We produce more than 400 million tonnes of plastic in the world every year. Plastic has many good functions, but we have not yet solved the big problem: What do we do with all the plastic we finish using? On January 18 a new centre for plastic research, En'Zync, were inaugurated at iNANO.

Several iNANO researchers could go on Christmas holidays with the good news that they had received one or more research grants. Congratulations to Henrik Birkedal, Julián Valero Moreno, Menglin Chen, Jørgen Kjems, Magnus Kjærgaard, Poul Nissen, Michael Truong-Giang Nguyen, and Nikolaj Roth. Thank you to the Novo Nordisk Foundation, AUFF NOVA, and the Carlsberg Foundation.

Supported by The International Network Programme from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science (UFM), scientists from iNANO are exploring new network opportunities and partnerships with researchers in Japan.

iNANO researchers, Magnus Kjær, Daniel Otzen, and Ebbe S. Andersen have together with other teachers at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (Aarhus University) joined forces with former students to develop the teaching of structural biology. The result is a whole new way of teaching computer skills, and it has been well received by new students.