Rasmus Mortensen
Head Of TB Vaccine Research at Novo Nordisk Foundation Initiative for Vaccines and Immunity (NIVI)
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolRasmus Mortensen is Head of Tuberculosis Vaccine Research at Statens Serum Institut with 11 years of experience translating immunology research into pre-clinical and clinical vaccine programs. He leads design and optimization of post-exposure and mucosal vaccination strategies, overseeing a program that already has a candidate in clinical trials and several others in development. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in Infectious Disease Immunology, he blends quantitative modelling skills with practical immunology to guide antigen selection, animal models and trial-ready assays. His background ranges from bioinformatics-driven antigen discovery to implementing COX-2 inhibitor immunotherapy findings into human trials, reflecting a talent for moving discoveries from bench to bedside. Based in Copenhagen, he actively seeks collaborations across academia and clinical partners to accelerate TB vaccine innovation.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.sc Nanobiotechnology, M.sc Nanobiotechnology at Aalborg UniversityPh.D. Infectious Disease Immunology, Ph.D. Infectious Disease Immunology at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
English, Danish, German
Github Skills (12)
r-package10
databases9
r9
database8
odbc7
feature-store7
onset-detection6
quantile5
duckdb5
orange4
linter3
static-code-analysis1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RasmusSkytte/NetworkSIR
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Comparison of a network-based epidemic model and a SIR-based epidemic model
Contributions:75 PRs, 273 pushes, 34 branches in 5 months
epidemic-modelorangecomparisonquantileepidemic
ssi-dk/diseasystore
Jun 2023 - Jun 2026
R package that provides a feature store tailored towards disease modelling
Contributions:6 releases, 21 reviews, 301 PRs in 3 years
feature-storerr-package
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