News - The Andersen Group

06.09.2026
Congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathisen

Congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathisen with her appointment as assistant professor.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10.04.2026
Social lunch gathering

This time we explored the concept of building your own toast.
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.
30.03.2026
Check out our latest publications

Link to our three new publications:
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.
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.
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.
02.02.2026
Welcome back

We welcome Barbara á Grömma Ammentorp and Frederikke Gaardsvig Willadsen, now as Bachelor students. Barbara will aim to detect human specific DNA sequences in different mouse organs following transplantation of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes into the heart. Frederikke will investigate cell cycling in zebrafish cardiomyocytes following apex resection and cryoinjury.
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”.
18.12.2025
Congratulations

Huge congratulations to Anne Kathrine Søgaard Terp with her two PhD-stipends from “Region Syddanmark” and Odense University Hospital.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17.06.2025
Congratulations

Congratulations to Sara Munk Laursen who today defended her master’s thesis entitled: “Heart Regeneration with Functional Recovery Following Injury of the Adult Zebrafish Heart” and now can call herself Master of Science in Biomedicine.
14.06.2025
ISSCR 2025

Professor Ditte C. Andersen participated in ISSCR 2025 Annual meeting in Hong Kong (Beacons of Brilliance) where she also visited our collaborator, Ellen Ngar Poon at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
26.05.2025
Congratulations

Huge congratulations to Sara M. Laursen with her PhD-scholarship to cover salary for 2 years from DCAcademy.
02.05.2025
Social lunch gathering

This time we had a great time at Urban Sandwich.
20.03.2025
Check out our latest publication

Single-cell transcriptomics of clinical grade adipose-derived regenerative cells reveals consistency between donors independent of gender and BMI
01.03.2025
Welcome to laboratory technician students

We welcome Lærke Melmin Rohr and Christel Torp Petersen, two laboratory technician students starting their practical internship. Together they will do a project on immune response following myocardial infarction in mice.
01.02.2025
Welcome to new students

We welcome 2 new ISA students: Maja Hvid Jensen and Nicoline Elisabeth Johansson. They will both work on projects related to zebrafish heart regeneration.
15.01.2025
First patient in the REP-PAF trial has been treated

The first of 75 patients treated in our phase II double-blinded randomized clinical trial “REPairing Peri-Anal Fistulas” with regenerative cells.
12.12.2024
Clinical progress

Clinical outcome is unlinked to injection of adipose-derived regenerative cells in the axilla of breast cancer-related lymphedema patients.
16.11.2024
Check out our latest publication

Clinical outcome is unlinked to injection of adipose-derived regenerative cells in the axilla of breast cancer-related lymphedema patients
16.09.2024
Check out our latest publication

Protocol to achive high-resolution single-cell transcriptomics of cardiomyocytes in multiple species

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