Medical biotechnology

+
Medical BIotechnology

Medical biotechnology is an application of biotechnology that improves the lives of individuals every day. In the medical biotechnology research group, we use state-of-the-art technologies to obtain knowledge applicable in the development of better diagnostics and therapeutics. In addition, we seek knowledge of fundamental biological systems, allowing a better differentiation between disease and normal human development and health.
Focus areas:
- Ageing and age related diseases
- Cancer and circulating tumor cells
- Cardiovascular and heart diseases
- Probiotics and microbiota
- Antibody technology
- Proteases and disease
- Pathological calcium signaling
- Bioactive peptides and secondary metabolites
- Metabolomics
- Novel lead compounds for drug development
Vision

Our research is driven by the ambition of applying science to understand, prevent and treat human diseases.

Collaborations

Within the area of medical biotechnology we collaborate broadly with local and national institutions and experts. These include, but are not limited to, researchers from Faculty of Medicine, AAU and Aalborg University Hospital, Copenhagen University, Herlev Hospital, Danish Technical University, and Aarhus University. Internationally we collaborate with researchers all over the world including Japan, China, Australia, Europe and US.

Contact

Medical Biotechnology
Associate prof. Anders Olsen
Email: ao@bio.aau.dk
Tel.: +45 3069 8155

C. elegans lab

Ageing and age related diseases, probiotics and microbiota, proteomics and metabolomics, stress responses and apoptosis and molecular motors

Molecular engineering

C.elegans Lab

Cancer and circulating tumor cells, ageing and age related diseases, antibody technology and molecular engineering.

Natural Products Chemistry

Cancer, type 2 diabetes and inflammatory diseases, drugs and lead compounds of natural origin, mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics, large-scale isolation.

NMR

Biological NMR spectroscopy, cardiovascular and heart diseases, bioactive peptides and secondary metabolites, metabolomics and protein-ligand interactions.

Protein Science

Cardiovascular and heart disease, brown Bear as a translational model, proteases and disease, valorization of industrial protein side streams.

Latest publications

Emulsifying peptides from potato protein predicted by bioinformatics Stabilization of fish oil-in-water emulsions

Published / Submitted 2020

Pedro Jesús García Moreno, Charlotte Jacobsen, Paolo Marcatili, Simon Gregersen, Michael Toft Overgaard, Mogens Larsen Andersen, Ann-Dorit Moltke Sørensen, Egon Bech Hansen

+
Facilities

To be updated

+
Business partnerships
A selection of our business partners:
- DuPont
- Novo Nordisk
- MedImmune
- BioY

+
People
Staff Scientist Henrik Kjeldahl

C. elegans Lab
- Associate Professor Anders Olsen
- Postdoc Marianne O. Hesselager
- PhD Student Maria Grymer Metz Mørch
- PhD Student Katrine Christensen
- PhD Student Rikke Hindsgaul Harders
- Msc student Therese Buhl / Email: tbuhl18@student.aau.dk
- MSc Student Lam Thùy Lê / Email: lla15@student.aau.dk
- MSc Student Caroline Lund Kidmose / Email: ckidmo15@student.aau.dk
NMR lab
- Professor MSO Reinhard Wimmer
- Postdoc Cristian Holt
- MSc Student Alexander Aaskov Mikkelsen / Email: aami15@student.aau.dk
Protein Science lab
Molecular engineering lab
- Associate Professor Peter Kristensen
- Postdoc Aida Droce
- MSc student Irene Delgado Alonso / Email: idelga18@student.aau.dk
- MSc Student Lærke Andersen / Email: lande18@student.aau.dk
- MSc student Emilie Kjærsgaard / Email: ekjars15@student.aau.dk
- Stuent helper Emil Juel Zeuner / Email: ezeune17@student.aau.dk

Medical biotechnology

Menu