2020
Oluf Borbye Pedersen
Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture prize awarded to top Danish scientist
Oluf Borbye Pedersen is one of Denmark’s most esteemed researchers and has had a major impact on international science within three research fields. For his tremendous commitment and research innovation, he now receives the 2020 Novo Nordisk Foundation Lecture prize.
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About Oluf Borbye Pedersen
Oluf Borbye Pedersen
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- Oluf Borbye Pedersen is Professor and Group Leader at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. He trained as a medical doctor at Aarhus University, receiving a gold medal in 1972. He defended his doctor of medical science thesis on molecular biology in 1983 after being trained as a specialist physician in medicine and endocrinology.
- From 1989 to 2010, he was a chief physician and research director at Steno Diabetes Center. In addition, he has been Chair of the Danish Diabetes Association for 6 years; Visiting Professor for 4 years at Harvard University and Peking Union Medical Hospital and Beijing Genomics Institute in China; founded the Lundbeck Foundation Centre for Applied Medical Genomics in Personalized Disease Prediction, Prevention and Care (LuCamp); and was one of the driving forces in establishing the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. Oluf Borbye Pedersen has been recognized with a series of international honorary prizes and has been knighted the highest order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty Margrethe II.