Lene Juel Rasmussen
Lene Juel Rasmussen is a Danish scientist who studies genetics and aging. She is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and leads the Center for Healthy Aging. She earned a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 1988 and a PhD in Molecular Genetics in 1991, supervised by Tove Atlung.
She did postdoctoral work at UMass Medical School (1991–1994) and Harvard School of Public Health (1994–1996). She then worked at Roskilde University, becoming assistant professor in 1996, associate professor in 2000, and professor in 2006. In 2009, she moved to the University of Copenhagen, where she is a professor and the managing director of the Center for Healthy Aging.
Her research focuses on the genetic origins of diseases, including measles, mumps, rubella, and hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. At the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, she leads the Rasmussen Group, which studies how aging causes health effects. She is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Medicine section.
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