About us

Centre for Diagnostics is part of Department of Health Technology at DTU, placed at Lyngby Campus in building 202. We have one of the most advanced laboratories in the world but also an amazing team who meet you with years of expertise within the fields of assay development and diagnostics.

Your gateway to human diagnostics at DTU

DTU develops and creates value using natural and technical sciences to the benefit of the society - we contribute the overall DTU goal by:

Developing diagnostic tools that solve problems for the hospital sector, biotech industry and society in general.
Supporting DTU research groups by developing assays and lending assay expertise hereby enabling DTU technology transfer.
Offering diagnostic test capacity and expertise to hospitals and universities.

Meet the team behind Centre for Diagnostics

Head of Centre for Diagnostics

Helene Larsen

Ensure the centre as a successful gateway to laboratory diagnostics at DTU and ensure start-up, progress and level of innovation in collaboration projects.

Assay developer

Sanne Schou Berger

Development and implementation of diagnostic assays for measuring biomarkers and disease specific antibodies.

Senior research consultant

Ying Jie Ma

Overseeing research activity and fundraise through attraction of internal and external funding. Help scope, plan, and implement new scientific projects and strategic proposals.

Molecular Biologist

Amalie Avnborg

Analysis and verification of results from our diagnostic PCR assays as well as working with quality assurance of the PCR assays.

assay developer

Jesper Freddie Sørensen

Developing and commercializing of Quick/Rapid tests known as lateral flow assays (LFAs).

Assay developer

Louisa Obari

Company contact, funds acquisition, analysis and verification of RT-PCR results (including our RT-qPCR for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in humans).

Molecular biologist

Kasama Chusang Larsen

qPCR assay optimization on Qiagen and Fluidigm platforms on the Biomark HD instrument. Testing commercial samples on Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) platform.