News - OUH Cell Bench

• 06.09.2026

  Congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathisen

  Congratulations to Sabrina Bech Mathisen with her appointment as assistant professor.

• 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:

• 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.

• 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”.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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