Molecular cell biologist receives major grant
Robert Fenton has received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship together with his colleague from Aarhus University, Qi Wu.
![[Translate to English:] De næste to år skal Qi Wu, Robert Fenton og kollegaer undersøge, hvorfor exosomer findes i urin, og hvilken rolle de har. [Translate to English:] De næste to år skal Qi Wu, Robert Fenton og kollegaer undersøge, hvorfor exosomer findes i urin, og hvilken rolle de har.](/fileadmin/news_import/Fenton_2016.jpg)
During the next two years, Qi Wu, Robert Fenton and their colleagues will investigate why exoms are found in urine and what role they play.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship comprises a grant of DKK two million together with a two-year project. Together with Qi Wu and other colleagues, Robert Fenton will identify why exoms are found in urine and what role they play in relation to inhibiting bacterial growth and preventing possible urinary tract infections.
Exoms were only recently discovered in human urine, so knowledge about how exoms function and what role they play remains unclear.
"We want to examine whether exoms play a biological role in relation to inhibiting bacterial growth and preventing potential urinary tract infections. Patients suffering from urinary tract infections may have reduced innate immune proteins in their urine, which could be the reason why they suffer from urinary tract infections again and again," says Robert Fenton.
Qi Wu is a postdoc in Robert Fenton’s laboratory together with 11 other Danish and foreign researchers.
At the beginning of 2015, Robert Fenton was appointed professor at the Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University. Read more about the appointment on Health's website.
Further information
Professor Robert Fenton
Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine
Mobile: (+45) 2899 2149
robert.a.fenton@biomed.au.dk