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 for Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
  • Center Director, Prof. Niels Tommerup, Wilhelm Johanssen Center for Functional Genomics, Faculty for Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Head of Steering Group)
  • Prof. Flemming Pociot, Herlev University Hospital
  • Dr. Niels Tolstrup, Exiqon A/S
  • Dr. Peter Gildsig Jansen, Novo Nordisk A/S
  • Prof. Merete Fredholm, Faculty for Health and Medical 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, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
  • Prof. Bernhard Boehm, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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 for Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Novo Nordisk A/S
  • Herlev University 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