NorDoc PhD Summit: From PhD to job market
Today, two out of three PhD graduates find employment outside the universities. This places new demands on the PhD students as they now have to think much more about alternative career paths. The transition from a PhD degree programme to the job market is therefore the theme this August when Health hosts a Scandinavian PhD general meeting. And there are still places available.
The Skou award is a door opener to the foundations
The Jens Christian Skou Award is even more valuable than the honour and DKK 100,000 which follow with it. Former award winner Maiken Stilling explains how the award has eased her path to external research funding.
Foundations use PURE when they need to find a researcher
You’ve probably heard it a hundred times: You must update your PURE profile. But PURE is not just about registering scientific articles. PURE is also the foundations preferred method of finding the right researchers for a project or an assessment committee.
Biomedical researcher receives talent award earmarked for female researchers
Assistant Professor Maria Andreasen from the Department of Biomedicine is being honoured as one of Denmark's most promising, female research talents with the presentation of the For Women in Science Award today – an award that UNESCO, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and L’Oréal are jointly behind.
Patients with both schizophrenia and epilepsy die alarmingly early
More than one in four patients with schizophrenia and epilepsy die before reaching the age of fifty. This is shown by research from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. The results, which have been published in the journal Epilepsia, aim to contribute to ensuring patients will receive the correct treatment in time.
More Health-researchers receive grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark
An additional seven researchers from Health receive grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD). The grants fund research into e.g. treatment of severe heart failure, brain cancer and neonatal jaundice.
Massive savings could
wreck decades of
research tradition at
mega-hospital
Clinical research that is already hard-pressed will be seriously threatened if the announced operating savings of more than DKK 300 million are realised at Aarhus University Hospital.
