JØRGEN KJEMS: Nanomedicine

There are three main focus areas in the Kjems lab:

a) The understanding of how small non-coding RNA and circular RNA contribute to cell maintenance and disease development with a primary aim of defining new targets for disease intervention.

b) The creation of novel bioimaging and delivery systems for gene medicine including siRNA, miRNA mimics, antimiRs (antisense targeting microRNA) with a specific focus on inflammation, cancer, influenza, and regeneration of damaged tissue (tissue engineering).

c) Design and construction of functionalized self assembled DNA and RNA nanostructures capable of complex biosensing, coupled with controlled action e.g. drug release, enzyme activation, and receptor signaling.

In CellPAT, Jørgen Kjems contributes with key expertises in applied nanotechnology including biomolecular design, bioconjugation, cell delivery and tissue engineering as well as the more basic molecular biology fields of gene expression and cellular growth and development.

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Paca-Uccaralertkun, S., Damgaard, C. K., Auewarakul, P., Thitithanyanont, A., Suphaphiphat, P., Essex, M., Kjems, J. & Lee, T.-H. (2006). The Effect of a Single Nucleotide Substitution in the Splicing Silencer in the tat/rev Intron on HIV Type 1 Envelope Expression. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 22(1), 76-82. https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2006.22.76

Dirac, A. M., Huthoff, H., Kjems, J. & Berkhout, B. (2001). The DIS hairpin mediates dimerization of the HIV-2 RNA genome. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276, 32345-32352.

Nilsson, J., Weis, K. & Kjems, J. (2002). The C-terminal extension of the small GTPase Ran is essential for defining the GDP-bound form. J. Mol. Biol., 318, 583-593.

Reinhold, D., Farztdinov, V., Yan, Y., Meisel, C., Sadlowski, H., Kühn, J., Perschel, F. H., Endres, M., Düzel, E., Vielhaber, S., Guttek, K., Goihl, A., Venø, M., Teegen, B., Stöcker, W., Stubbemann, P., Kurth, F., Sander, L. E., Ralser, M. ... Körtvelyessy, P. (2023). The brain reacting to COVID-19: analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid proteome, RNA and inflammation. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 20, Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-023-02711-2

Kristensen, L. S., Schertz Andersen, M., Stagsted, L. V. W., Ebbesen, K., Hansen, T. B. & Kjems, J. (2019). The biogenesis, biology and characterization of circular RNAs. Nature Reviews. Genetics, 20(11), 675-691. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-019-0158-7

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