Lisbeth E. Knudsen

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Professor PhD Lisbeth E. Knudsen (LEK)

2006 -
Current position: Professor in toxicology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Previous positions

2000 - 2006: Associate Professor in Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

1998 - 1999: Preclinical Assessor, Danish Medicines Agency

1984 - 1997: Senior Researcher, Danish National Institute of Occupational Health

1982 - 1984: Toxicologist, Danish Labour Inspection Service

1980 - 1982: Toxicologist, Danish Environmental Protection Agency

 Education

1993: Phd in Biomedicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Copenhagen

1980: Master in Toxicological Biochemistry, Faculty og Natural Sciences
University of Copenhagen

Awards and Prizes

LEK was National member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC) for the European Centre for the validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) 2000-2009; The EU implementation group on biomonitoring 2003-2012; Member of Danish Consensus Platform for 3R Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (DACOPA) from 2003-2013; Member of the board of the Danish 3R Centre from 2013.

LEK received the Nordic Alternative Price 2006 for promoting development of alternatives to animal testing. LEK is the coordinator of the Danish in vitro toxicology network, past president in the European Consensus Platform for 3R Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (ECOPA) and past president of the European Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS).

Leadership and Training of Young Scientists

During the past 10 years I have attracted substantial funding and initiated independent research projects within areas of placental transport and human biomonitoring. I have participated as partner in BIOMED and FP4-FP7 EU programmes and was coordinator of the European network on children’s susceptibility and exposure to environmental genotoxicants: Childrengenonetwork 2003-2005 (QLK4-CT-2002-02198). In FP-6, I was active partner in ReProTect developing alternatives to animal testing and the project NewGeneris with the establishment of mother/newborn biobanks for human biomonitoring. I also participated in the coordination team of COPHES (COnsortium to Perform Human biomonitoring on a European Scale) with focus on horizontal activities in FP7 and was national contact point of DEMOCOPHES (DEMOnstration of COPHES) LIFE+09 ENV/BE00410,  BRIDGE-Health (BRidging Information and Data Generation for Evidence-based Health Policy and Research) HP-PJ-2014- 664691, and the Human Biomonitoring Initiative for EU (HBM4EU) with special tasks related to ethics. I also participated in the network ‘Environmental & Public Health Tracking to Advance Knowledge for Planetary Health’ (Behrod et al.) and an international network (PlaNet) to evaluate a human placental testing platform for chemicals safety testing in pregnancy (Brownbill et al. 2016).

As head of the in vitro toxicology group at the department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, from 2006-2020, I have supervised 3 postdocs, 6 PhD students and many master and bachelor students in health disciplines. All persons graduating from my group are now in very good positions at universities or in the environmental health sector.

Teaching Activities

As course leader or contributor, I teach toxicology, environmental epidemiology at many bachelor and master courses in the health disciplines (medicine, pharmacy, public health) and supervise many students with their theses. I have participated in several international courses, currents as part of the training program in HBM4EU.

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

2022: Organiser of Meeting Toxicology in Denmark in Copenhagen, sponsored by the journal BCPT

2017+2019:Organiser of Nordic Meetings on Human Biomonitoring

2016: Organiser of the 25th Annual Meeting of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS – as president) and The European Concensus Platform of Alternatives(ECOPA as vice president), Copenhagen, 14-18 August.

2013: Organiser of Workshop, Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology (SSCT), 25-27 September.

2010 - : Organiser of national meetings related to 3R in animal sciences with international participation.

2007: Organiser of Workshop on ethics and communication, Copenhagen.

Institutional Responsibilities

2016 - : Faculty Member, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2008 - 2013: Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2003 - 2016: Study director, Bachelor and Master of Sciences in Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen (not from 2008-2013).

Commissions of Trust

2019-2022: Appointed member representing health sciences of the Board of the National Research Centre of the Working Environment

2018: Member of the Regional Ethics Committee (VEK komite F) and chair from 2020

2016: Chair of the Human Ethics Committee for the HEALTH and SCIENCE faculties, University of Copenhagen

2015-2020: Review Board, Swedish Council of Sciences

2013-2023: Scientific Advisory Board, Danish 3R Centre

2010: Editorial Board, Basic Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (BCPT)

2009-2018: Scientific Advisory Board, Pesticides, Danish EPA

1990: Reviewer, DG Research and ERC (mainly ethics)

Major Collaborations

Director Marike Kolossa Gehring: Coordinator of HBM4EU – German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany.

Seniorforsker Marie Frederiksen, Human eksponering for PCB i bygninger,Det nationale forskningscenter for arbejdsmiljø

Assistant Professor Katrin Vorkamp: Analytical chemistry related to HBM, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Professor Paul Brownbill: Access to cord blood and maternal exposure information – University of Manchester, UK.

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