Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen

Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen is a professor in genetics and personalized medicine at the Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University in Denmark. Jacob has >25 years of experience within genetic engineering and leads a research group with particular focus on technology development for genome editing as well as gene and protein delivery to cells and tissues. Jacob is a retrovirologist of training, and his group pioneered the development of engineered retroviruses for delivery of genome editing tool kits. Jacob has trained more than 70 students and postdocs and has a special interest in talent development in research. He is currently a member of the Danish Council on Ethics appointed by the Danish Parliament