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  • Blegdamsvej 3B

    2200 København N

  • Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København N, 07 Bygning 7, 07-11-TR4

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20052023

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Current research

I have been actively involved in malaria research since 2002 primarly focused upon the adhesive interaction of the Plasmodium falciparum infected red blood cells and the host receptor ICAM-1 and how this contributes to cerebral malaria. To understand the impact infected red blood cells have on neural barriers, I use self-assembling, human dervied organoids to model the blood- brain barrier (BBB) and blood-cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) barrier (B-CSFB).  

My other interests include:

  • Adjunctive treamtents for cerebral malaria
  • Blood outgrowth endothelial cells 
  • 3D cell culture models
  • Fluidic models of the microvasculature
  • Lyme neuroborreliosis and the neural barriers (BBB and B-CSFB)
  • Novel transport mechanisms to deliver drugs across the BBB

Member of the Lundbeck Foundation Investigator Network

 

To learn how to make your own BBB-organoids, click here

Fields of interest

  • Host-parasite interactions
  • Adjunctive treatments for malaria infection
  • Organoids for modelling brain infections

Teaching

Participate in teaching undergraduates in the “Immune response to infection” course. Developing educational videos for explaining laboratory techniques related to malaria research.

Possible conflicts of interest

None

Education/Academic qualification

Parasitology, PhD, Heidelberg University 

Award Date: 16 Oct 2007

Applied parasitology and Medical Entomology, MSc, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Parasitology, BSc (Hons), University of Glasgow

Keywords

  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
  • organoids
  • Malaria
  • infectious disease
  • 3D cell culture
  • Lyme neuroborreliosis
  • neurotropic

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