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    • Research team
      • Hans Bisgaard
      • Mette Damgaard Nielsen
      • Katrine Grau
      • Birgit Nielsen
      • Marianne Mikkelsen
      • Ulrik Ralfkiaer
      • Connie Albinski
      • Dorte Andersen
      • Dion Aagaard-Hansen
      • Michael Westenholz
      • Brian Vegas
      • Alma Pedersen
      • Bo Chawes
      • Jakob Stokholm
      • Nadja Vissing
      • Klaus Bønnelykke
      • Johannes Waage
      • Tarun Ahluwalia
      • Anna Thysen
      • Morten Rasmussen
      • Johan de Rooi
      • Leon Jessen
      • Helene Wolsk
      • Henrik Hallas
      • Tine Pedersen
      • Rebecca Vinding
      • Sunna Thorsteinsdottir
      • Astrid Sevelsted
      • Lambang Arianto
      • Jonathan Thorsen
      • Nadia Fink
      • Asja Kunøe
      • Sarah Pedersen
      • Mathias Hansen
      • Sine Rossen
      • Pia Nørrisgaard
      • Louise Monnerup
      • Pernille Fjordholt
      • Lena Vind
      • Hanne Nissen
      • Britta Hansen
      • Simone Hansen
      • Ann-Marie Schoos
      • Kristoffer Linder
      • Michael Lofvall
      • Martin Mortensen
      • Ni Wang
      • Christian Carlsson
      • Malene Rosenberg
      • Emil Christensen
      • Mia Bjørg Olsen
      • Hedda Løvenhøj
      • Jens Heller Frederiksen
      • Pernille Tegner Fjordholt
      • Shiraz Shah
      • Lærke Sass
      • Mathis Hjelmsø
      • Line Reinvard
      • Nilo Følsgaard
      • Daniela Rago
      • Anders Eliasen
      • Nicklas Brustad
      • Line Reinvard
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      • Casper Pedersen
      • Rebekka Søgaard
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      • Nicklas Brustad
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      • Julie Nielsen
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      • Caroline Kleis
      • Laura Hesselberg
      • Rikke Sunde
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      • Frederikke Skov
      • Christina Poulsen
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      • Min Kim
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      • Nanna Larsson
      • Trine Mølbæk
      • Kasper Fischer-Rasmussen
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      • Eric Qing Zou
      • Cristina Leal Rodríguez
      • Kristina Aagaard
      • Maria Hernandez Lorca
      • Emil Høj Christiansen
      • Thomas Rosenbom
      • Iva Šunić
      • Liang Chen
      • Casper Sahl Poulsen
      • Alexandra Dalgas-Madsen
      • Mina Ali
      • Tingting Wang
      • Ann-Sofie Colding Lund
      • Nina Flensborg
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      • 2015 Ann-Marie Malby Schoos, MD PhD
        • Thesis_2015_Ann-Marie_Schoos
      • 2014 Marie Kragh, MSc PhD
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      • 2014 Eskil Kreiner-Møller, MD PhD
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      • 2014 Nadja Hawwa Vissing, MD PhD
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      • 2014 Anna Hammerich Thysen, Msc PhD
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      • 2013 Charlotte Giwercman Carson MD, PhD
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      • 2013 Anne Louise Bischoff MD, PhD
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      • 2012 Louise Pedersen, MD, PhD
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      • 2012 Jakob Stokholm, MD, PhD
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      • 2012 Nilofar Følsgaard, MD, PhD
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      • 2011 Martin Brasholt, MD, PhD
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      • 2011 Bo Chawes, MD, PhD
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      • 2010 Klaus Bønnelykke, MD, PhD
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      • 2010 Porntiva Poorisrisak, MD, PhD
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      • 2009 Mette N Hermansen, MD, PhD
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      • 2006 Liselotte B Halkjær, MD, PhD
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      • 2006 Birgitte Boysen Kjær, MD, PhD
      • 2004 Lotte Loland, MD, PhD
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      • 2002 Frederik F Buchvald, MD, PhD
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      • 1999 Marianne Stubbe Østergaard, MD, PhD
      • 1993 Jytte Fogh, MD, PhD
      • 2017 Elín Bjarnadóttir, MD PhD
      • 2017 Helene Wolsk, MD
      • 2017 Tine Marie Pedersen, MD
      • 2017 Astrid Sevelsted, MSc
      • 2017 Rebecca Kofod Vinding, MD
      • 2019 Lambang Arianto, MD
      • 2018 Henrik Hallas, MD
      • 2018 Jonathan Thorsen, MD
      • 2018 Nadia Rahman Fink, MD
      • 2019 Christian Carlsson, MD
      • 2019 Christian Carlsson, MD
      • 2019 Ni Wang, MD
      • 2021 Sarah Nørgaard – MSc
      • 2020 Asja Kunøe – MD
      • 2021 Nicklas Brustad – MD
      • 2021 Anders Eliasen – MSc
      • 2021 Lærke Sass – MD
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      • Topical Steriods for Children with Asthma
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      • 2006 Kim G Nielsen, MD, DMSci
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      • 2002 Bent Helmuth Klug, MD, DMSci
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      • 2016 Bo Chawes, MD, PhD, DMSci
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  • ERC Grant Bo Chawes

Copsac’s mission is to improve prevention of chronic inflammatory diseases, diagnosis and treatment of childhood asthma. It is our goal to be an international centre of excellence.

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COPSAC
Cohorts

Longitudinal clinical mother-child cohorts

COPSAC2000

COPSAC2010

COPSACSEVERE

Research Strategy

Translational clinical research approach based on long-term studies  of mother-child cohorts with deep phenotyping and exposure assessment

Available Data

Collaborations are invited on our COPSAC cohort data:
Clinical assessments, exposures, OMICS analyses and biological samples

COPSAC videos

Copsac the movie, whiteboard presentations, patient cases and more

Publications

Complete list of COPSAC’s peer-reviewed papers

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Hans Bisgaard has passed away on September 8th 2022

Professor of paediatrics, MD Hans Bisgaard has unexpectedly and far too soon passed away aged 67 after a long and impressive research career.
In 2002, Hans established a translational research center – the COpenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC) – where clinical and basic researchers collaborated, long before it became the norm elsewhere. Here Hans also established the COPSAC cohorts with 1,111 families and children. Hans had great respect for the families who dedicated themselves to research, which he often talked about.
Hans will be remembered as a pioneer in his field of research, where he has made a huge difference for children with asthma and has moved the field of scientific research forward. He will be missed by his patients, his current and former colleagues, everyone he has mentored, as well as all the many national and international partners he has had throughout his long career.
In honor of Hans’ memory

Bo Chawes receives ERC starting grant of 1.5 mill Euro

The purpose of the forthcoming international research project is to investigate how dietary supplements and diet during pregnancy and in early life shape the child’s metabolic profile, and how this is linked to asthma and neurological development.

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Research Strategy

The COPSAC study with its translational clinical research approach based on long-term studies of mother-child cohorts with deep phenotyping and exposure assessment, combined with genotyping and sequencing of the microbiome, insight into the genetic regulation of basic biological processes, and state-of-the-art systems biology methods holds the promise to improve our understanding of the processes causing disease in individual patients and the interaction between heredity and environment.

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Methods

COPSAC has developed and refined a number of methods used to diagnose and monitor asthma in children. Here we present a selection of the principal methods used at COPSAC.

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Recent COPSAC publications

Get an overview of all our publications here

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Women who took high doses of vitamin D during pregnancy had children with stronger bones.

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Blood test reveals infant risk of developing asthma

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High doses of vitamin D during pregnancy improved tooth enamel in offspring.

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Fish Oil-Derived Fatty Acids in Pregnancy and Wheeze and Asthma in Offspring.

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Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte
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  • About COPSAC
    • Organization Diagram
    • Board of Directors
    • Research team
    • Scientific visitors
    • Hall of Fame
    • Expatriates
    • Research Students
    • Location
    • Funding
    • Press photos and logoes
    • Personal privacy policy
    • Open positions
  • COPSAC cohorts
    • COPSAC2000 cohort
    • COPSAC2010 cohort
    • COPSACSEVERE cohort
    • Available data
      • COPSAC2000 Clinic
      • COPSAC2000 Exposures
      • COPSAC2000 Omics
      • COPSAC2000 Biobank
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  • Dissemination
    • Publications
    • Theses
    • Research Awards and Honors
    • Literature for parents
  • Research Projects
    • COPSYCH
    • EAGLE Consortium
    • EarlyVir
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