About
The Center for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health (RTH) was established on a grant from the Danish Strategic Research Council (Program Committee for Strategic Growth Technologies). Through a multi-disciplinary collaboration, the Center aims at developing technologies, computational methods as well as experimental approaches for analysis of the mammalian genome for non-coding RNAs with respect to (inflammatory) diseases. The Center will focus on developing these technologies and on diabetes.
Management
RTH is managed by Center Director Jan Gorodkin. The Center's Steering Group consists of the following members:
- Prof. Jan Gorodkin, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Center Director, Prof. Niels Tommerup, Wilhelm Johanssen Center for Functional Genomics, Faculty of Health, University of Copenhagen (Head of Steering Group)
- Prof. Flemming Pociot, Glostrup Research Institute, Glostrup Hospital
- Dr. Niels Tolstrup, Exiqon A/S
- Dr. Klaus S. Frederiksen, Novo Nordisk A/S
- Dr. Peter Gildsig Jansen, Novo Nordisk A/S
- Prof. Henrik Nielsen, Faculty of Health, University of Copenhagen
- Prof. Merete Fredholm, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Center Director, Prof. Søren Brunak, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark
- Prof. Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig
International Advisory Board
- Prof. Gary D. Stormo, Washington University Med. School, St. Louis
- Prof. John Mattick, University of Queensland
- Prof. Bernhard Boehm, University of Ulm
In-house Resources
The Center has access to super computing, a broad variety of lab facilities as well as high-throughput sequencing facilities.
Partners
The Center has a number of partners:
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- Faculty of Health, University of Copenhagen
- Technical University of Denmark
- Novo Nordisk A/S
- Glostrup Research Institute, Glostrup Hospital
- Exiqon A/S
- University of Leipzig
- University of Vienna
- University of Freiburg
- University of Washington, Seattle
- University of Lausanne
Funding
The Center has been established through a grant from the Danish Strategic Research Council. The general sources of funding are:
- Danish Strategic Research Council (Program Committee for Strategic Growth Technologies)
- Danish Research Council for Technology and Production
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Danish Center for Scientific Computing