Current therapies for colorectal cancer metastases are limited. By applying state-of-the-art technologies, AIAS fellow Joanna Kalucka seeks to improve this in a new cross-disciplinary project with Dr Lena-Christin Conradi, University of Göttingen, General, Visceral and Pediatric Surgery. A Novo Nordisk Foundation Tandem Grant of DKK 10 million will support the project.

In the space of 10 days, AIAS received 65 applications for the AUFF Ukraine research fellowships, which are aimed at researchers fleeing the war in Ukraine. It was difficult reading the applications and making a selection, but it is worth helping, even if we can only help the few, says Søren Rud Keiding, director of the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.

Researchers at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have formed an “OMICS Focus group” – a cross-faculty network that connects scientists using “omics” techniques in their research. Two AIAS fellows have initiated the group.

New book by sociologist Michael G. Flaherty (Eckerd College), co-written during his AIAS fellowship with long-term prisoner K. C. Carceral, studies time and temporal experience during imprisonment.

Via the CAT programme, the European Network for Institutes of Advanced Study supports excellent early career research groups committed to developing new ideas in order to understand and tackle current or emerging societal challenges. The group working on ‘Light and Human health’ will visit AIAS from 28 March to 1 April.

A two-day workshop at AIAS brought researchers, policy-makers, research management and industry together to discuss the methods of interdisciplinary collaboration in the Nordic countries.

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Aarhus University Research Foundation has donated funding to research fellowships for researchers affected by the war in Ukraine. The researchers will be hosted at AIAS.

With a highly interdisciplinary research approach, Professor and AIAS Associate Fellow Felix Riede contributes with new understandings of contemporary climate change adaptation by studying how climate change and natural disasters in the deep past have changed societies.

Seven fellows will start their AIAS-COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship on 1 February 2022. With this new group of fellows, the AIAS community is the largest so far, extending the number of in-house fellows from around the world to 43.