Niels Grarup
Associate Professor
Grarup Group
Blegdamsvej 3B, Mærsk Tårnet, 8. sal
2200 København N.
Education
2003 MD, University of Copenhagen
2009 PhD, Aarhus University (Title: Genetic aspects of type 2 diabetes and related traits – The past, present and future)
2020 DMSc, University of Copenhagen
Previous positions
1999-2000 Research assistant at Steno Diabetes Center
2003-2005 Resident at Department of Endocrinology, Herlev University Hospital Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Department and internal medicine at Storstrømmens Sygehus Nykøbing Falster and at General Practitioner Christian Schlütter, Nykøbing Falster
2005-2009 PhD-student at Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen enrolled at Aarhus University
2009-2010 Post.doc at Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte
2010-2012 Post.doc at University of Copenhagen
Educational activities and lecturing experience
Supervised five graduate students
Pre- and postgraduate teacher at University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and University of Southern Denmark
Teacher at Steno Diabetes Center, STAR Education Programme
Multiple oral and poster presentations at international scientific meetings and several invited lectures
Awards
Winner of Lecture Competition at the annual meeting of the Danish Society for Internal Medicine (2007), Award for basic research at the annual meeting of the Danish Society of Endocrinology (2008), Bagger-Sørensen Foundation Talent Award (2010), Schwartz-Sørensen Award (2011)
Other scientific activities
Reviewer for Diabetes, Diabetologia, Clinical Endocrinology, Obesity, PLoS One among others
Board member of the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes (SSSD) and organizer of the 47th Annual Meeting of SSSD in 2012.
Work package leader and member of Consultative Council of Danish Diabetes Academy
Software skills
Microsoft Office, SPSS, R, PLINK, METAL, EPACTS and various web-based genetics tools.
Publications
Pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=grarup-n[au]
58 peer-reviewed original papers
2 peer-reviewed reviews
2 textbook chapters
H-index: 19
Education
MD, PhD, DMSc
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Natural selection affects multiple aspects of genetic variation at putatively peutral sites across the human genome
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Genetic architecture of vitamin B12 and folate levels uncovered applying deeply sequenced large datasets
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Estimation of allele frequency and association mapping using next-generation sequencing data
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