Professor Dorthe Ravnsbæk from the Department of Chemistry and iNANO at Aarhus University has been awarded the Holst-Knudsen Research Talent Prize, recognising her status as one of the university’s most outstanding research talents. The award will be presented on the 27th of May at Aarhus University.

MedicQuant, a spinout from iNANO and the Department of Chemistry at Aarhus University, has secured new seed funding to advance a diagnostic platform rooted in more than 11 years of research. Built on DNA nanotechnology, the company’s point-of-care system aims to deliver rapid, laboratory-accurate drug measurements in acute clinical settings.

iNANO Professor Daniel Otzen is part of the new DESYNA project, which has received DKK 26.7 million from Innovation Fund Denmark to develop a novel therapy for Parkinson’s disease. The project aims to target and remove toxic alpha-synuclein aggregates that drive disease progression and spread in the brain.