Morten Scheibye-Knudsen
Ageing Interventions
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As a medical doctor, associate professor, and research group leader at the Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Morten’s work focuses on the very basic building blocks of life: our DNA. Particularly, he studies on how damages in our DNA may contribute to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cardiovascular diseases. He combines both computer modeling and laboratory experiments to better understand the ageing process. With this knowledge, he aims to modify the consequences of ageing by developing interventions that will allow everyone to live healthier, happier, and more productive lives.
As an anthropologist, Mette explores how human life is evolving in light of new advances in modern biomedicine. In her role as professor in the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, she combines anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies to investigate how tailoring prevention and treatment to individuals shape the relationship between citizen and society and pose ethical challenges. Within the context of ageing, personalised medicine is increasingly gaining importance due to the stark differences in the needs and capabilities of one older person to another. Mette’s work will help facilitate a socially robust integration of personalised health care in the context of ageing populations. Considering that the CHALLENGE platform aims to contribute to personalized medicine, all ethical conducts are monitored by Mette’s project ”Personalized Medicine in the Danish Welfare State (MeInWe)”
Theis is an associate professor in biostatistics and vice head of Department of Public Health. His research involves theoretical research within statistics as well as a wide range of applied collaborations with medical doctors, epidemiologists, psychologists, etc. His theoretical work is focused on developing methods that allow us to draw causal conclusions from observational data. The novelty of his methods was recognized when he was awarded the 2012 Kenneth Rothman Prize. Until the summer of 2019 he held a dual position at Section of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen and Center for Statistical Science, Peking University. He has also served on the Danish Heart Association and Statistics Denmark research boards, as well as having worked in the private sector BeiGene, a Chinese company working on novel oncology treatments, as their senior statistical methodology expert.
Alexandros Katsiferis
PhD
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Tom Cole-Hunter
Post doc
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Jiawei Zhang
Research assistant
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Johanne Snog Gillesberg
Associate professor
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Marie Laura Bergmann
PhD
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Matija Maric
PhD
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Mansour Akbari
Associate professor
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Daryl Shanley Newcastle
Assistant professor
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James Wordsworth
Postdoc
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Lise Mette Rahbek Gjerdrum
Associate professor and pathologist
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Gry Sahl Hansen
Laboratory technologist
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Michael Bzorek
Molecular biologist
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Søren Mørk Hartmann
Research Assistant
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