Welcome to the Weischenfeldt Lab
We are an interdisciplinary cancer genomics research group at the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) and Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet. Cancer is a disease of the genome, and we are interested in the mutational mechanisms driving clonal evolution of cancer, in particular mechanisms of complex structural variants and the impact on 3D chromatin organisation.
Our group develop and apply computational approaches jointly with molecular biology methods to study clonal evolution and mutation formation in cancer samples (see Research).
Find us at Finsen Laboratory, BioCenter at University of Copenhagen).
Are you curious and passionate about science with a strong background in computational biology and/or cancer genetics?
We are always looking for highly motivated and passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join our team (more info) !
We are grateful for funding from Rigshospitalet, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Independent Research Fund Denmark, Danish Cancer Society, Rigshospitalet’s forskningsfond, Carlsbergfondet, Marie Curie Actions, Arvid Nilssons Fond, and NIH.
News
Sept 2024Our new study with Aidan and Sebastian, in which we find a CpG hypermutator phenotype that makes the clock-like signature spin fast ⏰ in cancer
June 2024Very grafetful for the funding by Danish Cancer Society - KBVU 🙏
May 2024New paper on a surprising therapy response in glioblastoma 🧠 - out in Neuro-oncology!
April 2024Joachim prof inaugeration 🥂
2nd October 2023Welcoming Korbinian - new DISCOVER PhD student candidate!
5th September 2023Back from a very fruitful, social and stimulating lab retreat at Kragerup Gods. Great team. Discussing grant proposals, innovative ideas with long read seq, creativity in science and much more.
1st September 2023Maya, Jakob, Eduardo, André and Joachim took home the fastest 5x5km DHL relay at BRIC 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
18th June 2023Manuela defended her Master's thesis on identifying CNAs from ctDNA with the highest mark. Huge congrats, Manuela!
21th December 2022We got generous funding from Sygeforsikringen "danmark" Sundhedsdonationer to study germline-somatic interactions in cancer 🙏