Genomics in Clinical PracticeSemester Course

DIS Copenhagen, Elective Course, Genomics in Clinical Practice
Major Discipline(s)
Biology, Biomedicine / Biotechnology, Pre-Medicine / Health Science
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

This course explores the genomic revolution’s impact on medical science, clinical diagnoses, and cutting-edge treatments, illustrating both where the genomic ideology has triumphed and where it has failed. We dive into diagnostic sequencing technologies, preimplantation, prenatal and preventive medicine, and explore current gene therapies including the promise of genome editing, as well as, debate the multifaceted ethical implications of the genomic revolution.

Faculty

Matthias Nybro Smith

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

M.D. (University of Copenhagen, 2014). Fourth year Clinical Genetics resident (Rigshospitalet 2020-present). Former Oncology resident (Herlev Hospital 2018-2019), ENT resident (Nordsjællands Hospital 2016-2018, Rigshospitalet 2019), General Practice resident (2016, Holbæk), Emergency Medicine resident (2016, Holbæk Hospital), Neurophysiology resident (2015, Glostrup Hospital), Neurology resident (Roskilde Sygehus 2014). Teaching at DIS since January 2023.

Anna Byrjalsen

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

M.D., PhD. Medical Doctor at the Department of Clinical Genetics Rigshospitalet. With DIS since 2023.

Ulrik Kristoffer Stoltze

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

M.D. (University of Copenhagen, 2017), Phd-student at The Pediatrics Oncology Lab (Bonkolab, 2019-23), leader of a clinic for childhood cancer surveillance (2021-) and affiliated scientist at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2023-). Former Clinical Genetics resident (Rigshospitalet, 2018-19), General Practice resident (Søborg, 2018), Surgery resident (Herlev Hospital, 2017). POST-fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, 2016). Active in Genomics research since 2015 with several publications in genetics and bioethics with a focus on childhood cancer. He is conducting one of Denmark’s largest genomics studies offering whole-genome sequencing to any cancer patient under 18 years old. Teaching at DIS since 2017. Currently on leave.

S&H Ulrik Stoltze