Present Research: Bioorganic chemistry; nucleic acid biotechnology; Nanobioscience Honors and Awards: - Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; - Elected member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences; - Elected member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences; - Natural Science Faculty Teaching Award, Odense University, 1995; - Bjerrum-Brøndsted-Lang Lecturer, 1997; - Parker-Davis Lecturer, Ohio State University, 2000; - Biochemistry Teaching Award, University of Copenhagen, 2000; - The Bjerrum Chemistry Award, 2001; - The Lundbeck Foundation's Research Prize for Young Researchers, 2002; - The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences Industry Award, 2002; - The UCB Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry 2004; - Villum Kann Rasmussen Grant for Technical Research 2005; - OBC Lecture Award Winner 2006; - The Danish Association of Masters and PhD Research Award 2007; - The Ib Henriksen Foundation Research Award 2008