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February 2021 – Welcome to new MSc student Frederik Simonsen Bro!

January 2021 – The group’s first preprint is now online at bioRXiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.05.425440v1.abstract Congratulations Cecilia!

December 2020 – The Carlsberg Foundation supports the group’s research into flow chemistry with a benchtop NMR, in a collaborative project with Prof. Jens Duus and Prof. Mads Clausen!

November 2020 – Welcome to the group’s fifth PhD student Joseph Hoock!

September 2020 – Welcome to new MSc students Asger Olsen, Zhou Wang, and Magnus Bonnevie!

August 2020 – Congratulations to MSc students Oliver and Cecilie who successfully defended their theses!

July 2020 – Congratulations to all our BSc students who successfully defended their theses!

May 2020 – the lab slowly emerges from lockdown to re-start lab experiments in a reduced capacity

April 2020 – Congratulations to Martin Bargum who successfully defended his MSc and will move to Germany for a PhD!

March 2020 – Our perspective outlining the pseudo-natural product concept, is now out in Nature Chemistry! A great collaborative effort with Drs George Karageorgis, Daniel Foley and Prof. Herbert Waldmann: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-019-0411-x

February 2020 – New publication with collaborators at the MPI Dortmund out in Angewandte Chemie: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ange.202000364

February 2020 – Welcome to new BSc students Oliver Rafn Dan, Jeppe Hansson, Sebastian Beck, Mette Bjørnson, Nanna Jensen, Razan Mearraoui and Anna Wiehl Bønke and MSc students Cecilie Hansen and Oliver Henriksen!

January 2020 – Welcome to the group’s fourth PhD student Ruwei Yao!

January 2020 – Thanks to the Carlsberg foundation for supporting our research with and infrastructure grant worth 190k DKK

December 2019 – Welcome to the group’s third PhD student Nianzhe He!

December 2019 – Thanks to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting our research with 2.1M DKK and enabling us to hire a new PhD student!

November 2019 – Welcome to new post-doc Elisa Sassetti who joins on a EURO-TECH funded post-doc on a collaborative project with Prof. Mads Clausen!

November 2019 – New publication on the use of the cell painting assay to identify compounds which engage non-protein targets now out in Angewandte Chemie! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201913712

November 2019 – Luca is invited to Israel to give the closing talk at the inaugural ISR-OPENSCREEN meeting at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot!

September 2019 – Welcome to new MSc student Martin Bargum!

August 2019 – New publication out in Angewandte Chemie: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201909518

July 2019 – Congratulations to Christine, Magnus, Line and Christoffer for successfully defending their theses in the group and all the best for the future!

June 2019 – Welcome to our new PhD student Mikkel Krell-Jørgensen!

June 2019 – Our new paper on the identification of the cholesterol transport protein GRAMD1A as a regulator of autophagosome biogenesis using chemical tools is out in Nature Chemical Biology! Link here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-019-0307-5

May 2019 – Thank you to the Independent Research Fund Denmark for supporting our work with two grants! https://www.kemi.dtu.dk/nyheder/nyhed?id=9EDF9067-3049-48CA-B75D-83E4F56FB96E

April 2019 – Luca presents the group’s research at the 6th ECBS/LS-EuChemS meeting in Madrid! 

February 2019 – New publication in Biorganic and Medicinal Chemistry on the identification of Authipyrin, a new autophagy inhibitor targeting mitochondrial complex 1! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968089619301397

February 2019 – Welcome to Christoffer, Magnus and Line who join the group to carry out BSc projects!

January 2019 – Welcome to Christine who joins the group to carry out her MSc research project!

November 2018 – Luca gave a talk at the Lundenser meeting as well as a short lecture tour in Japan with talks at Tokyo Univerisity of Agriculture and Technology and RIKEN.

September 2018 – Welcome to Thomas Whitmarsh-Everiss who will be the group’s first PhD student!

August 2018 – New paper out in Tetrahedron on the discovery of new autophagy inhibitors! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402018308421

August 2018 – Luca gave a talk at the Danish Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Odense.

July 2018 – Congratulations to Camilla, Oliver, Prosper and David who successfully defended their theses!

June 2018 – Welcome to our newest group member Cecilia Rossetti who joins the group to work on an NNF-funded project!

February 2018 – New paper published in Chemical Science on the discovery of autophagy inhibitors targeting mitochondrial complex 1! https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/sc/c7sc05040b

Dec 2017 – The Novo Nordisk Foundation supports our research with 1.4M DKK!

Nov 2017 – Luca moves to DTU Chemistry to start up the research group!