Niels Larsen, PhD
Biography
Niels Larsen was awarded a PhD in Life Sciences from Aarhus University, Denmark in 1994. That was followed by two periods of postdoctoral fellowships in the USA, in the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and at Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The research interests during those years were to correlate the genetic maps of humans and farm animals.
The field of interest switched more fully to human genetics with a four year period as Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at Copenhagen University, Denmark. Finally, in 2002, he moved to Ross University School of Medicine, where he teaches medical genetics. Before stopping research, Dr. Larsen published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Medical Genetics
- Undergraduate Degree: [Cand. Scient. (similar to M.Sc.)], [Odense University (current name is University of Southern Denmark)], [Odense, Denmark], [1987]
- Medical/Doctoral Degree: [PhD], [Aarhus University], [Aarhus, Denmark], [1994]
April 2002: received Award honoring Iowa State University Inventors;
June 2019: received the Ron Taylor Award “For exemplary performance by an Adtalem Global Education colleague”.
Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics
As a younger person, I was actively involved in comparative gene mapping, working on farm animal and human genomes. Later in my career, I became involved in administration and therefore I have no current research activity.
Archibald, A.L., Haley, C.S., Brown, J.F., Couperwhite, S., McQueen, H.A., Nicholson, D., Coppieters, W., van de Weghe, A., Stratil, A., Winterø, A.K., Fredholm, M., Larsen, N.J., Nielsen, V.H., Milan, D., Woloszyn, N., Robic, A., Dalens, M., Riquet, J., Gellin, J., Caritez, J.C., Burgaud, G., Ollivier, L., Bidanel, J.-P., Vaiman, M., Renard, C., Geldermann, H., Davoli, R., Ruyter, D., Verstege, E.J.M., Groenen, M.A.M., Davies, W., Høyheim, B., Kaiserud, A., Andersson, L., Ellegren, H., Johansson, M., Marklund, L., Miller, J.R., Anderson Dear, D.V., Signer, E., Jeffreys, A.J., Moran, C., Le Tissier, P., Muladno, Rothschild, M., Tuggle, C.K., Vaske, D., Helm, J., Liu, H.-C., Rahman, A., Yu, T.-P., Larson, R., & Schmitz, C.B. (1995). The PiGMaP consortium linkage map of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica). Mammalian Genome 6, 157-175.
Kim, K.-S., N.J. Larsen, T. Short, G. Plastow and M.F. Rothschild (2000). A missense variant of the porcine Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4R) gene is associated with fatness, growth, and feed intake traits. Mammalian Genome 11:131-135
Rothschild, M. F., N.J. Larsen, and K.S. Kim (2004). Melanocortin-4 receptor gene and use as a genetic marker for fat content, weight gain, and/or feed consumption of animals. Patent No. 6,803,190 in USA, patent No. 758,179 in Australia, Patent No. ZL99811113.9 in Peoples Republic of China, Patent No. 3790102 in Japan.