Gitte Moos Knudsen
Professor, DMSc 
Chairman of the Neurobiology Research Unit

 
   
 

Professor, Chief Neurologist, DMSc (dr.med.)
Dept. Neurology and Neurobiology Research Unit, 9201
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital
Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 3545 6720    Fax: +45 3545 6713
Email: gitte#nru.dk
 
 

Education and academic degrees:

MD from University of Copenhagen 1984. Board certified user of radioisotopes 1986. FMGEMS exam (US) 1989. Board certified in neurology 1994. DMSc (dr.med.) from Univ. Copenhagen 1994.
 

Present appointments:

Professor of neurobiology, chief consultant, Chairman of the Neurobiology Research Unit
Chairman of Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (www.cimbi.org)
 

Positions of trust, reviews for journals, teaching, etc.:

Member of the Board of Directors 1995-1999, Chairman of Membership Committee 1999-2001, Scientific Secretary 2001-2005 of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism; of the Danish Society for Neuroscience from 1997; of the Scientific Ethics Committee for Copenhagen and Frederiksberg from 1998-2002; of the Research Council of the Medical Faculty at the University of Copenhagen from 1999-2005; Chairman for the steering group for research laboratories at Rigshospitalet from 1999, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Health Science Faculty, University of Lund since 2007.

Regularly refereeing for about 10-15 peer-reviewed journals and member of Editorial Board of several journals. Examiner at PhD and DMSc theses in Denmark, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and Finland. Member of EU’s Fifth Framework Expert Panel for evaluation of research applications, Brussels, in 1999, 2000, and 2005 and for the Norwegean Research Council 2006-7, Danish Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Research Committee 2007-9. Expert evaluator at the Swedish Research Council and VINNOVA 2005-2008 and Norwegian Research Council 2007-. Member of the Danish Health Advisory Group for the EU 7th Framework Program 2009-. Teaching of pregraduate medical students and at international courses for postgraduates. Invited speaker at international meetings between 3-6 times yearly.

 

Research, international collaboration, supervisor:

DMSc (dr.med.) thesis defended in 1994, title: ‘Application of the double-indicator technique for measurement of blood-brain barrier permeability in humans’. The research has predominantly dealt with aspects of blood-brain barrier transport, and cerebral hemodynamics, and with molecular brain imaging.

International collaboration within the EUREKA Program (Dopimag EU1836) (1998-2000); the EU Program (COST) (1999-2000). Coordinator of EU Fifth Framework program on “Neuroreceptor mapping in patients with mild cognitive impairment”, 2001-6. Member of the steering group of EU 6th Framework Network of Excellence DiMI (2005-10). EU 7th Framework program EURIPIDES (2009-14). Since 1999 I have supervised a total of 16 PhD-students who have defended their PhD degree. 

Honours:

Mogens Fog Prize 1993 (lecture competition) of the Danish Neurological Society.
Synthelabo Recherche Award 1994 of the Société de Circulation et Métabolism du Cerveau, France.
Anne Bochardt Prize 1999 awarded by the Medical Society in Copenhagen.
Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2004.
William Ottesen & Wife’s Foundation 2008
Monrad Krohn Prize, Oslo, Norway 2010 

Publications:

Published more than 190 Medline indexed scientific papers and reviews.