Rigshospitalet (CF clinic) – DTU Collaboration
The described activities involve the CF clinic and the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Rigshospitalet/University of Copenhagen. The main investigators are Dr. Helle Krogh Johansen and Professor Niels Høiby at Rigshospitalet and Professor Søren Molin at DTU. A number of agreements between the two institutions ensure that samples are provided for the DTU group. In addition to receiving sputum samples from specific patients there will also be an activity connected to examinations of previously harvested strains from patients. The DTU group invests considerable resources in terms of man-power, running expenses and equipment time, and Rigshospitalet provides the essential guidance and help with collection of sputum samples and searches for stored strains from previous samplings.
DTU – Stanford University Student Exchange Program
The primary purpose of this program is to build a unique educational thrust to train young talented students at the interface of microbial science, medicine, and engineering. This educational activity consists of a special opportunity for students to engage in innovative, interdisciplinary research in laboratories at DTU and Stanford University with complementary expertise.
The two PI’s of the proposed exchange program, Professor Søren Molin (DTU) and Professor Alfred Spormann (Stanford University), have been collaborating since the beginning of 2003, initiated by a sabbatical spent by Dr. Spormann at DTU and followed up in 2004 by a sabbatical spent by Dr. Søren Molin at Stanford University. During the latter a close contact and interaction was also established to Professor Gary Schoolnik at the Medical School of Stanford University, the third important partner in the proposed program. This collaborative network is the scientific and educational platform on which the proposed student exchange program rests.
Research Network for Studies of Opportunistic Pathogens (2004-2008)
Based on a grant of 24 mio. DKr. seven different research groups have created a multi-disciplinary research network focused on investigations of a number of different opportunistic pathogenic bacteria. These groups include:
Bjarke B. Christensen, Danish Food Administration (IFSE)
Michael Givskov, BioCentrum (DTU)
Lone Gram, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research (DFU)
Niels Høiby, Rigshospitalet (RH)
Hanne Ingmer, Dept of Veterinary Microbiology (KVL)
Per Klemm, BioCentrum (DTU)
Karen A. Krogfelt, Statens Serum Institut (SSI)
Niels B. Larsen, The Danish Polymer Centre (RISØ)
Søren Molin, BioCentrum (DTU)
Tim Tolker-Nielsen, BioCentrum (DTU)
The network activities are managed and coordinated by Søren Molin
The International Graduate School “Pseudomonas – Biotechnology and Pathogenesis” (2004-2008)
CBM (Molin, Givskov, Tolker) and Rigshospitalet (Høiby, Moser, Ciofu, Krogh Johansen) have founded a Ph.D. school together with the Medical School at Hannover University, Technical University Braunschweig, and GBF Braunschweig. The graduate school organises teaching programs within the topic “Pseudomonas – Biotechnology and Pathogenesis” for Danish and German Ph.D. students. The program comprises seminars, exchange visits, Summer Schools etc.
The activities of the Danish Graduate School is managed and coordinated by Søren Molin.