Gitte Moos Knudsen
Gitte Moos Knudsen (legal name Karen Birgitte Moos Knudsen) is a Danish translational neurobiologist and clinical neurologist, and Clinical Professor and Chief Physician at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry and Sensory Sciences, at Copenhagen University Hospital. She graduated from Lyngby Statsskole, just north of Copenhagen, before gaining entrance to medicine, where she received her MD from University of Copenhagen in 1984, and became a Board certified user of radioisotopes in 1986. She sat the FMGEMS exam (Foreign Medical Graduates Examination in the Medical Sciences) (US) in 1989. She became Board certified in neurology in 1994 and received her DMSc (Dr.Med.) from University of Copenhagen in 1994. She currently resides in Copenhagen, and is married to Tore Vulpius. She has 3 children.
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Born | Lyngby, Denmark | 15 February 1959
Education | University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, NIH, MGH |
Known for | neurobiology of neurotransmission, with particular emphasis on molecular brain imaging |
Medical career | |
Profession | Neurologist |
Institutions | University of Copenhagen; CIMBI, |
Sub-specialties | brain imaging Neurotransmitters |
Research | neurotransmission, particularly serotonin |
Awards | Niels Lassen Prize Synthelabo RechercheAward Monrad-Krohn Prize for the Advancement of Neurological Research |