The Royal Danish Library (Den Sorte Diamant) in Copenhagen was filled with happy faces today, as VILLUM FONDEN celebrated this year’s recipient of the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award as well as 18 Villum Young Investigators. During the celebratory event, Professor Susanne Mandrup gave a special lecture entitled “Molecules of life” and it was indeed at grand day not only for Susanne, but also for her many group members, her two centers, and several colleagues and collaborators, of which many had travelled to Copenhagen to take part in the celebrations.
Read more in the news article from SDU as well as the portrait piece on the Velux Foundations website (in Danish). Furthermore, you can "meet" Prof. Mandrup in a short video.
As per tradition, the event took place on January 23, which is the birthday of Villum Kann Rasmussen, founder of the Villum Foundation.
Prof. Mandrup is the director of two research centers, ATLAS and ADIPOSIGN, at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research group focuses on understanding transcriptional networks regulating cellular differentiation and function in mammalian cells, specifically in adipocytes and pancreatic beta-cells. Her recent research includes studying adipocyte gene expression in obesity. Her contributions to the field of adipocyte differentiation and function have been significant and have helped advance our understanding of the molecular cross-talk between transcriptional regulation and metabolism in adipocytes.