We address major societal challenges including cancer, obesity and diabetes, age-related degeneration of the nervous system and life-threatening bacterial infections. Our research sections provide an effective framework for scientific interaction and creativity, for scientific career development, and for recruitment of competitive scientists from Denmark and abroad.
As colleagues at BMB we share many research interests. We take advantage of our ability to complement one another in conducting scientific studies of high quality and ambition. Our cutting-edge technology platforms for mass spectrometry, sequencing and imaging and our green-lab certificated laboratories are used by all researchers, often through direct collaborations.
BMB research groups actively contribute to the data-driven future of healthcare and precision medicine as we generate large datasets describing cellular function in health and disease, supporting Sustainable Development Goal 3. Building infrastructure for data storage and maintaining strong bioinformatics expertise is therefore a high priority for all research sections at BMB.
The future SDU/OUH joint campus offers unique opportunities for BMB researchers to bridge the gap between fundamental research and clinical treatment. We continue to develop our interaction with research groups at OUH and the health faculty in order to strengthen our connection to the clinic.
Towards 2025 we will ...
Ensure that our instrumentation, bioinformatics expertise, and research infrastructure, including supporting staff, remains competitive:
- We will strengthen Computational Biomedicine through future recruitment of scientific staff.
- We will attract large research infrastructure grants.
- We will apply for external funding to maintain and further develop our support staff.
Ensure the highest research quality at BMB by working proactively with public private foundations:
- We will increase the number of external projects by offering peer-to-peer feedback during idea generation and the writing of high-quality proposals.
- We will strategically recruit externally funded top scientists at all levels.
- We will work closely with the External Relations team at the Faculty of Science to increase the number of ERC grants and EU partner projects .
- We will explore the potential of our research in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Stimulate internal collaborative projects and synergies within the department and with our close collaborators and future neighbours at the Faculty of Health Science and OUH by facilitating scientific interaction:
- We will arrange regular seminars within sections and at the department level.
- We will highlight existing collaborations.