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). We have been awarded a LEAF Silver Certificate in recognition of our efforts to improve sustainability practices (see Sustainability)
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
Jan 2026Our ecSingle method on how to detect and trace ecDNA from standard 10X scRNA-seq data(!) out in Genome Biology - huge congrats to Josephine and co-authors 📚
Dec 2025Our cool new study on spatially resolved clonal evolution in advanced prostate cancer accepted in Nature Comms, big congrats to Migle, Effie and co-authors 📚
Dec 2025Funding for Mathias from Rigshositalets forskningsråd, very grateful 🙏
Nov 2025In recognition of the lab's efforts to improve the sustainability practices, we were awarded the LEAF silver certificate - especially thanks to Alessio 🌿
Nov 2025Welcome to our new Master's student, Pinelopi 🙌
Oct 2025Huge congrats to Dr Essi Girum Girma for successfully defending your PhD thesis 🎓
Aug 2025Welcome Irem! New PhD student joining the lab 🙌
Jun 2025Two new candidates from the lab! Migle and Mathias both successfully defended their PhD and Master's thesis, respectively! Huge congrats to both 🎓
Jan 2025Welcome to our new Master's student, Mathias 🙌