Andersen Team
My entire career has focused on understanding the human bone remodeling process under both physiological and pathophysiological conditions, including aging, osteoporosis, bone metastasis, multiple myeloma and rare genetic disorders, as well as the effect of bone-targeting treatments. My research has contributed significantly to advancing our understanding of the human bone remodeling, reshaping our fundamental understanding of its cellular organization, pathophysiological dysfunction, and response to bone-targeting treatments. I head the Molecular Bone Histology (MBH) lab (www.mbhlab.dk) and the Danish Spatial Imaging Consortium (DanSIC) infrastructure (www.dansic.dk), which span the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense University Hospital (OUH) and Aarhus University (AU). My MBH lab and DanSIC infrastructure possess leading-edge expertise and state-of-art equipment in advanced molecular histology including spatial profiling technologies as GeoMx and Xenium, with particular strengths in bone and other calcified tissues. My research is interdisciplinary and spans multiple modalities, integrating my advanced molecular histology with mathematics, engineering, physics, an both ex vivo and in vivo models, as well as multi-omics approaches, linking spatial transcriptomics with epigenetics, bulk transcriptomics and proteomics, facilitated by applied infrastructure.
Projects
From human to mouse - and back
What can a high-density bone disease (ADO2) teach us about bone cell sigaling? ADO2 is a bone disease caused by genetic mutations in bone cells. ADO2 patients have more bone than healthy individuals. But their bones are still fragile. No cure is available for ADO2-patients
Xenia Borggaard
Post-doc
Molecular Bone Histology
Danish Spatial Imaging Consortium
Syddansk Universitet
How do we avoid atypical femur fractures in Osteoporosis patients?
Atypical femoral fractures (AFFs) are a rare but severe side effect of long-term bisphosphonate (BP) treatment. My project is examining the effect of bisphosphonates on the remodeling process and coupling within both a rat model of cortical remodeling as well as in biopsies from osteoporosis patients.
Birgitte Villadsen
Post-doc
Molecular Bone Histology
Danish Spatial Imaging Consortium
Syddansk Universitet
Bone renewal in osteoanabolic treatment
Exploring how cells locally in the bone respond to bone forming treatments such as intermittent treatment with parathyroidhormone (teriparatide or preotact) and romosozumab. How the cells respond is important, because it can affect treatment sequence and time when treating severe osteoporosis.
Lisbeth Koch Thomsen
PhD student
Molecular Bone Histology
Danish Spatial Imaging Consortium
Syddansk Universitet
Member
Xenia G.
Borggaard
Malene H.
Nielsen
Birgitte
Villadsen
Lejla
Emini
Bilal M.
El-Masri
Lisbeth K.
Thomsen
Viktoria B.
Kofod
Sabine L.
Skjøtt
Fatima Khassouk
Wafa Ahmed
Ali Yassin
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