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Professor Emeritus
Reidar Albrechtsen
I am a specialist in pathology and cytology since 1976, have worked for several years as a clinical
pathologist at the Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, and served as professor emeritus at BRIC since 2018. My research is focused on the the field of pathology and cell biology, where I have and still am contributing with DNA sequencing, production of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies and expression studies of several proteins including laminin, tetranectin, and ADAM12.
Postdoctoral scientists
Kamilla Westarp Zornhagen
During my PhD I studied the tumour microenvironment and its heterogeneity in spontaneous canine soft tissue sarcomas using different molecular markers. Now my research is focused on the extracellular matrix (ECM) and how it affects metastasis.
Rikke Stagaard
The past few years I have worked with exercise oncology in a research environment that combined mechanistic preclinical studies with clinical training interventions studies in cancer patients. My current research focuses on elucidating whether exercise modulates ECM components in the tumor microenvironment to foster anti-cancer conditions and limit metastatic development.
Alexia Lopresti 
The past few years I have worked with translation reasearch, ADAMs, the tumor microenvironment, organoids, and circulating tumor cells, which will also be my research focus here at BRIC.
Victor Oria
I am intrigued by the tumor microenvironment; specifically how cancer cells hijack the vascular system to their benefit. My current research investigates how tumor-driven angiocrine signaling feeds back on the growing tumor to drive loco-vascular invasion and subsequent metastasis.
Kasper J. Mygind
I have worked on protein maturation and transport in cells, more
specifically how proteins exit the ER and are transported into the Golgi apparatus. To this end I have worked on small GTPases involved in Golgi integrity. I am currently focused on two research areas, first genome modulation (knock-out and knock-in) to study endogenous gene functions. Here I have developed a library of reporter cells enabling us to study protein function as well as cell-cell interactions in vitro and in vivo. Second research area is understating how soluble Basigin / CD147 are pro-tumorigenic
PhD students
Jan Strøbech
I want to explore what happens within stromal tissue during metastasis, in particular how the tumour microenvironment promotes cancer progression. My PhD focuses on changes in cell populations during metastatic disease and how stromal cells contribute to changes in the ECM. I will apply single cell RNA sequencing to explore this area.
Joana Leitão Castro
During my PhD,
I aim to understand the cellular communication between cancer cells and cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs), as well as to unravel the molecular mechanism by which cancer cell-derived ADAM12 activates the tumor stroma and promotes ECM production. Overall, my goal is to identify new strategies to limit the desmoplastic response as a way to improve cancer treatments.
Guangzheng Weng
I’m a PHD student at BRIC. My research interest is about single-cell RNA-sequencing and machine learning applied on large-scale biological data analysis. Now I’m focusing on spatial transcriptomics.
Bachelor students
Freia Isak Jørgensen 
I am a molecular biomedicine bachelor student, and will as part of my bachelor thesis help Victor investigates how tumor-driven angiocrine signaling feeds back on the growing tumor to drive loco-vascular invasion and subsequent metastasis.
Alumni
Adina Jensen
Alejandro Mayorca Guiliani
Amro Ashmawy
Andreas Hadjiprocopis
Anette Høye
Ann-Marie Baker
Anna Leibold
Anu Laitala
Christine J
Demelza Bird
Dina Grønseth
Dorte Lauritsen
Fabian Schmich
Freja Venning
Georgina Lang
Giorgia Maltese
Helen Frost
Holly Barker
Jan Strøbech
Jesper Thorhauge Pedersen
Joan Chang
Lara Perryman
Lena Wullkopf
Lidia Leonte
Louis Jensen
Lukram Babloo Singh
Marc Garcia Montolio
Maria Rafaeva
Marie-Claude Djidja
Marina Crespo Bravo
Martina Mrsnik
Ninna Rossen
Oliver Willacy
Peter Bavngaard Thrane
Pier Giorgio Amendola
Pietro Giuriatti
Raphael Reuten (LinkedIn profile)
Sebastian R. Nielsen
Sofie Dahl Tolstrup
Tian Xia
Tine Thurison Røndbjerg
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