Steen Bønløkke Pedersen, MD, PhD, D.M.Sc

Professor and Chief Physician

steepede@rm.dk
+45 2342 7168

Clinical activities (Danish)

• Klinisk tovholder for udvikling af nye behandlingstilbud med fokus på forebyggelse og type 2-diabetes
• Klinisk tovholder for indsats om Multidisciplinære Teamkonferencer

Principal Investigator

• Nutrition, obesity and lipid metabolism
• Pathophysiology and metabolism and diabetes pharmacology

Research areas

• Obesity
• Brown adipose tissue
• Low-grade inflammation
• Bariatric surgery
• Adipose tissue metabolism

Research description

• My primary interest is translational studies on the importance of white and brown adipose tissue metabolism for whole body metabolism.

• Clinical studies; with focus on weight loss and exercise, whole body metabolism, low grade inflammation combined with characterization of metabolism and changes in mRNA expression in fat and muscle biopsies.

• Brown adipose tissue (BAT); development of new MRI-based methods to assess BAT activity in humans coupled with studies on how to activate human BAT.

• Cultured white and brown adipocytes; to investigate direct effects of various compounds/hormones on cell metabolism and gene expression.

Find me on

• Pure
• ORCID