Researchers
The Department's Professors and Associate Professors are listed alphabetically below. Lists of all scientific staff and students can be found under the individual research disciplines.
Anders Kristensen - Associate professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Glutamate receptors, neurotransmitter transporters
Anne-Marie Heegaard - Associate professor
Translational Pharmacology
In vivo optical imaging, bone pain, bone diseases, cancer pain, pain research,
vitamin D
Bente Frølund - Professor WSR
Medicinal Chemistry
Neuro-medicinal chemistry, ion channels, SAR studies, ligand-receptor interactions
Brian Lohse - Associate professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Antibodies, epigenetics, peptidomimetics, phage display
Christian A. Olsen - Professor
Peptides and Proteins
Bioorganic chemistry, epigenetics, foldamers, peptide science, posttranslational modifications
Dan Stærk - Professor
Peptides and Proteins
Bioactive food constituents, diabetes, functional foods, nutri- and pharmacometabolomics
Darryl Pickering - Associate professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Animal models, the central nervous system, ionotropic glutamate receptors, neurobiology
David Gloriam - Professor
Peptides and Proteins
Bioinformatics, chemogenomics, ligand-receptor interactions, structure-based drug design, virtual screening
Hans Bräuner-Osborne - Professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Chemogenomics, ligand-receptor interactions, molecular pharmacology, pharmacological assays
Helle S. Waagepetersen - Professor, Head of Department
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Atrocytes, brain metabolism, cell culture, GABA, glutamate, neurons, neurotransmission
Henrik Franzyk - Associate professor
Peptides and Proteins
Antimicrobial materials, drug design, solid-phase synthesis, peptides and peptidomimetics
Jesper Kristensen - Professor WSR
Medicinal Chemistry
Dep-Xplora, enzymes, epigenetics, G-protein coupled receptors, ion channels, receptor systems
Jesper Andreasen - Associate professor
Translational Pharmacology
Drug discovery, in vivo neuropharmacology, neuropsychiatric disorders, rodent behavioural assays/models
Jette Kastrup - Professor, Deputy Head of Research
Peptides and Proteins
Ion channel receptors in the central nervous system, chromatin-modifying enzymes, protein analysis, X-ray crystallography
John Nielsen - Professor
Medicinal Chemistry
Design, synthesis and isolation of bioactive compounds; solid phase synthesis and combinatorial chemistry; proteomimetics
Karla Frydenvang - Associate professor
Peptides and Proteins
Ionotropic glutamate receptors, three-dimensional protein structures
Kristi Kohlmeier - Associate professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Brain arousal, circadian rhythms, drug addiction, neurobiology, sleep regulation
Kristian Strømgaard - Professor
Peptides and Proteins
Chemical biology, designer proteins, neurotransmission, peptides, protein-protein interactions
Lennart Bunch - Associate prof., Head of discipline
Medicinal Chemistry
Organic chemistry, chemical neuroscience, medicinal chemistry, natural product synthesis, methodology, glutamate ligands
Majid Sheykhzade - Associate professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Cardiac pain, diabetes, migraine, obesity, PK-PD studies, receptor pharmacology, vascular pharmacology og physiology
Matthias Herth - Associate professor
Medicinal Chemistry
Positron emission tomography (PET), radiopharmaceutical chemistry, in vivo click chemistry, drug delivery, neuroimaging
Michael Gajhede - Professor, Head of Discipline
Peptides and Proteins
Protein crystallography, structural biology
Osman Mirza - Associate professor
Peptides and Proteins
Bioinformatics, human transporter proteins, protein structure and function, X-ray crystallography
Paul R. Hansen - Associate professor
Peptides and Proteins
Antimicrobial peptides, cancer, immunology, peptide chemistry and mimetics
Petrine Wellendorph - Associate professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Central nervous system, neurotransmission, molecular pharmacology, receptor signaling
Rasmus Clausen - Associate prof., Deputy Head of Education
Medicinal Chemistry
Neuro- and epigenetic medicinal chemistry, biostructure-based SAR studies, organic synthesis, peptide/protein-based ligands
Stephan Pless - Professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Cemical biology, electrophysiology, ion channel function and pharmacology, unnatural amino acids
Tommy N. Johansen - Associate professor
Medicinal Chemistry
Glutamate receptors, stereochemistry, structure-based drug design
Trine M. Lund - Associate prof., Head of discipline
Translational Pharmacology
Pain models, population pharmacokinetic/ pharmacodynamic (PK/PD)modelling
