Jakob Stokholm
Senior Scientist
Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC), Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Denmark and Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Biography
Jakob Stokholm received his medical degree in 2006, and defended his PhD thesis at COPSAC in collaboration with Næstved Hospital in 2012. He worked as a visiting postdoc in the lab of Martin Blaser, Human Microbiome Program, NYU, New York, in 2015-2016, became Associate Professor in 2020, and has been Professor of Human Microbiome and Health since 2025 in a joint position between COPSAC and Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen.
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 contributed to understanding how the microbiome in pregnancy and early life is shaped by factors such as antibiotics and delivery mode, and whether these factors as well as the microbiome and virome development and maturation in early life can change the risk of asthma and allergy.
