Maiken Cavling Arendrup PhD, Dr. Med, FESCMID

Prof Maiken Cavling Arendrup obtained her medical degree from Copenhagen University, Denmark, in 1988, followed by a PhD degree on neutralizing antibodies and HIV infection in 1992. In 2001, she completed further training as a specialist in clinical microbiology and in September 2013 her doctoral thesis on epidemiology and susceptibility of candidaemia was defended for the Dr. Med. Sci degree.

Currently, Dr. Arendrup is a Professor at the University Hospital Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and the Head of the Mycology Unit at Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, where she is responsible for the fungal laboratory, which receives 13,000 routine and reference samples per year for culture, susceptibility testing, antigen- and antibody-detection, and PCR as well as for the semi-national surveillance of invasive fungal infections and azole resistance in Aspergillus. She is responsible for the supervision of several PhD students.