The Skin Inflammation and Cancer Group
Our vision is to stop chronic inflammation and break the immune privilege (tolerance) of cancers. Our goal is to discover novel molecular disease targets, innovative therapies, and ways to modify the immune system to fight disease. Our mission is to unravel how disturbances in the immune defense lead to chronic inflammatory skin diseases and cancer.
We explore how disturbances in the immune defense and environmental factors such as bacterial toxins and metabolites drive chronic skin inflammation and cancer.
Our primary interests are skin inflammation and cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL), which is characterized by the presence of malignant T cells in chronically inflamed skin. We focus on inflammatory skin responses, cytokine signaling, novel oncogenic pathways, crosstalk between malignant and non-malignant skin cells, and how bacterial product/metabolites/toxins and xenobiotics fuel skin chronic inflammation, malignant transformation and disease progression (c.f. below).
We integrate studies on inflammation and disease models using in vitro and ex vivo models, artificial 3D skin, and animal models to study transcriptional and translational regulation, gene expression profiling, miRNAs, cytokine expression, signaling and cellular interaction involving immune cells, keratinocytes, stromal cells and cancer cells and how such interactions are influenced by bacteria and their toxins and metabolic products as well as xenobiotics.
Skin Inflammation and Cancer
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Copenhagen - Panum Institute
Blegdamsvej 3 - Maersk Tower 07.12.62
DK-2200 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Contact person
Professor Anders Woetmann Andersen

Group Leader
Anders Woetmann Andersen
Professor
Phone +45 3532 7754
Mobile +45 2857 0484
awoetmann@sund.ku.dk
Group members
Name | Title | Phone | |
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Anders Woetmann Andersen | Professor | +45 353-27868 | |
Andreas Willerslev-Olsen | Assistant professor | +45 353-27754 | |
Bitten Dalsgaard | Centre coordinator | +45 353-31583 | |
Chella Krishna Vadivel | PhD Fellow | +45 353-20801 | |
Cheng Chi | PhD student | +45 353-33949 | |
Emil Marek Heymans Pallesen | Postdoc | +45 353-26883 | |
Jacob Pontoppidan Thyssen | Clinical professor | +45 61 71 73 61 | |
Jebunnahar Mishu | Master thesis student | ||
Katrine Yderstræde Baumann | Researcher | +45 40 61 79 69 | |
Lisa Harth | Research assistant | +32473379321 | |
Martin Rich Javadi Namini | Research assistant | +45 353-34405 | |
Mette Malene Odgaard | Secretary | +45 353-24072 | |
Minna Tiirikainen | PhD student | +45 42 45 12 05 | |
Nadja Thisted Sauerberg | Laboratory intern | +45 353-34355 | |
Nicolai Skovbjerg Arildsen | Postdoc | +45 353-30935 | |
Niels Ødum | Professor | +45 353-27879 | |
Sana Ahmad | Laboratory technician | +45 353-35412 | |
Sara Torres Rusillo | Postdoc | +45 353-33584 | |
Shayne Lavondua Ford | PhD fellow | +45 353-33257 | |
Stine Emilie Weis-Banke | PhD student | ||
Tea Kirkegaard Nielsen | Postdoc | +45 353-31078 | |
Terkild Brink Buus | Assistant professor | +45 353-37425 | |
Thorbjørn Frej Krejsgaard | Associate professor | +45 353-37426 |