Mads Fuglsang Kjølby, affiliated Anders Nykjær's lab at DANDRITE/PROMEMO, and Ole Schmeltz Søgaard, will test the effect of Camostat Mesylate on SARS-CoV-2 infections in Covid-19 patients.

Luc Nijssen has joined the Takeuchi team at the start of March. He will work

with Drs Toshiro Sakamoto and Chihiro Nakamoto in setting up the

modified version of schema task in rats. Schemas, which are conceptual

structures of memory, consist of past experiences and facts stored in our

long-term memories.The formation of long-term memories in the

neocortex has been thought to be a slow process. However, new

information can be added to existing schemas very rapidly if this

information is relevant to the schema. Luc is currently following his masters in medical biology - neurobiology in Nijmegen and previously ran the object space task in mice

there.

Postdoc Ronja Driller from Poul Nissen’s group is one out of three persons from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University to receive the highly prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In her reserch, Ronja is investigating the structure and function of human and yeast P5-ATPases. Despite their physiological importance (malfunctions are associated with parkinsonism and language disorders in human), there is very limited knowledge about the actual function and substrates of P5-ATPases. Ronja is benefiting from the recent advances in single-particle Cryo-EM and AU’s iNANO Cryo-EM facility to study these proteins in more detail.

Professor Jørgen Kjems from MBG and iNANO, and Affiliated Researcher at DANDRITE will collaborate with researchers from Health, the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Serum Institute, and with DKK 25 millions from the Carlsberg Foundation they will develop methods for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infections. The goal is at the same time to equip the world to better withstand future viral epidemics.

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