EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC TITLES
1998 MDa
2004 PhDa
2010 Specialist
2015 DMSca
CURRENT POSITIONS
2022 – Professora
2017 – Head of the Clinical Research Unitb
2014 – Gastroenterologist consultant/Chief Physicianb
PREVIOUS RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
2016 – 2021 Associate Research Professora,b, 1:1 research:clinical work, “Intestinal injury and regeneration in IBD”
2015 Visiting scientist, the Langer Lab and The Karp Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, “Intestinal regeneration”
2012 – 2015 Clinician scientistb, 1:1 research:clinical work, “Mucosal wound healing in IBD”
2000 – 2003 PhDa, “Apoptosis in IBD”
1994 Student research fellow, Dept of Physiologya, “Epilepsy models”
BOARD MEMBER
2017 – Various committees, The Danish Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology
2015 – 2019 National representative, United European Gastroenterology
2014 – 2015 Research Ethics Committee of the Capital Region
2009 – 2013 The Danish Society of Medical Philosophy of Science and Ethics
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING
Ph.D. supervision, ongoing:
2021 – Emilie Dahl: Open label randomized controlled clinical trial of anti-integrins versus conventional treatment for checkpoint inhibitor induced colitis, Primary supervisor
2021 – Mohamed Attauabi: The influence of genetics, immunity and the microbiome on the prognosis of inflammatory bowel disease – the IBD Prognosis Study. Primary supervisor
2021 – Anja Poulsen: Fibrosis generation and intestinal damage markers of Crohn’s disease. Primary supervisor
2019 – Johan Ilvemark: Predictors of treatment resistance in ASUC. Primary supervisor
Ph.D. supervision, previous:
2019 – 2022 Michelle Vernstrøm Prosberg: Trichuris suis treatment of mild to moderate UC – a RCT. Co-supervisor
2019 – 2022 Mirabella Zhao: Predictors of treatment response and disease course in patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with biological therapy – The Danish IBD-biobank (DIB) Co-supervisor
2017 – 2020 Fredrik Bergenheim: Role of intestinal epithelial cells for tissue regeneration in IBD. Primary co-supervisor
2012 – 2015 Kristoffer Søndergaard: Role of factor XIII-A for monocyte activation in IBD. Primary co-supervisor
2012 – 2015 Mohammad Salem: Bacterial responses of monocytes and IBD. Primary co-supervisor
Master-degree supervision, ongoing:
2022 – Mariana Bronze: ILCs in IBD. Primary supervisor
Master-degree supervision, previous: 5 (medicine), 2 (molecular biology)
Teaching: Pre-graduatea: Gastroenterology. Post-graduatea: IBD, mucosal immunology, clinical research methods (PhD courses). Responsible for the exam of internal medicine and surgerya
EXPERT AND PEER REVIEW, EVALUATION OF DOCTORAL DEGREES
Broad Medical Foundation, CA, USA; l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France; the National Czech Science Foundation; The Irish Research Council; Swiss National Science Foundation; Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology Foundation; First opponent, PhD thesis evaluation committee, University of Tromsø; Head of PhD thesis evaluation committeea; Head of professor assessment committeea
PUBLICATIONS
100 (PubMed), 3 book chapters, +50 oral/posters. Papers in top journals of the field: IF>60: Nat Rev Gastr Hepat; IF>30: Gastr, IF>10: Am J Gastr, Autophagy, Biomaterials, Clin Gastr Hepat, EMBO Mol Med, Int Care Med, Nature Com, Trends in Mol Med.
BIBLIOMETRICS
H-index: 26 (Clarivate Analytics), 31 (Google Scholar)
GRANTS
Current running external funding in 13.672 kDKK allocated to JS research group.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
2017 – Head of the Clinical Research Unitb
2014 – 2017 Head of the outpatient clinicb
2012 – 2014 Head of research, Dept Internal Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital
CLINICAL RESEARCH
NC+PI of 8 RCTs. PI of 3 RCTs. Sub-I of 5 RCTs. Sponsor-investigator on 1 RCT
aAt UCPH
bAt Dept. Gastroenterology, Herlev Hospital