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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
06.09.2026
Congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathisen
Congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathisen with her appointment as assistant professor.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
01.09.2026
Welcome back to Maja Hvid Jensen
Welcome back to Maja Hvid Jensen who has returned to Andersen Group – now as Research assistant.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
01.08.2026
Welcome to Erasmus Student Bahareh Hosseini
Welcome to Erasmus Student Bahareh Hosseini who will be a part of Andersen Group for the coming 8 months.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
01.07.2026
New project
We are excited to tell that we have received funding from Innovation Foundation Denmark for a new 1-year-project to investigate and test gene therapy for inhibiting heart fibrosis after myocardial infarction.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
20.06.2026
Participation in DCAcademy Summer Meeting
Ph.D. student Sara Munk Laursen presented her exciting research-in-progress on a poster entitled “Cardiomyocyte polyploidy and postnatal cell-cycle exit limit regeneration after ischemic injury".
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
19.06.2026
Congratulations to Barbara á Grömma Ammentorp
Congratulations to Barbara á Grömma Ammentorp and Frederikke Gaardsvig Willadsen with their bachelor titles. We are happy that you both will continue your scientific journeys in the Andersen Group.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
19.06.2026
Congratulations to Maja Hvid Jensen
Congratulations to Maja Hvid Jensen who today defended her master’s thesis entitled: “Derivation of Cardiomyocytes from an Engineered Hypoimmunogenic Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Line with a Suicide Fail Safe Switch” and now can call herself Master of Science in Biomedicine.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
18.06.2026
Congratulations to Sofie Boelt Hansen
Congratulations to Sofie Boelt Hansen who today defended her master’s thesis entitled: “Regeneration and Functional Recovery of the Zebrafish Heart Following Cryoinjury” and now can call herself Master of Science in Biochemistry and Moleculabiology.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
30.04.2026
Company visit
GMP specialist/QA Peer B. Horn and GMP specialist/ technician Claus Jespersen visited Don Whitley Scientific in Leeds (UK) for an introduction to their company’s version of a GMP compliant glovebox.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
23.04.2026
Participation in Stem Cell-Based Disease Modelling and Drug Screening
Several members of the Andersen Group participated in the exciting symposium “Stem Cell-Based Disease Modelling and Drug Screening” held at the University of Copenhagen. Thank you to StemScreen and DASCS for organizing such an inspiring symposium.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
10.04.2026
Social lunch gathering
This time we explored the concept of building your own toast.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
01.04.2026
Welcome to new staff scientist
We welcome Lærke Borgen Mikkelsen to OUH-CELL-BENCH and the Andersen group. Lærke will be involved in all aspects of cell manufacturing, cell product development and related research as well as administrative work at OUH-CELL-BENCH.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
30.03.2026
Check out our latest publications
Link to our three new publications:
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
02.03.2026
Welcome Maja and Eline
We welcome Maja Biehl Terkelsen and Eline Freund Søndergaard, two laboratory technician students starting their practical internship in our group. Together, they explore quality control settings regarding residual iPSCs in clinical stem cell products using flow cytometry.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
28.02.2026
Congratulations Frederik Adam Bjerre
Frederik Adam Bjerre has handed in his PhD-thesis. In a collaboration between the Andersen-group and Amplexa Genetics. In Frederik's industrial PhD he developed and provided bioinformatic analyses to facilitate development of an induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocyte cell (iPSC-vCM) product for treatment of heart failure.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
05.02.2026
Collaboration with Rigshospitalet kick-started
Adipose derived stem cells from one donor out of seven have been manufactured in OUH-CELL-BENCH. The 7 cell batches will be used in 2 trials in collaboration with Rigshospitalet for treating patients with chronic burns and patients with xerostomia.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
20.01.2026
Congratulations Sabrina Bech Mathiesen
Huge congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathiesen with her two grants from “Overlægerådets forskningsfond” (OUH) and “A.P. Møller, Fonden til lægevidenskabens fremme”.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
18.12.2025
Congratulations
Huge congratulations to Anne Kathrine Søgaard Terp with her two PhD-stipends from “Region Syddanmark” and Odense University Hospital.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
10.12.2025
Research Day at OUH
All members of the Andersen group participated in “Forskersymposium” at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at Odense University Hospital.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
04.12.2025
New podcast episode aired
Listen to the new exciting podcast from Journalist and research facilitator Mie Brandstrup and medical doctor and postdoc Lisa Gottlieb about heart regeneration. Special guest is Ditte Caroline Andersen, head of OUH-CELL-BENCH and Professor in regenerative medicine at University of Southern Denmark.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
06.11.2025
First official advisory board meeting in our Flagship STEMBRACE3P
Thank you to our advisory board for a very constructive meeting. We thank the STEMBRACE advisory board: Professor David Hay, (Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, UK), Professor Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopen (Vascular and Regenerative Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, NL) and Professor Klaus Hoyer (Section of Health Services Research, Copenhagen University, DK) for valuable input to our board meeting.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
01.11.2025
Welcome to our new PhD student
We are happy to share that cand.scient. Sara Munk Laursen has joined the Andersen group as a Ph.D. student today. She will explore cardiomyocyte polyploidy and why mammals after birth cannot regenerate their heart following damage.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
09.10.2025
Andersen Group Scientific day at SDU
All members presented their ongoing projects followed by a Q&A session. Afterwards most participants joined a fun competition to spot as many decorated office doors at SUND as possible. We wrapped up an exciting and interesting day with a nice dinner at UBN.
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Andersen Group, OUH Cell Bench, STEMBRACE
02.10.2025
Great news!
We are happy to share that after a successful and constructive inspection, DKMA has extended our §39 approval. The dialogue with DKMA is extremely important and valuable for us.
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Andersen Group, STEMBRACE
01.09.2025
Welcome to new students
We welcome 4 new students: ISA-students Barbara á Grömma Ammentorp and Frederikke Gaardsvig Willadsen and master students: Maja Hvid Jensen and Sofie Boelt Hansen. Barbara and Frederikke will investigate the presence of cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells transplanted into the mouse heart following myocardial infarction. Maja will explore a new induced pluripotent stem cell line for heart repair, whereas Sofie will investigate the functional recovery of the zebrafish heart after cryoinjury.
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