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
Research areas
- Obesity
- Brown adipose tissue
- Low-grade inflammation
- Bariatric surgery
- Adipose tissue metabolism
Research description
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My primary interest is translational studies on the importance of white and brown adipose tissue metabolism for whole body metabolism.
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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.
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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.