​Dr Tommi Suvitaival

Reseacher (Assistant Professor Level)

in Systems Medicine, Steno Diabetes Center

Tommi has been working as a researcher in Systems Medicine seen years. Before that he did a PhD in Machine Learning (2015), his expertise in in bioinformatics, biostatistics, information visualization and statistical programming with R. He is a senior data analyst in the team and oversees many projects. He oversees the IT, bioinformatics and data analyses pipelines in the team. See Tommi's publications in ORCID and visit his webpage.

Annette Frost Bjerre

Senior Biomedical Scientist

in Systems Medicine, Steno Diabetes Center

Annete joined the group in 2019 and she is a biomedical scientist with 30-year experience working in industry (Novo Nordisk). She is an expert in many molecular techniques and is currently developing methods for tissue sample preparation. She is also working in automation of sample preparation flows.

Dr Jin Xu

Visiting Senior Scientist, King's College London

Jin finished her PhD in metabolomics in King's College London in 2019. An expert in experimental omics and data science she started a postdoc working in data analyses in a range of projects in collaboration with Petra Proitsi who is also her mentor. She has been the recipient of many prizes like the Young Lipid Scientist by the Society of Chemical Industry for her work in transplantation. She managed both the Q-TOF in the lab in KCL and the running of the lab in KCL before joining a startup doing omics discovery. Publications in ORCID

Dr Karolina Sulek

Senior Reseacher (Associate Professor Level)

in Systems Medicine, Steno Diabetes Center

Karolina did her PhD at the Technical University of Denmark and a post-doc at the University of Auckland. Upon return to Denmark she set up a metabolomics facility at the University of Copenhagen, helping researchers at the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research to understand T2D and obesity through metabolomics profiling. Her interest of the omics opened the path to proteomics at NNF Center for Protein Research in the group of Clinical Proteomics led by Matthias Mann. She will apply gained knowledge within the MicrobLiver project and ODINE project a NNF Fellowship granted to her looking at multiomics in neuropathy. Karolina's publications in Google Scholar

Dr Gurjeet Kaur Virk

Postdoc, Steno Diabetes Center

Gurjeet completed her PhD in Clinical plasma proteomics for the identification of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers with the Scientia fellowship at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Before joining Steno, she worked at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia. She is a clinical proteomics expert in targeted and non-targeted acquisition (DIA and DDA) methods. She is applying various plasma proteomics techniques to establish the next-generation proteomics pipeline in order to identify potential biomarkers of diabetes neuropathy. Her project is funded by ODINE study, a NNF award to Dr Sulek's fellowship. Google Scholar:Gurjeet Kaur

Visolakhon Ismoilova

PAQC MSc Candidate 22-23 Kings College London

Visola is investigating the best method to measure endocannabinoids molecules. She is extracting quantitative data and applying the FDA absolute quantitation guidelines for 25+ molecules in cerebrospinal fluid. The method will be applied in CSF samples from people with mild cognitive impairment. 

Alicia Gomez Pascual

PhD Candidate Visiting Systems Medicine 2022-23, Steno Diabetes Center

Alicia is an expert in computational biology and artificial intelligence, she applies these techniques to understand neurodegenerative disease. Her supervisor is Juan A. Botía informatics Professor at the University Murcia. GitHub

Dr Kristina Pigsborg 

Postdoc, Steno Diabetes Center (August 2023)

Kristina is an expert in metabolomics and nutrition with a PhD from the University of Copenhagen. She is working in biomarker translation in the clinic to prevent cardiovascular disease in individuals with diabetes. She is developing a new test STAR (Steno Test for Atheroesclerosis Risk) that will be implemented and trialed in the T2D clinic and it is based on lipid molecules proxies of CVD arterial inflammation. Publications https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1987-523X

Yun Huang

PhD Candidate Visiting Systems Medicine 2022-23, Steno Diabetes Center

Yun is an expert in genetics and data science. She is investigating obesity in children from a genetic and lipids integrative point fo view. Her supervisor is Torben Hansen at the CBMR University of Copenhagen.