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Jan Torleif Pedersen

Jan Torleif Pedersen MSc, PhD

Physiology and Biophysics
Valby, Copenhagen (Hovedstaden), Denmark

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Jan Torleif Pedersen is a PhD in biophysics and has for the past 22 years worked in neuroscience drug-dicovery, focusing on neurodegeneration and particularly Alzheimer's disease. Jan is currently a director and the therapeutic biology lead at H. Lundbeck A/S in Copenhagen Denmark. In this role he has contributed to the development of a comprehensive pipeline of both disease modifying and potentially novel symptomatic treatments for Alzheimers disease. More recently, Jan has developed a tau antibody that specifically targets hyper-phosphorylated neuropathological tau which is currently being evaluated in the clinic.
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