Ongoing research projects 

UltraZyme – Enzymatic tools for ultrafast, sensitive and specific detection of viral infectious diseases at Point-Of-Care (Project Nr. 341642 / Norwegian Research Council / 2023-2025)

Advancing Enzymes for Precision Therapeutics (Project Nr. 346796 / Norwegian Research Council / 2024- 2028)

MarRec – Development of marine enzymes for use in mRNA therapeutics (MABIT / 2025-2026) 

Past research projects 

2022-2022: Chimpol 2.0 - Engineering DNA polymerases for use in Single-Cell Sequencing workflows (FORNY 2020 / RCN / https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/329505)

2021-2022: Metagenome oligoribonuclease – engineering a versatile backbone for new commercial nucleases (MABIT)

2019-2020: Chimpol - Chimeric DNA polymerases as enzymatic drivers for single cell genomics (MABIT) 

2017-2020: Marsynth - Marine DNA modifying enzymes for synthetic biology (BIOTEK 2021 / RCN) 

2016-2018: MDxPol - Marine DNA polymerases as tools for next generation Molecular Diagnostic solutions  (FORNY 2020 / RCN / https://en.uit.no/prosjekter/prosjekt?p_document_id=561318)

2017-2018: Marine DNA polymerases as engines for Single Cell Genomics (MABIT)

2013-2017: Optizyme - Optimization and Application Development of Marine Cold-adapted DNA Polymerases (BIOTEK 2021 / RCN / https://uit.no/prosjekter/prosjekt?p_document_id=349678)