Medical student receives the HM Queen Margrethe II Travel Grant
Sophia Thrane, Master’s and research year medical student at Aarhus University, receives a travel grant of DKK 25,000 for her research into the treatment of serious respiratory infections.
In the autumn of 2019, medical student Sophia Thrane put her education on temporary hold in favour of a burgeoning interest in research, and in the spring of 2020 she was – via the Department of Biomedicine – affiliated with a research project at Imperial College London. Here, she carried out research into the development and treatment of antimicrobial multi-resistance in bacteria that infect the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis.
In her role as student observer, Sophia Thrane studied the activity and effect of the medication glatiramer acetate (Copaxone®) in pulmonary fluid from patients with cystic fibrosis. The goal was to develop new medical treatment so that the severe damage in the lungs caused by the bacteria could be slowed or completely avoided.
A total of four students at Aarhus University receive the HM Queen Margrethe II Travel Grant this year.
Contact
Master’s degree student Sophia Thrane
Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine
Mobile: (+45) 60 62 48 52
Email: sophia.thrane@biomed.au.dk