PREFACE By professor, Dr. MSci. Henning Beck-Nielsen Research manager EFE be implemented in the clinical work for thebeneitofpatients. Congratulations to this year’s scientiic awardwinners,wherespeciicallyprofessor Laszlo Hegedüs has been active. His international awards are very prestigious and important for EFE. Endocrinology Research Unit (EFE) is a venture of all research efforts around endocrinology concentrated at department of Endocrinology M, Odense University Hospital. EFE has its own research lab – clinic for Molecular Endocrinology and Endocrinlogy Treatment (KMEB) and presently, 22 Ph.d. students are trained in EFE. EFE also embraces two PhD Schools in which a close collaboration between the faculty of Natural Science and Technology of University of Southern Denmark and the Panum Institute of University of Copenhagen is taking place. The goal is diagnostic treatment based on scientiic knowledge, and therefore it is my pleasure to ascertain the high number of medical publications - around 70 this year. The research stories presented here are showing that department M is producing interesting results which can Indeed, we want to thank everybody who has contributed to our research, speciically all the patients who agreed to be at the disposal for science. The same gratefulness applies to all the health control subjects. I hope that this annual report shows all of you that it was worth it. I also want to extend my thanks to all staff, both those who are directly involved in research and those who in their clinical work enables research to thrive. A special thank to our research secetaries, who through their daily work secure asmoothworklow,andwhohaveproduced this annual report: Nanett Mosumgaard, Tine Hylle, Tina Barbisan Hansen and Kristine Michailidis. Also a warm thank to the Faculty of Health Science, the hospital management and to the foundations for their support to the research activites in endocrinological research. 3
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