At the Macrophage Biology Lab we are fortunate to welcome two new students.

Caroline Unbehaun is a research year student who will be working on the project: Are LYVE-1 expressing peritoneal cavity macrophages friend or foe in ovarian cancer? She will be investigating tissue from ovarian cancer patients from AUH. 

Magnus Enevoldsen is studying Molecular Medicine and will write his master thesis in our lab, working on Immunosuppresive Tumor-Associated Macrophages. 

Feel free to reach out to them;

Magnus' e-mail: au702792@mbg.au.dk
Carolines e-mail: carunb@biomed.au.dk 

On January 23, 2025, Rikke Rasmussen successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled: "Targeting Macrophage Heterogeneity in Ovarian Cancer." The defense began with an impressive public lecture, followed by a very engaging discussion, driven by the inquisitive assessment committee.

The committee consisted of:

• Chair and moderator of the defense: David Olagnier, Associate Professor, Aarhus University.
• Professor Jo van Ginderachter, Cellular and Molecular Immunology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
• Group Leader Leila Akkari, Department of Tumor Biology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Rikke will continue her research as a postdoc. working with the tumor-microenvironment in multiple myeloma, under Morten Nørgaard Andersen.

In the beginning of September 2024, Macrophage Biology Lab welcomed two new PhD students: Ida Holten-Møller and Isabella France Jarsmer. Ida has been working with the group during her master thesis and have a background in Molecular Medicine from Aarhus University, she is going to work with the project The functions of nucleotide metabolism in tumor-associated macrophages and their role in the progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Isabella has a background in Food Science from the University of Copenhagen and is going to work on the project Functional characterization of CD163+ Tim4+ macrophages in ovarian cancer.