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SCD - Sudden Cardiac Death

Sudden cardiac arrest accounts for 10% of all deaths among people 1–35 years old. Research in this field is important to provide important answers that can help us to identify and treat people who are in danger of dying from sudden cardiac arrest.

This research group is led by Professor Jacob Tfelt-Hansen and Dr. Bo Gregers Winkel. The group consists of Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, and medical students.

​Main research areas ​

  • Mechanism and epidemiology of sudden cardiac death.
  • The genetics and epigenetics of sudden cardiac death.
  • Sports related sudden cardiac death.
  • Inherited arrhytmias and other inherited cardiac diseases.​

Researchers

  • Professor Jacob Tfelt-Hansen MD, DMSc
  • Bo Gregers Winkel MD, PhD
  • Thomas Hadberg Lynge MD, PhD
  • Charlotte Glinge MD, PhD
  • Reza Jabbari MD, PhD
  • Jesper Svane MD, PhD
  • Carl Johann Hansen MD, PhD-student
  • Camilla H Jespersen MD, PhD
  • Frederik Nybye Ågesen MD, PhD
  • Peder Warming MD, PhD-student
  • Niels K Stampe MD, PhD-student
  • Johanna Krøll MD, PhD-student
  • Deepthi Rajan MD
  • Rodrigue Garcia MD, PhD, Post-doc
  • Stine Bøttker Jacobsen PhD-student
  • Mikkel Dupont PhD-student
  • Tobias Skjeldbred MD, PhD-student
  • Jasmin Mujkanovic MD, PhD-student
  • Priya Bhardwaj MD, PhD-student
  • And other external collaborators

Funding​

  • Danish National Research Foundation
  • Meyers Family Foundation
  • The Danish Heart Foundation
  • The Danish Medical Research Council
  • The Novo Nordisk Foundation
  • The Aase and Einer Danielsen Foundation

Key collaborators 

We have a well-established collaboration with ERN - European Reference Network, for rare heart diseases Guard Heart. The mission is to facilitate access to diagnosis and treatment of rare and complex diseases of the heart in patients across the European Union.​

Associated departments​

Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet København Denmark.

Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen København Denmark.




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