PREFACE By consultant, professor, dr.med. Henning Beck-Nielsen Research manager EFE EFE – Endocrine Research Unit - is a venture of all research efforts around medical endocrinology concentrated in Odense, i.e. most signiicantly at the Department of Endocrinology M and KMEB (Clinic for Molecular Endocrinology Treatment). This department is M’s research laboratory, where presently more than 20 academic researchers representing at least 10 different nationalities are appointed. Presently, 20 Ph.d. students are attached to EFE, and the majority have their main functions at Dept. M or KMEB. Just recently, we have established a new clinic for stem cell treatment, which is an interdisciplinary co-operation at Odense University Hospital, but it also spreads to other hospitals with the purpose of conveying the basic knowledge of stem cells into clinical treatmentcell therapy. This unit has just published its irst scientiic work and the irst Ph.d. student is inalising his project this year. Our goal is to make diagnostics and treatment research based, i.e. grounded on knowledge, and therefore it is a pleasure to see the many clinical publications and the 5 research stories showing that we at department M are producing and creating results which can be implemented in the clinical work for the beneit of the patients. Again this year the rate of scientiic articles has surpassed our expectations. About 90 peer reviewed articles have been published during 2007, which is one publication every fourth day! Furthermore, three students have defended their ph.d. thesis this year. Congratulation to our ive 2007 scientiic award winners and speciically to Dorthe Møller Jensen with the prestigious international Joseph Hoe Research Award (DPSG/EASD). We deeply want to thank everybody who has contributed to our research, especially all the patients who agreed to be at the disposal for science. The same gratefulness applies to all the healthy control subjects. I hope that this annual report shows you all that it was worth the effort. 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 secretaries, who through their daily work secure a smooth work low, and who produced this annual report, namely Tine Christensen, Nanett Mosumgaard and Tina Barbisan Hansen. Last but not least, a warm thank to the facultyand hospital management, who have supported our ideas and a special thank to the retiring dean professor Mogens Hørder, who through many years has shown his appreciation of the metabolic research, and we are most grateful for the huge efforts he put into his faculty work. 3
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