Bente Finsen

Biography

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, PhD in the field of Neurobiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, 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, 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).

Research Interest

Her current research focuses on Lesion-Directed Expression of Chemotactic Molecules in Cortical Neurons Research fields - Innate microglial responses to acute brain injury - Molecular and cellular mechanisms of remyelination - Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's and Alzheimer's-like disease