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Robin Andersson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, leading the Andersson Lab focused on modeling gene regulation to understand how enhancer and promoter dysregulation contribute to disease risk. His interdisciplinary research combines machine learning, statistical learning, genetics, and molecular biology to determine which noncoding sequences act as enhancers, predict regulatory activity from DNA sequences, and characterize mechanisms controlling gene expression variation.
His research has produced significant insights into enhancer-promoter interactions, epigenetic inheritance, and transcriptional robustness. He has developed computational tools like ChromTransfer and hyperTRIBER for analyzing chromatin accessibility and RNA editing. His work bridges genomic mechanisms of disease with practical applications in noncoding variant interpretation and therapeutic target identification.
Robin Andersson has received prestigious awards including the ERC Horizon 2020 Starting Grant, Sapere Aude Research Leader award, and Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator award. He has supervised 17 MSc and 5 PhD students while contributing to academic service as PhD coordinator and strategic research board member. The lab maintains affiliations with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease and FANTOM consortium, with recent grants focusing on single-cell regulatory mapping and disease variant interpretation.
