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Prof. Dr. Bente Finsen

University of Southern Denmark
Molecular Medicine

External Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Life Sciences)
November 2011 – October 2012

E-Mail: bfinsen@health.sdu.dk

Last Update: 31.08.2013

Curriculum Vitae

Bente Finsen, born in Viborg on March 17th, 1961, studied Medicine at the Aarhus University in Denmark where she received her MD in 1988. After a short excursion to industry at PharmaBiotec, Danish State Biotechnology Programe she graduated as PhD in the field of Neurobiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, already also being associate professor at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Odense University. From 1998-1999 Bente Finsen was a visiting scientist at the Laboratory of Developmental Biology in the Molecular Oncology Group at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 2000 Professor Finsen returned to Denmark to become a full professor at the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Biology, University of Southern Denmark (Odense Campus). Since 2004 Bente Finsen holds a professorship at the Medical Biotechnology Center, Institute of Medical Biology, at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense Campus). During the last 20 years Professor Finsen earned quite some awards, under which the Danish Alzheimer Society Research Foundation Award in 2006. She is member of several Research Societies like the European Society for Neuroscience, the Society for Neuroscience and International Society for Neuroimmunology. From 2002-2008 she was a Board member of the Danish Medical Research Council (MRC).

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project