Astrid Louise Bjørn Bennedsen

I am a phD student at Center for Surgical Science and enrolled at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen. The focus of my work is patients with colon cancer and the tumor microenvironment: the cancer cells, the infiltrating immune cells and the microbiota.

I started my current position immediately after completing my master’s degree in medicine in 2018, as I knew I wanted to pursue research in patients with colorectal cancer in a surgical setting. My first experience in research was a year as a research-year scholar at Center for Surgical Science in 2015.

Except for at semester in Gijon, Spain, I have resided in Copenhagen all my life. I am a mother of three children, thus organization and project management is an essential part of both my private and professional life.