Funded projects
The DCCC ctDNA Research Center support PhD projects focusing on documenting the positive effects of using ctDNA guidet cancer treatment.
Since 2020, the DCCC ctDNA center has co-financed the following projects.
OPTIMISE - OPTIMIzation of treatment SElection and follow up in oligometastatic colorectal cancer - a ctDNA guided phase II randomized approach.
PhD student Louise Bach Callesen, AUH
DETECT - Early detection of lung cancer by blood samples - A prospective national observational study
PhD student Sara Witing Christensen Wen, Vejle Sygehus
CURE - Clinical Utility of circulating Tumor DNA in Gastro-Esophageal Cancer
PhD student Cecilie Riis Iden
CIRCPAC– A National Randomized Trial Investigating the Clinical Benefit of circulating tumor DNA Guided Recurrence Surveillance After Resection for Pancreatic Cancer
Julia Sidenius Johansen, Professor, MD, DMSc
Circulating tumor DNA for early detection of recurrence and risk-stratification in melanoma
Lisbet Rosenkrantz Hölmich, Professor, MD, DMSc
Early detection of treatment failure by circulating tumor DNA in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Malene Støchkel Frank, Afdelingslæge, PhD student
Circulating tumor-DNA for the proper allocation of completion resection in early colorectal cancer
Mads Klein, Associate professor
Christina Søs Audur Andersen, Molecular Biologist, PhD Student
Overlæge Professor, PhD Dr.med., Karen-Lise Spindler
Eksperimentel Klinisk Onkologi, AUH
Clinical Oncologist, MD, Joanna Vitfell-Rasmussen, PhD student
Department of Oncology, Herlev University Hospital
ctDNA analysis of rectal cancer treated in the watchful waiting setting
PhD student Edina Dizdarevic
Department of oncology, Vejle Sygehus