Jiri Lukas from Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research receives the Anders Jahre Medical Prize 2020 for his many years of outstanding research and work on cell cycle regulation and genome integrity in cancer.

Vitamins, pigment, touch. Our skin is a vital organ with many functions. Perhaps most importantly, it protects us against viruses and bacteria. But what happens when functions go wrong, and we get eczema, allergies and psoriasis? Today, scientists are still looking for answers on how to effectively treat many of the thousands of skin diseases.

By moving young cuckoos 1800 kilometres away from the nest in which they hatched, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown that the cuckoo chicks have an innate, internal GPS. The study lays the foundation for a broader understanding of bird migration.