Professors 

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Andreas Kjær
Professor

Molecular imaging, Positron emission tomography (PET), Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Medicine, Pathophysiology

Research group leader for Cluster for Molecular Imaging

Bente Merete Stallknecht
Professor

Physical Activity, Adipose tissue, Energy balance, Prevention, Metabolic health, Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases

Research group leader for Act4Life

Birgitte Holst

Professor

Obesity, Eating Disorders, Appetite Regulation, Development of Medicine

Research group leader for Birgitte Holst Group

Bjørn Quistorff
Professor

Eating Disorders, Obesity, Biochemistry, Regulation of Metabolism, Diabetes

Research group leader for The Metabolic Regulation Group

Clare Hawkins

Professor MSO

Atherosclerosis, Protein Oxidation, DNA damage, Lipoprotein Oxidation, Oxidative stress, Redox signaling, Myeloperoxidase, Hypohalous acids, Inflammation, Macrophages, Endothelial Dysfunction

Christian Aalkjær
Professor

Blood pressure, blood vessels, smooth muscle, endothelial cell, cell biology, ion transport, pH

Flemming Dela
Professor

Obesity, Diabetes, Metabolisme, Mitokondrial physiology, Cardio-vascular diseases, Physical Activity, Exercise

Research group leader for Dela Group at Xlab

Gerrit van Hall
Professor

Human metabolism, Metabolomics, Mass-spectrometry, muscle waisting, exercise, diabetes, endocrinology

Research group leader for Affiliate Metabolic Mass-Spectrometry

Jens Bülow
Clinical Professor

Metabolic regulation, Cardiovascular regulation

Jens Høiriis Nielsen
Professor Emeritus

Diabetes, Beta cell biology, Insulin secretion and action, Stem cells

Jens Juul Holst
Professor

Obesity, Eating Disorders, Appetite Regulation, Human Physiology, General Physiology/biophysics, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Respiration Physiology, Energy Metabolism, Thermoregulation, Diabetology, Diabetes

Research group leader for Translational Metabolic Physiology

Jens Peter Gøtze
Professor

Cardiovascular endocrinology, including biomarkers, bleeding conditions, diabetes, endocrinology, heart disease, heart failure, heart-gut and gut-heart hormone axes, cardiology and coagulation.

Jørn Wulff Helge
Professor

Work Physiology, Metabolic Regulation, Muscle Metabolism, Physical Activity and Health, Sports, Exercise, Diet

Research group leader for Wulff Helge Group at Xlab

Klaus Qvortrup
Professor

Anatomy, Histology, Macroscopy, Ultrastructure and Function of the Inner Ear, Micropscopy

Head of CFIM

Mette M. Rosenkilde

Professor

Research group leader for Mette M. Rosenkilde Group

Michael Jonathan Davies
Professor

Oxidation, Free radicals, Oxidants, Antioxidants, Protein damage, Proteomics, Cardiovascular disease, Atherosclerosis, Extracellular matrix, Myeloperoxidase, Hypochlorous acid, Peroxynitrous acid, Inflammation, Glycation, Maillard reaction, Protein aggregation, Diabetes

Research group leader for Protein Oxidation

Nicole Schmitt

Professor MSO

Physiology of ion channel complexes, Channelopathies (, i.e. diseases caused by dysfunction of ion channels and associated proteins, e.g. cardiac arrhythmia, epilepsy, ataxia, deafness). Ion channel regulation (cell biology, biophysical properties, posttranslational modifications)

Research group leader for Physiology of ion channel complexes at Ion Channel Group

Nils Billestrup Professor

Molecular cell biology, diabetes, beta cells, signal transduction

Research group leader for Beta Cell Biology

Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen
Professor

Apoptosis, beta-cell biology, cytokines, immuno-endocrinology, immuno-metabolism, inflammation, insulin secretion, signalling, metabolic stress, oxidative stress, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes

Research group leader for Immuno-Endocrinology Lab 

Signe Sørensen Torekov
Professor MSO

Diabetes, Obesity, Genetics, Pathophysiology, Translational research

Research group leader for Clinical Translational Metabolism

Simon Francis Thomsen
Professor

Coming soon

Head of the Center for Medical Research Methodology

Søren-Peter Olesen
Professor

Cardiac Physiology, Cardiac arrhythmia, Atrial fibrillation, Genetic causes of cardiac arrhythmia, Anti-arrhythmic drugs, Ion channels in excitable cells, Neurophysiology, Patch-clamping on a chip, Academic leadership

Research group leader for Cardiovascular Physiology at Ion Channel Group

Thomas Jespersen
Professor MSO

Membrane Protein Function, Cardiac Physiology, Ion Channel Regulation

Research group leader for Cardiac Physiology Laboratory

Associate Professors

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Abigail Mackey
Associate Professor

Skeletal muscle regeneration, sarcopenia, hypertrophy, satellite cells, muscle extracellular matrix, microscopy

Alicia Lundby
Associate Professor

Research group leader for Cardiac Proteomics at Ion Channel Group

Bo Hjorth Bentzen
Associate Professor

Ion channels, Pharmacology, Cardiovascular physiology, Cardiac arrhythmia, Electrophysiology

Research group leader for Cardiac Pharmacology at Ion Channel Group. Bo is also Innovation Scout at BMI.

Bolette Hartmann
Associate Professor

Research group leader for Gut Hormones and Bone Remodeling

Carolyn Deacon
Associate Professor

Type 2 diabetes, Incretin hormones, DPP-4 inhibitors

Research group leader for Deacon Group

Cathrine Ørskov

Associate Professor / Head of Department

Metabolic syndrome, Obesity, NASH, GLP-1, GIP, Glucagon, GLP-2, Neurotensin

Charlotte Mehlin Sørensen

Associate Professor

Renal autoregulation, Renin-angiotensin system, Hypertension, Regulation of blood pressure, Vascular physiology, Renal gap junctions

Christina Christoffersen
Associate Professor

Apolipoproteins, Lipid metabolism, Diabetes, Atherosclerosis

Part of Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research

Clara Prats Gavalda
Associate Professor

Muscle Metabolism, Lipid metabolism, Glucose metabolism, Microscopy

Research group leader for Prats Group at Xlab

Gertrud Malene Hjortø

Associate Professor

Part of Mette M. Rosenkilde Group

Hanne Borger Rasmussen
Associate Professor

Cell biology, Polarised cells, Imaging, Ion channels

Research group leader for Membrane Trafficking at Ion Channel Group

Hannelouise            Kissow    
Associate Professor

Research group leader for Gut Hormone Biology Lab

Hans Rudolf von Lüttichau

Associate Professor

Helena Dominguez
Associate Professor

Henrik H. El Ali
Associate Professor

Molecular imaging, Positron emission tomography (PET), Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Medicine, Pathophysiology

Part of Metabolic Regulation Group 

Jens Christian Brings Jacobsen
Associate Professor

Microcirculation, Vascular adaptation, Flow regulation, Vascular networks, The myogenic response, Vascular conducted responses, Intracellular calcium dynamics, Vasomotion, Synchronization

Research group leader for Vascular Modeling Laboratory

Jørgen Kanters
Associate Professor

Research group leader forLaboratory of Experimental Cardiology

Kamil Gotfryd
Associate Professor

Part of Membrane Protein Structural Biology

Marianne Nissen Lund
Associate Professor

Food, protein modifications, protein functionality, oxidation, Maillard/protein glycation, antioxidants

Research group leader for Food Chemistry

Michal Tomasz Marzec
Associate Professor

Part of the Immuno-Endocrinology Lab

Morten Bækgaard Thomsen
Associate Professor

Models of arrhythmia and heart failure, Cardiac remodeling, Electrophysiology, Pharmacology

Research group leader for Cardiac Electrophysiology Group

Morten Schak Nielsen
Associate Professor

Cardiac Arrhythmia, Gap junctions, conductance disturbances associated with ischemia, metabolic syndrome and diabetes

Research group leader for Gap Junction

Morten Steen Salling Olesen
Associate Professor

Research group leader for Cardiac Genetics at Ion Channel Group

Niels Bindslev
Associate Professor Emeritus

Epithelial transport, Dose-response relations

Website: Human Gut Transport and Allostery 

Niels Grunnet

Associate Professor Emeritus

Obesity, Eating Disorders, Biochemistry, Regulation of Metabolism, Diabetes

Part of the Metabolic Regulation Group

Niels Vidiendal Olsen

Associate Professor

Anæstetika, Palliativ farmakologi, Analgetika, Local analgetika

Research group leader for Niels Vidiendal Olsen Group

Ole Hartvig Mortensen
Associate Professor

Research group leader for Nutrient Transport and Metabolism

Olga Sosnovtseva

Associate Professor

Biophysics, Raman spectroscopy, Laser speckle flowmetry, Renal physiology, Vascular networks, Biosimulation

Research group leader forBiosimulation and Biophotonics

Per Mårten Hägglund
Associate Professor

Protein oxidation, mass spectrometry, cross-linking, aggregation, supramolecular assemblies, proteomics

Pontus Emanuel Gourdon
Associate Professor

Structural biology, Membrane protein X-ray crystallography, P-type ATPases, CopA, ZntA, AcrB

Research group leader for Membrane Protein Structural Biology

Steen Larsen
Associate Professor

Mitochondria physiology, Insulin resistance, Metabolism (fat oxidation), Physical activity, Diabetes, Statins

Part of Xlab

Steen Seier Poulsen
Associate Professor

Research group leader for Light Microscopy

Thomas Jonassen
Associate Professor

Hormones as pharmacy, birth control pills, cardiovascular pharmacology, diabetes

Thorkil Ploug
Associate Professor

Biomarkers, Systems Biology, Human Physiology, Metabolic Regulation, Exercise, Obesity, NAFLD/NASH, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, Inflammation, Dementia, Osteoarthritis, Ageing, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer

Research group leader for MetLab

Tine Alkjær Eriksen

Associate Professor

Biomechanics, Anatomy, Physiology. Research group leader for Human Movement Science.  

Assistant Professors

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Alexander Hovard Sparre-Ulrich
Assistant Professor

Christine Yu-Nung Chuang

Assistant Professor

Extracellular matrix, reactive oxidants, inflammation, atherosclerosis, hypoxia

Part of Protein Oxidation

Emma Tina Bisgaard Olesen
Assistant Professor

Jannik Landt
Assistant Professor

Jesper Tranekjær Jørgensen

Assistant Professor

Molecular imaging, Positron emission tomography (PET), Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Medicine, Pathophysiology

Part of Cluster for Molecular Imaging

Katja Spiess

Assistant Professor

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), adhesion GPCRs, virus-encoded GPCRs, receptor pharmacology, in vivo models, virology, immunology

Part of Mette M. Rosenkilde Group

Kaituo Wang 

Assistant Professor

Part of Membrane Protein Structural Biology Group

Martin Gustavsson

G protein-coupled receptors, membrane proteins, structural biology, biophysics, signalling, chemokine receptors, receptor pharmacology

Part of the research group MolPharm

Michala Prause

Assistant Professor

Beta-cell biology, Molecular cell biology, signaling, dedifferentiation, cytokines, inflammation, insulin secretion, metabolic stress, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes

Part of Beta Cell Biology

Pia Rengtved Lundegaard

Assistant Professor

Cardiovascular system; developmental biology, with a special focus on heart development and function; Heart arrhythmia; genetics & zebrafish

Part of the Ion Channel Group

Thomas Jepps

Assistant Professor

Vascular Research, Ion Channels, Receptors, Intracellular Signalling, Hypertension.

Part of the Ion Channel Group