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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Costard, L. S., Neubert, V., Venø, M. T., Su, J., Kjems, J., Connolly, N. M. C., Prehn, J. H. M., Schratt, G., Henshall, D. C., Rosenow, F. & Bauer, S. (2019). Electrical stimulation of the ventral hippocampal commissure delays experimental epilepsy and is associated with altered microRNA expression. Brain Stimulation, 12(6), 1390-1401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.06.009

Klein, W. P., Thomsen, R. P., Turner, K. B., Walper, S. A., Vranish, J., Kjems, J., Ancona, M. G. & Medintz, I. L. (2019). Enhanced Catalysis from Multienzyme Cascades Assembled on a DNA Origami Triangle. ACS Nano, 13(12), 13677-13689. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b05746

Krissanaprasit, A., Key, C., Fergione, M., Froehlich, K., Pontula, S., Hart, M., Carriel, P., Kjems, J., Andersen, E. S. & LaBean, T. H. (2019). Genetically Encoded, Functional Single-Strand RNA Origami: Anticoagulant. Advanced Materials, 31(21), Article 1808262. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201808262

Moldovan, L.-I., Hansen, T. B., Venø, M. T., Okholm, T. L. H., Andersen, T. L., Hager, H., Iversen, L., Kjems, J., Johansen, C. & Kristensen, L. S. (2019). High-throughput RNA sequencing from paired lesional- and non-lesional skin reveals major alterations in the psoriasis circRNAome. BMC Medical Genomics, 12(1), Article 174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-019-0616-2

Vu-Quang, H., Vinding, M. S., Jakobsen, M., Song, P., Dagnaes-Hansen, F., Nielsen, N. C. & Kjems, J. (2019). Imaging rheumatoid arthritis in mice using combined near infrared and ¹⁹F magnetic resonance modalities. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 14314. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50043-0

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