23 April 2021
On Friday 23 April 2021 cand.scient Marijana Nesic defended her PhD with the title: “The role of genetic alterations and immune surveillance in diffuse large B-cell lympoma”
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15 April 2021
Martin Bøgsted and Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly have each received a grant from Kræftens Bekæmpelse.
Martin Bøgsted has received DKK 625,000 for the project “Ulighed i adgangen til medicinsk kræftbehandling: Hvad kan vi lære og ændre ud fra individ-baserede behandlingsregistreringer?”
Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly has received DKK 1,225,000 for the project “Overlevelse og senfølger ved sjældne former for lymfekræft.”
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16 November 2020
On Thursday 12 November 2020 M.Sc. (Molecular Medicine) Hanne Due defended her PhD with the title: “Investigation of drug response in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma”
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On Thursday 5 November 2020 cand.scient.san. Mia Sommer defended her PhD with the title: “Patient-reported outcomes on the trajectory of hematological cancer, a multi-method study”
Read more here
29 October 2020
Karen Dybkær was interviewed for the Radio4 programme, Techtopia – a programme about technology where CRISPR was the topic and made in collaboration with the engineering association IDA.
Learn more here
6 October 2020
By using the genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9, researchers from the research section at the Department of Haematology investigate chemotherapy resistance in cancer cells. Treatment resistance is a major clinical challenge, and by using this technology we aim at improving the understanding of drug resistance, which can hopefully be used to develop more a efficient treatment in the future. Read more here
8 June 2020
Karen Dybkær and Marianne Tang Severinsen have each received a grant from Karen Elise Jensen.
Karen Dybkær has received DKK 3.000.000 from Karen Elise Jensen Fonden for the project “Behandlingsresistens i maligne B-celle blodsygdomme – kombination af CRISPR-baseret genom editering og kliniske data til identifikation af alternative behandlingsstrategier.”
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Marianne Tang Severinsen has received DKK 2.200.000 from Karen Elise Jensen Fonden for the project “From Registries to Improved Survivorship in Haematology: – A Multidisciplinary Research Program Bridging Epidemiology to Clinical Interventions.”
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19 June 2020
Research teams from all over the world have competed to see who are the best at predicting the outcome of cancer treatments, and researchers from our Haematological Research Section have taken a prestigious victory.
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12 June 2020
Karen Dybkær has received DKK 2.325.000from Kræftens Bekæmpelse for the project “Molekylære kendetegn for patienter med diffus storcellet B-celle lymfom, som har effektivt respons på behandling med bortezomib”.
Read more here
5 March 2020
Statistician Lasse Hjort Jakobsen has been invited to join the editorial board at the journal Annals of Lymphoma.
Read more here
13 February 2020
Linnéa Schmidt has received 50,000 DKK from the Harboe Foundation for the project ”Exploring actionable stratifications of B-cell cancer patients using CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screening”. The study aims at identifying treatment resistance genes in the B-cell malignancy diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) for the current second-line and/or experimental drugs cisplatin, carboplatin, bendamustin, bortezomib and iphosphamid using a global CRISPR/Cas9 screening approach.
22 January 2020
Congratulations to Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly who has received an award from Svend Andersen Fonden
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21 January 2020
Inger Lise Gade and Charles Vesteghem have each received DKK 250,000 from “Region Nordjyllands Sundhedsinnovationspulje” for the projects ”Ny, non-invasiv diagnostik af svampeinfektioner i lungerne” and ”Beslutningsstøtteværktøjer til kemoterapibehandling nær livets afslutning for lungekræftpatienter”.
Andreas Kiesbye Øvlisen and Issa Ismail Issa have received DKK 45,000 and DKK 30,000 respectively from the “A.P. Møller Fonden til Lægevidenskabens Fremme”, for the projects ”Socioøkonomiske konsekvenser og sentoksiciteter efter behandling for hæmatologisk kræftsygdom” and ”Effekten af WEE1 i behandlingsresistente DLBCL celler”.
30 December 2019
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019
Last row: Lars, Rasmus, Martin, Charles, Mads, Daniel, Alex, Heidi, Louise
Middle row: Issa, Inger Lise, Pernille, Linnéa, Marijana, Karen, Anne, Helle, Julie
Front row: Eva, Marianne, Anne, Louise, Lise, Andreas
To all our collaborators and friends!
The Haematology Research Section for Experimental and Computational Cancer Biology,
The Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University and Aalborg University Hospital
6 November 2019
On Friday 15 November 2019 cand. scient. in Applied Mathematics Heidi Søgaard Christensen defended her PhD with the title: “Statistics for Point Processes on Linear Networks and on The Space Cross Sphere”.
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On 7 November 2019 PhD student Andreas Kisbye Øvlisen represented the Department of Haematology, Aalborg University Hospital, at the annual plenary meeting in Nordic Lymphoma Group.
In week 44 we inaugurated our new CRISPR laboratory at Forskningens Hus.
Read more about the CRISPR laboratory here
In October 2019 PhD student Mia Sommer participated in the International Society of Quality of Life Research 26th Annual Conference, which took place in San Diego, California, USA.
Mia presented a poster on the project “Shared care follow-up of patients with B-cell neoplasms based on telecare and PRO-data: A feasibility study from the North Denmark Region”.
Mia received a diploma for “Superior Achievement in Quality of Life Research Presentation”.
Congratulations to Mia.
On 2 – 4 October 2019 postdoc Inger Lise Gade presented two studies at the European Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis in Glasgow.
One of the posters was presented at a poster session and was rewarded with a poster price.
Congratulations to Inger Lise.
7 March 2019
On Friday 15 March 2019 cand.scient. Jorne Biccler defended his PhD with the title: “Statistical and machine learning methods for the dynamic prediction of prognosis in haematological malignancies”.
Read more here
6 February 2019
A workshop arranged by the reseach section, Department of Haematology, Aalborg University Hospital, was held in Copenhagen on 29 January – 1 February 2019
Read more here
27 December 2018
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018
Last row: Mads, Lasse, Charles, Hanne, Anne L, Julie, Alex, Martin, Anne Roug, Rasmus
Front row: Anders, Karen, Anne Rytter, Lise, Louise, Helle
To all our collaborators and friends!
The Haematology Research Section for Experimental and Computational Cancer Biology,
The Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University and Aalborg University Hospital
Lasse Hjort Jakobsen and Jorne Biccler are attending ASH in December with an oral presentation.
Lasse:
Normalization of Survival and No Relapses after One Year in Adult Burkitt Lymphoma Patients Treated with Intensive Immunochemotherapy: An International Study of 159 Real-World Patients
Jorne:
Relapse Risk and Loss in Expectation of Lifetime in Young Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients – a Nordic Lymphoma Group Study of 2,582 Patients
1 October 2018
On Friday 28 September 2018 MSc in Statistics, Lasse Hjort Jakobsen, defended his PhD with the title: “Analysis of relative survival patterns in cancer register data”.
Read more here
20 June 2018
A PhD course with the title ” Cancer Research – from basic science to bedside” was held on 23-25 May 2018 at Aalborg University Hospital, Forskningens Hus.
This PhD course was offered by the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology at Aalborg University and the Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital. Please find the final programme here
It is with great sadness that we have learned that our Professor Hans E. Johnsen passed away unexpectedly on Thursday – only days after his 70th birthday last Sunday.
Since 2005 he has been the motivator and facilitator in establishing a strong and innovative research section at the Haematology Department, Aalborg University Hospital/Aalborg University. He has been one of the leading experts within personalised medicine in Denmark and will be deeply missed by all of us.
Our thoughts and sympathy go to his family.
Tarec C. el-Galaly received his doctoral letter on stage along with a lithograph by artist Allan Nordmark.
Thomas Yssing Michaelsen, MSc in Biology, received this year’s Roblon Prize along with DKK 100,000 for his further development of a method for the examination and classification of cancer of the lymph nodes. Each year, the Roblon Prize is awarded to a master’s thesis which is considered particularly innovative. In his master’s thesis ‘A differentiation dependent classification of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas by the NanoString technology’, Thomas Yssing Michaelsen has further developed a method for categorising patients according to their prognosis and treatment needs. This increases the potential for finding the right treatment for individual patients.. See more here: http://www.engineering.aau.dk/nyheder-arrangementer/nyhed/kandidat-i-biologi-vinder-roblon-prisen-2018.cid354945
10 January 2018
On Friday 5 January 2018 specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery , Mette Marcussen, defended her PhD with the title: “Cancer Therapy induced mocositis, Molecular characteristics influencing presence and severity of mucositis during cancer therapy”.
Read more here
4 January 2018
Martin Bøgsted made a presentation for the New Year’s Reception 2018 at Aalborg University (Nytårskur 2018).
29 December 2017
25 October 2017
Congratulations to Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly who has received the Tove Nilsson Research Award for DKK 25,000
12 September 2017
Interdisciplinary follow-up of patients with haematological cancer, see link to article:
tvaerfaglig-opfoelgning-af-patienter-med-haematologisk-cancer
30 August 2017
Rasmus Froberg Brøndum gave one of the key note talks Bioinformatics for Precision Oncology” at “the 3rd Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference 2017 in Odense.
7 July 2017
PhD student Jorne Biccler attended the 14th edition of the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma which took place from 14 – 17 June 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. This year there was a large focus on immunotherapy.
At the conference Jorne Biccler presented two posters with an epidemiological focus:
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hon.2438_40
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hon.2438_32
07 July 2017
On 20 June 2017 Thomas Yssing Michaelsen, Master of Science (MSc) in Biology, Department of Haematology, defended his master thesis with the title “A differentiation dependent classification of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas by the NanoString technology”.
From left external examiner, associate professor Bernt Guldbrandtsen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Foulum, external supervisor, professor Martin Bøgsted, Department of clinical medicine, department of haematology, research section, Aalborg University, Thomas Yssing Michaelsen and internal supervisor, associate professor Mads Albertsen, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University
30 June 2017
Senior bioinformatician Mads Sønderkær attended the Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2017 on 12-13 June 2017 at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. The meeting highlighted recent advances in the tools and techniques that are facilitating translational research and precision medicine. Mads presented his work on development of diagnostic classification of haematological B-cell malignancies.
21 June 2017
On 14 June 2017 Ditte Starberg Jespersen, Master of Science in Chemistry and Bioscience, Department of Haematology, defended her master thesis with the title “Detection and investigation of alternative RNA splicing in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma”.
From left Ditte Starberg Jespersen, internal supervisor lecturer Teis Søndergaard, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, external examiner, professor Charlotte Nyvold, department of haeamtology, Odense University Hospital, and external supervisor professor Karen Dybkær, Department of clinical medicine, department of haematology, research section, Aalborg University
6 June 2017
Julie Støve Bødker has completed the Leadership 0 course and has been certified in “situationsbestemt ledelse”.
From right: Julie Støve Bødker
30 May 2017
Many colleagues from our department participated in the 2nd Nordic Meeting on Tumor Microenvironment in Lymphoma which took place in Aarhus on 18-19 May 2017.
From left: Marijana Nesic, Helle Høholt, Louise Hvilshøj Madsen, Julie Støve Bødker, Karen Dybkær, Hanne Due Rasmussen, Ditte Starberg Jespersen, Laura Ryø
22 May 2017
Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly receives prestigious award from Kræftens Bekæmpelse:
Read more here http://www.aalborguh.rn.dk/Service/Nyhedsliste-AalborgUH/Nyhed?id=5c0fa12e-9a77-4548-b513-236589c5ecbb
1 May 2017
On 21 April 2017, Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly defended his doctoral thesis “Staging and Disease Surveillance in Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma” and passed with flying colours.
(from left) Head of Faculty Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen, chairman of the assessment committee professor Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, MD Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly, and the two opponents professor Peter Hokland and associate professor Josée M. Zijlstra
4 April 2017
On Friday 21 April 2017, consultant haematologist Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly, Department of Haematology, will defend his doctoral thesis with the title “Staging and Disease Surveillance in Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma”
The doctoral defence will take place at 1 o’clock p.m. at the Auditorium, Medicinerhuset, Aalborg University Hospital, followed by a reception hosted by Aalborg University.
TEG invitation_disputatsforsvar
11 January 2017
See some press clippings citing professor Martin Bøgsted regarding personalized medicine.
Link to the articles: “Slut med anarkiet: Nu skal læger gensekventere på samme måde”
and “Professorer: praktiserende læger er uforberedte på fremtidens medicin“
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016
from the Department of Haematology, Research Section,
the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University and Aalborg University Hospital
Last row:
Nicolai Bæch (student), Kasper Lindblad Nielsen (student), Alexander Schmitz (flow cytometry core manager), Anne Lindblom (research secretary), Martin Bøgsted (professor), Rasmus Froberg Brøndum (senior bioinformatician), Lasse Hjort Jakobsen (PhD student), Mia Sommer (project nurse)
Middle row:
Hans Erik Johnsen (professor), Jorne Biccler (PhD student), Anna Schönherz (postdoc), Julie Støve Bødker (senior research scientist), Helle Høholt (research laboratory technician), Karen Dybkær (professor), Zuzana Valnickova Hansen (research
laboratory technician), Anette Eisenhardt Rasmussen (research laboratory technician), Hanne Due Rasmussen (PhD student)
First row:
Thomas Yssing Michaelsen (thesis student), Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly (consultant haematologist), Henning Sand Christensen (research laboratory technician), Louise Hvilshøj Madsen (research laboratory technician), Lise Tordrup Elkjær ( scientific
secretary assistant), Ditte Starberg Jespersen (thesis student), Cecilie Caland Nielsen (project nurse)
23 December 2016
Rasmus Froberg Brøndum, Anna Amanda Schönherz, and Martin Bøgsted were invited to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University, Foulum, to give a talk about their work in cancer subclassification.
14 December 2016
Professor Martin Bøgsted and professor Hans Johnsen gave a presentation at the conference held by De Lægevidenskabelige Selskaber on 29 November 2016 at Christiansborg, the agenda being Danish personalized medicine.
Please find the newsletter here:
1 December 2016
Professor Karen Dybkær has received a grant from Svend Andersen Fonden for DKK 1,000,000 for the project “Genetiske determinanters betydning for behandlingsresistens i specifikke molekylære undertyper af diffus storcellet B-celle lymfom (DLBCL”.
1 December 2016
Senior researcher Julie Støve Bødker has received a grant from Augustinus Fonden for DKK 507.495 for the project “kvælstoftank til projekt om individuel behandling af hæmatologiske patienter”
18 October 2016
Laboratory for Medical Mass Spectrometry holds a seminar on Medical Bioinformatics.
At the seminar Martin Bøgsted and Rasmus Froberg Brøndum will be giving a lecture on personalized medicine.
Please find the programme for the seminar here
The seminar is open to all.
17 October 2016
LVS, Organisationen af Lægevidenskabelige Selskaber, holds a seminar on personalized medicine.
At the seminar Martin Bøgsted will be giving a lecture on handling of the data complexitiy in personalized medicine.
Please find the programme for the seminar here
The seminar is open to all.
18 October 2016
A PhD course with the title ” How to analyze and interpret large datasets from emerging -omics based technologies in a clinical setting” was held on 24-27 October 2016.
This PhD course is offered by the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology at Aalborg University and the Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital. Please find the final programme here
Enrolment to the PhD course is done through Aalborg University’s “PhD moodle” https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/login/index.php
For further information about the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology at Aalborg University, please use this link.
10 September 2016
Rasmus Froberg Brøndum and Martin Bøgsted participated in the NSAS kick of meeting in Odense. The picture shows Rasmus presenting the requirements for a precision medicine application.
Link to the agenda: NSAS Kickoff Meeting
10 August 2016
Caroline Holm Nørgaard is one of the five Danish medical students who have spent a year abroad in the world’s leading technology Mecca to do research and to learn how to combine the medical education with business.
Link to the article: “Det er vel ok også at tjene lidt penge”
9 August 2016
PhD student Mette Marcussen presented
“MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSECUTIVE ORAL MUCOSA BIOPSIES FOLLOWING HIGH DOSE MELPHALAN TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA PATIENTS”
at the MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting on Supportive Care in Cancer on 23-25 June 2016 in Adelaide, Australia.
See Mettes poster here (type Marcussen in the search field)
30 June 2016
On Friday 17 June 2016, master in Biomedical Sciences, Hanne Due Rasmussen, Department of Haematology, defended her master thesis with the title “Vincristine response in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma”.
The defence took place at the Auditorium, Forskningens Hus.
30 June 2016
On 16 June 2016 Professor Martin Bøgsted participated in a discussion at the Folkemødet at Bornholm and the topic was ” Personlig medicin – en revolution med håndbremsen trukket?”
Read / watch more here:
30 June 2016
Senior bioinformatician Rasmus Brøndum participated in the course “Variant Analysis with GATK” on 16 and 17 June 2016. The Genome Analysis Tool Kit (GATK) is a suite of tools developed by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and is widely used for processing DNA and RNA-seq data.
Lectures were given by trainers from the Broad Institute, and took place at the CSC – IT Center for Science, Helsinki Finland.
24 June 2016
Hanne Due Rasmussen, Lasse Hjort Jakobsen, Julie Støve Bødker, Karen Dybkær and Hans Johnsen partidipated in the EHA meeting in Copenhagen.
Lasse Hjort Jakobsen gave an oral presentation at the meeting about “Survival of DLBCL patients in first remission relative to a matched background population” and Hans Johnsen gave an oral presentation about “A new multiple myeloma classification system that correlates to disease stage and prognosis – indication of reversible phenotypic plasticity as a hallmark”
27 June 2016
On Tuesday 7 June 2016, master in Biomedical Sciences, Liesbeth Bieghs, Department of Haematology, defended her PhD thesis with the title: “The IGF system in multiple myeloma: exploring diagnostic and therapeutic potential”.
The defence took place at Aarhus University. Liesbeht’s PhD degree is a result of a cooperation between Aarhus University / Aalborg University and Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium.
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Photo: Liesbeth Bieghs, senior researcher Julie Støve Bødker, associate professor Mette Nyegaard (supervisor from Aalborg University) and professor Karen Dybkær.
Assessment committee – chairman
- Prof. Dr. MD. DMSc. Marianne Hokland, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus Univeristy, Aarhus, Denmark
Assessment committee – opponents:
- Prof. Dr. MD. DSc. Moustapha Kassem, Department of Endocrinoloogy, KMEB, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark
- Associate Prof. Dr. MD. Anja Seckinger, Department of Internal Medicine V: Hematology, Oncology and Reumatology, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Ivan Van Riet, Department of Clinical Hematology – Stem Cell Laboratory, UZ Brussel Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Promotors – Denmark
- Associate Prof. Dr. Mette Nyegaard, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Prof. Dr. Michael Toft Overgaard, Department of Chemistry and Biocience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Promoters – Belgium
- Prof. Dr. Karin Vanderkerken, Department of Hematology and Immunology, Virje universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
- Associate Prof. Dr. Elke De Bruyne, Department of Hematology and Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Time:
- 7 June 2016, 15.00 hours
Place:
- Bartholinbygning at Aarhus University.
13 June 2016
Read more here
17 May 2016
On 26 and 27 April 2016 Mette Dahl Bendtsen, Anna Schönherz, Karen Dybkær, Hans Erik Johnsen, Lasse Hjort Jakobsen, Rasmus Froberg Brøndum and Martin Bøgsted participated in the 1st European Conference on Translational Bioinformatics.
At the conference there were lectures by some of the world’s leading experts in translating bioinformatics and systems biology for clinical use.
The conference was very inspiring and emphasized the potential of the relapse project.
At the conference, we presented 3 posters concerning the relapse project, NEXT bioinformatics and hemaclass.org.
On 15 March 2016 Professor Karen Dybkær, Consultant Haematologist Tarec El-Galaly, and Professor Martin Bøgsted visited Professor Dr. Wolfram Klapper, University of Kiel.
The purpose of the visit was to discuss a possible collaboration. It was a very fruitful meeting, and a number of specific projects were planned.
Besides the scientific meeting, they also saw the teaching archive of lymphoma cases collected by Karl Lennart, who was the father of the famous Kiel Classification for Lymphoma, from which the B-cell associated gene signature classifier from our group has its origin.
17 March 2016
17 May 2016
Haematologist, Rie Sander Bech participated in an EHA Master Class video.
The EHA Classical Master Class is a seven-month online group learning experience for hematologists approaching the end of their training.
During the course, mentees are expected to solve complex and challenging cases presented by, and under the guidance of experts.
Get introduced to the EHA Master Class and learn more about our Mentors and Mentees and their experiences.
Watch the EUA Master Class video here.
18 March 2016
On 10 March 2016, our Health Minister Sophie Løhde visited Aalborg University Hospital.
Professor Hans E Johnsen offered an insight into focused individual treatment of patients with cancer relapse – one of the hospital’s spearhead functions.
Read more here
24 Febuary 2016
Professor MSO Martin Bøgsted has received a grant from Lundbeckfonden for DKK 24,009 to cover his stay at Stanford University School of Medicine from 28 January – 6 February 2016.
For more details, see stanford.edu/events/seminars/2016Seminars
22 February 2016
Read more here
17 February 2016
Tarec Christoffer El-Galay, consultant haematologist, has given an interview to the magazine Dagens Medicin concerning “check-up scans of patients with lymphoma.
For more details, see here
12 February 2016
Martin Bøgsted, Professor MSO, has given an interview to the magazine Ingeniøren concerning “Personlig medicin”.
For more details, see here
25 January 2016
Martin Bøgsted, Professor MSO, is going to Stanford at the end of January 2016.
The purpose of the visit is to study the heterogeneity of CLL, but also to establish further collaboration on mutual ideas on the cellular origin of cancer.
Furthermore, Martin will be giving a talk at Stanford about his current research in developing methods for identifying the cellular origin of cancer.
For more details, see stanford.edu/events/seminars/2016Seminars
18 January 2016
Senior researcher Julie Støve Bødker and flow cytometry core manager Alexander Schmitz have received a grant from Det Obelske Familefond for DKK 1,910,000 for the project “ProGene: Prospective gene analysis of clonal heterogeneity in relapsed B-cell malignancies”.
Read more about the project here