02.01.2023

Happy New Year and welcome to Kerstin de Keukeleere who has just enrolled as a PhD student and Azadeh Reyahi who is joining us as a postdoc. 

01.11.2022

We are excited to bid three new scientists welcome: Assistant Professor Thomas Zillinger and postdocs Annika Sünderhauf and Sisse Andersen who will be working on COVID-19. 

18.10.2022

The group was well-represented at the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) biennial meeting 2022 in Gothenburg with poster presentations and talks. 

03.10.2022

We are excited to bid two new scientists welcome: Associate Professor Renée Marije van der Sluis and postdoc Daniela Hinke who will both be working on COVID-19. 

01.08.2022

Today we welcome two new group members: Michelle Møhlenberg will be working as postdoc on immune sensing of SARS-CoV2, and Marvin Werner is starting his PhD studies on the immune defence against viruses infecting the central nervous system. 

17.06.2022

Today, Michelle Mølgaard Thomsen successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title "Host genetics and susceptibility to severe alphaherpesvirus infections". 

The assessment committee was chaired by Associate Professor Line Reinert (Aarhus University) and the examiners were Professor Abel Viejo-Borbolla (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany) and Assistant Professor Benson Ogunjimi (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium). 

Congratulations to Michelle, we wish you all the best in your future career! 

07.06.2022

Professor Trine Mogensen's research group will be part of a new Center of Excellence: Center for Immunology of Viral Infections (CiViA), at Aarhus University. The Danish National Research Foundation has pledged DKK 60M to the project which will be headed by Professor Søren Riis Paludan, Department of Biomedicine, over a period of 6 years, with possibility of extension to 10 years. 

Read the press release.

02.06.2022

Inside Health, the faculty's newsletter, has interviewed PhD Student Morten Kelder Skouboe about his experience with the Inflammation Network, of which Professor Trine Mogensen is chair.

Read the interview here.

02.05.2022

We welcome a new medical student to the group, Toke Touborg, who will be conducting an 8-week research project as part of his medical degree. 

We also welcome Kerstin De Keukeleere who will be conducting a 3 months research project. 

25.04.2022

Professor Trine Mogensen's group have identified a novel genetic defect in the IFNAR2 gene, causing severe immunodeficiency. The variant allele is present among 2.5-3.5 % of Inuits, but only causes disease in homozygosity. The patients have heightened vulnerability to live attenuated virus vaccines, COVID-19 and influenza.

The results have now been published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. 

The story has been covered by the Danish newspaper Politiken here (in Danish).

Read more on the AU website.

10.02.2022

Professor Trine Mogensen will be heading a large European research collaboration to study the genetic basis for severe COVID-19. The project is funded by 50 million DKK through the Horizon Europe programme and will be conducted in collaboration with the COVID-19 Human Genetic Effort Consortium. 

Read more. 

01.02.2022

We welcome our new molecular medicine bachelor student, Jonas Lønskov. Jonas will be joining us until summer for his bachelor's thesis project. 

01.10.2021

We welcome our new lab technician, Bettina Bundgaard. Bettina has worked in basic research on viruses and immunology for many years, and will be assisting us in our lab located in the Skou Building, Aarhus University.

01.09.2021

We welcome two new medical students in the group: 

Sofie will be undertaking an 8-week research project as part of her medical studies, and Thanis will be doing a full research year. 

22.04.2021

"Professor and medical specialist in infectious diseases Trine Hyrup Mogensen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital investigates why apparently healthy young and middle-aged people in some cases develop severe Covid-19 requiring intensive hospitalisation and may experience serious courses of illness or even death."

Read more. 

29.09.2020

The American Association for the Advancement of Science brought an interview with professor Trine Mogensen on why some individuals are severely affected by COVID-19. The interview was conducted in connection with two research papers on the topic in the journal Science.