Student projects at BMI
Our research groups are happy to welcome new students who would like to do their bachelor's thesis, master's thesis or a research project at the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
At the Department of Biomedical Sciences, we have about 50 Professors and Associate Professors. You are always welcome to contact any one of them if you are interested in doing a research project at the Department.
See list of researchers at BMI
Specific projects
Here you can find specific projects and read project descriptions. If you are interested in one of the projects feel free to contact the respective researcher to start a collaboration.
- Is protein cross-linking a consequence or a cause of protein aggregation?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Impact of oxidants on thioredoxin - a redox regulator of extracellular matrix cross-linking in response to inflammatory disease?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Unravelling the microtubule network to reveal novel aspects of vascular control in hypertension
Contact Assistant Professor Thomas Jepps, Ion Channel Group - Investigating the effect of thiocyanate (SCN-) in modulating oxidative damage in atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Investigating the role of nucleic acid modification in inflammatory disease
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in vascular cell damage and death, within the setting of atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Topics on cardiac physiology
Contact Associate Professor Morten Bækgaard Thomsen, Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Deciphering heparin’s anti-inflammatory properties in cardiovascular disease
Contact Professor Michael Davies or Assistant Professor Christine Chuang - Anticoagulant Activity of Heparin used in Cardiovascular Disease
Contact Professor Michael Davies or Assistant Professor Christine Chuang - Optogenetics and all-optical electrophysiology in neurons
Contact Associate Professor Hanne Borger Rasmussen, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - Do our muscles prevent successful dieting?
Contact Postdoc Chris Lewis, christopher.lewis@sund.ku.dk, Xlab - Determining the basis of cardiac disease
Contact Associate Professor Julien Ochala, julien.ochala@sund.ku.dk, Xlab - Signaling properties of ADGRL3, an adhesion GPCR associated with ADHD susceptibility
Contact Assistant Professor Signe Mathiasen, signe.mathiasen@sund.ku.dk, Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology - How do UNC45B mutations lead to cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases?
Contact Assistant Professor Pia Rengtved Lundegaard, plundegaard@sund.ku.dk, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - Lipid regulation of chemokine receptor structure and function
Contact tenure-track Assistant Professor Martin Gustavsson, martin@sund.ku.dk, Gustavsson Group - Understanding the “Glycosulfo” Barcode of Chemokine Recognition
Contact Christoffer Goth, goth@sund.ku.dk, Molecular Pharmacology Lab - Are you interested in working with biomarkers for lung fibrosis in an academic and industrial collaboration project?
Contact Professor Michael Davies, Protein Oxidation - The dysfunction of human skeletal muscle stem cells with ageing during in vivo regeneration and in vitro myogenesis
Contact Associate Professor Abigail Mackey, Exercise Laboratories - Physiological and Nutritional Effects on Maximal Fat Oxidation
Contact PhD student Sofie Vestergaard, Xlab - Unveiling how actin has evolved in mammals
Contact Associate Professor Julien Ochala, Xlab - What causes muscles to be weak?
Contact Associate Professor Julien Ochala, Xlab - Protein modification in atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Michael Davies, Protein Oxidation - Iodide as a potential therapeutic in atherosclerosis
Contact Postdoc Luke Gamon, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - Investigating the direct impact of gut hormones on bone metabolism
Contact Postdoc Johanne Windeløw, Endocrinology and Metabolism - Changes in beta cell secretome in response to varying folding conditions
Contact Associate Professor Michal Marzec, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - New and critical steps in proinsulin folding. Can you uncover them?
Contact Associate Professor Michal Marzec, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - Type 1 diabetes pathology: human genetic variability vs protein degradation and antigen presentation
Contact Associate Professor Michal Marzec, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - Metabolic and mitochondrial effects of Breast Cancer Treatment
Contact Postdoc Linn Gillberg, Xlab - The role of the sarcomere protein, Titin, in heart development and function
Contact Assistant Professor Pia Rengtved Lundegaard, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - The role of Erbb2 and Erbb4 in heart development and function.
Contact Assistant Professor Pia Rengtved Lundegaard, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - Challenging our understanding of a fundamental mechanism in vascular physiology
Contact Assistant Professor Thomas Jepps, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - Deciphering the molecular composition and pharmacology of cardiac SK channels
Contact Professor Nicole Schmitt, Ion Channel Group - Is protein cross-linking a consequence or a cause of protein aggregation?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Impact of oxidants on thioredoxin - a redox regulator of extracellular matrix cross-linking in response to inflammatory disease?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Identification and characterization of genes involved in atrial fibrillation - Strucural project
Contact Assistant Professor Pia Rengtved Lundegaard, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - Identification and characterization of genes involved in atrial fibrillation - GATA4-project
Contact Assistant Professor Pia Rengtved Lundegaard, Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins - Impact of oxidants on thioredoxin - a redox regulator of extracellular matrix cross-linking in response to inflammatory disease?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Unravelling the microtubule network to reveal novel aspects of vascular control in hypertension
Contact Assistant Professor Thomas Jepps, Ion Channel Group - Investigating the effect of thiocyanate (SCN-) in modulating oxidative damage in atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Investigating the role of nucleic acid modification in inflammatory disease
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in vascular cell damage and death, within the setting of atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Changing our fundamental understanding of vascular control
Contact Associate Professor Christian Aalkjær or Assistant Professor Thomas Jepps - The Circadian Clock as Target for Modulating Cardiac Remodeling
Contact Associate Professor Morten Bækgaard Thomsen, Cardiac Electrophysiology - Arrhythmia in the Diabetic Heart
Contact Associate Professor Morten Bækgaard Thomsen, Cardiac Electrophysiology - Kv11.1 Potassium Channel in Murine Cardiomyocytes?
Contact Associate Professor Morten Bækgaard Thomsen, Cardiac Electrophysiology - Quantitative measurement of water concentration in the brain, a mouse model
Contact Associate Professor Henrik El Ali, The Metabolic Regulation Group - Immune cell migration in Multiple Sclerosis
Contact Associate Professor Henrik El Ali, The Metabolic Regulation Group - Unraveling the composition of key protein complexes associated with human diseases in multiple organs
Contact Associate Professor Alicia Lundby, The Ion Channel Group - The importance of enteral feeding and/or gut hormones during intestinal disease in a model of total parenteral nourished (TPN) rat
Contact Associate Professor Hannelouise Kissow, Endocrinology and Metabolism - Master Projects in Molecular Neuroscience
Contact Associate Professor Hanne Borger Rasmussen, Membrane Trafficking
- Validation and clinical application of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in clinical extreme settings of obesity and cancer cachexia
Contact postdoc Eva Winning, epwi@sund.ku.dk - Treatment resistant obesity in the youth - what can we do about it?
Contact postdoc Eva Winning - Exploring structures of elastic multi-modular proteins using cryoEM and cross-linking mass spectrometry
Contact Associate Professor Per Hägglund and Associate Professor Pontus Gourdon - Changes in beta cell secretome in response to varying folding conditions
Contact Associate Professor Michal Marzec, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - New and critical steps in proinsulin folding. Can you uncover them?
Contact Associate Professor Michal Marzec, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - Type 1 diabetes pathology: human genetic variability vs protein degradation and antigen presentation
Contact Associate Professor Michal Marzec, Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidation - Is protein cross-linking a consequence or a cause of protein aggregation?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Impact of oxidants on thioredoxin - a redox regulator of extracellular matrix cross-linking in response to inflammatory disease?
Contact Associate Professor Per Mårten Hägglund, Protein Oxidation - Four different projects from the Immunoendocrinology group
Contact Assistant Professor Michal Marzec, Immuno-endocrinology laboratory - Unravelling the microtubule network to reveal novel aspects of vascular control in hypertension
Contact Assistant Professor Thomas Jepps - Investigating the effect of thiocyanate (SCN-) in modulating oxidative damage in atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Investigating the role of nucleic acid modification in inflammatory disease
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - Investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in vascular cell damage and death, within the setting of atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Clare Hawkins, Redox Biology - A very early window in Acute Myocardial Infarction using in vivo MR Imaging/Spectroscopy - A rat Model
Contact Associate Professor Henrik El Ali or Professor Thomas Jespersen - Extracellular matrix damage & atherosclerosis
Contact Professor Michael Davies, Protein Oxidation - Kinetics and mechanisms of oxidative damage
Contact Professor Michael Davies, Protein Oxidation - Diabetes, glycation and extracellular matrix damage in cardiovascular disease
Contact Professor Michael Davies, Protein Oxidation - Protein damage in cardiovascular disease
Contact Professor Michael Davies, Protein Oxidation - Structural and Functional Studies of Membrane Proteins
Contact Associate Professor Pontus Gourdon, Membrane Protein Structural Biology Group - Overweight and obesity: Effect of lifestyle interventions and/or physical activity on weight loss, ability to long-term maintenance of life style changes/weight loss. Focus is on practical applications in real life settings and on physiological and regulatory mechanisms.
Contact Professor Jørn Wulff Helgefor project description. - Effects of exercise, acute or chronic (training) on fat oxidation, muscle lipids, bioactive lipids and the coupling to insulin resistance metabolic fitness and metabolic flexibility.
Contact Professor Jørn Wulff Helgefor project description. - Biological age – measurement and applications in real life and in the lab.
Contact Professor Jørn Wulff Helgefor project description. - Fysisk træning og metabolisme herunder fysisk træning i forebyggelsen og behandlingen af type 2 diabetes og kardiovaskulære sygdomme
Contact Professor Flemming Dela for project description - Arbejdsfysiologi: kardiovaskulære tilpasninger til fysisk træning
Contact Professor Flemming Dela for project description - Livsstilssygdomme
Contact Professor Flemming Dela for project description - Mitokondriernes fysiologi og patofysiologi: a) Hyperkolesterolæmi b) Oxidativt stress og type 2 diabetes
Contact Associate Professor Steen Larsen for project description - Fysisk inaktivitet: effekt på stofskiftet og metabolic fitness
Contact Professor Flemming Dela for project description - Intracellular compartmentalization of metabolic processes, in health and disease. a) High resolution visualization of mitochondrial dynamics - effect of physical activity/inactivity and obesity/T2D b) lipid deoplets' proteome and regulation in health and under metabolic stress c) glycogen metabolism compartmentalization in health and disease
Contact Associate Professor Clara Prats for project description
What does it take to do a thesis at BMI?
For getting the most out of your time and optimize the supervision, we recommend some workshops and readings as preparation before you start your project. Some topics like academic information seeking, reference handling and good scientific practice are must-haves.
Discuss with your supervisor which elements of the ones listed below will otherwise be relevant for you.
Literature databases
Unless you have already attended a course in literature mining, you should sign up for literature search workshop (PubMed, Embase) offered by the Copenhagen University Library (KUB).
Here is the link to KUB’s course and workshop overview.
Literature handling
You will need to use a reference management programme to handle the references in your project report. The Copenhagen University Library offers workshops regularly for a variety of different reference management programs (e.g. Endnote or the open source program Zotero).
Check with your supervisor which program they recommend/use themselves and participate in the respective course.
Here is the link to KUB’s course and workshop overview.
Online course on Absalon about academic information seeking, reference handling and good scientific practise (in Danish) developed by the Copenhagen University library (<1 hour to complete).
Use of figures and illustrations
When using figures from other sources in your report or thesis, you need to respect copyright rules and obtain rights and permissions that you ideally save in the same folder as all your other materials related to your project.
You can read about general good scientific practice on the University pages for students.
Toolbox in English Medium Instruction
You can watch short videos that are part of an online toolbox for academic reading and writing developed by the Centre of Internationalization and Parallel Language Use and Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen. Originally developed for Master projects, it is likewise suited for bachelor or other projects.
Link to the online toolbox for academic reading and writing
Better Thesis
Better Thesis is an open educational resource containing a series of tutorials and references on how to plan, structure and write a university thesis at Master level.
- As student, you can get help with statistics from SUND’s Section of Biostatistics.
- Depending on your project, you might need to apply more complex statistical methods. Discuss with your supervisor and check if you can strengthen your skills with one of the workshops offered by SUND’s Health Data Science Center (HeaDS) or the Copenhagen University Library.
- If your projects needs a larger understanding of how data come about, you can take an online course within data literacy developed at UCPH.
- If your project involves personal data, read the information on the University pages for students and discuss with your supervisor.
Draw attention to your student projects via UCPH's new project portal
The current student project page at BMI is getting a new look, as all projects in future must be created on UCPH's new portal "UCPH Projects and Jobs" and from there, they will automatically be displayed on this website.
What is UCPH Projects and Jobs?
UCPH Projects and Jobs is the University's overall career portal aimed at students. Here you can post projects that can be targeted at specific fields of study across the entire university. This increases the visibility of the project postings for students on other programmes, and at the same time the new system enables direct searching for the content of the projects. You can read more about UCPH Projects and Jobs here.
How do I set up a project?
It is very straightforward to get a project posted by filling out this form. The Administration at BMI then ensures that your project is posted on UCPH Projects og Jobs and BMI's own project page.
What about my current project posts?
All researchers with active project postings have been contacted with a view to uploading their projects to KU Projekt og Job, so that they can still be found on BMI's own project page. If you need to be contacted, write to bmi-kommunikation@sund.ku.dk. This also applies to all questions regarding the new project page.