December 2022
Thanks to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting our research in small molecules targeting RNA. We look forward to the collaboration with the Lund and Montoya labs at the University of Copenhagen.
We are grateful to the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting our research in carbohydrate chemistry with an infrastructure grant.
November 2022
We enjoyed the inaugural meeting in the Danish Society for Carbohydrate Chemistry on November 23 in a storied lecture hall at the University of Copenhagen. Thanks to all the participants for making it a special day and a great event – and to Prof. Alexander Titz for delivering an inspiring keynote lecture! Special thanks to Cecilia for organizing the event
October 2022
Kasper and Mads will be in Boston, MA for the Discovery on Target conference and Kasper will be sharing recent results from the lab.
We are grateful to the DTU PoC Fund for supporting the Argonaut project and our further preclinical development of a carbohydrate-based cancer vaccine.
Mads will be in Florence meeting with colleagues and presenting recent results from the group at a seminar at Università degli Studi di Firenze.
Check out an opening for a postdoc position in the group! The deadline is 15 November.
September 2022
Faranak and Mads will be in Berlin for the EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC 10th Assembly of Members meeting.
Welcome to William Peter Christensen, who joins the group for his BSc thesis research.
Welcome to Johnny Fu, who joins the group for his BSc thesis research.
Welcome to Maria Haugaard Bohl Andersen, who joins the group for her BSc thesis research.
The group participated in the annual DTU 3 x 5 km relay race! The boss is taking the picture – he of course didn’t miss it!
August 2022
Cecilia, Stefan and Mads will be at the ACS meeting in Chicago. Stay tuned to the program and when we are presenting recent research from the group.
July 2022
The group will participate in ICS 2022 – Online. Cecilia will give a presentation of our immuno-oncology project.
June 2022
ISIDORe is a large, European project to combat current and future disease outbreaks and pandemics. The network builds on the combined capacities of 17 large, biomedical research infrastructures. EU-OPENSCREEN is part of the consortium and specifically offers services within diagnostics and therapeutic discoveries. The services are fully funded by Horizon Europe.
This is an excellent opportunity to collaborate with EU-OPENSCREEN and us! If you are carrying out research in this area, please note the current open call for services. DTU offers medicinal chemistry support (e.g. SAR, hit-to-lead chemistry and lead optimization). Please have a look here for more info and consider applying for a project here.
If you have any question, don’t hesitate to contact us at
info@dk-openscreen.dk.
Welcome to Maria Christensen, who joins the group for her BSc thesis research.
Welcome to Silvia Pastor, who joins the group for an extended summer research internship.
Mads will be at Skylab DTU for the annual Green Challenge competition June 24, assessing student projects.
May 2022
Our collaboration with the Rademacher group and others on targeting lectin carbohydrate binding sites with fragments is online at Commun. Chem. Read the open access article here!
Mads travels to Israel to meet collaborators and Kasper at Technion. He will also visit the Innovation Center at the Danish Embassy in Tel Aviv and give a seminar at Ariel University.
We are in Gothenburg for the ELRIG Advances in cell-based screening in drug discovery meeting. Great program with great talks!
Welcome to Camille Bedu from ENSCMu, who joins the group for a research internship.
Elisa and Mads will be in Gothenburg for the ELRIG Advances in cell-based screening in drug discovery meeting. The conference also features a satellite meeting for the Nordic Chemical Biology Network.
April 2022
Welcome to Manele Chouiter from ENSICAEN, who joins the group for a research internship.
Our collaboration with the Astakhova group on anti-arthritic nanoparticles is published in Biomacromolecules.
Mads will be in Berlin for the EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC 9th Assembly of Members.
Congratulations to Cecilia! Her review of the chemical biology of αGalCer is online in Eur. J. Org. Chem. Read the open access article here.
March 2022
Our collaboration with the Sommer and Bach groups is out in J. Med. Chem.
Welcome to Shadi Wahid, who joins the group for a one-year traineeship as laboratory technician.
February 2022
Welcome to Yuhan Luo, who joins the group for her MSc thesis project on vaccine development.
January 2022
The group will be well represented at the Torkil Holm Symposium 2022. Don’t miss the great lineup of speakers (or the chance to chat to us!)
Congratulations to Ahmad and the team. The much improved synthesis of the fungal alkaloid TMC-120B is now published. Read the open access paper in Molecules here. Thanks to NCK for a nice partnership on scaling up the synthesis.
Congratulations to Marcel. After one year’s internship in the group he very successfully defended his final project and is now a laboratory technician. We wished him well in the future and enjoyed some celebratory cake – traditional Danish “kagemand”.
December 2021
A perspective on the European Lead Factory is out in Nat. Rev. Drug Disc.
Congratulations to Cecilia. Our cancer vaccine research is highlighted in the DTU magazine Dynamo. Read more on page 20–22 here (in Danish).
Viola is on a roll! Her collaborative paper with the Ding group is online at Nat. Prod. Res. It describes new secondary metabolites from Aspergillus.
November 2021
Congratulations to Viola. Her article describing ROS sensitive tofacitinib prodrugs is now online at Eur. J. Med. Chem. Rep. Read the open access paper here.
Faranak and Mads will participate in the EU-OPENSCREEN Partner Site Meeting.
Mads will participate at the Scheele Symposium in Stockholm and meet with colleagues from the Nordic Chemical Biology Network.
October 2021
Congratulations to Mie Larsen, who successfully defended her MSc thesis.
Congratulations to Thomas Klevin, who successfully defended his MSc thesis.
September 2021
The group sends four teams to the DTU 3 x 5 km relay race! There was a good diversity of finish times. Also, it was not too hot for running and it was easy to stay hydrated at the event.
Welcome to Dr. Alonso Vargas. He joins the immuno-oncology team as postdoctoral fellow.
Our collaboration with the University of Copenhagen and Novozymes on an archaeal endo‑β‑1,4‑galactanase is online in Biotechnol. Biofuels. Read the open access publication here.
Welcome to Mikkel S. Madsen. He joins the group as a research assistant in the immuno-oncology team.
Welcome to Henri Chédotal, who joins the group for his PhD studies. Henri will join the FBDD team.
Welcome to Raffaele Puglielli, who joins the group for his MSc project as an ERASMUS student. Raffaele will join the FBDD team.
August 2021
On-site construction of the DTU SCore platform has begun at DTU Chemistry.
July 2021
Congratulations to Maelle Pestalozzi, who successfully defended her MSc thesis.
Congratulations to Marie Louise Gram, who successfully defended her MSc thesis.
Congratulations to Cecilia and the Argonaut team! The first results from the project can be seen on ChemRxiv.
June 2021
Congratulations to Christian Oettinger, who successfully defended his MSc thesis.
DTU Chemistry will host the third CNT Science Mixer online. At the event, CNT researchers and PhD students will present their research results and engage in discussions with the center personnel.
Congratulations to Kasper. His review on fragment-based drug discovery for RNA targets is out in ChemMedChem. Thanks to Ruth, Lotte and Vipul for a nice collaboration.
May 2021
We are grateful to the Independent Research Fund Denmark for supporting our project on fragment-based drug discovery. We look forward to strengthen collaborations with Lotte Gotfredsen and NMR Center DTU, Anders Bach and Michael Gajhede at the University of Copenhagen as well as Roberta Brambilla at the University of Miami. We will be recruiting at DTU and UCPH, so stay tuned!
Welcome to Erika Ismaili from INSA Rouen, who joins the group for a research internship.
April 2021
Luca, Ulrik and Faranak will participate in the second Annual General Meeting of EU-OPENSCREEN DRIVE.
Congratulations to Cecilia. She receives a Lundbeck Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support the project iNKT cell-based cancer immunotherapy – a synthetic toolbox for developing novel cancer vaccines. Great job formulating a winning project for a very competitive call.
Congratulations to Elisa – her review of small molecule inhibitors of ROS production is online in J. Med. Chem. Thanks to Luca Laraia for a great collaboration!
Congratulations to Enzo and Cecilia. Their synthesis of branched RG-II, a collaboration with the Kosma group in Vienna, is online at Chem. Eur. J.
March 2021
Congratulations to Nacho. His collaborative research with the Nawrath lab is online in Curr. Biol. The article is open access until May 11.
Welcome back to Lea Jakobsen, who rejoins the group as laboratory technician. Lea will work on new methodology for glycosylation chemistry in collaboration with Stefan.
February 2021
Welcome to Maëlle Pestalozzi, who joins the group for her MSc thesis project in fragment-based drug discovery.
Welcome to Christian Oettinger who joins the group for his MSc thesis project involving hit-to-lead medicinal chemistry of kinase inhibitors.
Welcome to Mie Larsen who joins the group for her MSc thesis project. Mie joins the immuno-oncology team.
Welcome to Thomas Klevin who joins the group for his MSc thesis project. Thomas joins the immuno-oncology team.
Welcome to Marcel Schuppenhauer, who joins the group for a one-year traineeship as laboratory technician.
Our collaboration with the Zeng group on characterization of GT14 enzymes from Arabidopsis is online in Int. J. Mol. Sci. Thanks to Lingling, Berit, Josh, Tony, Wei and the other collaborators. Read it here – open access.
January 2021
Welcome to Stefan Zimmermann, who joins the group as postdoctoral fellow. Stefan will work on a new project aiming to improve glycosylation reactions for oligosaccharide synthesis.
Welcome to Marie Louise Gram, who joins the group for her MSc project related to fragment-based drug discovery. Marie is also a recipient of the Novo Nordisk Scholarship, congratulations!
December 2020
We are grateful to the Carlsberg foundation for supporting our research by funding a benchtop NMR for flow chemistry. We look forward to the collaboration with Prof. Jens Duus and Assist. Prof. Luca Laraia.
November 2020
Congratulations to Elisa. Her collaboration with DTU Bioengineering on new bioactive natural products is online in J. Nat. Prod.
We are grateful to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for their continued support of our immuno-oncology research.
October 2020
Welcome to Peng Wei, who joins the group for his PhD studies. Peng will join the immuno-oncology team.
Welcome to Kasper Lundquist, who joins the group for his PhD studies. Kasper will join the FBDD team.
Congratulations to Fernanda. Her second article about the flower pigments from the Brazilian Native Tree Tibouchina pulchra is published open access in Molecules. Fernanda visited DTU for a research stay in 2017 as part of the Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience.
September 2020
We are grateful to the VILLUM FOUNDATION for supporting a Villum Experiment project aimed at developing methods for stereoselective glycosylation. Read more at the foundation website and at DTU Chemistry
Welcome to Chloé Stoll from CPE Lyon, who joins the group for a research internship.
August 2020
Welcome to Sanne Møller, who joins the group for her MSc project in collaboration with the immuno-oncology team.
Our collaboration with a research team headed by DTU Health Tech on a new liquid marker system is online in Science Advances.
Read the news article about the findings here.
July 2020
Our collaboration with the Scheller group at JBEI on plant GT activity screening is online in Plant Methods.
June 2020
Innofund Denmark supports a project focused on combatting COVID-19. DK-OPENSCREEN is proud to partner with the researchers at Aarhus University and we look forward to collaborate on this important topic. For more information click here.
Nikolaj Sten Troelsen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled Synthesis and Screening of Diverse and Three-Dimensional Libraries for Fragment-Based Drug Discovery on June 18. Thanks to the committee for a very good discussion: Prof. Adam Nelson, Assoc. Prof. Anders Bach and Prof. David Tanner.
May 2020
Our collaboration with the Pfrengle group concerning plant glycosyltransferases is online at ACIE.
April 2020
Congratulations to Nikolaj. His review of augmented fragment libraries is online in Chem. Eur. J.
March 2020
The group is working from home following government recommendations. Time to catch up on writing and plan for when we can safely return to the labs!
We are grateful to the DTU PoC Fund for supporting the Gaius project.
Congratulations to Cecilia, Hao and Irene. Their study of thio-linked xylans are published in Org. Biomol. Chem.
We look forward to starting a new collaboration with the Baasov Lab at Technion. Thanks to DTU for supporting the Alliance PhD Scholarship Program.
February 2020
Welcome to Anastasia Richter who joins the group for her MSc thesis research on immunooncology.
Welcome to Kasper Lundquist – he will carry out MSc thesis research related to FBDD in collaboration with Leo Pharma.
Mads visits KU Leuven to meet collaborators and discuss ongoing activities with the local TTO.
Welcome to Lea Jakobsen, who joins the group for a one-year traineeship as laboratory technician.
January 2020
Welcome to Dr. Sahar Tahvili, who joins the immunooncology team as a postdoctoral fellow.
Welcome to Dr. Ulrik Keiding. He joins DK-OPENSCREEN as platform engineer.
Mads will be in Prague for the Annual General Meeting of EU-OPENSCREEN DRIVE.
We are grateful to the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting research infrastructure for DTU SCore. Read more here.
Meet the group at the Torkil Holm Symposium in Copenhagen – Visions in Chemistry.
December 2019
Congratulations to Viola and the rest of the ROS prodrug team. Our recent study of prodrug activation and efficacy is online in Bioorg. Med. Chem.
We are very grateful to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting
DTU-SCore, a new platform for high-throughput screening (HTS) at DTU Chemistry. We look forward to engaging with platform users and to work with the Laraia lab on developing DTU-SCore. Read more here.
November 2019
Cecilia, Hao and Mads will be in Lund for the Impact of Glycosylation Symposium organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Welcome to Dr. Elisa Sassetti, who joins the group as postdoc. She will search for novel inhibitors of ROS production in a collaborative project with the Laraia group.
Nikolaj and Mads will visit collaborators at CSIC in Madrid.
Congratulations to Nikolaj! Our 3F Library article is online at ACIE. Thanks to Charlotte Gotfredsen, Christoph Rademacher, Ana Cuenda and the rest of the team for an excellent collaboration!
October 2019
Nikolaj presents his recent results at a symposium in Copenhagen: Fragment-Based Drug Discovery (FBDD) for Finding Novel Chemical Probes.
Mads will be in San Francisco visiting Siolta Therapeutics and meeting with Nina, who is currently an intern with the company.
September 2019
Faranak and Mads will be in Berlin for the 4th EU-OPENSCREEN Assembly of Members.
Welcome to Ahmad Haidar. He joins the group as research assistant working on a collaborative project with Prof. Ostenfeld Larsen at DTU Bioengineering focusing on epilepsy.
August 2019
The ARGONAUT project launches – congratulations to Cecilia Romanò and the team!
Welcome to Dr. Hao Jiang. He joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow and will work on immunooncology.
Congratulations to Ignacio, Gauthier and Sara – their study of head-group preference for the CUS1 enzyme in collaboration with the Rose group at Cornell is published as a VIP paper in Eur. J. Org. Chem.
July 2019
Cecilia and Mads will attend Eurocarb in Leiden, the Netherlands. They will both present recent research progress from the group.
June 2019
Mads will be at the GRC on Carbohydrates in Hong Kong, sharing recent results from the group and leading the discussion on Machine-Assisted Synthesis.
Welcome to Ninon Cholvy, Charles Klingelschmitt and Justine Barbara who join the group for summer research internships.
Our investigations of byproducts formed during gold nanoparticle synthesis is online. It’s been great working with the DTU Nanochemistry group and UC San Diego!
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May 2019
Faranak and Mads will be at the ELRIG meeting Advances in Cell-Based Screening 2019 in Gothenburg. The meeting will include a satellite on Chemical Biology organized by the Nordic Chemical Biology Network.
We are grateful to the Independent Research Fund Denmark for supporting our project on carbohydrate-based cancer immunotherapy.
Congratulations to Jorge, Viola and Nikolaj! Their review of prodrugs activated by reactive oxygen species is published in MedChemComm.
Congratulations to Christine! Her results developing a synthetic strategy for the synthesis of the ten canonical carrageenans are communicated in Eur. J. Org. Chem.
April 2019
Faranak and Mads will be in Berlin for the third AoM in the EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC.
Mads participates in the 6th European Chemical Biology Meeting in Madrid and will present recent results from the group.
Welcome to Dr. Emilie Underlin. She joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow and will be collaborating with Kementec Solutions.
March 2019
Mads visits Israel and will give seminars at Tel Aviv University, Technion and Ariel University.
Viola participates in the 39th European Workshop for Rheumatology Research in Lyon, where she presents new results from our inflammation research.
February 2019
Faranak and Mads travel to Berlin for the kick-off of EU-OPENSCREEN DRIVE.
Welcome to Camilla Lyngsie Morsing, who joins the group for a one-year traineeship as laboratory technician.
Welcome to Ahmad Haidari who joins the group for his MSc thesis research in collaboration with DTU Bioengineering.
Mads visits University College Dublin and will present recent results from the group at a seminar.
Welcome to Helena Prpic, who joins the group for a 3-months Erasmus+ research internship.
Congratulations to Fernanda. Her study of the pigments in the Brazilian Native Tree Tibouchina pulchra is published in Molecules. Fernanda visited DTU for a research stay in 2017 as part of the Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience. Read the paper here!
Mads visits the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, where he will present recent results from the group and meet with collaborators.
January 2019
Congratulations to Naya, Irene and Jesper. Their collaborative project with Novozymes on enzyme profiling is published in J. Biotechnol.
December 2018
Congratulations to the ELF team. Details of an efficient cascade sequence that enabled Edelris to prepare 2188 final compounds for the European Lead Factory library is published in Eur. J. Org. Chem.
Thanks to DTU for supporting exploratory investigation for a new glycan-based technology with potential in cancer diagnostics.
We are grateful to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting our new project on active cancer immunotherapy.
November 2018
A delegation from DTU travels to Tokyo for the 3rd workshop in the Danish-Japanese Network for Glycobiology.
We are grateful to the European Commission for funding the EU-OPENSCREEN DRIVE project. Starting in 2019, it will support European research in chemical biology and highlight the capabilities of EU-OPENSCREEN.
October 2018
The 2nd workshop in the Danish-Japanese Network for Glycobiology takes place in Copenhagen. Highlight include a one-day glycobiology seminar and a meeting focused on public-private partnerships.
The national research infrastructure for chemical biology, DK-OPENSCREEN, is officially inaugurated. The milestone day hosts guests from academia, industry and government.
Mads visits São Paulo to present recent results from the group at a food science symposium at USP and follow up on recent activities in the Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience.
September 2018
Welcome to Alejandro Ventura-Traveset I Julve and Ana Laura Rodrigues da Silva, who join the group for their MSc thesis research.
Mads will present recent results from the group at the 22nd International Conference on Organic Synthesis in Firenze.
Welcome to Sajedeh Alavi, who joins the group as a PhD guest researcher.
The official inauguration of EU-OPENSCREEN will take place in Berlin and Faranak and Mads are proud to represent Denmark and DK-OPENSCREEN at the event!
August 2018
Nikolaj, Viola and Mads will be presenting recent results from the group at the ACS Fall national meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mads will be presenting recent results from the group at the 7th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Liverpool, UK.
July 2018
ROS Therapeutics ApS, a spin-out from the group, signs a license agreement with DTU to develop a new targeted treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. See the press release from the company here.
Mads will be at the Immunoshape International Symposium on Glycoimmunology in San Sebastian, Spain.
Cecilia and Mads will be presenting recent results from the group at the 29th International Carbohydrate Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal.
June 2018
Mads will be at the 8th Cell Wall Research Conference in Asilomar, California.
Welcome to Laura Silva, who joins the group for her MSc thesis project.
Welcome to Melissa Michaeli and Luca Garcia, who join the group for summer research internships.
May 2018
Ignacio Martinez San Segundo defends his PhD thesis entitled ‘Synthesis of monomers for the biochemical investigation of plant polyesters’ on May 4.
Gauthier Mike L. Scavée defends his PhD thesis entitled ‘Synthesis and Investigation of the Bio-polymerization of Cutin Monomers and Derivatives’ on May 7.
The Danish Society for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology was started in 2017 and the inauguration is celebrated with a symposium in Copenhagen on May 31. More information can be found here: http://dsmkb.dk/ Registration is required, but free!
Congratulations to Jorge Peiró on winning the Danish nomination for European Champion in Medicinal Chemistry. The venue for the contest is the Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium to be held in Ljubljana, September 6–7. Read more here.
April 2018
A workshop about Open Innovation in Drug Discovery at DTU Skylab kicks off a new collaboration with Leo Pharma A/S. Together, we aim to educate the next generation of chemical engineers and train them to work in new and innovative ways.
Mads attends a stakeholder meeting for the European Lead Factory in Brussels.
Karolinska hosts the SciLifeLab Science Summit 2018 and Mads will meet with colleagues in the Nordic Chemical Biology Network.
Congratulations to Jorge and Viola! Their study of prodrugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is published in J. Med. Chem.
March 2018
The 1st workshop in the Danish-Japanese Network for Glycobiology takes place in Tokyo.
Mads is guest editor for a special issue of Molecules focused on Oligosaccharide Synthesis.
February 2018
Welcome to Anastasia Antalaki who joins the group for her MSc thesis research in collaboration with Leo Pharma.
Welcome to Mariama Djarló, who visits from Portugal for a research stay in the group.
Congratulations to Mathias, Irene, Shahid and Christine. Their study of galactan synthesis and galectin-3 binding in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, Newcastle University and SARomics is published in Org. Biomol. Chem.
Congratulations to Alexandra, Shahid and Faranak. The synthesis of building blocks for branched RG-I structures is published open access (pdf) in Molecules.
January 2018
Congratulations to Martin. His work on the catalytic conversion of cellobiosides to xylobiosides and their application in oligosaccharide synthesis is published in ChemComm.
Welcome to Dr. Cecilia Romanò, who joins the group as postdoctoral fellow.
Welcome to Katarzyna Śniady, who joins the group for her MSc thesis research.
December 2017
Congratulations to Mathias and Irene. Their study of arabinogalactans is published in J. Org. Chem.
We are grateful to The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation for supporting the Danish-Japanese Network for Glycobiology! The funding will allow DTU and the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology to organize two workshops in 2018 that will strengthen collaboration between our two countries.
Jorge Peiró Cadahía defends his PhD thesis entitled ‘Novel strategies for the synthesis, evaluation, and delivery of biologically active molecules’ on December 4.
November 2017
Congratulations to Mathias. His collaboration with the Knox group on the importance of branched galactans for the mechanical properties of the cell wall of phloem sieve elements is published in Plant Physiol.We are grateful to the Ministry of Higher Education and Science and DTU for funding the national research infrastructure for chemical biology, DK-OPENSCREEN. We look forward to work with partners and users in the years to come to create new exciting scientific results. Read more on kemi.dtu.dk/news.
Read the article in 'Ingeniøren'.
Congratulations to Henrik. His study of tissue markers for non-palpable breast tumors in collaboration with CNT partners is published in Acta Biomaterialia.
October 2017
Welcome to Viola Previtali, who joins the group as postdoctoral fellow.
Mads and colleague Kasper Steen Pedersen visit Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York to strengthen interactions with our partner university.
Enzo Mancuso defends his PhD thesis entitled ‘Chemical Synthesis of a Rhamnogalacturonan II Fragment’ on October 27.
September 2017
Congratulations to Irene and Mathias. Their collaborative study with the Pfrengle group on mAb epitope mapping is published in Plant Physiol. Read the article.
Welcome to Dr. Faranak Nami, who rejoins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
Welcome to Daniela Danková and Ida Jensen, who joins the group for their MSc thesis research.
August 2017
Congratulations to Christine, Mathilde and Faranak. Their review of 'Chemical Synthesis of Oligosaccharides Related to the Cell Walls of Plants and Algae' are published in Chem. Rev.
July 2017
Christine, Irene, Shahid and Mads will be presenting research from the group at the 19th Eurocarb conference in Barcelona, July 2-6.
June 2017
Mads will present our research at the Carbohydrates Gordon Research Conference in Mount Snow, Vermont, June 25-30.
Welcome to Judith Bastien, who joins the group for a summer internship.
We are grateful to the Danish Council for Independent Research for supporting our research on inflammatory disease.
DTU Chemistry, the University of Copenhagen and SLAS are hosting the 2nd Nordic Chemical Biology Meeting, June 6-7.
Mads H. Clausen is in the organizing committee (chair). Read more.
May 2017
Welcome to Fernanda Mendes de Rezende, who joins the group as a visiting researcher.
Christine Kinnaert defends her PhD thesis entitled ‘Towards the Synthesis of Carrageenan Oligosaccharides’ on May 11.
Henrik Schaarup-Jensen defends his PhD thesis entitled ‘Synthesis and Development of Diagnostics Tools for Medical Imaging‘ on May 30.
March 2017
Congratulations to Michael who defended his MSc thesis from DTU Chemistry.
January 2017
Welcome to Nikolaj Sten Andersen, who joins the group as a PhD student.
December 2016
Shahid will present recent results from the group at the 14th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciencesin Karachi on December 15-18.
November 2016
Our H-Cube, sponsored by Ulla and Mogens Folmer Andersen’s Foundation has been installed and we are ready for the first experiments.
Geanna, Carlos and Mads will participate in the ELF Early Career Researcher Event in Lisbon on November 3-4. Recent results from the group will be highlighted in two presentations.
Mads will visit the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore for a carbohydrate chemistry workshop November 10-13. Later, he will give a talk at the CARBO XXXI conference in New Delhi on November 14-16.
October 2016
Faranak Nami defends her thesis entitled “Synthesis of S-linked cello-oligosaccharides” on October 7.
The 3rdworkshop in the Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience takes place in São Paulo.
August 2016
Welcome to Jesper Holck, who joins the group as postdoctoral fellow.
We are grateful to Ulla and Mogens Folmer Andersen’s Foundation and DTU Chemistry for supporting the acquisition of our new H-Cube for continuous flow hydrogenation.
July 2016
Congratulations to Saioa, Nikolaj and Michael who defended their M.Sc. theses from DTU Chemistry.
DTU Chemistry hosts the 2nd workshop in the Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience.
Irene, Shahid, Enzo and Mads will be presenting research from the group at the XXVIII International Carbohydrate Symposium in New Orleans, LA.
June 2016
Mads will give a talk at the annual meeting in the Danish Chemical Society in Odense on June 9.
DTU Chemistry hosts collaborators from DKFZ in Heidelberg for a one-day workshop on June 10.
Mads will give a keynote lecture at Organikerdagarna in Umeå, Sweden.
DTU Chemistry hosts European Lead Factory collaborators from Leeds University and Edelris for a two-day meeting June 27-28.
May 2016
News from the ELF team. Congratulations to Michael and Peng on their paper on tandem Mannich/Diels-Alder reactions in RSC Advances and to Thomas and Geanna on their article describing complexity-generating reactions in Org. Biomol. Chem. Read more: RSC Advances and Org. Biomol. Chem.
Mathilde Daugaard defends her thesis entitled “Synthesis of oligo (1→5)-α-L-arabinofuranosides related to the plant polysaccharide pectin” on May 31.
April 2016
Congratulations to Asger and Peter. Together with collaborators at DKFZ, they add another chapter to the story of spirobenzofuranone inhibitors of centrosomal clustering. Read more.
March 2016
DTU Chemistry hosted the first Sci-Mix event in the Center for Nanomedicine and Theranostics. More than 40 participants listened to 25 great presentations from CNT researchers and PhD students.
The 1st workshop in the Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience takes place in São Paulo.
Beatrice Bonora defends her thesis entitled “Synthesis of S-linked oligoxylans” on March 29.
February 2016
A journey that started when Klavs and Anders joined the group in 2004 comes to an end with the publication of their results investigating macrocyclization chemistry in collaboration with Peter Fristrup. Read the article here!
January 2016
Fourteen members of the group participate in the thirdTorkil Holm Symposium in Copenhagen and are inspired by a great lineup of excellent speakers
Mads contributes to a career development workshop at the third European Lead Factory Early Career Researcher Event in Barcelona. Read more! At the meeting, the teams from Edelris, University of Leeds and DTU had a chance to celebrate another milestone: 20,000 compounds deposited in the Joint European Compounds Library.
December 2015
We are grateful to The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation for supporting The Danish-Brazilian Network for Plant Glycoscience! The funding will allow DTU and the University of São Paulo to organize two workshops in 2016 that will serve as research immersion crash courses for the participating researchers and PhD students.
November 2015
Congratulations to Peter Hammershøj! His large-scale synthesis of isomerically pure carboxyfluoresceins is published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. Read the paper!
October 2015
Congratulations to Peter Hammershøj! His collaborative study on hydrogel broad-range pH sensors is published in Analyst. Read the paper!
Congratulations to Nikolaj Sten Andersen on receiving a 2016 Novo Nordisk Scholarship for his MSc thesis work to be carried out in the group starting in January.
Welcome to Carlos Azevedo, who joins the group as postdoctoral fellow.
September 2015
Welcome to Irene Boos and Shahid Awan, who join the group as postdoctoral fellows.
CEO Katrine Maarlev of GlycoSpot is interviewed on national TV and shares her experience with entrepreneurship. GlycoSpot was spun out from the Willats group at UCPH and our group in 2014.
August 2015
The group is well represented at the 2015 Fall ACS Meeting. Faranak, Christine, Mathilde, Jorge, Henrik and Peng all present their research in Boston, MA.
July 2015
Beatrice and Enzo participates in the 19th European Symposium of Organic Chemistry in Lisbon presenting their research.
The group moves to new research labs in Building 211 at DTU Chemistry.
June 2015
Peng Wu participates in the98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Ottawa, presenting the talk “Ritter-Hydrolysis Cascade Strategy for the Synthesis of Substituted gamma-lactams."
Welcome to Geanna Min and Martin Pedersen, who join the group as postdoctoral fellows.
May 2015
Congratulation to Peng Wu! His review of FDA-approved small-molecule kinase inhibitors is published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. Read the article!
March 2015
Congratulation to the ELF team! Three papers are published, two in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry: Synthesis of 1,4,5 trisubstituted γ-lactams via a 3-component cascade reaction and Synthesis of hexahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline compound libraries through a Pictet–Spengler cyclization/metal-catalyzed cross coupling/amidation sequence and one in European Journal of Organic Chemistry: Reductive Cyclization and Petasis-Like Reaction for the Synthesis of Functionalized γ-Lactams.
February 2015
Martin J. Pedersen defended his PhD thesis entitled “Stereoselective Conversion of Glucosides into Xylosides".
January 2015
Welcome to Gauthier Scavée, who joins the group as a PhD student.
Welcome to Thomas Flagstad, who joins the ELF project as a postdoctoral fellow.
We are grateful to the Villum Foundation for supporting the project “PLANET: understanding plant evolution and diversity in a changing world” with a grant for 2015-2017. The project is a collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, Kew Royal Botanical Gardens and Cornell University.
December 2014
Congratulations to Asger and Mads, their review of griseofulvin chemistry is published in Chem. Rev.
Welcome to Ignacio San Segundo, who joins the group as a PhD student.
DTU, Edelris and University of Leeds celebrates the production of 10,000 screening compounds! Congratulations to Michael, Peng, Rico and Emil.
Congratulations to Mette Lange on her PLOS ONE paper on cellulose degrading fungal enzymes.
Thanks to the Carlsberg Foundation for generous support of a new UPLC-MS system for carbohydrate chemistry.
November 2014
Congratulations to Mathilde Daugaard. Her collaborative study on reciprocal oligosaccharide probes is published in Development. Read the article here!
October 2014
We are grateful to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting our studies of plant cuticle polyesters with a grant for 2015-2017. The project is a collaboration with Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The University of Lausanne.
August 2014
Peng Wu participates in the ACS Conference - Chemistry & Global Stewardship - where he presents a poster: ”Petasis-type reactions for the synthesis of substituted pyrrolidin-2-ones”.
June 2014
Congratulations to Hélène and Tania. Their study of a new facile conjugation reaction is published in ChemComm.
Read here in ChemComm.
May 2014
Welcome to Jorge Peiro, who joins the group as a PhD student.
April 2014
Mads H Clausen gave his inaugural lecture: 'Organic Synthesis with Applications in Biology'.