Bachelor and Master projects
When doing your Bachelor or Master projects with Section for Comparative Pediatrics and Nutrition (CPN) you will become actively involved and participate in our experimental work with our preterm pigs, in pig herds and/or in our laboratories.
We continuously perform experimental studies to investigate how to improve growth, organ maturation, immunity, gut microbiota, brain development and cognitive function, and potentially prevent/ treat neonatal infection and sepsis in vulnerable newborn infants and pigs.
Primary interventions:
- Optimal nutrition – primarily different milk types or bioactive components of milk
- Microbial supplementation - fecal transplantation, phage inoculation, probiotics.
- Antibiotics in early life – to prevent infection and bacterial overgrowth
- Better resuscitation – to support lung function
- Hormones – to improve maturation
Primary laboratory analyses:
- Immune response: qPCR, ELISA, FACS, blood stimulation…
- Brain: qPCR, tissue staining…
- Microbiota: Sequencing, cultivation, FISH…
- Gut maturation and function: brush border enzyme activity, histology
Want to learn more? Contact our research group leaders:
Professor Thomas Thymann, Animal Models in Pediatrics, thomas.thymann@sund.ku.dk
Professor Per Torp Sangild, Pediatric Clinical Research - PCR, pts@sund.ku.dk
Associate Duc Ninh Nguyen, Cellular and Molecular Pediatrics (CMP), dnn@sund.ku.dk
