Signe Bedsted Clemm

Signe Bedsted Clemmensen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Services Research within the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, specializing in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography (EBB).

Her research focuses on:

• Twin studies of cancer risk and heritability
• Epigenetic biomarkers (e.g., methylation) for hematopoietic cancers
• Environmental and lifestyle factors (e.g., tattoo ink) in oncogenesis
• Biostatistical modeling of time-varying exposures

Recent publications examine tattoos as cultural determinants (2025) and their association with lymphoma/skin cancer (2025), alongside epigenetic findings in twin cohorts (2024). Work includes 18 total publications and 27 teaching contributions in biostatistics, survival analysis, and R/STATA programming (2024-2025).

Her work has garnered significant media attention, including 132 news outlets covering the 2024 twin-cancer study and 650+ social media engagements.