The Jens Christian Skou Award 2024

The Jens Christian Skou Award is awarded each year to a promising junior researcher from the Faculty of Health, Aarhus University. The award is in recognition of his/her outstanding research, talent, and extraordinary creativity and productivity.

The winner is awarded 100,000 DKK for his/her research. The Dean’s Office reviews the nominations from the Head of Departments and selects the award winner.

This year's award winner is Associate Professor and Group Leader, Dept. of Biomedicin Ina Maria Schiessl. 

Chronic kidney disease affects more than 10% of the world’s population and cannot be cured. Ina Maria Schiessl is an extraordinary researcher and role model who has dedicated her scientific career to deciphering the mechanisms of chronic kidney disease onset and progression. She believes that the key to understanding kidney disease lies in the ability to document how it involves in the living kidney over time.

Using an innovative imaging approach, Ina Maria Schiessl investigates how the kidneys cope with injury and how failed repair drives disease progression. Her scientific achievements have already been recognized by a series of prestigious internationally recognized awards.

Now she receives the Jens Christian Skou Award.

Program:

13.00-13.05 Welcome by Dean Anne-Mette Hvas

13.05-13.10 Introduction to the award winner by Head og Department Thomas G. Jensen

13.10-13.30 The award winner delivers a festive speech

13.30-14.30 Reception with refreshments

14.00-14.30 Guided tour of the Jens Christian Skou Exebition at Steno Museum