Jens D. Lundgren

Professor of Viral Diseases, University of Copenhagen; Director of Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jens Lundgren, MD, DMSc, Professor, Senior Consultant, Academic Chair, Director. Director of CHIP – Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections – and co-founder of the EuroTEST initiative (formerly HIV in Europe). Heads PERSIMUNE (Centre of Excellence for Personalized Medicine of Infectious Complications in Immune Deficiency). Member of the Executive Committee of the NIH/NIAID funded INSIGHT network (International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials), chairs its scientific steering committee. Chair, scientific steering committee STRIVE (Strategies and Treatments for Respiratory Infections and Viral Emergencies); global research platform as part of global pandemic preparedness. Co-chair of the scientific steering committee RESPOND (global infectious disease consortium). Primary research focus on clinical and public health aspects of HIV infection and its infectious and non-infectious associated morbidities. In recent years, focus expanded to include respiratory infections (e.g. influenza and recently SARS-CoV-2), and infections in patients with other types of immune dysfunction (incl transplantation, oncology, hematology, and treated patients with autoimmune disease).