Jakob Stokholm
Senior Scientist
Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC), Danish Paediatric Asthma Centre, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Denmark
Biography
Jakob Stokholm received his medical degree in 2006, and finished his PhD-thesis: “Antibiotic Administration and Factors Influencing the Vaginal Microbiota during Pregnancy” at COPSAC in collaboration with Næstved Sygehus in 2012. Now Jakob Stokholm is a senior scientist at COPSAC after working as a postdoctoral visiting scientist in the lab of Martin Blaser, Human Microbiome Program, NYU, New York.
Jakob Stokholm’s research area can be described as clinical translational research combining basic research methodologies and bioinformatics approaches mainly from the microbiology field with clinical data from birth cohort studies. The research has especially contributed to the understanding of how the microbiome in pregnancy and early life is shaped, and affected by factors such as antibiotics and delivery mode, and whether these factors as well as the microbiome can change risk of asthma and allergy.
