People
Sakari Kauppinen, MSC, PHD
Professor & Director of Center for RNA Medicine
E-mail: ska@dcm.aau.dk
Phone: (+45) 2047 7994
Sakari Kauppinen serves as Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University and Director of the Center for RNA Medicine. Dr. Kauppinen earned his M.Sc. in Genetics from the University of Helsinki and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Copenhagen followed by postdoctoral training at the GeneExpress Research Satellite, Novo Nordisk, Denmark.
His research focuses on exploring the roles of microRNAs, long noncoding RNAs and circular RNAs in human health and disease and discovering RNA-targeted therapeutics for unmet medical needs.
Before joining Aalborg University, Dr. Kauppinen was Senior Director of MicroRNA Research and Drug Discovery at Santaris Pharma, and Head of the microRNA Research Unit at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, where he was responsible for multiple microRNA research and drug discovery programs in cancer, cardiometabolic and infectious diseases, including the discovery of the world’s first microRNA‐targeted medicine, miravirsen. He was also a member of the miravirsen clinical development team that has successfully advanced this microRNA drug to clinical phase 2 trials for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection with proven efficacy against HCV and a good safety profile.
Lluís Riera Ponsati, MSC, PHD
Industrial Post.doc., NEUmiRNA Therapeutics
E-mail: lluisrp@dcm.aau.dk
Phone: (+)
Francesco margiotta, MSC
Visiting Ph.D Student
E-mail: francesco.margiotta@unifi.it
Phone: (+39) 333 673 3419
Vibeke Møller Thomsen, MA
Center Administrator & PA
E-mail: vmt@dcm.aau.dk
Phone: (+45) 9940 3559 / 2619 4237
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ALUMNI
Andreas Petri, Msc, phd
Assistant Professor
Sept 2012 - Sept 2019
lundbeck
Bioinformatics Specialist
Aleks schein, MSC, PHD
Postdoc
Dec 2014 – June 2016
thermo fisher
Bioprocess Senior Scientist
Matthias J. Rauen, MSC, PHD
Postdoc
Sept 2017 - Sept 2019
QIAGEN
Customer Solution Manager
Tsinat Berhane, msc
Research Assistant
Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2020
DTU health tech
Research Assistant
Marianne Bengtson Løvendorf, MSC, PHD
Assistant Professor
Dec. 2015 - Apr. 2021
Herlev og Gentofte Hospital
Head of research
ulrik søberg scheele, MSC
Research Assistant
Feb 2023 – Oct 2023
espergærde gymnasium
High school teacher
charlotte a. thrue, MSC
Postdoc
Oct 2014 – Jan 2017
Ascendi pharma
QA Specialist
thomas kallehauge, msc, phd
Postdoc
Jan 2017 – July 2017
NOVOZYMES
Research Scientist
CLARENCE WEN JIE TAN, Bsc
MSc student
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
KASPER THYSTRUP KARSTENSEN, MSC
PhD Student
Sept. 2017 - March 2021
Statens serum institut
Academic Associate
Shizuka uchida, MSC, PHD
Professor MSO
Aug 2020 – Oct 2023
LABCORP
Department Manager