Susanne Mandrup PhD

Susanne Mandrup has been Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark since 2008. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from Odense University in 1992 and worked as a post doc among others in Prof. M. Daniel Lane’s group, Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 1995-96. In 1996 she was recruited back to Odense as Assistant Professor, and in 1999 she was promoted to Associate Professor.

Susanne Mandrup received a Sapere Aude Advanced Grant in 2012 from the Danish Independent Research Council and is heading several other large scale research initiatives. She is one of the leading figures in the newly established Danish Diabetes Academy and is involved in several other national and international research consortia. She was member of the Danish Natural Science Research Council (2005 – 2010) and has since 2009 been member of The Medical and Natural Science Committee of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. In addition, she has served on several grant review panels under FP6 and FP7 and is currently chairman of the Consolidator Panel for Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology under the European Research Council.