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This is an overview of current news related to clinical trials. You can also read about our current projects. Our previous newsletters are available here and we also keep a selection of government updates.

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Government Updates

For more information on topics related to the Danish healthcare system please visit the webpages for the Ministry of Health at www.sum.dk, Danish Regions (in Danish) at https://www.regioner.dk/ and each of the Danish regions:

Region Hovedstaden https://www.regionh.dk/

Region Midtjylland https://www.rm.dk/

Region Nordjylland https://rn.dk/

Region Sjælland https://www.regionsjaelland.dk/

Region Syddanmark https://regionsyddanmark.dk/

Podcast on Clinical trials (In Danish)


What is Clinical research?
  • Henriette Svarre Nielsen, Professor of Reproduction and womens diseases. 
  • Ulrik Lassen, Professor of Clinical Oncology and Personalised Medicine.
Private or Public research?
  • Leif Vestergaard Pedersen, who is former director of the Danish Cancer Society, a member of the Danish Medicines Agency and i.a. former health director in the Central Jutland Region.
  • Jakob Wedsted, postdoc at the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law
How are medicines tested to actually work?
  • Anne-Marie Axø Gerdes, Chairman of the Council on Ethics
  • Steffen Thirstrup, advisor at NDA Advisory Services and former head of the drug approval in the Danish Medicines Agency
What does big data and artificial intelligence mean for future clinical research?

Ismail Gögenur, Professor at the Center for Surgical Science at Sjællands Universitetshospital

Nikolai Brun, then head of the medical evaluation and biostatistics unit at the Danish Medicines Agency – and then chairman of the big data task force at the European Medicines Agency, EMA

How will the conditions for clinical research become even better?
  • Ida Sofie Jensen, CEO, Lif
  • Allan Flyvbjerg, Center director of Steno Diabetes Center