At a ceremony on 6 February, in the beautiful Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Prof. Daniel Otzen officially received the EliteForsk (Elite researcher) award from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The award is a grant of 1.2 mio DKK where the 200.000 DKK is a personal gift.

Prof. Otzen receives his award for his major contributions to the understanding of proteins and in particular protein folding. He is one out of five researcher to receive the award.

In addition PhD student Signe Korsager was one out of twenty PhD students to receive the Eliteforsk travel scholarship.