Research team

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Head of COPSAC

Klaus Bønnelykke

Research Director

Professor of Paediatrics, Senior Hospital Physician, MD

Stokholm Group

Jakob Stokholm

Associate professor

MD, PhD

Shiraz Shah

MSc, PhD

Jonathan Thorsen

MD, PhD

Casper Sahl Poulsen

MSc, PhD

Urvish Trivedi

PhD

Ulrika Boulund

MSc, PhD

David Horner

Julie Nyholm Kyvsgaard

MD, PhD

Michael Widdowson

MSc

Jay Jiang

MSc

Beatriz Gomes

Marie Louise Jahn

Kaare Tranæs

MSc

Anton Kjellberg

MSc

Chawes Group

Bo Chawes

Professor of Paediatrics,‌‌
MD, PhD, DMSc

Nicklas Brustad

MD, PhD

Mina Ali

MSc, PhD

Tingting Wang

MSc, PhD

Trine Mølbæk

Kristina Aagaard

Liang Chen

MSc

Camilla Grube

Ole Bæk

MSc, PhD

Bønnelykke Group

Klaus Bønnelykke

Professor of Paediatrics,
Senior Hospital Physician, MD, PhD

Casper Pedersen

MSc, PhD

Anders Eliasen

MSc, PhD

Signe Kjeldgaard Jensen

MD, PhD

Luo Yang

MSc, PhD

Amelie Fritz

MSc

Kasper Fischer-Rasmussen

MSc

Tamo Sultan

The Functional Metabolic Group

Morten Arendt Rasmussen

Professor

MSc, PhD

In the functional metabolic group, we combine various methods for characterizing the metabolism at work and analyze those using machine learning. Specifically, we use daily monitoring of glucose using continuous glucose monitoring, accelerometers, and images of dietary intake to capture everyday metabolism. This combined with metabolomics evaluated post-prandial meal challenge, host genetics, and microbiome provides detailed personal metabolic information, which by the use of machine learning can be related to both early life as well as concurrent health.

Parvaneh Ebrahimi

MSc, PhD

Zhi Ye

MSc

Michael Forsmann

MSc

Zhuobing Peng

MSc

The Allergy Group

Ann-Marie Malby Schoos

Associate professor

MD, PhD, DMSc

We have collected very extensive data on allergic sensitization longitudinally in the COPSAC cohorts, including skin prick tests, specific IgE, and component resolved diagnostics. In the allergy group, we use these data to refine and explore diagnostic tools to interpret allergic sensitization more accurately. Further, we incorporate these data in more extensive analyses using them as biomarkers to better understand the mechanisms of atopic diseases.

Frederikke Rosenvinge Skov

Amalie Klein-Petersen

Growth and Psychopathology Group

Rebecca Vinding

MD, PhD

In the psychopathology group we explore early life factors (low grade inflammation, dietary supplementation in pregnancy, maternal diet, the microbiome) and its influence on neurological development, including cognition, behavior and psychopathology. We use data from The Copenhagen Prospective Study on Neuro-PSYCHiatric Development (COPSYCH) visit, where we comprehensively examined the mental health and brain structure of the COPSAC2010 cohort at 10 years of age and combine this with previous data.
Our goal is to identify potential preventive strategies for development of psychiatric disease but also to help clinicians to detect early signs of disease/difficulties.

In the childhood growth group we focus on identifying which early life factors can influence childhood growth patterns and thereby increase the risk of having obesity later in life. Our aim is to uncover possible risk factors which could help in the prevention of development of obesity and metabolic disease.

As an area of interest between the two groups is to study whether differences in cognition and behavior can lead to differences in growth patterns and risk of obesity in childhood and later life.

Maria Hernandez Lorca

MSc, PhD

Julie Rosenberg

MD, PhD

Epidemiology Group

Jonathan Groot

PhD

In the Epidemiology group, we focus on projects and collaborations in which we employ a range of epidemiological methods. We collaborate with other researchers at COPSAC on epidemiological methods and use of population-based cohort data and registry data. We primarily conduct research spanning from descriptive epidemiology with registry data to causal inference based on natural experiments.

Our main focus is on environmental exposures and immune-related diseases, with a special focus on respiratory health. Currently, the group is working on the Indoor Climate and Health in Bellahøj (ISB) project: a natural experiment looking at the impacts of apartment remodeling on respiratory health among residents in a multi-ethnic, economically diverse cohort. We collaborate closely with researchers at the Section of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), as well as researchers at Aarhus University, Statens Serum Institute, Section of Environmental Health (UCPH) and Section of Epidemiology (UCPH).
More details on the ISB project can be found at: https://bornogastma.dk/indeklimaogsundhedpaabellahoej/.

The group addresses research questions on environmental exposures and health from a primary prevention perspective, with a preferential focus on including underrepresented populations in epidemiological research.

Sarah Brandt

MSc

The Clinic

Nilo Vahman

MD, PhD and Head of HR

In the clinic group we aim to perfect clinical research with children and adolescents. With a combination of perfectionism, thoroughness, systematic approach, constant vigilance, playfulness, attentiveness and creativity we get hundreds of children through hours of clinical examinations, endless tests, sampling of biological material, interviews and follow up. We translate research ideas into practice and make sure that the data available is world class.