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2018

Jørgen Kjems

Novo Nordisk Prize Recipient Finds Answers in the Borderland Between Research Fields

Jørgen Kjems, Professor at Aarhus University, is receiving the 2018 Novo Nordisk Prize for his pioneering interdisciplinary studies of how RNA, the biological cousin of DNA, plays a key role in regulating cells and has enormous future potential in treating disease.

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About Jørgen Kjems

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Jørgen Kjems

Professor

  • Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University
  • 2017– : Director, Centre for Cellular Signal Patterns (CellPAT), Aarhus University, funded by the Danish National
    Research Foundation
  • 2014–2018: Director, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO),
    Aarhus University
  • 2010–2016: Director, Lundbeck Foundation Nanomedicine Centre for Individualized Management of Tissue Damage and Regeneration (LUNA), Aarhus University
  • 2003–: Professor of Molecular Biology and Nanoscience,
    Aarhus University
  • 1990–1992: Postdoctoral fellow, laboratory of Nobel laureate Phillip A. Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; USA
  • 1989–1990: Postdoctoral fellow, laboratory of Cox Terhorst,
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  • 1989: PhD in biostructural chemistry, Aarhus University
  • 1986:MSc in biostructural chemistry, Aarhus University