The Danish Society for Parasitology (DSP)

Welcome to the Danish Society for Parasitology, DSP. The society serves as a networking opportunity for professionals and students involved with parasitology in Denmark including research, education, control and management of parasitic diseases. DSP spans a wide expertise within the expanding fields of Parasitology in the 21st century: Human and veterinary medicine, zoonoses, public health, vaccinology, technology development etc.

Danish Society for Parasitology was founded in Copenhagen the 17. April 1972 at a meeting where Professor W. Peters from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine held a lecture. Here the first board was elected: The zoologists, Jørn Andreassen (President) and Holger Madsen († 1991), the veterinarians, Erling Bindseil (Secretary and Treasurer) and Peter Nansen (Vice-president, † 1999) and the doctors, Jørgen Chr. Siim and Torben Bille.