Bente Juel Riis
Board member, Senior Medical Advisor
Biochemistry
Nordic Bioscience A/S
Denmark
Biography
Education: University of Copenhagen - MD, DMSC Bente Juel Riis co-founded Nordic Bioscience A/S and is currently serving as medical advisor and member of the board of directors. Bente finished medical school at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1981 and received her DMSc degree in 1989. The same year she founded Osteometer AS where she served as CEO until 1996. In 1991 she and Dr. Claus Christiansen founded what was later known as Nordic Bioscience and in 1992 they founded Center for Clinical and Basic Research (CCBR) where she served as Clinic Manager and Principal Investigator from 1996 to 2006. From 2006 she built the clinical department at Nordic Bioscience where she served as the CEO until 2014. Bente published her first peer reviewed paper in 1984 and has since published more than 190 papers and book chapters in several disease areas, particularly in calcium metabolism. Bente has an H-factor of 50. Bente was in the organizing committee of ‘The International Symposium on Osteoporosis’ in 1987 (Aalborg, Denmark), 1990 (Copenhagen, Denmark) and 1993 (Hong Kong). She has been an invited speaker on calcium metabolism and related topics at a number of international meetings in this field and has served in the editorial boards of scientific journals.
Research Interest
Biotechnology Biochemistry Biopharmaceutical
