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20002019

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Kim Jensen received his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Aarhus in 2003. Here Kim had developed an improved method for the analysis of the cell surface composition based on recombinant antibody technology. In 2003 he joined Professor Fiona Watt’s group at the London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, as a post-doctoral fellow. Based on cutting edge technologies and analysis of mouse models he went on to identified Lrig1, a negative regulator of receptor tyrosine kinases, as a novel marker of both human and mouse epidermal stem cells. In 2010 Kim received a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship to establish his own group at the University of Cambridge. Here Kim’s group has focused on the role of adult stem cells in tissue homeostasis. Kim was in 2012 awarded a Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship, and his group is now continuing their research on adult stem cells at BRIC.

Primary fields of research

  • Stem cells and their role in tissue homeostasis
  • Tissue development and stem cell specification
  • The role of adult stem cells in disease
  • Stem cells and cancer

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Career

2013-

Group leader, Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen

2010-

Group leader, University of Cambridge, UK

2007-2010

Senior Research Associate in the lab of Prof Fiona Watt, University of Cambridge, UK

2003-2007

Research fellow in lab of Prof Fiona Watt, London Research Institute, CRUK,

Education

MSc BIoteknology and Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

PhD, Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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