PhD defences

• 8 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Kuan Wang

  From Established Therapies to Emerging Candidates: Antiviral Activity and Resistance Barriers of Direct-Acting Antivirals against Hepatitis C Virus

• 9 June 2026, 10:30-13:30

  PhD defence by Sara Fresnillo Saló

  Training the Immune System against Cancer

• 10 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Katrine Aagaard Myhr

  Native T1 mapping as a marker of myocardial fibrosis in aortic valve stenosis

• 11 June 2026, 11:30-14:30

  PhD defence by Emil Zeng Skovhøj

  The Dual Role of the Type 2 Diabetes Risk Gene KCNQ1 in Insulin Secretion and Peripheral Insulin Sensitivity

• 11 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Ireen Kooij

  Nonclassical Regulators of Reproductive Function: Down to the Bone

• 11 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Nikoline Marie Schou Karlsen

  Optimizing Triage of Patients with  Adnexal Masses - Evaluation of Diagnostic Models in the Diagnosing Ovarian Cysts (DOC) Study

• 11 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Mariam Elmegaard

  Navigating the practice-changing era of SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists in cardiovascular care - From real-world data to clinical implementation

• 12 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Axel Dines Skafte-Holm

  Infection and adverse pregnancy outcomes

• 12 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Milla Ortved

  Surgical approaches and outcomes in kidney transplantation

• 12 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Cecilie Paulsrud

  Sleep in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Disease with a special focus on Type 1 Diabetes -  Screening Tool Development, Clinical Sleep Assessment and Sleep-Disease Interactions

• 12 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Lærke Winther Kristensen

  Physical activity during hospitalisation in paediatric care - Measurements, interventions, and challenges

• 12 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Kathrine Vauvert Römmelmayer Hviid

  Overweight and Reproductive Outcomes: The Role of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Preconceptional Weight Loss

• 12 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Frederik Knude Øksendal Palshof

  Development in the most common cancers in Denmark - Demography and risk factors

• 12 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Patrick Terrence Brooks

  High-resolution immunological profiling in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

• 15 June 2026, 11:00-14:00

  PhD defence by Pi Vejsig Madsen

  Causal Inference for Evaluation of the Forthcoming Mary Elizabeth's Hospital for Children

• 15 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Alisha Annikki Niskala

  Inflammatory Signaling Pathways in Atrial Fibrillation: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Targets

• 15 June 2026, 14:30-17:30

  PhD defence by Emilie Johanning Bari

  Progression from mild to severe asthma: risk factors and mechanisms

• 15 June 2026, 15:30-18:30

  PhD defence by Carl Frederik Halskou Haugaard

  Utilizing Wireless Electroporation for the Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC)

• 16 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Deniz Esen

  Quantitative Image-Based Assessment of Tissue Histology in Regeneration

• 16 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Svenja Hansson

  Functional genomics in skeletal muscle - Dissecting enhancer-gene regulation underlying exercise-induced muscle-to-brain communication

• 16 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Amalie Camilla Pedersen

  Parasitic helminths in alternative pig production systems - Infection dynamics and control

• 16 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Clara Springhorn Grønkjær

  The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on brain health - SARS-CoV-2, neurological and mental health disorders

• 16 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Ida Karoline Bach Jensen

  Physical activity during pregnancy, maternal metabolic health, and placental structure and function - A PhD project based on results from the FitMum randomized controlled trial

• 16 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Camilla Heldbjerg Drabe Alminde

  Improving diagnostics and pathogenic understanding of immune dysfunction in patients with common variable immunodeficiency

• 17 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Chenyang Wu

  pH-sensitive liquid crystalline nano-self-assemblies for colorectal cancer therapy

• 17 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Betel Tesfay

  Blood-based inflammatory biomarkers in migraine and migraine subgroups

• 17 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Nanna Brøns

  Genetic, immunological and sex-specific aspects of iron status in healthy blood donors

• 17 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Alexandra Annelie Brandtzäg

  Evaluation of atherosclerotic lesions in the superior mesenteric artery before and after stenting

• 18 June 2026, 10:00-13:00

  PhD defence: Christina Maria Eva Schuh

  Leveraging ERK signaling to understand enhancer regulation

• 18 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Trine Mølbæk-Engbjerg

  Risk-behaviours, non-atopic comorbidities, and inflammatory biomarkers of adolescents with asthma

• 18 June 2026, 13:30-16:30

  PhD defence by Marie-Louise Dichman

  Sleeve Gastrectomy: Efficacy, Gastric Emptying, and Ghrelin's Effects on Appetite and Glucometabolic Regulation

• 18 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Anna Oline Bøthun

  Pediatric eye movement-based perimetry  -with a focus on children with Brain Tumors

• 18 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Jesper Østrup Rasmussen

  Cannabidiol (CBD) as a novel treatment for psychosis

• 19 June 2026, 10:00-13:00

  PhD defence by Marie Skov Kristensen

  Dental Care among Danish Individuals in Vulnerable Positions - Utilization and Experiences of a Subsidy Scheme

• 19 June 2026, 11:00-14:00

  PhD defence by Julia Alicja Szczygiel

  Endogenous and Synthetic Peptides: Therapeutic Modulators of Hyperexcitability in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

• 19 June 2026, 11:00-14:00

  PhD defence by Johan Frederik Christensen

  Embracing Complexity in Implementing Medication Reviews in Psychiatry

• 19 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Lukas Balsevicius

  Single cell multiomics based biomarker discovery in colon cancer

• 19 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Christina Nielsen

  Rethink Pulmonary Rehabilitation - the REPORT study - Reaching the Unreached - A randomized controlled trial of Two Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Models for Patients with COPD Ineligible for Center-Based Programs

• 22 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Dusan Rasic

  Artificial intelligence-based breast cancer diagnostics and prognostics: focus on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and cellularity

• 23 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Aritz Roa Eguiara

  Genome translocation mechanism of a contractile tailed phage

• 23 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Sarah Skovlunde Hornshøj Pedersen

  Pressure and Prognosis in the Paediatric Brain - Telemetric Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Long-term Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury

• 23 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Maria Del Pilar Fernandez Montejo

  Optimising Lung Cancer Screening: A Sex-Specific Approach - Systemic Inflammatory Biomarkers and Risk Stratification in a Population-Based Study in Denmark

• 23 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Emily Eufaula Beaman

  GPR125 in the central nervous system

• 24 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Nina Kornerup

  Before the Beginning - Developing a randomised controlled trial and assessing preconception health in women living with excess body weight: insights from the PRE-STORK trial

• 24 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Frederike Fahse

  Precarities of digital uncertainty

• 25 June 2026, 10:30-13:30

  PhD defence by Tamo Sultan

  Type 2 Inflammation and Symptom-Based Phenotypes in Childhood Asthma

• 25 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Marianne Gardar Stærk

  Aspects of penile cancer development - Exploring the role of penile lichen sclerosus and human papillomavirus in penile cancer

• 26 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Thorbjørn Marciniak Nielsen

  Selective degradation of mRNA by autophagy

• 26 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Elias Frost Wiwe

  SARS-CoV-2 Antigen and Antibody Kinetics - Infection, Vaccination, and Long-Term Immunity

• 26 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Zhihui Cui

  Mineral homeostasis in the male reproductive tract

• 26 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Anne Albers Aaen

  Perioperative Fluid Therapy in Major Emergency Gastrointestinal Surgery

• 29 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence by Hannes Linder

  Exploring Novel Mechanisms of Immunosuppression in Cancer

• 29 June 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Rikke Krabek

  Muscle loss in patients with gastroesophageal cancer; extent, clinical implications, and exercise-based treatment.

• 1 July 2026, 9:00-12:00

  PhD defence by Anders Grundtvig

  The online life of stem cells - How publics find information and information finds publics - in the Google ecosystem

• 8 July 2026, 10:00-13:00

  PhD defence by Alberto Carli

  Computational and structural analysis of protein interactions at the DNA replication fork

• 9 July 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Sif Binder Larsen

  Metatarsalgia: Intermetatarsal bursitis or Morton's neuroma

• 3 Sept. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Anne Sofie Mosborg Aggestrup

   Bridging the Sector Gap: A Co-Designed Intervention Framework for Depression Recovery and Relapse Prevention

• 11 Sept. 2026, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence by Lone Musaeus Poulsen

  Functional status of intensive care unit patients - Pre-admission status and outcomes