Center for RNA Medicine

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Sakari Kauppinen

Sakari Kauppinen, MSC, PHD

Professor & Director of Center for RNA Medicine

E-mail: ska@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 2047 7994

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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.

Anja Holm, Msc, PHD

Associate Professor

E-mail: aholm@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 9940 7599

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Mirolyuba Ilieva

Mirolyuba Ilieva, MSC, PHD

Post.Doc.

E-mail: mirolyubasi@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 9940 7808

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Anna Altieri, MSC

Research Assistant

E-mail: annaa@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: +39 33 1956 5913

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Lluís Riera Ponsati

Lluís Riera Ponsati, MSC, PHD

Industrial Post.doc., NEUmiRNA Therapeutics

E-mail: lluisrp@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+) 

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Vibeke Møller Thomsen

Vibeke Møller Thomsen, MA

Center Administrator & PA

E-mail: vmt@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 9940 3559 / 2619 4237

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Mogens Vyberg

Mogens vyberg, MD

Professor of Clinical Pathology

E-mail: mov@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 9940 3528

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riccardo panella, MSC, PHD

Associate Professor

E-mail: riccardop@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 7153 7354

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Simone Tomasini

simone tomasini, MSC, PHD

Research Assistant

E-mail: sito@dcm.aau.dk

Phone: (+45) 9172 5154

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Francesco Margiotta

Francesco margiotta, MSC

Visiting Ph.D Student

E-mail: francesco.margiotta@unifi.it

Phone: (+39) 333 673 3419

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ALUMNI

Andreas Petri

Andreas Petri, Msc, phd

Assistant Professor

Sept 2012 - Sept 2019

lundbeck

Bioinformatics Specialist

Aleks Schein

Aleks schein, MSC, PHD

Postdoc

Dec 2014 – June 2016

thermo fisher

Bioprocess Senior Scientist

Matthias Rauen

Matthias J. Rauen, MSC, PHD

Postdoc

Sept 2017 - Sept 2019

QIAGEN

Customer Solution Manager

Tsinat Berhane

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 Albæk Thrue

charlotte a. thrue, MSC

Postdoc

Oct 2014 – Jan 2017

Ascendi pharma

QA Specialist

Thomas Kallehauge

thomas kallehauge, msc, phd

Postdoc

Jan 2017 – July 2017

NOVOZYMES

Research Scientist

Clarence Wen Jie Tan

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