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Professor Dan Stærk - HEALTH

Interests
Sustainable drug leads from nature
Bioactive peptides and lipids from waste
Fungi as sustainable biofactories

Competencies
Hyphenated analytical technologies
NMR spectroscopy
High-throughput pharmacological screens

Professor Trond Ulven - HEALTH

Interests
Sustainable drug discovery
Green synthetic methods
Lipids in inflammation and metabolic diseases

Competencies
Synthetic methods in Medicinal chemistry
Ligand design and computational chemistry
Innovation in drug discovery

Professor Astrid Pernille Jespersen - HUM

Interests
Medicine practices (drug use in everyday life perspective)
Sustainability and equity
Folk knowledge and folk practices of plants

Competencies
Cultural analysis
Qualitative methods
User involvement

Professor Nikos S. Hatzakis - SCIENCE

Interests
Protein-pharmaceutics interactions
Cell entry pathways by live cell microscopy
Design of novel ligands

Competencies
Live cell microscopy
Protein ligand interaction by single molecule studies
Machine learning analysis of biophysical data

Professor Birger Lindberg Møller - SCIENCE

Interests
Bioactive plant natural products
Resilient crop plants for the future
Sustainable production of high-value natural products

Competencies
Synthetic biology
Plant pathway discovery
Bioengineering of plants and microbial systems

Professor Timo Minssen - LAW

Interests
Law and sustainable governance of emerging technologies
Sustainable innovation
Responsible digital health and data

Competencies
AI and big data in the health and life sciences
Intellectual property law and open innovation
Comparative European and US patent law

Assistant professor Johan Andersen-Ranberg - SCIENCE

Interests
Sustainable bioproduction
Plant biosynthesis of high-value compounds
Algae biosynthesis

Competencies
LC/GC-MS analysis of small molecules
Diterpenoid/tetraterpenoid biosynthesis
Algae gene engineering

Assistant professor Laura Mikel McNair - HEALTH

Interests
Sustainable drug discovery
Neurodegeneration and -homeostais
Testing of natural products on brain targets

Competencies
Molecular pharmacology
1H and 13C NMR (bioaffinity, qualitative and quantitative)
Natural product isolation (incl HPLC and HRMS)

Professor Thomas Rades - HEALTH

Interests
Drug delivery
Solid dosage forms
Amorphous systems
Enabling formulations

Competencies
Drug delivery
Solid state analytics
Phys-chem underpinnings of drug delivery

Associate professor Lou Cantarero - HEALTH

Interests
Patient perspective (young people living with chronic diseases)
Bioethics (ethical dilemmas re. lifecycle of medicine)
Research methods for patient empowerment

Competencies
Qualitative research methods
Emperical ethics
AMR

Professor Jörg P. Kutter - HEALTH

Interests
Microanalytical systems for life sciences
Microfluidic devices and solutions for pharmaceutical sciences
Analytical chemistry

Competencies
Design and fabrication of microfluidic devices
Separation and sample preparation techniques
Miniaturization of (bio)chemical protocols

Professor Anette Müllerz - HEALTH

Interests
Drug development
Lipid based drug delivery systems
Animal-free drug development

Competencies
In vitro dissolution and digestion studies
Oral gavage PK studies in rats
Drug analysis

Associate professor Henrik Franzyk - HEALTH

Interests
Antimicrobial agents
Immunomodulatory agents
Anticancer agents

Competencies
Design and synthesis of peptides and peptidomimetics
Solid-phase chemistry and drug-peptide conjugation
Natural products (isolation and purification)

Associate professor Lotte Stig Noergaard - HEALTH

Interests
Medicine waste
Patient perspectives in sustainable drug discovery and use
Pharmacy and hospital pharmacy roles in drug use and disposal

Competencies
Medicine waste
Patient perspectives in sustainable drug discovery and use
Pharmacy and hospital pharmacy roles in drug use and disposal

Professor Thomas Bjarnsholt - Health

Interests
Pathogen host interactions in infections
Antimicrobial resistance
Prediction of infections

Competencies
RNAseq
Advanced microscopy
Microcalorimetry

Professor Ida Theilade - SCIENCE

Interests
Ethnobotany
Indigenous Peoples RightsTropical forest ecology

Competencies
Participatory approaches in ethnobotany
Rights-based approaches
Botanical surveyss

Associate professor Mingshi Yang - Health

Interests
Pulmonary drug delivery
Wound healing
Particle engineering

Competencies
Pharmaceutical formulation and technology
Physicochemical characterization of pharmaceutical formulations
In vitro and in vivo evaluation of pharmaceutical formulations

Dr. Jacob Wested - LAW

Interests
Clinical trial regulation
Representation
Data analytics

Competencies
Empirical legal Studies
Interdisciplinary projects
STS

PhD student Jytte Lyngvig - HUM

Interests
Biological medicines versus chemical medicines
Safety versus efficacy of drugs
Human, societal and economic factors in clinical trials

Competencies
Interdisciplinarity between science and humanities
Regulatory affairs, Regulatory authorities, procedures, and legislation
Understanding of complex problems in historical and social context

Dr. Audrey Lebret - LAW

Interests
Biomedical Law
Human Rights
Sustainable Innovation

Competencies
Human rights and ethics
sustainable developement and circular economy
biolaw

Dr. Yuyue Zhong - SCIENCE

Interests
Drug delivery systems
Starch-based porous nanoparticles

Competencies
Starch structure and functionality analysis
Starch nanoparticle science
Starch porous starch techinque

Assistant profesor Katy Overstreet - HUM

Interests
Food and agriculture
Antimicrobial resistance
Anthropocene

Competencies
Ethnography
Interdisciplinary research

Associate professor Kristian Kofoed Brandt - SCIENCE

Interests
Environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance
Biological nitrification inhibition in agricultural soils
Microbial ecotoxicology and ecology

Competencies
Microbial community analysis (microbiomes)
Resistance development in the environment
Whole-cell bioreporter analysis

Associate professor Nikos S. Hatzakis - SCIENCE

Interests
Protein-pharmaceutics interactions
Cell entry pathways by live cell microscopy
Design of novel ligands

Competencies
Live cell microscopy
Protein ligand interaction by single molecule studies
Machine learning analysis of biophysical data

Associate professor Mohammed Saddik Motawie - SCIENCE

Interests
Synthetic organic chemistry
Biologically active compounds
Preparative methodology

Competencies
Synthetic strategies
Structural characterization
NMR analysis

PhS student Marwa Faisal - SCIENCE

Interests
Drug delivery
Drug materials

Competencies
Fabrication of materials
Synthesis of Nano compounds
Applied science

Associate professor Christian Marcus Pedersen - SCIENCE

Interests
Carbohydrate chemistry
Biomass conversion
Medicinal chemistry

Competencies
Organic synthesis
Carbohydrate chemistry
Biomass conversion

Postdoc Louise Druedahl - LAW

Interests
Intersection between Science and Law
Regulation of pharmaceuticals and regulatory science
Sustainable incentives for drug development

Competencies
Empirical legal studies
Qualitative research
Working interdisciplinary

Curator Jens Soelberg - HEALTH

Interests
Botanical drug history
Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology
Cross-disciplinary, hypothesis-based research

Competencies
Plant collections, classification and taxonomy
Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology research design
Public outreach and dissemination

Professor Søren Bak - SCIENCE

Interests
Biopesticides
Natural products/plant specialized metabolites
Green solutions

Competencies
Bioinformatics, genomics, and metabolomics
Molecular phylogeny and biochemistry
Plant insect interactions
Structure activity relationships

Dr. Karen McGregor Richmond - LAW

Interests
Evidence Based Health Care
Regulation, Standardisation, and Marketisation
Forensic and Legal Medicine

Competencies
Empirical Research
Science and Technology Studies
Rationalist Evidence Analysis

Associate Professor Sven Boston - Law

Interests
Sustainable drug development
Life Sciences and innovation strategies
Innovation in plant breeding and sustainability

Competencies
Innovation Law
IP management and exclusivity strategies in life sciences, green biotech and AI
Biodiversity and innovation in life sciences and green biotech

Assistant professor Witold Kot - SCIENCE

Interests
Bacteriophages

Competencies
Nucleic acids sequencing
Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms
Phage therapy / biocontrol
Bacteriophage genome modifications

Professor Klaus L. Høyer - HEALTH

Interests
socially and financially sustainable healthcare systems
The role of technology in the reconfiguration of healthcare systems
Values informing contemporary policymaking and are silenced or forgotten

Competencies
Medical STS
Health services research
Qualitative methods

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