigated. A new grant – the largest sum ever awarded to a Danish research team in this field – will support Danish researchers in their pursuit of understanding mental disorders. The project may also lead to new prevention and treatment methods.
2012.03.13 | Grant
Tomasz K. Wojdacz receives prestigious exploratory pre-seed grant
Tomasz K. Wojdacz, postdoc, PhD from the Department of Biomedicine has just received the prestigious exploratory pre-seed grant of 358,000 DKK for his research in human genetics. Further information in Danish.
2012.03.05 | Grant
Postdoc, PhD Magdalena Laska receives 1.6 million from IMK Almene Fund
Postdoc, PhD Magdalena Janina Laska has received a donation of 1.6 million dollars to support research of the causes of acute inflammatory disease. The fund seeks out potential candidates, where you must hold a lecture for the Fund to be considered. Further information in Danish.
2012.02.22 | Conference
ERC Anniversary with Soren Kragh Moestrup as the head of the TROJA project
The Aarhus TROJA project is selected to be presented when the European Research Council (ERC) 29 February celebrates its five year anniversary in Brussels.
2012.02.06 | Health
Annual Report 2010
Annual report on health research in 2010 at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital has been published.
2012.02.06 | Health
International Conference on Genomics
Th ICG-Europe (International Conference on Genomics in Europe ) will take place on 24-26 May 2012 at the Copenhagen Biocenter. The conference is co-organized by Aarhus University.
2012.01.27 | Research
Health researchers behind new big discovery
Researchers from the Department of Biomedicine, in collaboration with research colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Canada achieves new breakthrough knowledge on how lipids are transported from cell membranes surface to the inner part, so lipidfordelingen becomes asymmetrical: by journalist Lotte Fisker Jørgensen
2012.01.27 | Awards
Talent Award for Promising Biomedical Researcher
Postdoctoral Soeren Degn Egedal from the Department of Biomedicine receives Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prize for Young Researchers. The award includes DKK 100,000.
Research Areas
The Department of Biomedicine covers a large number of research areas.
Information on individual research areas can be found here.
Researchers & Research Labs
The Department's researchers and research laboratories are listed below in alphabetic order:
Centres
The Department hosts and collaborates with a number of centres. Further information and links to centres can be found here.
Events
- Thu 07 Jun
- 11:00-13:00 | The Bartholin Building, auditorium 1, build. 1242
Inauguration Lecture
MSO Professor Anders Lade Nielsen gives his inauguration lecture - Fri 08 Jun
- 15:00-17:00 | The Bartholin Building aud. 1, build. 1242
Inauguration Lecture
MSO professor Daniela Gabriele Grimm gives her inaugural lecture
PUBLICATIONS 2012
- Aagaard, L., Bjerregaard, B., Kjeldbjerg, A. L., Pedersen, F. S., Larsson, L., Rossi, J. J., 2012, "Silencing of endogenous envelope genes in human choriocarcinoma cells shows that envPb1 is involved in heterotypic cell fusions", Journal of General Virology. Journal article
- Vassos, E., Steinberg, S., Cichon, S., Breen, G., Sigurdsson, E., Andreassen, O. A., Djurovic, S., Morken, G., Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, M., Diaconu, C. C., Czerski, P. M., Hauser, J., Babadjanova, G., Abramova, L. I., Mühleisen, T. W., Nöthen, M. M., Rietschel, M., McGuffin, P., Clair, D. S., Gustafsson, O., Melle, I., Pietiläinen, O. P. H., Ruggeri, M., Tosato, S., Werge, T., Ophoff, R. A., Rujescu, D., Børglum, A. D., Mors, O., Mortensen, P. B., Demontis, D., Hollegaard, M. V., van Winkel, R., Kenis, G., De Hert, M., Réthelyi, J. M., Bitter, I., Rubino, I. A., Golimbet, V., Kiemeney, L. A., van den Berg, L. H., Franke, B., Jönsson, E. G., Farmer, A., Stefansson, H., Stefansson, K., Collier, D. A., , , 2012, "Replication Study and Meta-Analysis in European Samples Supports Association of the 3p21.1 Locus with Bipolar Disorder", Biological Psychiatry. Journal article
- Nielsen, M. J., Rasmussen, M. R., Andersen, C. B. F., Nexø, E., Moestrup, S. K., 2012, "Vitamin B(12) transport from food to the body's cells-a sophisticated, multistep pathway", Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology. Journal article
- Rasmussen, T. A., Jensen, D., Tolstrup, M., Nielsen, U. S., Birn, h., Erlandsen, E., Østergaard, L. J., Langdahl, B. L., Laursen, A., 29.3.2012, "Comparison of Bone and Renal Effects In HIV-infected Adults Switching to Abacavir or Tenofovir Based Therapy in a Randomized Trial", P L o S One. Journal article
- Pedersen, S., Keller, A. K., Rehling, M., Birn, H., Jespersen, B., 2012, "NGAL excretion is higher from the healthy side than from the injured side in unilateral Acute Kidney Injury", Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. Supplement. Journal article
